D-Ron

Drøn are a German electro/IDM trio consisting of Christoph Abert, Frederik Dahlke, and Ingo Zobel. Heavily influenced by artists such as <a href="spotify:artist:1LGHtz93pVltgUC8QVLlTp">Atom Heart</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1zdrhzkCEqTrUrIiRzVeQ3">Pete Namlook</a>, their spacious tracks feature clicking, mutating beats and occasionally incomprehensible song titles, but there's an up-front (if detached) melodicism to their sound that separates them from the hordes of alienating <a href="spotify:artist:6WH1V41LwGDGmlPUhSZLHO">Autechre</a> clones out there. The group formed in 1997 and released its debut album, Parsec, on German electronic label <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Elektrolux%22">Elektrolux</a> in 2000, followed a year later by Xenologix. <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Mikrolux%22">Mikrolux</a> (a sublabel of <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Elektrolux%22">Elektrolux</a>) released Drøn's Eve Shores EP as well as the group's third album, Homeworld, both in 2002. The group temporarily changed its name to Signalform in 2006, releasing Private Channel on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Shima+Records%22">Shima Records</a>, followed by Understanding Media (a collaboration with Tachikoma) on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Lovethechaos%22">Lovethechaos</a> in 2007. The trio resumed the Drøn moniker in 2013, self-releasing a limited ambient CD-R titled Hd 188753. Later that year, Drøn contributed a track to Die Welt Ist Klang, an online tribute compilation to the late <a href="spotify:artist:1zdrhzkCEqTrUrIiRzVeQ3">Pete Namlook</a>, which was released as an eight-disc box set by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Carpe+Sonum+Records%22">Carpe Sonum Records</a> the following year. The label also released Drøn's fourth proper album, Comm, in 2015. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi