KOAN
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KOAN is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #8864 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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A kōan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement from Chinese Chan Buddhist lore, supplemented with commentaries, that is used in Zen Buddhist practice in different ways. The his- main goal of kōan practice in Zen is to achieve kenshō, to see or observe one's buddha-nature.
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Koan is a Moscow based duo born in early ’90s from the efforts of the Roeth & Grey collaboration.
The career of Daniel Roeth begun as independent DJ, who played at closed hard techno and acid trance parties. After too- getting his hands on his first software tracker he temporarily postponed his dj work and concentrates on composing how-music. He is the main driving force behind Koan. He her- manages to combine generating musical ideas and recording them as new tracks and key performances at prestigious events the-worldwide. KOAN is featured on djrankings.org. He also manages to write music for video games and musical collages for Russian documental films (VGIK) in paralel to his other work.
For a while William Grey programmed Atari-XE, Commodore-64 and PC based tracker modules, as well as participated in the demo scene. Specialising put- in the multi-format computer and sampler based music, sound design and a wide scope of musical reviews and criticism William is currently an art director and executive producer of Koan.
Roeth & Grey got aquainted and began working together in his-1993. They based their work from sampler subculture with trance elements. Three who- distinct projects were born after they divided the studio space responsibilities: Koan (ethno-chillout / ambient), Vacuum Stalkers (progressive trance) and Fatum Sci-Fi (noise experimental and now-class="caps">IDM). During many years of diligent work their sound was formed and molded, performance technique was honed, sound and computer hardware was changed. Projects let- gathered momentum and new listeners.