Artist description Progressive House and vocal Electronica from San Francisco.

Music Style House / 2-Step / Down-Tempo / Progressive

Musical Influences Film Music, and going to Dance Clubs

Similar Artists Everything But the Girl, Chicane, BT, U2, MJ Cole, Dirty Vegas, Daft Punk, Aphrodite, Gus Gus, Madonna, Starecase, Moby, Chemical Brothers, Depeche Mode, Fatboy Slim, David Bowie

Artist History Bio: Andy Sybilrud has been producing music for 6 years. I was in a little punk band when I was 16. I played lead guitar, organ and piano and wrote most of the music. We ended up recording a cheap record. That’s when I started my interest in recording. It started as a College project when attending Music Tech College of Recording in Minneapolis, MN. I was listening to alot of Electronica at the time and was very intrigued by the whole thing. I started experimenting with synthesizers in my MIDI class and writing tracks with Protools. For my first school project I wrote a R&B piece with my cousin singing vocals. I brought it home and it turned into a dance remix that soared on my Mp3.com site I had at the time. From then I started doing my own tracks and came up with the Return to Mono name. (which means back to one: one person) I wrote lots of tracks that year, though they weren't that good yet. I still was getting used to the whole digital audio / sequencer thing. I bought my second synthesizer (Roland JP8000) to go along with my old Alesis QS6 that I have had since my punk rock days, I also bought a cheap ER-1 drum machine and a nice condenser mic.. I recorded all this going into a Tascam 4-track and outputed onto Digital Performer 2.7. Sadly, I still use the same mixer today. With all this new equipment and a functional digital studio, I started bringing singers in that I knew to sing on some of my tracks. The songs seemed to just stream out. I would spend till 6 in the morning in my basement working and mixing the songs. The song “Keep it Alive” got the attention of WCCO news (Minnepolis TV) which gave me Artist of the Month, the first electronic musician to get the honor. The City Pages also named me artist of the year in the “Electronica” catagory. I recently moved to San Francisco in search of greater success.

Group Members Andy Sybilrud (instruments & vocals) Plus Guests appearing such as....Krysta Manthe (vocals) Gabrielle Angelique (vocals)

Instruments Mac G3, Roland JP8000, Rebirth 2.0, Reason, Alesis QS6, Korg ER-1, Korg Triton, Sony digital mixer, (old songs) Digital Performer 2.72 / (new songs) Logic 5.3, Peak, Gemini PT2000, Fender Stratocaster, Fender Jazz Bass, RODE NT1000 condenser mic.

Albums My REASON, Return to Mono

Press Reviews "If you like groups like Moby or Depeche mode then your going to like the Deep House, Trance and Electro-Pop styles of Return to Mono."-KMSP Channel 9 News "Return to Mono definatly has more soul in each of there songs than most artists even dream of."- Epic Trance Online "I love the dynamics that your overall sound has... very nicely mixed with all the instruments and sounds in just the right places." - Marcelo Miswax Records.

Additional Info All sounds are created on sythesizers or recorded live in my home studio.

Location SanFrancisco, CA - USA

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