Joe Atari

I remember conducting orchestras in my head when I was five. Singing myself to sleep. By 10 I was listening to the radio, and at 12 I started buying music. But at thirteen I was also writing basic computer games, one was a pac-man imitation that went too slow, and one was called "Nuclear Simulation" where you always died. I was messing around making mixtapes on turntables at 16. But then I got into 8-bit sound programs. I made my first album and called it "skull portraits" (see my discography) I had a trial with a provincial drum'n'bass label but I was much more into IDM really, it was more adventurous, and that took me to making over 100 tracks (including my first 'proper' album "Radiant Objects...") made with a Yamaha A3000 sampler, some loops and a keyboard. I got into the London Electro scene, and gradually built up DJ work ever since. I'm a futurist at heart, but I love melody and I'm always tinkering at the piano. Full circle. I hear beauty in sounds.

"Lost...in the 21st Century" Volume Two out now. Some of my earliest tracks have their DNA remodelled for 2022. Plus some newer tracks composed during lockdown. I spent years refining some of these into their present shape.
Since the turn of the 21st Century I have recorded several electronic albums, under various aliases, and probably around 1000 tracks in total. I'm still 'lost' in the 21st Century, and that has a double meaning...