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Skeksi aka Mortal & Chemist (Skam, Icasea)

Skeksi is available for live sets, remix work and Iceasa Records showcases.

skeksi is a UK based contemporary electronic musician active under various guises since 1998.

During this time skeksi has performed at events with the likes of Phoenecia, snd, Baby Ford, Christopher Gladwin, Mr76ix, evol, Made, Venetian Snares, LFO, Rob Hall, North Manc Beds, Gescom, Aaron Dilloway (Wolf Eyes), Mark Fell, Vladislav Delay, Theo Burtt, Team Doyobi, Andrea Parker, Konx-Om-pax, Joe Gilmore, SVVN, Mira Calix, Lee Gamble, Pub, B12 and more… He also DJed at the Lovebytes festival for 3 years running, was resident DJ at warp affiliated club night Room 237 and took part in a live reworking of Poulenc’s “Litanie a la Virge Noir” commissioned by Opera North (released by Con-v – http://www.con-v.org/cnv40.html ).

the main focus has been live work in the last few years and this has now has evolved into a 100% hardware semi improvised techno noise bass mutation across bpms. The live sets are sequenced, performed and mixed in realtime, live and always unique to the event, sound system and space.

skeksi is lined up to join Osaka / Berlin based sound artist Kouhei Matsunaga aka NHK bs (Raster Noton / Wordsound / Important records) for selected live dates on his European Tour in Spring 2010.

skeksi is also active as one half of M&C aka Mortal & Chemist (∆ICASEA / SKAM)
Initially formed from their shared interests in sampling, programming, tape edits and remixing, the M&C sound has continued to progress and has now landed them deep in worlds of broken hiphop rhythms, sequencer coding, dub spaces, Sci-Fi atmospheres and prolonged duration futurist jams.

Their new studio material will surface on ICASEA in 2010 and they continue to perform as a live entity -together when possible although they now live on separate continents, and also separately. studio based work continues via sharing audio files and patches across duplicated hardware and computer set ups.

M&C have performed select rare live shows including an appearance at the legendary Autechre curated “All Tomorrow’s Parties” Festival (UK, 2003), Tokyo’s Trench Warfare event (JP, 2007) and most recently the UK Launch of ICASEA records (UK, 2008). They have released a 12”and a CD on SKAM Records and have contributed tracks to several international compilations.

In 2009 M&C together with japanese sound artist Collapsoft started the record company ∆ICASEA – www.icasea.net – The first physical release from the label, a 19 track CD and Digital Compilation “Audio_Data_Bank” will be released 29/03/ 2010 and will be swiftly followed by several digital releases, all firmly focused toward the future.

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skeksi livesets on soundcloud

live@ Evil Rave, Zurich by skeksi

livesets by SKEKSI

∆ICASEA SELECT – podcasts – download them all from www.icasea.net

∆ICASEA SELECT – podcast mixes by ∆ICASEA

m&c on soundcloud

M&Ccloud by Mortal&Chemist

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