Artist description Markus Holler works as freelance composer for various projects, mainly computergames. First musical contacs were made on good old C=64 in the late 80s.He was born 1976 in Mainz and is still living near this city in Germany. At the moment he's working on the famous roleplaying-strategiegame "Tales of Tamar", on a C&C-like wargame called "Operation: Counterstrike", for TV and videos and lots of more stuff...Additionally he's working on his very first album in cooperation with layouter and storydesigner Alex Scholz. As this project is in the very beginning, it might take a while until this album comes out, so stay tuned! :)

Music Style Game soundtracks, electronic and orchestral style, melodic synth songs

Musical Influences Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Bill Whelan, Bjorn Lynne, Michael Cretu, Mike Oldfield

Similar Artists Chris Hülsbeck, Bjorn Lynne, Enigma, undefineable (depends on the song :)

Instruments A couple of synths, some cool effects and dynamics, a tin whistle and percussions, some nice mikes, a bit of mixing console and my computers.

Albums Merregnon is out now (various artists like Allister Brimble, Jogeir Liljedahl, Chris Huelsbeck and of course myself!), an own album will be coming up soon...

Press Reviews "A rousing brand of music ... 'Merregnon' brings together some of the brightest young talents in the composing world". (Epic Sound, Soundtrack Central) "It was worth it: A CD appeared, that includes 74 minutes of impressive, orchestral music." (Music for the Masses, Gamesmania 10.09.2000) " 13 composers of well known game soundtracks have come together for a fantastic musical project: This disc is a hit! [...] This first concept album in this field Merregnon is unique." (PC Joker 11/2000)

Location Ingelheim, RLP - Germany

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