ether drift

Artist Description/History:
I started producing back in 1998, when I was making beats on a Sony Playstation with MTV Music Generator and loving it.

In 1999, I purchased a PC and some real software: Acid, Rebirth and SoundForge. Over the next couple of years, I released a number of well received songs including: Liquid Manifesto, Hard Fast & Furious, Drop Bottom and Malice in Wonderland.

In 2000, I co-founded Spastikwax with DJ Solid.

In 2001, RedAlien and I started collaborating under the alias, Unusual Cuts.  We produced a number of drum and bass tracks and were well on our way to finishing a demo, when tragedy struck.  Due to a hard drive failure, we lost everything!  The Reason files, patches, samples, vocals… everything that we had built from scratch.

I couldn’t find the heart to start over from scratch, so I stopped producing and focused on my DJ work, which was just starting to take off.

In 2003, I started DJ’ing at Trikkx Nightclub in St. Paul, Minnesota as a resident DJ.  Wednesday was 80′s night, Saturday was mainstream club and Sunday was trance night for me for well over a year.  It was a lot of fun, but you can only play Britney Spears, Whitney Houston and Cher for so long…

In 2005, I went out and got a full time job doing graphic design and started DJ’ing as a hobby again.

These days, I’m playing house parties and smaller venues.

Style:
Funked up mix of house, electro and techno.

Influences:
Armand Van Helden, Cassius, D. Ramirez, Daft Punk, Deadmau5, DJ Dan, Fukkk Off, High Caliber, DJ Adhesive, DJ Solid, Red Alien, Nuxx, etc…

Equipment / Software:
M-Audio Xponent
Torq 1.5

Streaming Media: (Powered by SoundCloud)

Live 2-20-2010 by Ether Drift

Jump to It by Ether Drift

Artist Links:
Acidplanet.com
As Ether Drift, I produced and released dozens of original tracks.  The majority of them can be found on AcidPlanet.

JoeVeen.com
This is my official art blog/online portfolio.