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casper van der stelt

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sublogic releases

RTN008 less static, more noise
RTN002 artificial untelligence ep
XFR001 transfer one
SC00166 hysterical day
SC00139 locked and broken

also known as: cadra

location: zaandam, the netherlands

after growing up with piano lessons and regular childhood dreams of artistically acquired fame and fortune, cadra first got his hands on the means of potentially doing so in 1995, when he discovered scream tracker. at this stage, he somehow managed to talk his classmate tripwire into joining him in the creation of electronic music. in need of a cool name to operate under in these (attemptedly musical) endavours, the name of the sublogic corporation was salvaged from a dark pit in the outback of his memory and reinstated.

time went by, he switched from st3 to ft2 to impulse tracker and started becoming interested in musical hardware. a yamaha cs1x was bought in 1998. in 2000 and years after, more machines followed, but casper was still using impulse tracker to produce the tracks and did little other than sample from the synths he had. he also kept releasing his music in this original format, while more and more artists started exporting their tunes, mastering them (in one way or another) and releasing mp3. in 2002, however, he discovered ztracker, a midi tracker with an interface based on that of his beloved impulse tracker. from plain sample-based tracking, he moved to 100% hardware production in one big sweep and started laying down tracks with acid influences, a quasi-minimal style and an "unpolished" quality (or lack thereof). after half a year of doing this, he produced what has gone down in history as his "best track ever" and, unable to top its magnificence, production of any new music grinded to a halt in early 2003. for reasons unclear, the track in question was never actually released.

later in 2003, he discovered renoise and appointed it as his new weapon of choice. it still took about a year before any full tracks came out, but they did eventually. at this point, working with an intentionally limited array of softsynths and plugins, his style jumped over to raw techno, but maintained a recognizable style. in the meantime his hardware has been gathering dust and is being sold piece by piece.

presently, casper is producing at a pretty toned-down pace and releases music only occasionally. his aspirations of fame and fortune were lost at some point and are thought to have started off on a career of their own.