This project is a hybrid cross of EDM, Industrial, Shoe Gaze and Dark Wave that uses synths, guitars, bass, ukelele, and experimental percussions. I would say that it sounds like a blend of Nine Inch Nails, Daft Punk, KMFDM, Dead Mau5, and Depeche Mode with Hip Hop elements.

Sail up to the land of the China (y) || 航行到中国的土地上 || Парус до земли Китая

"You hope for success but do not follow its path, indeed a ship does not sail on dry land"
sheikh Al Bani 

info/bookings: 
hightowerbookings@gmail.com

Hightower, born in a small town north of Amsterdam in the early 80's this 2 meter tall dutch giant came into touch with housemusic in his early youth where he got infected with pure love for music.
With his focus on getting the crowd going and his urge to deliver, combined with an ability to keep playing for hours he is bordering the definition of unstoppable. 

Co-founder of Lowfriends Amsterdam.

Performed (amongst other places) at: 
Paradiso Amsterdam, Radion Amsterdam, Chicago Social Club, Burning man NL, Woodstock Bloemendaal, Club NL, Pand 48 Groningen, Solar festival Roermond, Indian Summer festival, Promised land festival, Armando records (Bogota, Colombia), Heard From (Medellin, Colombia) and Playita Music Festival (Isla Fuerte, Colombia).

Social media:
https://www.instagram.com/hightower_ofc/

Across the seas, no other name warrants unimaginable fear or unwavering serenity like Bubba Job. The nautical duo, P and Sporky, have made it their mission to liberate the seafolk from the oppressive land regime. With their love for Boat Rap and their boat, Bubba Job, this seafaring team has set sail to conquer the vast Ocean.

12dCode heralds from the great state of New Jersey and has unsavory memories of his youth being spent as yet another case of unwanted loin waste.  Post-Boomer “adults” took turns ruining his childhood with their emotional drunkenness, which explains why he finds solace in the predictability of machinery, logic, and computational devices.  By the age of twelve, he had made his first web page.  By the age of fifteen, he had learned QBASIC.  At sixteen, he was making music on Digitrakker. At seventeen, he was in advanced C++ courses.  By 1997, his site, Ghetalion.com, had been issuing out Hip-Hop music to the exploding online music community to the tune of 400,000 hits a month.  He received his first ASCAP credit by eighteen for his incredible multi-planetary smash single (read: extreme fucking sarcasm) “We Got Panache” by Princess Superstar.

Jersey provided few outlets for people such as himself and it wasn’t long until he was brought into the rank and file of doing manual labor with immigrants for two years. Growing weary of referring to his boss as "el jefe", he attended Full Sale Sail University in 2002 and graduated a year later with an Associates in Audio Recording Arts. In 2003, he struck out westward and ended up in Los Angeles, where he currently resides.  He performed three years of slave labor studio engineering at VoiceOver LA and managed to land a few voice over roles for Toyota, the L.A. Angles, most notably as Nightmare from Soul Caliber 3 and 4.

He stumbled into the web programming industry out of dumb luck and before long, became fluent with PHP, MySQL, CentOS, Apache, Ruby, jQuery, Python, Flex, and countless other Web 2.0 platforms/technologies/easy-mode finger-painting. His framework, CAIN, powered EternalSpace.com before its untimely demise at the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008. In three months, he revolutionized how Guthy-Ranker (masters and commanders of Proactiv) runs their Web Operations with a little project management tool called Redmine. In 2009, he became the Director of Web Technology at Warner Music Group.

His upcoming book, The Empath, elaborates on his political and economic theories without steamrolling over the fragile sensibilities of the average Neoliberal consumer.

BIO, Latest work: 
- Winner of Best Electronic and Acoustic Score- International Grand Scores Award 2017 with Clint Mansell. 
- Nominated for Guldbagge 2017 Best original score for Pojkarna/Girls Lost
- Nominated for The 2017 HARPA Award for Pojkarna/Girls Lost. Nomination text Harpa: 
Sophia Erssons has composed a distinctively personal synth score. The anxiety and unease of Pojkarna is hightened by the sparse, electronic beats of Sophia Ersson in the most intimate way. It is clear that the soundtrack to Pojkarna is not music added to the film. The score is part of the narration, as central to the storytelling and the characters as the cinematography.

-Showreel Pojkarna/Girls Lost:  
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7288459/?ref_=ext_shr_eml_vi#lb-vi3081221657

-BVD, Garbergs mfl, Earth Statement: https://vimeo.com/184345906

-Wayway: www.wayway.se

-Farewell: http://farewell.today/

Biography
Sophia Ersson was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1980. She is an accomplished singer, songwriter, composer and producer. Her latest achievement as a film composer is feature film Girls Lost (Pojkarna), which world premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2015. It has been screened and awarded at many international filmfestivals such as Cannes, Rotterdam and Rome International Film Festival.

