Sote aka Ata Ebtekar (b. Hamburg, Germany) is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. 
His music has been published by companies, such as Warp Records, Sub Rosa, Digitalis, Morphine Records among various other labels. 
Global cultural exposure through transmigration has been a significant stimulant for his aesthetics. Sote's goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his mind. 
His compositions and multi-channel installations are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary pattern of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo aligns with folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analyses. His passion for all music especially, all forms of electronic music, and his extensive involvement in the sound art academia world, has led him to compose in a wide variety of musical styles with a strong emphasis in synthesis, electro-acoustic techniques, microtonal systems and polyrhythmic motifs.
He has a firm conviction that rules and formulas must be deconstructed and rethought; hence he alters musical modal codes from their original tonality and rhythm (tradition) to achieve vivid synthetic soundscapes. 
In order to accomplish dynamic expression on electronics, gesture and texture, he employs various synthesis languages and dsp techniques in a modular sound environment. 
Ata 'Sote' Ebtekar believes that music is a cultural habit of sound and anti-sound (silence). Therefore, he generates music without a specific culture, which he believes to be "the other sound."

His most recent work involves studies in Techno patterns and aesthetics from a maximalist musical perspective without employing orthodox beats. The focal rhythmic element is achieved with programmed pitched sounds via various synthesis methods. These aural components that withstand spectral and formant filters, as well as other signal processing units, form harmonies and melodies that interchangeably act as the structural groove. The outcome is occasionally polyrhythmic aiming for a Common-time feel and vice versa. Interwoven patterns and complex ornaments within a pliant grid form a diametric functionality of loop-based non-hypnotic music, and require active listening. 
This work is a paradoxical ode to Noise and Techno progressing further.



www.facebook.com/ata.sote.ebtekar

www.sotesound.com 



 


 



Sote - Exciters

Shaahin Saba / Dipole is an Iranian electronic musician based in Tehran, Iran. His music ranges from deep pulsating ambient soundscapes to glitchy techno and deep groovy Dub-Tech. He has composed music for films and plays, and released albums on Hermes Records and Oido Records. This track is from his upcoming album called "Reverence".

Discography:
1: shaahin saba dipole - Dipole - Hermes Records 
2: shaahin saba dipole - Botica Musica Harmal vol.1 - Oido Records
3: shaahin saba dipole - Botica Musica Ginger vol.1 - Oido Records

Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/ShaahinSabaDipole
 

Shaahin saba  Dipole - Expanse

Temp-Illusion is an electronic duo based in Tehran consisting of Shaahin Entezaami (Tegh) and Behrang Najafi (Bescolour ) .
formed in 2012, their music is associated with IDM, Experimental, Ambient .

Temp - Illusion - Deshift

UNISON Mix01 - @idlefon

Featuring music by @alessandrocortini @lawrence-english @danielavery @kingmidassound @fennesz @sarahdavachi @rbeny

Cover Art by Kino (kino.holescapes.com)

Tracklist:

01 - Alessandro Cortini & Lawrence English - Immediate Horizon 1 [00:00]
02 - Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Inside The Ruins [04:18]
03 - Lawrence English - Hard Rain [09:15]
04 - King Midas Sound / Fennesz - On My Mind [13:42]
05 - Alessandro Cortini - Perdonare [16:08]
06 - Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Water [18:32]
07 - Sarah Davachi - Untitled, live in Portland [excerpt] [25:08]
08 - Alessandro Cortini & Lawrence English - Immediate Horizon 2 [30:37]
09 - r beny - Glacial Tongues [35:41]

UNISON Mix01 - Idlefon

UNISON Mix02 - @umchunga

Featuring music by : Throbbing Gristle, Roy Montgomery, Alan Vega, Mika Vainio, Ilpo Väisänen, Flying Saucer Attack and Ice.

Cover Art by Kino 
(kino.holescapes.com)


Tracklist

01 - Throbbing Gristle - The World Is A War Film [00:00]
02 - Roy Montgomery - Departing The Body [07:20]
03 - Vainio / Väisänen / Vega - 11:52 PM [11:42]
04 - Flying Saucer Attack - Chemicals [16:33]
05 - Ice - Hyperdermic (Special Instrumental Dub) [19:58]
06 - Throbbing Gristle -  Don't Do As You're Told, Do As You Think [28:40]
07 - Flying Saucer Attack - Star City [36:10]

UNISON Mix02 - Umchunga

UNISON Mix03 - @bescolour

Featuring music by @nebulo, @pekler, @nima-aghiani, @artsvs, @rojinsharafi, Parsa, @datashat, @calumgunn, @sdemsdemsdem, @surachai, @sotesound and @pantea-armanfar.

Cover Art by Arash Akbari 
(arashakbari.com)


Tracklist

01 – Nebulo – YYY [00:00]
02 – Andrew Pekler – Refusenik [03:11]
03 – Nima Aghiani – Submit, Defy [04:59]
04 – Artsaves – Pascal [10:20]
05 – Rojin Sharafi – Zoetrope [13:44]
06 – Parsa – گشتالت b2 [17:56]
07 – Datassette – Rachel Whiteread Acid [21:25]
08 – Calum Gunn – Esephony [23:04]
09 – Sdem – NL3333 [28:33]
10 – Surachai – Visions From Misplaced Runes I [34:00]
11 – Parsa – DueTAIL [36:52]
12 – Sdem – 96969696 [41:53]
13 – Sote – Hardcore Sounds From Tehran [44:05]
14 – Pantea – Everyday Meal Side A [49:47]

UNISON Mix03 - Bescolour

UNISON Mix04 - Arash Akbari (@odepth)

Featuring music by @timhecker, @loscil, @thomaskoner, @alessandrocortini, @lawrence-english, @fennesz and @celerofficial

Cover Art by Arash Akbari 
(arashakbari.com)


Tracklist

01 - Tim Hecker - Stigmata II [00:00]
02 - Loscil - Lines [03:30]
03 - Thomas Köner - 10 000 000 000 [09:35]
04 - Alessandro Cortini + Lawrence English - Immediate Horizon 4 [16:38]
05 - Fennesz - Rainfall [27:25]
06 - Celer - Guilt As A Return To Melancholy [37:43]

UNISON Mix04 - Arash Akbari

UNISON Mix05 - ArtSaves

An artist-run festival founded in 2015 with a focus on experimental music and audio visual performances.

SET Festival

Popular tracks