Artist description One man set up using keyboards; sampling; and computer software to create the sounds.Originally starting listening and dancing to techno/house/dance at the Hacienda in manchester before it closed down. My Music incorporates a few different styles, mostly techno and trance based. Please enjoy my music, your comments would be appreciated....Thanks for listening..oh and sign my guest book :-)

Music Style Techno/Trance/Drum&Bass

Musical Influences Leftfield, Chemical Brothers,Ministry of sound,Jean Michelle Jarre, Ultravox, Kraftwerk, Darude,

Similar Artists Paul Van Dyk, Juno Reactor, ATB, Tall Paul, Olmec Hedz, Gouryella, Fragma, Hybrid, Norman Bass, The Future Sounds of London

Artist History I kind of started listening to the music on MP3 and thought that I liked what I heared. A lot of it though was Hard core heavy trance. Or melodic and using piano's. Almost sounding like House.I decided to give it a go and see what I could produce. Like most artists a lot of my early stuff was Dire, you only realise that when you improve. Now my music has recieved world wide acclaim, it is an acquired taste standing somewhere inbetween the genres. At times too complex to be pure trance. I notice a lot of the songs that are downloaded are typically Ministry of sound genre, or use the same beat throughout. I prefer more complex music with powerfull backing synth. Take a listen tell me what you think.

Group Members Jono (just me, my pc's, my synths and samplers and software.I get my ideas for songs from daily life, they vary in mood and tempo depending on my mood at that time.

Instruments PC / sound samples/software/synths

Albums Funky Alien , Forbidden Area, Sixth Sensory Overload, Quantum, Sunrise, Enlightened,

Press Reviews Yes, I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for chanting; the more waily, the more choral, the more constipated the better. So in that respect at least this is a made-for-Mike-Bell track. It starts with a sudden volume rush of human voice, one of the aforementioned chanty wails, accompanied by a simple ethnic drum. It is soon joined by a melody and more intense beat, along with some wail variation, adding the much vaunted constipated undertone to the sound. At 1:50 we have a lowering, then in comes a faster beat; this is heading towards dance floor territory, along with a speeding up of other elements in the music. At 3:50, after another lowering, off it goes again, and now we’re really into the meat of the track. The beat races along, the basic bassline and tune making this a cool dance number, and the wails and chants (well, it’s not really a chant, but it is a chanting sort of wail…) give it that ethnic trance edge that manages to set it apart from many other similar efforts. Whilst I hesitate to use the term with regards to this style of music, I actually found this track for the most part rather funky; not perhaps in a standard sense, but more in essence, maybe others will know what I mean…. At seven and a half minutes I was sort of expecting this song to get annoying before it played out, but I was happy to be proven wrong. As previously mentioned, there are evenly spaced changes in tempo to keep you interested, and the wailing, which doesn’t stop for the whole duration, manages not to become monotonous by virtue of frequent and fitting variations in the sound effects around it. I really enjoyed this one, and the production is only slightly let down by what sounds like some ever so minutely ropey sound matching, evidenced in a little background noise (I don’t think it’s just my speakers), which actually suit the music but nevertheless made themselves noticed in my brain… What am I doing? I’m starting to take the emphasis away from the most important thing, so let’s bring it right back; Moonrise over Goa is an excellent track. It is a little simple and a tad minimalist in places, but that suits the sound so I cannot use it as a complaint. I am not particularly familiar with Jono’s work, but that is an issue I shall be redressing in the near future as a result of having listened to this song…. Cheers… Mike Bell (Enigmation). My name is nathan profitt, I'm a trance producer from Columbus, Oh... I'm justbrowsing tracks, and wanted to letcha know that your stuff is really good!!! keep it up! Just dropped onto your mp3 site, wow, great stuff...I really like your work and your style Recent artists review on my work:-"Well, I checked out your station and decided that a good place to start listening to the music played there was with your goodself - "Jono". But instead of listening to just one track, as I'd planned, I ended up listening to them all. At least I think "all" because there are so many! You can quote me on any or all of this: "this guy is excellent and prolific as well, and with lashings of integrity. I'm a fan. - Jack Hassall". Many thanks Jack. You make the best Goa Trance songs I've ever heared, and you can quote me on that" Thanks Rob Pheonix

Additional Info Visit my stations Jono's Dance Maching and Hacienda Revisited & my latest station Trancendentalism, to check out excellent tunes from other techno artists, also visit my links at the bottom of the page, all are excellent artists

Location Manchester, Lancashire - United Kingdom

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