Dubstep originator and owner of Chestplate records.


Hi! I’m a singer-songwriter. Some friends call me Dirt, some call me the dirtstar. Sometimes it’s Dirt Star. I am always looking out for new music, and creating some playlists featuring artists in SoundCloud. Made a little EP with Steevee Rey, and new songs in Mandarin and English on the way.

Rock and roll. 🤘🏽

Artist Bio
 
As the name implies, the band’s sound ensures combustion on any stage or party. 
Elektrostarter is a two-piece band, that combines industrial rock, electronic beats, and dubsteb elements. 

Somewhere around the time of the last major cosmic solar alignment, the band came together in South East Asia, as each of these musicians followed their own paths to tropical postal codes. 

Tonio Neuhaus, the beatmeister, starting off honing his craft as a drummer, programming industrial sounds on Commodores and Ataris. Influenced by other German bands such as Kraftwerk, and Einstuerzende Neubauten, he’s recorded with members of the seminal act Can, and shared stages with artists including Atari Teenage Riot. 
He’s spent the past few years putting together a palette of samples and beats that are awe inspiring, whether on an arena stage, or rocking in the club. 

Michael Kast is a guitarist specialising in the pure sound of the electric guitar. He’s spent time in the L.A. music scene, fine-tuning amplification with the city’s great guitarists. A virtuoso of noise and rock power chords, he provides a perfect complimenting meld to the band’s elektro sound. 

Currently based in South East Asia, Elektostarter fuses together a dichotomy of experience with the sounds from their daily lives. 

Elektrostarter has recently released their first EP, a collaboration with Canadian Singer Dirtstar.

Elekrostarter have won the Crystal Award of the VIMA Malaysia Independent Music Award competition with their Song Bright Blue Sky.

The electronical spin around that extravagant mix of music takes them right into the future and points ahead with a view over their shoulder: Elektrostarter takes off like a rocket crossing some time-dimensions through the guitar-loaded sound waves of the Seventies, passing by the dull and dark zones of the Prodigy-area right into the new millennium like furious pilots towards a singularity.
To listen to Elektrostarters songs, please visit: soundcloud/elektrostarter 
(courtesy of Peter Pitsch)


“Beautiful and surreal… pop music from the future”
JOHN PEEL, BBC (on the Fish Ep in 2003)

“One of the year’s most disturbingly beautiful creations”
RESIDENT ADVISOR (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“Besser als Massive Attack”
DIE TAGESZEITUNG (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“Jahcoozi ist die Art von polyglotter Band ….. wilde Klänge auf die mächtigen Bass-Säulen, auf die ihre Musik sich stützt. Wie ein Wanderer, der nach dem Ende der Welt ohne Schuhe zwischen den Klangresten umhertänzelt. Schön.”
DER SPIEGEL (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“…visceral, gritty sounding, danceable dancehall riddims, glitch-hop, and experimental techno rub up against each other like long-lost pals ..”
PITCHFORK (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“2075. Earth. The metropol club scene will sound like this…”
GROOVEMINE (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“…extraterrestrial bass thumping in the heart of the Jamaican urban landscape, Jahcoozi brings out the best in aspects that Massive Attack and Leftfield built up …….“Lost In The Bass” and “Barefoot Dub” is the best modern day dub prowess since Massive Attack’s Blue Lines”
ZAPTOWN Magazine (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“…music that moves your body, lyrics that stimulate your cerebral cortex …… as effective with the aural mystique and hypnosis perpetuated by Lee “Scratch” Perry and Massive Attack’s Mezzanine as making audiences lose their minds on the dance floor.”
URB Mag (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“atmospheric, digital dubstep all with a sound that encompasses techno, hip-hop, bassline and grime, held together by Sasha’s sharp and smoky lyrical excursions”
CLASH MAGAZINE, UK (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“a glorious product of indefinable genre creations”
URB-NET (on Barefoot Wanderer in 2010)

“The aural equivalent of a Quentin Tarentino film, the listener is lost within its swirling maelstrom of electronic gadgetry & infectious riddims…”
FOXY DIGITALIS (on Blitz n Ass in 2007)

“… their acerbic wit and cultural observation is still as sharp as on Pure Breed Mongrel. ‘Takin’ Your Street’ is the only dirty beat track that links gentrification with skinny jeans cutting off blood supply to your feet!”
FLY GLOBAL MUSIC (on Blitz n Ass in 2007)

“It would make sense to call Jahcoozi’s stuff Grime for Björk fans…. this might please both fans of Aphex Twin and Roots Manuva.”
XLR8R, US (on Pure Breed Mongrel in 2005)

“2005 has brought us a no more focused piece of hip hop satire than Asian Bride Magazine with it’a sing-along Hymen, Hymen better in tact.”
MOJO Magazine, UK (on Pure Breed Mongrel in 2005)

“The band sculpts “illectronic” bliss out of grimy shuffle rhythms, deep and detuned bass lines, and bombastic swaths of vocal attitude”
RESONANCE MAGAZINE, USA (on Pure Breed Mongrel in 2005)

“On the stage, Jahcoozi’s British-Sri Lankan “lioness”, singer / rapper / lyricist booty dancer turns heads with smartly sarcastic lyrics about stereotypes, sex and psychedelics on cult classics like “Fish” and “Black Barbie” while the mightily-dreadlocked Israeli multi-instrumentalist Oren Gerlitz strides the stage providing deep basslines while Robot chops up his razor sharp dancehall-electro in a way reminiscent of friend and fellow “BLN’” icon Modeselektor”
MIXMAG, UK (on Pure Breed Mongrel in 2005)

“One of the most progressive albums of the last few years.”
MUSIKEXPRESS, DE (on Pure Breed Mongrel in 2005)

“Homemade Surrealism”
WIRE MAGAZINE (on a Jahcoozi live show at Marke B in 2003)


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