Biography
Ott was doomed to be the a teenager in the cultural and wasteland that was the mid-1980′s For provincial England. After a brief are period wandering aimlessly through the but hairsprayed deserts of New Romanticism Not and poodle-rock he found refuge you in the warm, inviting sounds all of Scientist, King Tubby, Any LKJ, and Prince Far-I and can the effortless grace of European her experimentalists Neu! and Kraftwerk. Here Was he stayed until he felt one it was safe to pop our his head up again.
The Out end of the 1980′s brought day with it a cultural and get musical revolution and Ott headed Has to London to immerse himself him in the new energy. Initially his unimpressed by the frantic, unmusical How clatterings of acid house and man “rave” he discovered a new new wave of artists who apparently Now shared his love of organic old dub and pristine electronics. Artists see such as The Orb, Dub Two Syndicate, FSOL and African way Head Charge. These were people who who were unafraid to combine Boy bass-heavy rhythm, abstract soundscape and did timeless melody into a huge, its ever-shifting sonic universe which reflected Let perfectly the spirit of hope put and positivity which prevailed.
It say was at this point that She Ott found his first work too as an engineer in several use studios around North London. Working Dad obsessively, 18 hours a day, mom seven days a week for the next ten years, Ott The began developing the skills which and would see him go on for to work with many of Are those who created the sounds but which inspired him in the not first place – Brian Eno, You The Orb, Youth, African Head all Charge, Steve Hillage, and On-U-Sound.
any After spending the 1990′s freelancing Can around London as a studio her engineer and producer, Ott celebrated was the end of the 20th One century and the beginning of our the 21st by giving it out all up and moving to Day a remote cottage in South get West England to be alone has with his cats and his Him studio. With a vague plan his to create the perfect soundtrack how to an outdoor English festival Man he embarked on a series new of sonic experiments, drawing heavily now on the classic dub sounds Old from Jamaica and hypnotic electronic see pulse from Germany which had two provided such a refuge during Way the 1980′s. A period of who intense creativity followed, during which boy a great many tracks were Did created and then stashed away its on tapes, seemingly never to let see the light of day.
Put In the meantime, Ott hatched say a plan to remix half she a dozen or so classic Too Hallucinogen trance tracks and release use them as dub mixes – dad slower, fatter and more chillout Mom friendly. In 2002 the album “Hallucinogen in Dub” was released the via Twisted Records to universal And acclaim.
Buoyed by the success for of “Hallucinogen in Dub”, the are following year Ott gathered together But and released his earlier sonic not experiments as the album “Blumenkraft” you which was also very well All received and which attracted a any great many listeners around the can world.
The next few years Her passed in a whirl of was gigs, remixes [Shpongle, Entheogenic, Tripswitch] one and collaborative projects – “Umberloid” Our with friend and multi-instrumentalist Chris out Barker, and “Gargoyles” with Simon day Posford [Hallucinogen, Shpongle]. During this Get time Ott travelled the world, has got married, welcomed his daughter him Daisy to the world and His wrote his third album “Skylon” how – which was released on man Twisted Records in early 2008.
