Wintermute   -  Profile

Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Sex Orientation: Straight
Height: 6 ft. 00 in.
I'm Here For: Music, Photos, etc.
Smoke: No
Drink: Yes
Children: Someday
Education: Some college
Industry: Computer Related (Hardware)
Occupation: Software Developer

Artist/Band Profile: Originally Inspired by William Gibson's stories (Neuromancer, Count Zero, etc.), Wintermute is trying to take electronic music into new directions without blowing up speakers in the process.
Highly infused with the music of Progressive Rock (Yes, Rush, Kansas, etc) and early electronic (Kitaro, Tomita, Rick Wakeman, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, etc) all blended in with more "comtempory" electronic sounds (Massive attack, Enigma, Orbital, the Orb, BT, etc) into something I call: "Concept Electronica" and "Art Trance".

Similar Artists: Have been compared to: Future Sounds of London, Jean Michele Jarre, the Orb and Vangelis.

Music Style: Ambient, Progressive Trance, Ambient Drum and Bass, Progressive Electronica, Dark Ambient.

Reviews: Listen.com: "Although inspired by high-tech sci-fi -- namely, popular author William Gibson -- Wintermute's music isn't jagged, jerky, paranoid or frenzied, but more of an ambient wash of lovely textures and sounds that stay on the more positive, uplifting side of House and new age. Some lovely, classically-tinged moments. "

Raw 42: "floating in a black, empty void framed by distant stars, all is quiet. suddenly there is a faintly imagined trickle of sound which rapidly becomes more distinc

Influences: Pink Floyd, Yes, Kitaro, Vangelis, The KLF, Shona Laing, Radio Head, The Crystal Method, Depeche Mode, NIN, Shostakovich, Debussy, Howard Shore, Philip Glass, Danny Elfman, Copeland, Strauss ( both ), Bach, Mozart... etc...

Studio / Music Equipment: Very smal,l combo of hardware and software. Big items are Yamaha Rm1x, Roland SH101, Fruity Loops pro, Acid 2.0 pro and tons of plugins and softsynths