Taken from the r.roo album 'innearheaven' released on Tympanik Audio October 16th, 2013 - http://www.tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta080

r.roo: uninhibited [innerheaven - Tympanik Audio 2013]

synthesizers/drum machines/samplers
hermit electronic sounds recorded live
in Hamilton, Ontario

Circa 2011 My collection of hardsynth, wave, phone, dark/hard techno, shadow rap, darkcore, industrial hardcore, dark psy, powernoise, crossbreed, anything that has a gnarly as FUCK kick with a side of bash your face in 💝 INSTAGRAM.com/_666rotten_

☥ ╳I make a journey. You make a journey. We make a journey together╳☥ 
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

Tympanik Audio is a Chicago-based electronic music label established in 2007 as a vehicle to promote innovative new artists in the electronic music subculture.
Tympanik Audio’s artist roster includes: Totakeke, Displacer, Ad·ver·sary, Stendeck, ESA, Unterm Rad, Pneumatic Detach, Broken Fabiola, Integral, Atiq & EnK, Geomatic, Flint Glass, Haujobb, Erode, Tangent, Normotone, Disharmony, Anklebiter, Comaduster, Tineidae, Known Rebel, C.H.District, MultiColor, Subheim, [Haven], Fractional, c.db.sn, EyeScream, Zentriert ins Antlitz, SE, Black Lung, Worms Of The Earth, r.roo, Access To Arasaka, Ex_tension, Candle Nine, Tapage, Zinovia, Meander, Dirk Geiger, Endif, Zeller, Lucidstatic, Undermathic, Autoclav1.1, Opposite Exhale, Pandora’s Black Book, Famine, and Aphorism.

the_empath, a.k.a. mike erkau, has been part of electronic music since 1993 and he started releasing his own work on cdrs in 1999.

shortly after he began to do remixes for other artists and won the 2004 congress of media award in the audio category. the award was for his remix of 'no protection' (originally by utr).

four years later (2008) he turned the tables by releasing the 'second earth remix project' which included remixes of his work by ab ovo, def, fractional, heimstatt yipotash, sunao inami and others (more info...).

at the same time working as a media engineer and tutor, mike was able to acquire advanced technical skills in video technology too. his live shows are always combined with a video performance which is strictly balanced to the audio tracks (good examples are consider:noize and elektroanschlag or maschinenfest). under the brand name 'subroom medialab' he is bookable as VJ (he did many video shows for xabec, heimstatt yipotash, kiew, 13th monkey, morbus m., underwater pilots, tzolk'in...)

the_empath's music ranges between ambient and electronica with organic industrial audio components. a stimulating flow of imaginative soundscapes, complex rhythmic textures, mixtures of experimental electronics, field recordings and ground loops. crystal clear tones meet thrilling low frequencies that are mastered with an impressive amount of dynamics. the result of this electronic crucible is a powerful mind infiltrating compound. 