[FbL010] John Koch-Northrup

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Hello, I'm John Koch-Northrup, and currently record ambient / minimal techno music and own the Relaxed Machinery label. I started learning piano from my Grandma when I was five years old. I've always looked up to her. She was the church organist for 65 years at the same church in the small town I grew up in.

I started playing in bands when I was 15 and have played countless gigs in many styles of music - at first on keyboards and later shifting to bass guitar. Through school I played trumpet and piano in jazz and concert bands.

Since 1999, I've switched my focus to the ambient music I've always been passionate about and began releasing under the name "Interstitial" on labels such as The Foundry and Red Antenna. I formed Relaxed Machinery which is a hybrid label / artist collective. We all "self release... together". The artists' self release under the rM name - and keep 100% of their sales. I work on promotion for everyone. I've been playing music for 35 years, and working with the Relaxed Machinery artists and community, I've never been happier.

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Available music in the web is a marvelous world to uncover, and ever since I came across the concept of Netlabels I was immediately stunned by the amount of music to discover. But shortly after I was overwhelmed by the fast paced releases and hard to find pearls (at least the ones that lasted more than 2 or 3 careful auditions). There are netlabels and record labels for all genres and you can find out there everything, but my intentions regarding the foundation of a label are based on two critical issues: listeners pleasure and tribute to the artist.

I want to release music that lasts one year, ten years, a lifetime, and that gives its listeners always a good reason to get back to it and also to promote as much as possible the artists that produce that music. I’m interested in the sensations that music transmits, its richness and its versatility.