Artists
Here we present a selection of some of the finest Renoise users.
Anodyne
One of Ireland's unsung electronic heroes. Anodyne, known for his mind shredding live shows, leads the listener into experiments in dark electro, acid and ambient, blending with elements of old skool rave and breakbeat.
Aria Rostami
Coming from San Francisco, Aria Rostami's music shares the same ebb and flow of his hilly and foggy city. With influences from ambient to IDM, classical to noise, and Persian traditional to Japanese contemporary, Rostami's work will either hit a note you like or an idea you'd want to explore.
ASC
2009, and after establishing himself as one of the most versatile, forward thinking, cutting edge producers in drum and bass, ASC will now be working on a sound aimed firmly at breaking barriers between genres, and pushing only the best in quality electronic dance music.
B-complex
From the stark, post-Communist landscape of Bratislava, Slovakia emerges one of Eastern Europe’s most talented producers - B-Complex. Matus began his first attempts at production in 1996, experimenting with hardcore and trance before discovering drum 'n bass - an ideal medium to capture the diversity of his style, which incorporates influences from classic rave to ethnic folk music. Both heartbreakingly melodic and relentlessly hard, B-Complex’s music will captivate your heart and slay your bassbins.
Bizzy B
Bizzy B's Brain Records was one of the most forward thinking labels in the early days when "hardcore rave" was becoming jungle. Many of the productions on the label are by Bizzy B himself, although this was also the place where artists like Slammin Vinyl's DJ Red Alert & Mike Slammer (as DJ Red Alert & Pepsi), Technical Itch (as Plasmic Life), Peshay, Equinox (3) and TDK had their debut releases. Bizzy B released on other pionering labels as well; Slowjam & DarkIII on Whitehouse, Stamina and Raw Dogs Relik on Suburban Base, and many more. Read more »
cEvin Key
cEvin Key is a founding member of the industrial music band Skinny Puppy, along with Nivek Ogre. In addition to his work with Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key has had several side Projects; including Doubting Thomas, Cyberaktif, Hilt and Tear Garden. He was also at one point a drummer and song-writer for synthpop group, Images in Vogue.
D Fast
D Fast is a music producer from Helsinki, Finland. He has been writing music since early 1990 starting with piano compositions and moving from digital piano workstation to computer based music. His music is deeply influenced by the Demoscene and funk music made in the 70’s and 80’s, yet he has a wide selection of favorite genres both listening and composing wise. He moved to using Renoise as his primary music software in 2005. He self-released his first record in 2007 called Get Caught, followed by Planet Boogie in 2008.
Deemphasis
Deemphasis is an Electro producer from France. He started in the early 90's writing tracks with the original soundtracker on Amiga for the Demoscene. Always influenced by the old techno music from Germany, Belgium, Detroit, England..., he is now focused on dark electro mixing breakbeats, acid and vocoders… After releasing a 12 inch EP on NewFlesh Records, in 2011 he releases the "Mechanical Beats" album on his own label: Ukonx Recordings.
DJ Hidden
DJ Hidden is a Dutch DJ, producer and artist spinning and producing Drum 'n Bass and Hardcore Techno. Atmospheric, sometimes heavily distorted dark sounds characterize his music - which has been released on a wide range of record labels.
Easily Embarrassed
The Dutch brothers Van der Schilden and Peter Spaargaren have been exploring musical emotions with deep, atmospheric layers since 2006, forming the electronic act 'Easily Embarrassed'. Combining various styles and flavors, from electro to ambient and from dub to psychedelic, they blend retro synthesizing with today's sound design. Read more »
Enduser
Enduser is the bastard son of KRS-One, Skinny Puppy, and Photek. Raised on a steady diet of hip-hop and early jungle records, Enduser smashes through genre walls with alternating punches of industrial strength drum and bass and hip-hop flavored breakcore.
Fabrice Tonnellier
Fabrice Tonnellier is a French composer of relaxing and ambient music. Born in 1978 he started composing since 1996 in the demoscene. Now he likes playing keyboards, the piano, and world instruments. His inspiration comes from Zen philosophy, nature and world music. He sometimes composes soundtracks for video games and multimedia products.
Hitori Tori
In 1998 Julian La Brooy’s four track recorder was tragically destroyed. A sound tracker completely changed everything and Hitori Tori was born. Agitated breaks became combined with tweaked arpeggiated synth lines, some cut up vocals, and a few lugubrious tones thrown into the background for good measure. Read more »
Hunz
Hunz is one of the familiar names involved in the demoscene of the 1990s. He grew up in Brisbane, Australia and began working on tracker music in his early teens. He is noted for being one of the first trackers to make the unconventional move of adding vocals to the compositions.
I Am Robot and Proud
I Am Robot and Proud is a one-man electronic artist from Toronto, Ontario. He also played in the now-defunct band Sea Snakes. He has been releasing records under this name since 2001.
