I’m a music producer from Leeds, England. I’ve been creating electronic music as ookiiani since 2017 touching on a variety of styles, from vaporwave and future funk on earlier albums, to house, drum and bass and garage on newer albums.
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I first began producing music when I was a teenager, using some (pretty awful) free software and predefined loops. It wasn’t much, but it gave me the concepts of using a DAW. Once I got the hang of it, I began to produce my own electronic music under a variety of old aliases - many of the releases which were absolutely terrible!
However, in 2017 I finally grew tired of ‘chasing’ a popular electronic music song, as the competition was so fierce, and trying to stand out in that scene from nothing was so impossible that it demoralised me completely.
I swapped instead to producing music under a genre I’d been enjoying at the time - vaporwave - which proved to be a much more malleable genre and one that I could meet new friends within the scene of, quickly leading me to begin producing vaporwave and future funk music under the newly-created ookiiani name.
Over the years I’ve created multiple albums with different sounds, slowly gravitating back to a more electronic base, but bringing with me a decade of experience of sampling and experimenting.
I’ve just put out the first ‘official’ DJ Set since the old ‘Welcome to ooks’ house’ set from back in 2017.