Slowly honing my sonic blade into a needle point

techno meets goa

VRZ - HardWired Mix

I first cut my techno teeth as a member of Kraftreaktor in 1994 (Cape Town, ZA), a techno-trance jam based outfit that played synced midi devices mixed with live percussion and samples
using some of the classic gear we all know and love including:

Roland TB303, TR909, MV30, MC303, Casio FZ1 and RZ1, Alesis MMMT8 ,Moog Rogue, Waldorf Pulse +, Prophet VS and many other classic analogue and digital gear from that time.

All track’s performed live at several raves and club nights, no pre-arrangement, using the 909 as the master clock, and parts triggered or faded in, knobs manipulated etc.

After moving to the UK in 1999, I self-released a bedroom album on mp3.com in 1998 as RePsycle (BeyondNRG), blending various genre’s from ambient and dub to techno and trance while working and learning to DJ in London, Birmingham and Sheffield.

Returning back to ZA in 2003, I joined the event art collective, Groovy Troopers, and DJ’d /played ambient, progressive, lo-fi, techno and electro sets under various names (Ninjah,DJ Val,Sygyl) at festivals and clubs.

After a more than 10 year break, I dusted off all my old gear and decided to start writing and producing music again as NinjaHZA, my final form.