My artist name is "Redvoid". My name is John Sexton on BMI. I was a music major @ USF in Tampa, FL studying classical performance, classical composition, electronic music production, and jazz composition. Worked as a pro session player on trombone with major jazz artists like Ray Charles, Doc Severinsen, Eliane Elias, The Mingus Dynasty and Dave Koz performing at venues and events like Suncoast Jazz Festival, Ruth Eckerd Hall, and Tampabay Performing Arts Center, from 1985-1994.
Simultaneously, played in rock bands on keyboards, that made it as far as the Southeastern Music Festival, opening for bands like Marilyn Manson, Kings-X, and Genitorturers.
Started attending raves as soon as they existed in the US which was around the Second Summer of Love in 1988 and attended clubs and parties in that subculture. By 1994 I'd met other Florida based DJs and Producers and joined their ranks producing a series of vinyl releases from 1994-2001 on multiple indie dance labels, and had my own label called Psylon Records during this era. Worked on many collaborations like DefCon6 (with DJ HipE), Beyond & Back (with DJ Mark Foster), Window Seat (with DJ Andy Hughes / AGH), Reality Check and THC (with DJ Davie D, Dig Dug, Brandon Smith and Steve Cook). Remixed DJ Magic Mike's - It's Automatic on the same record as Frankie Bones' remix in 1999 on MAFDDAP Records MRI-001. Got Beyond & Back - "You Only Live Twice" featuring Abigail Fischer on Superstar DJ Keoki's - "Inevitable Alien Nation" mix in 1998. Performed many large events with DefCon6 opening for Rainbow Bridge @ Winter Music Conference (WMC), opening for DJ Swamp in Portland, OR, opening for Sunscreem in Fort Lauderdale, opening for Kimball Collins in Seattle, WA and for Noel Sanger in Tampa @ Pleasuredome.
In the 00s, Producer work was getting thin, so I began DJing night clubs and events in Tampa like Summersound Music Festival, Jacksons, G-Bar, Full Moon Saloon, and Club Underground among many others, putting me on the same flyers as major mainstage DJs like DJ Magic Mike, Laidback Luke and Chus & Ceballos.
Blackhole Studios is a long running consistent theme of my releases, and is currently located in Asheville, NC. My current EP is called "Dreaming in Darkness" and contains multiple flavors of modern techno, dub-techno, peak techno, raw hypnotic techno and melodic techno with other influences like acid and electro showing in the overall mix. I created a "melodic house & techno" station that also showcases music from my current EP alongside the greats of the genre. https://pandora.app.link/QJes59CD7Kb
My creative process involves a Eurorack Modular analogue synthesizer and an Akai MPC One sampler at the heart of the grooves, alongside new and classic analog hardware synths like the Ensoniq ESQm, Roland alpha-Juno-1, Syntechno TeeBee and more. Vocoding shows up in my historic discographies and in the new music as a nod to Detroit based techno pioneers like Juan Atkins, Drexciya & Aux88 as well as the Florida artists like DJ Magic Mike and Dynamix II.
I'm brand new at releasing music via digital distribution, but welcome this new addition to my musical life and I'm very happy to be a part of the Pandora AMP artist program!
my artist link: https://www.pandora.com/artist/redvoid/ARb494zX4Jmgcx6
Ritchie Hawtin / Plastikman is an artist I've been perpetually influenced by as an artist, DJ, technologist and industry influencer for decades.
So far my favorite AMP Tool is the Station creation tool. It gives me total control fo the station with total metrics feedback. I am looking forward to the insights it provides.
John Sexton
