Lackluster

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Born Esa Juhani Ruoho, October 26, 1978, in Helsinki, Finland, started producing music at the age of 15 - back in 1994. Has spent 21 years of his life in Kontula, Eastern Helsinki, Finland - but also traveling in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and Dublin, Ireland for 6 months and 20 months. Starting with trackers, Esa has kept the up-down vibe and also branched out to left-right transmutations when it comes to step sequencers - preferring a mix of vertical trackers and horizontal sequencers, and jamming on top of that with other forms of note-stepping, a mixture that is both static and out of control. Releasing his stuff on netlabels, real life record labels and digital download labels has led to a decade of compilation tracks, remixes, singular trax and ep's and records. And then there's the live performances. ---- 1999 - CDR#2 (Monotonik, cdr) 2000 - (foc349 - deFocus, 12) 2000 - Container (foc350cd/lp - deFocus, cd/lp) 2000 - R U Oho? (foc354 - deFocus, 12) 2000 - Rikos005 (Rikos005 - Rikos Records, 7) 2001 - Spaces (ucover005cd, u-cover, cd) 2001 - Zealectronic Purple (Zealpurple, Zeal Records, 7) 2002 - A Lackluster Remixer (MerckLL - Merck Records, 12) 2002 - Wrapping (foc369cd/lp - deFocus, cd/lp) 2003 - Showcase (merck015cd - Merck Records, cd) 2004 - Remixselection_one (psy012 - Psychonavigation Records, cd) 2004 - Showcase Sampler (MerckSC, Merck Records, 12) 2005 - Slice (ucover024cd - U-Cover, cd) 2005 - What you want isn't what you need (nspk008cd - New Speak Recor...