Encrypter

Encrypter is a hardware-focused composer and producer of electronic music. Born in Ireland, based in Melbourne. Obsessed with texture and processing recorded sound since he was a grungy teen, he whiled away his days making field recordings on his Walkman as fodder for creating garbled noisescapes through cheap guitar effects. In the many years between then and now, he has released ambient, downtempo, industrial hardcore, electro, glitchy jungle, splittercore and a variety of takes on techno through his original works and remixes for the likes of Myler, Diarmaid O Meara and Weever. As a result of being burgled a couple of times and a rather dumb and stubborn refusal to back up his work, he has been forced to reboot his creative practice twice in a decade which has led to a current focus on recording tracks live with hardware or using unusual techniques like balanced feedback environments and generative composition to capture feelings of immediacy and energy. Elements of this style became the basis for the SEQARP label founded with fellow Irish synth junkie, ikeaboy and bass-mangler supreme, Molotov Ape.