Nightmode's Bio:
Age: ???
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM
DJ: 6 years
Producer: 3 years
A glimpse inside: As a kid, Nightmode's father was a crucial influence on his musical taste, owning 1 pop record in his vast collection. He designed and built his stereo components and speakers, which was inspiring. Having developed an ear for the unusual, it was only natural after heavy industrial and hardcore punk influences in high school, to pursue the genre of electronica. He discovered The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, and many others in high school, and in '96 heard breakbeat/jungle for the first time, LTJ Bukem's Logical Progression.
After a few years of travel, Nightmode found himself in Taos, and formed Digital Oasys with a friend from the east coast. He taught himself how to beatmatch on pioneer CDJ-100s with anything he could get his hands on, including house and trance. After their first big event, and seeing djs mix on vinyl, he was blown away and knew he was to spin drum and bass. After a 3 day outdoor in CA with the same crew that was brought out a few months before, the path was clear. Digital Oasys moved operations to the east coast, then Ender invested in equipment and starting mixing on vinyl (in November of 2001), forming Threshold Productions with Nate aka Muad'Dib and within 3 months released the mix cd "Stress Fracture".
Threshold has spawned many events, including Acheron, and Revisited which drew people from as far as Mexico. Threshold's work with the Cloudfactory collective in San Francisco has taught Nightmode to realize his passion in the form of Threshold events, to bring that vision to the community and beyond. Threshold strives to keep the underground alive, with not-so popular genres like techno, drum and bass, and hardcore, but equally supports all genres of electronic music.
Since 2004 he has begun to dedicate most of his time to production, putting together a functional studio, and building and modifying his existing equipment. He has built a 2 voice analog synthesizer, and his next project will be a class A tube driven mixer.
