JASEFOS BIO
Many of you would know of JaseFOS for his seminal classic, Do What U Want (featuring Claire Vanderboom), which infiltrated several compilations across the globe beginning with MOS Australia, James Holden's Balance and most recently on Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise with many edits and mash ups emerging from the underground in digital formats since! Others would remember JaseFOS from his years in the 90s as a dynamic Live PA on the Perth electronic music scene, literally transporting his entire studio of hardware synths on stage playing support to the likes of Speedy J, Aphrodite, Luke Slater, Darren Emmerson and Carl Cox. In the early 2000s, he relocated to Melbourne to work with hi-tech studio equipment distribution companies as a product specialist providing technical sales knowledge and support to musicians across the countryside working with a wide range of brands from Ableton through to Native Instruments. Electronic musicians among you may also recognise his work as a sound designer having worked on the factory sounds gracing the Korg MonoPoly synth in Korg's legendary Legacy Collection followed up by several official Korg Artist Soundbanks for the MS20 and MonoPoly.
For the past two years, JaseFOS has taken time out from sound design and production and has been focused instead on the craft of DJing as a means to reinvigorate the creative ideas pool for his productions! After sitting in front of the blank canvas of Cubase's Arrange window for almost 20 years, it comes as no surprise he needed a new source of inspiration. Embracing the very latest techniques in digital DJing, he spends several hours a day perfecting his mixing style in his concrete bunker studio (aka The Space Cave).
"Basically I grew really tired of hearing my own stuff on loop for hours on end and needed some new input", he explains, "and although DJing in the 90s was never something I considered (since I had the very blinkered view of being a Live PA only), digital DJing technology really opens new avenues for creativity which has made it interesting to me as a producer now since I can employ aspects of Live PA and production into DJing while simultaneously being exposed to the cutting edge genres of today".
Over past year, JaseFOS re-discovered his love for programming laser projector systems (which he flirted with back in the 90s). Late in 2010, this re-discovered passion really started to take hold, and a pair of custom full colour laser projectors hand-built by the good folks at Lumina VP were installed in The Space Cave. Since then, JaseFOS has been "Lost in Rave" until the wee hours of the morning, exploring laser show design software from Pangolin. While some may consider a studio space decked out with lasers to be an ancillary indulgence, there is a greater plan at hand - the fusion of the crafts of both the DJ and Live PA with that of the laserist.
"Only the performer themselves can accurately anticipate the structure and mood changes of a set unless you have the luxury of working with a specific Laserist who gets to know the structure of a set intimately. Thus it only makes sense to explore the possibilities offered when the performer and the Laserist is one and the same. Although traditionally, awesome laser shows are accomplished in a pre-programmed manner to a static music track, since the running order of the set is improvised, the only way the same precision can be achieved is when the performer is driving both the audio and visual elements. Of course there is a substantially greater amount of equipment and setup involved, however I'm no stranger to that, and if it means I can bring something unique for party-goers, the extra effort is all the more worthwhile."
Underneath the radar, JaseFOS has been enchanting audiences at underground house-parties as an emerging fresh DJ talent, ready for prime time. With a sound that is both eclectic and fruity, dark yet funky, expect the freshest sounds of today served up seemlessly with delights from raves-gone-past and with a nod or two to his earlier Industrial/EBM influences garnered on his journey to discovering electronic music prior the 90s.
Approaching the art of DJing from the perspective of a Producer and now Laserist, you can be assured of a set that is both musical as it is innovative, charged with precision and finesse.
