311098 Tapes – Extract

This is an extract from Niko Skorpio : 311098 Tapes – album available for free download via Bandcamp. More info on the album in a previous blog post, too. Sounds and images for live performance by Niko Skorpio 1997–1998.Transferred from original 4-track & VHS tapes used for the performance. Subscribe to the PARAFERAL YouTube channel … Read more

20 years ago – Grey Bloom

Niko Skorpio – Grey Bloom LP (1998)

20 years ago today, I released my debut solo album. I called it Grey Bloom [xero vol zero] and put it out on 12″ vinyl on my own small underground label Some Place Else. Always thinking bigger than my resources allow, it was supposed to be followed shortly by another LP with a related theme and … Read more

The Art of Pilfering

A brief history of sampling in music and sound art, with emphasis on the author’s personal interests and influences on his own work in the field. (For ViCCA, 10 Dec 2015) In Brief Sampling, in context of sound and music, is the act of taking a part of a previously recorded sound and reusing it … Read more