She is nominated for Sweden’s most prominent Film Award ”Guldbaggen” (The Swedish Academy Awards) for Best Original Score - Girls Lost.  She’s also nominated internationally for her score to Girls Lost for The Harpa Award 2017. The winner is presented at the Cannes Film festival 2017.

Trademarks: Electro, singer-songwriter and dreamy electronic music.


Comments about her music: 
"...Mood-wise, “Girls Lost” also sometimes suggests a distaff version of the Spielbergian adolescent-bonding movies from the “Goonies” era. (A synth score by Sophia Ersson, who sings some of the songs on the soundtrack, helps to set a retro vibe.)..." / Ben Kenigsberger Variety US

"...The opening sequence shows main character Kim (Tuva Jagell) being pursued through the woods while a moody John Carpenter-esque electronic score pounds away..."David Rooney The Hollywood reporter US

"...Keining puts a distinctive personal stamp on the material. She plays with the enduring fantasy tropes – body transformations, full moon iconography, magic gone wrong – to enthralling effect, with the aid of the film’s moody cinematography and an awesome soundtrack. Rarely have high school hallways seemed so ominous on screen..." Shane Slater Awards Circuit US

“...Their transformations bring positive things, but also complications… it’s very punk,” Baran says, “It features music from the likes of The Knife on the soundtrack, and is extremely compelling...” Adam Baran New Fest

"...One of the keys to creating this fairy tale world in ordinary surrounds is the music. The score by Sophia Ersson is a real asset to GIRLS LOST creating a moody electro-pop vibe that beautifully enhances the experience. Surging and jumping in the emotionally tense moments, creating anxiety and unease when the three leads are in danger and guiding us through the transformation scenes with subtly shifting masculine and feminine tones. Watching this film without the sound would almost leave it feeling empty. The score somehow seems to fill the quiet moments and speak for the characters when it would otherwise feel like something is being left unsaid..." Kernel Kate saltypopcorn Australia

"I also loved the film’s soundtrack – the sparse, electronic beats of Sophia Ersson compound the film’s otherworldliness in the most intimate way, like sleeping in the womb of an alien."

 Isobel Yeap, 4:3

Bonustrack from Sophia Ersson, 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfjHjMrMSNo

David Clavijo is one of the most interesting exponent of a young generation of musicians oriented to New Age, Ambient and Chillout music. Despite his youth, David already has a remarkable artistic career at the time of composing and producing his music, skillful use of ethnic elements and a very intelligent combination of acoustic sounds, environments and voices from other cultures, synthetic bases and melodies that goes modeling into light and weightless tracks. Proof of all this is the inclusion of his music in a considerable amount of compilations dedicated to his genre, apart from his own discography.

David Clavijo is a Sevillian composer and guitarist player who started creating his own songs being only 16 years old. Shortly after, he had the opportunity to collaborate as a bassist on soundtracks of short films in his native land, Andalusia. Likewise, he has collaborated as a guitarists for artists in the Spanish music scene. It was then when he began to understand that music was giving him a wide range of opportunities.

In his eagerness to meet new places that inspired him for his creations, and looking for the intercultural touch always present in his music, he experienced the pleasure of travelling around amazing places of the Spanish geography such as Granada, Cordoba and Toledo. These cities provided him a great deal of ethnic resources that were given expression, later, in works such us "East Winds" or "African Spirit".

Maybe, the turning point of his career was determined by a trip to the white island of Ibiza, birthplace/cradle of current Chillout and electronic music. Again, moved by the feelings that aroused in him the extraordinary views of places like the magical Es Vedrá, he composed fresh and dynamic tracks as that of the same name of the legendary islet "Es Vedra" or "Sailing In My Dreams". In these tracks we have evident influence of renowned artists such as Mike Oldfield, Enigma, Vangelis, Brian Eno or Jean Michel Jarre.

His music is characterized by being full of warm rhythms and richness of sounds. David is a composer who dares to all musical styles, styles that sail from the most spatial to the most ethnic, without forgetting Chillout and Ambient styles of music.

Shore (2014) was written for two reasons. The first was to express loss, longing, hope, and love through music when such feelings could not be voiced in words. The second was to build a sonic link between the land-locked Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts and Gray's Atlantic Ocean home. Each movement is named after a certain coastal location that holds particular significance. At times deeply haunting and at times wholly happy, Shore is a story of self through sound and sail and wind and wave.

String Quartet No. I "Shore" 
by Anderson Gray

I. Napatree Point
Block Island Sound
41°18'22"N 71°53'06"W

II. Red Hook Channel
Mouth of the Hudson
40°40'14"N 74°01'28"W 

III. Sheepscot Bay
Gulf of Maine
43°46'35"N 69°41'30"W

IV. Race Point
Cape Cod Bay
42°04'31"N 70°14'03"W

V. Sippican Harbor
Buzzard's Bay
41°42'28"N 70°45'49"W

Recorded on February 5th, 2014 by the Wistaria String Quartet: Sarah Briggs (violin), Kaila Graef (violin), Delores Thayer (viola) and Rebecca Hartka (cello).

© 2014 Anderson Gray

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