Jakub Gaudasinski
Born in Poland behind the iron curtain in the early 80s, Jakub attended his first music lessons in classical cello. As part of a family of artists and cold war revolutionaries, Jakub's childhood was a colorful mixture of art, strong personalities and beautiful countryside summers by the river. This was a start to what was to be a turbulent and surreal journey into the world of music. Read more »
Jonas the Plugexpert
Jonas' detailed descriptions of mangled digital soundscapes filled with filigree creatures and atmospheric sceneries can only be explained from serious head trauma in his youth ‘caused by an exploded commodore 64. Imagine a tracking shot through a world with swampy bass-lines, racing snares and drum-sets flying in helicopters overlooking sinus-wave-snakes hanging from infinite tree structures of hierarchical noise.
Julian Winter
Julian Winter is an independent musician from Germany. At a quite early age he learned that music can sometimes evoke arbitrary pictures in ones mind, and that that's the point where music becomes very emotive. His music contains a lot of ambient recordings from his surroundings, and if he finds something interesting, he's sure to record it and experiment with it on his DAW. Read more »
Lackluster
Lackluster, born Esa Juhani Ruoho, October 26, 1978, in Helsinki, Finland, started producing music at the age of 15. He has spent 20 years of his life in Kontula, Eastern Helsinki, Finland. He composes music with various stepsequencers, and has released music on quite a few netlabels such as Monotonik, Kahvi Collective, Acroplane, TwoCircles and Yuki Yaki.
Machinae Supremacy
Machinae Supremacy is a band from Luleå, Sweden that combines modern heavy metal and alternative rock with chiptunes. Self-defined as SID metal, many of their songs use a SidStation that features the SID chip of the Commodore 64. They have released a considerable number of songs for free download on their site, 32 original recordings, with approximately 100,000 downloads a month.
Med
Med is one of the most famous Frenchy music demosceners. He grew up in Villiers-le-bel in France. Now living in Taiwan.
Tracking since 22 years now, he was first involved with the French hip hop group Ärsenik and Hubert Colaud jazz batter.
Today his music is used in advertising, documentaries, games and other media. On Jamendo his album has totaled more than 300,000 listens. He is involved with the French Collective.
He uses Renoise since the 1st day.
Next Life
Next Life is a Norwegian hardcore/metal/punk band using the C64 and other vintage computers in their music.
Otto von Schirach
Otto von Schirach is an IDM and breakcore artist from Miami, Florida. He is of Cuban/German descent. Otto's live performances include outfits, masks and props, and he has toured with the band Skinny Puppy.
Perquisite
Perquisite is a Hip Hop / Nu-Jazz and Trip Hop artist. Together with rapper Pete Philly he created the album Mind.state in 2005. Perquisite and Pete Philly are both from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Some say they developed a new kind of urban music which is very soulful and from the heart.
Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an American electronic musician and sound designer whose music, characterized by complex rhythms and heavy use of DSP, gained popularity among IDM fans after remixing Aphex Twin’s “Come To Daddy”.
Saine
Lost in the search for the perfect beat, the Finnish native Lauri Saine keeps shaping his sound signature forward. His first encounters with music production date back to 1995, the internet was about to bloom and there was no turning back. After the turn of the millennia, Saine released most of his hip-hop/jazz influenced tracks on the now-legendary Tokyo Dawn. Since then the 27-year-old musician has launched two solo albums on Helsinki-based Cymbidium Records, a self-released EP (free download here) and finally his third long player Long Time No See.
She
"She" is a multi-instrumentalist, chiptune artist and producer. Currently residing in Sweden, Lain was born in Poland where he learned to play piano at a very early age. In 1997 he began to take his melodymaking knowledge from the piano to the computer. He is also known for his unusual art designs, his use of music trackers and Nine Inch Nails Remixes.
Toxic Coma
Toxic Coma is a side project to Velvet Acid Christ. Psychophreak was written over the summer of 2004 using only Renoise with some VSTi plug-ins. Toxic Coma has always been about making normal people go crazy, and making insane people laugh and enjoy themselves. This music is for the hardcore freak and/or psychonaut. Toxic Coma use so many styles and genres in their music that they consider themselves the ultimate fusion of all electronic underground hardcore styles.
Vaccine
Having been involved with the promotions end of the industrial rock and IDM music scenes since she was a teenager, and running a drum and bass record label with her husband, ASC, whom she also manages, writing her own music - after she'd been promoting other people's for years - was a logical progression. Read more »
Velvet Acid Christ
Velvet Acid Christ (VAC) is an electro-industrial band based in Denver, Colorado USA. The majority of the band's work is categorized among the genres of industrial, Gothic, electro-industrial, and EBM. The band's tone ranges between angry, upbeat, sad, and psychedelic. The band's lyrical content offers a varied focus, including such topics as love, hate, depression, misanthropy, drugs, and religion. Bryan Erickson is the group's main songwriter. Read more »
Venetian Snares
From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures (mostly 7/4). He is an unusually prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels.
Vivace
Vivace is Rotterdam-based Jordy Timmermans, the progressive dancemusic producer known for his dramatic classical compositions, intense bebop breakbeat manipulations and groundbreaking approach to digitally modulated hexadecimal synthesizing.
Xerxes
At the age of 14, Xerxes started producing music using an Amiga 500. He is a deeply respected ambient artist and has played alot of festivals the last years, both as a dj and with his band "Xerxes Live".
