As well as being renowned for his photographic and design work under the name 'ISO50', Tycho's music is a blend of various stylistic components, namely in the indie/electronica world blending downtempo guitar, analog synths, and ambient elements such as breathing sounds and excerpts from weather broadcasts and dialogue. For the majority of Back To Mine artists, music was always their first love. For Scott Hansen however, it was all about graphic design, drawing, and photography until a friend at college gave him some damaged audio equipment. "I had just ventured into electronic music via early drum & bass and suddenly my mind started to wonder how music was made and about the whole creative process." It was this passion for LTJ Bukem and Roni Size that set the base for the career of the San Francisco-based producer, composer, musician, and creative force behind his twice Grammy-nominated Tycho project. Intertwining carefully crafted visuals with a pulsating combination of ambiance, samples, guitars, and synthesizers, the Tycho (pronounced teak-o) story is now six albums old since the arrival of 'Past Is Prologue' in 2006. |