actually, imagine henry collins got curious and decided to produce offspring with luca venezia. the result would be nitroii, a project i began sometime in 2019/2020 (but who's really keeping track anymore) to see how far i could go with music until i decided i couldn't be arsed anymore.
of course, though, i've been experimenting with music my whole life, so giving up wasn't gonna be that easy. for my 3rd birthday, my parents gave me a nintendo 3ds, and i would often be walked in on singing and/or screaming into this poor device like i was serj tankian. fast forward a few years and i was 11 and a very interesting period of my life passed as i was not allowed to leave the house anymore. during this nationwide lockdown, i reconnected with some old friends, and i started tinkering with whatever janky microphones i had left laying around in the house. i used to record myself gargling water and coughing, then drag it into audacity and slice it up into fine pieces and disintegrate it with effects until it was nothing but a stuttering mess - think something like an autechre cd skipping while on full blast in your 2004 renault clio.
later that year (maybe around christmas time?) i met my partner-in-mashup-crime-to-be marcus keeton. without him, i don't know where i would be musically. probably still releasing noise music actually. but marcus and i went on to form the duo 'ocularist', which would lead us to our first 15 (more like 1.5) seconds of fame.
anyways, in 2021 i decided to shift to jungle and breakcore, and the result was a poorly made but monumental release in my career, which i named after the building i photographed for the album cover, so the name of that ep ended up being 'snowman house ep'. it wasn't very good at all, but it was a start!
back to ocularist, we began working on the first album around this time. that wasn't very good either, but it was loved by some people, which to this day i really appreciate. it makes me happy that people enjoy the music i make, whether as ocularist with marcus, or whether it's my solo works - my listeners inspire me to keep creating! from here on i would only keep pushing! the next ocularist album was 'untitled', one that showed how truly lazy we can get - some of the tracks on that album were shocking. anyways, the next ocularist album after that was in a 2000s bastard pop style: me and marcus chewed up, spat out, and stamped on any gangsta rap hit we could find, which birthed 'it takes a horde of rap fans to hold us back'. infamously known as 'the album rejected by three labels', it finally came out on noizyazzholez (thanks to sam fauchon and hev). the one after that was definitely a huge step up - 'mashitup!' was a double album brimpacked with familiar pop songs turned mental. big moves from us - and as i speak, a new ep is in the works!!
back to my personal endeavours, i remained quiet for a while under my own alias. i released a breakcore ep comprised of unreleased tracks and demos called 'going back to london', and a noise ep i made in a day called 'noisemix311' shortly after - all the while, i was working on a big album.
'recession beating anthems, volume one' came out on my 15th birthday, and it was my baby. since as early as october 2021, i had been formulating the perfect album, collecting obscure samples and drum packs - and it all led up to hitting release that fateful day. the album did well, and another is in the works (as of may 2024), so get ready to get gully!!