from the 2011 cd album 'Exit Strategy', with Ian Boddy, on DiN label.

Hidden (with Ian Boddy) (extract)

I mellom buskene vi stirret
På de som minnet om andre tider
Og fortalte at håpet var borte
For alltid...


Vi hørte alvesang og vann
Som sildret
Det som en gang var er nu borte
Alt blodet
All lengsel og sorg som hersket
Og de følelser som kunne røres
Er vekk
For alltid...


Vi døde ikke
Vi har aldri levd

 Parallel Worlds music is a combination of dreamy/atmospheric textures with pure analogue electronic rhythms and sequences, combining modern electronica and ambient music with the feel of 70s electronic music. For Parallel Worlds, melody is essential, but most important is emotional context. PW tracks try to reach to the listener's heart and mind.

Parallel Worlds use huge Analogue Modulars and Analogue Step Sequencers of the past and present combined with digital FM and virtual analogue synths and sampling.
Parallel Worlds are the main project of Bakis Sirros (with John Sirros). They were originaly born in 1994, but only after 1998 they started to be a part of the active greek electronic music scene.

In parallel, Bakis Sirros is the moderator of the Doepfer A100 modular users group helping, in an important way, the progress of the tools for experimental electronic music in the 21st century. Also, recently, Bakis Sirros completed an extensive sound design project for a well-known Modular Analogue synthesizers UK company.

During these last 8 years, Parallel Worlds have played live also, participating in the E-PHOS electronic music festival in summer of 2001, Mad club, Club22, European music day festival 2006, Small Music Theatre, Underworld, Synch Festival 2008, Reworks 2009 and in some other Greek venues.

Bakis Sirros has also started a collaboration with Italian ambient master Alio Die, an IDM/electronica project called Interconnected with Ingo Zobel (of DRON, Signalform, Self Oscillate, Datasette) and an Ambient / experimental project called Memory Geist with Steve Law (of Zen Paradox, Starseed Transmission, Guild Of Fire, etc.)

Influences all these years have been the music of Autechre, Plaid, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Pete Namlook, Biosphere, Plone, Brian Eno, Seefeel and other experimental artists. 

Music about Music!

An issue which constantly occupies my mind is: What is a musical experience? In where lies the essence of a sound, as to become a tool for the captivation of human emotion?

	Working with a Sampler is basically recording any sound from any source that I come across. Sampling mostly Vinyl-segments or recording "Open Air" acoustic ambience.

	Sometimes finding myself creating a potentially challenging & disturbing sound, setting a stage for exploring challenging soundscape possibilities for a mind-twisting & captivating sound tool. Then I enjoy the process of where I slowly let the sound grow on me, to the point where all my old preferences & perceptions are gradually being realigned or re-twisted. Driven by a morbid curiosity of challenging my perception of what I might want to "make work" in a process of creation. This creative freedom implies a certain existential responsibility for me, as to what I might choose to indulge.

	The "sampling concept" has to me been an excellent tool for the broadening of my music experience. I like to call myself a Post Modern "Sound Pirate".
Stealing or recycling any sound I come across & creating new experiences of old memories, times & places". This is my vision! Totally freeing my creativity from the harsh reality of the "Grand Theft Sound" being  in progress. In one sense, it´s a Music license Nightmare, but on the other a hand the results are timeless & classic.
                                                                                                                 Auh Soj aka Joshua Lindgren


Space-scapes for the journey of the mind

cosmos [koz-muh s, -mohs] - the world or universe regarded as a complete, orderly, harmonious system.

hip hop,electro,ambient,experimental,IDM and the kitchen sink...(check playlists)

Otan is interested in the imperfect nuances ( human and circuits ) which can be surprising when using analogue gear like a modular in a live situation.

Counter Culture, not following the mainstream, the masses, its like a revolution against the perfect product ! 


Everything in our world is perfectly manufactured that there is some beauty in the unexpected and analog . The unexpected and new becomes beautiful ! 

The goal is to create some interesting experimental music, which is counter culture to computer assisted music creation . Therefore all songs are live improvisations. What you hear is what you get. Enjoy.


Doepfer Analog Modular
Livewire Audio Frequency Generator
Livewire Dual Cyclotron
harvestman Piston Honda
WMD Wave Gamma Source
Flame Talking Synth
TipTop z8000, z3000
Synthesis Technology e350
Synthesis Technology e560
OSC303
Makenoise Phonegene
Makenoise Rene
Genoqs Octopus Sequencer

Comments are welcome

You are encouraged to download and remix. Just send me the link in return :)

Welcome to my world! 
  Vasili G. Panagiotopoulos