exos bio:
Exos is the alter ego of Arviður Snorrason who wasborn and raised in the infamous 101 district of downtovn Reykjavik ,capital of Iceland. As a youngster he played the drums and absorbed influences from all the worlds music. But having heard electronic dance music there was no turning back.He was an avid observer of oldscool hardcore in 92 and drum and bass in 93 and began to spin around, but gradually turned to house and techno in 94-95. At the age of 15 he began to compose minimal techno and early in 96 he got in touch with urban legend, Thor of Thule records,who published artists like Ozy, Sanasol,Biogen and Thor himself. Next year Thulemusik put out 3 eps ,followed by Mosaic records with Steve O Sullivan in Britain and Force inc in Germany who published two albums and 3 eps.
Exos made coprojects with artist Ohm in year 2000 ( 3 records for Force Inc and Tissju records in Iceland ).Then Exos made remix projects with Ben Sims and Mark Broom of Theory records in Uk and released a maxi for Symbolism records, a label by Ben Sims. In 2001
icelandic AE records put out Exos third album called My home is sonic, a collection of his best minimal tracks that was nominated for the best album of the year in local papers in native Iceland.
As he was maturing his love for music he decided that ultra deep and minimal electronica was his calling. He also got drawn praise for his efforts from such sources as WIRE and AMG along many magazines that serve the dance music scene.
In 2002 Los Angeles based Automat records published an ep called Desert host by Exos who followed his releases through Europe spinning in clubs like Tresor (Berlin) Paradiso(Amsterdam) and Badofar (Paris ) to name a few.
Next year in 2003, Exos turned again to more deep mininimal music and released an ep called "U cant stop time" on Statik Entertainment records in Germany.That ep was a
direct continue of the album "My home is sonic". In 2004 Exos music took a turn to the hard wing of techno resulting in remixes by Frank Hunter and Mark Broom put out by Symbolism records. Same year Exos teamed up with the high priest homeboy of hard techno, Dj Rush, to remix the first the record by Exos on his own
label,Do not Sleep records. Among planned releases are releases by Thor 54 and Kasheii,as well as remixes by Cari Lekebush, Samuel L Session, Cave,Sven Wittekind, Devilfish, Leo Laker and Dj Rush. In 2005 Exos is busy with his label,Do not sleep as well as keep following websites ongoing, www.techno.is and www.exosmusic.com. Keep track of Exos and get ready for his next release,Do not sleep vol 3,
Samuel L session remix.
Doctrinal explorer or free spirited conformist is a question that springs to mind when attemping to define Exos as a musician. His extrordinary talent of touching the seemingly repetitive style of four on the floor techno with a magic wand of some sort, applying to it qualities of deepness, intelligence, spiritual thought, and organic feel, never ceases to astonish even after many listenings. His ability to avoid the banalities of sliding in samples from other genres of music in attempt to “broaden the cultural bandwith” is ever the more imporant as he manages to create a emotional universe that is totally integrated and self contained within the music and thus almost forcing the listener into a dialog with the expression involved.
As he was maturing his love for music he decided that ultra deep and minimal electronica was his calling. He has drawn praise for his efforts from such sources as WIRE and AMG along many magazines that serve the dance music scene, as well as having been nominated for the best album in 2002 in local papers in native Iceland.
Exos develops a taste for house and stiffens to deepTechno in 94 which is on top of his preferences.
Exos makes music that flows and evolves into a definitive athmosphere the main genres being thumping Techno and haunting minnimal with an ultra deep accent. His dj style is hard, fast and raw but also deep, tribal and moody. He has released alot of EP's on various labels like Symbolism, Mosaic (uk), Thule records, Tissju, Plast trax, (ic) and Force inc. in Germany
256Kbps MP3:
U CANT STOP TIME
RANDOM RUVWANDA
ZNORR
RUSSIAN DUB
I WANNA LOVE YAH
..from archive.org
Ciao!
