John von Seggern
Labelhead/ Bassist / DJ
John von Seggern is a producer, sound designer, bassist and DJ, relocated to Southern California in 2001 after a decade spent in Asia (Tokyo and Hong Kong) performing and recording with some of the region's most influential artists.
John von Seggern has performed his unique blend of techno electro jazz grooves at countless clubs, festivals and events in Asia and the US. His Hong Kong-based band Digital Cutup Lounge (founded with UK partner Stephen Ives) has released two CDs of electronic grooves mixed with live instrumentation, Cutup Mixdown and Network Effects, in addition to remixing numerous international artists.
John von now lives in Los Angeles, where he has been running abstract net.label Vibration Institute since 2007 and DJing minimal beats at warehouse parties while also playing bass at some of the city's top jazz clubs and doing electronic sound design for film projects. He contributed sound design effects and processing to the Oscar-nominated soundtrack of the Pixar film WALL-E.
He also works for German music software company Native Instruments and has been a collaborator and music technology consultant for numerous composers and producers in LA including Herbie Hancock, Dweezil Zappa, Steve Tavaglione, Paul Haslinger and John Beasley.
Viktor Carrillo
A member of the Droid Behavior techno crew, he has performed at many Droid events including legendary sets at their ‘Black + Silver Open Air’ desert event in 2008 and their recent ‘Interface 26.0' warehouse party.
Carrillo is a graduate of the Recording Engineering program at the Musicians' Institute of Technology in Los Angeles, and his resume includes a 6-year stint as the manager of Higher Source Records, helping select music for some of the top DJs in LA.
Carrillo is also a Traktor DJ software specialist for Berlin-based music software innovators Native Instruments.
Daniel Satta
DJ / Producer
Daniel Satta is a new face out of Los Angeles' small but admirably vital and diverse electronic music scene. Being devoted to and involved into electronic music culture for the past 25 years, may it be as DJ, promoter or just as the guy who's got the loudest laughter on the dance floor, Daniel by any means paid his tributes.
Starting out with playing two cassette decks at School-Parties in the late 80s, up to hosting and DJing at “Techno-Parties” back in Darmstadt, Germany in the early and mid- 90's, up to working at the record store pushing Techno and House records around the Millennium, all up to the year 2004 where he relocated to Berlin to start working at Native Instruments, one of the worlds finest audio hard- & software manufacturers, Daniel, not only due to his German heritage, literally came a long way to finally show up at the front door of the electronic music world.
Since his relocation to L.A. in early 2007 he began manifesting an artistic relationship with John von Seggern & Viktor Carrillo, two other iconic figures out of L.A.'s shrill nightlife, in order to form Xeriscape Records; a platform to release contemporary electronic dance music after their fancies.
Daniels' releases as 'Satta' usually tend to be a little darker and quirkier where his output as 'Daniel Zeta' is clearly more playful and dancefloor orientated. His latest release, the "Beacon E.P." is available on Beatport.
