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producer . remixer . DJ . bassist |
John von
Seggern has been a professional musician and producer since 1991,
moving between Tokyo, Hong Kong, and California. He is currently
working as a digital DJ and producer in Los Angeles in addition to
working on film and videogame scoring as part of Terra Incognito. |
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John began his musical career as a session bassist in Asia, and he has played with many of the top artists in the Asian music industry, including recorded appearances on numerous CDs and movie soundtracks in Tokyo and Hong Kong as well as participating in five world concert tours. Having made a successful career as a studio musician, John became interested in electronic music through his involvement in Hong Kong’s growing club culture in the mid-1990s and began his own group with partner Stephen Ives in Hong Kong in 1999, the Digital Cutup Lounge. |
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DCL have gone on to record two CDs of groundbreaking music together [the first DCL CD,Cutup Mixdown, was named Album of the Year in Hong Kong in 2001 by HK Magazine, who called it ‘…the most exciting thing to hit the Asian music industry in years…’] and have remixed a string of top international artists including Nelly Furtado, Enrique Iglesias, Lee Ann Womack, Barry White, Astrud Gilberto, Trilok Gurtu, Asha Bhonsle [India], Alsou [Russia], the Safri Duo [Denmark], and Sam Hui [Hong Kong]. Their music has been released in North America, Japan, Europe, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. As a remixer, John specializes in creating new fusions and mixtures of music from cultures around the world. His many years of experience as a session musician playing with artists from the US, Japan, Hong Kong, the UK, Singapore, Australia, Kazakhstan, China, Brazil, France, and India has given him a uniquely global perspective on the world of music, and an ability to consistently come up with fresh new sonic combinations in his mixes. Frequent international touring has also tuned John’s ear to the sound of the contemporary global dancefloor, and his remixes have rocked clubs and parties from California to Calcutta, played by DJs such as international trance star Nick Warren [Bristol, UK], breakbeat rebels Deep Fat Fried [Oakland, USA] and South Asian underground rave legend DJ Sid [Mumbai, India]. |
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In addition to his
ongoing work with Stephen in the Digital Cutup Lounge, John also
records under the names DJ Zizzy Hikaru and Global
Vibration Research and works frequently with a network of
collaborators scattered around the globe.
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