Artist description Lush, atmospheric & evolving electronic music based upon playful harmonies blended with throbbing baselines, hefty rythms and transitions. Mainly hardware synth based with a touch of samples from time to time. We aim to intrigue and engage in a somewhat pleasant way.

Music Style Electronica, Techno, IDM, Intelligent Techno, Ambient. Synth and sample based electronica. You tell us!

Musical Influences All engaging music influences us! (jazz, rock , electronica, classical, etc.)

Similar Artists Biosphere, Underworld, Leftfield, Orbital, Fluke, Groove Armada, Propellerheads, FSOL, Orb, Moby, Massive Attack, Red Snapper, Depeche Mode, EBTG.

Artist History portsonar was formed by coincidence autumn 2000. We started by exchanging musical ideas and experiences which contributed to develope a more engaging musical expression compared to what we were capable of doing seperately.

Group Members Henning Ardraa & Kjetil Ardraa.

Instruments Novation Nova (phat miracle!), Supernova (phatter miracle!) and Nova II (phattest miracle!), 2xAccess Virus B (Filthy, dirty, dirty! WOW! ), Waldorf MicroQ Rack (Cold, cutting German), Kawai K4 (Mr. Strange), Yamaha CS1x (Mr. Allround), Yamaha TG77 (Don't tell anyone; this is a MONSTER!), Yamaha DX200 (Aggressive FM bastard!), Yamaha PSR480, Alesis AirFx (freak machine), Various outboard FX's & compressors, Rode NT1, 2xM-Audio Delta 1010, Mackie UAD-1 dsp card, Behringer MXB 1002, Behringer MX 1604A and 2xEvolution UC-16.

Press Reviews A review of "Listen" from Future Music (FM 115, then our band was named Mju:t): "Atmospheric and pretty tasty!".

Location Oslo, Oslo - Norway

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