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EDEN's debut album vertigo is the intimate patchwork of a life lived, an emotional and nuanced musical journey that fully realizes the artist's vision.

It started back in 2015 with a name: vertigo. Dublin-based singer/songwriter/producer Jonathon Ng, still in his late teens, had recently adopted a more stripped-down approach to his music - a significant contrast to the heavily layered electronic dance music he was previously making. To complete the transition, Ng assumed a new artistic identity: EDEN, a shortening of his former moniker, 'The Eden Project.' EDEN signified a fresh start for the Irish music-maker; it gave him an excuse to try new things, like embracing minimalism and exploring the confluence of electronic and pop music. Ng had no roadmap: The future was a total mystery.

But he knew the title of his debut album: vertigo. Back then, it was just a dream - a faraway fantasy.

Three years later, that dream has come true. Released January 19, 2018 via Astralwerks, EDEN's debut album vertigo is the intimate patchwork of a life lived, an emotional and nuanced musical journey that realizes the full extent of Ng's artistry. Thirteen tracks flow seamlessy into one another to create a standout cinematic experience. Best listened to from start to finish, vertigo leaves us feeling weightless and heavy, euphoric and unbalanced. It's a provocative, expansive reflection on the past few years that uses a lot less, to create a lot more.

- "Wrong," EDEN

There's few better ways to begin a new year than by releasing your debut album, and EDEN is certainly starting 2018 off on a high point. Join Atwood Magazine and dive deeper into vertigo through our exclusive interview with EDEN, and be sure to take your time with this album: A brilliant and unique work of art, vertigo is full of special surprises.

A CONVERSATION WITH EDEN

EDEN: I'm kind of giddy about it. It's really weird, because I finished writing it before last summer, and then finished mixing and mastering it around July... so it's been done for six or seven months... It's been my little project for so long, and now it's in the world! And I guess it's something I've done before - I've released music before; it's not entirely novel, but this is the big one: I spent years on this, and longer than that thinking about it.

EDEN: Because it's the first one. You only get one first album. I guess it's one small step for man, but one giant leap for EDEN as a project - this is it, this is my pinnacle [as a musician] to date... As a project from cover to cover, in a synergetic way Vertigo is more than its songs - bigger than the sum of its parts. This is the first time I've done a full length project.

When people ask what's the goal, or when will I think I've made it... I have been able to make music and live comfortably from making music since mid-2015. That's making it; everything after that is a bonus. I'd do this if no one was listening to it, and I get to do it and eat, and have a roof over my head: That's making it.

EDEN: Dance music is a big thing in Europe; no matter what circle you're in, you're exposed to it - but it's never something that I had fully taken a shining to. I never really thought about it or loved it, particularly. When my family first got a computer, I used to make beats with GarageBand, dragging around loops and stuff. When Skrillex and Deadmau5 exploded, I realized I could make the ideas I wanted to make without the rest of the band or orchestra. These guys were just sitting with their computers making music, so I dove headfirst into it then. I got really into EDM and electronic music, and I dove really deeply into the genre. When it stopped becoming new and interesting - when I found fewer things I liked and wanted to try out - I began realizing that I prefer more stripped-back music... The last music I released as The Eden Project was very close to what I do as EDEN, experimenting with stuff that I hadn't yet released.

EDEN: It's definitely more minimal, for sure - and I think nuanced is pretty apt. I'm king of a megalomaniac and control freak about music - a perfectionist; if I feel like something is a little bit off, I just have to fix it... Double-entendres lyrically and musically are kind of the most fun thing for me, writing-wise; the minutiae of it is everything! Like, the smallest moments are the biggest things, and the biggest moments are kind of basic.

EDEN: Maybe, but that happens with me sometimes. Sometimes I write something, and a few weeks or months later I realize, so that's what that's about! It's an interesting process - a subconscious thing.

EDEN: Vertigo is an idea that I've had since 2014/2015. Ever since then, I knew [my debut album] would be called "Vertigo"; it just felt right. I was kind of scared of the idea; at the time I was having meetings with labels, and I would tell them I didn't want to think about my first album. In reality I knew it was going to be called and I was thinking about it, but I was too scared to touch it - I didn't want to start making this music in a place where I couldn't make it to the standard that I wanted to make it, whether that's production-wise, writing-wise, mixing or mastering, whatever. I wanted to be confident that it was going to be realized to the fullest [extent] it should be. In 2015, I wrote a few songs - the last song on the album, "falling in reverse," has essentially been finished since 2015!

EDEN: No! One older than that is "lost//found," and older than that too is the intro and outro to "crash" - I'm not sure what year I wrote that, but it's something I've played one guitar since I was maybe 16 or something. I never knew what would go in-between back then, and then fast-forward to 2017, I was living in New York, something stressful was happening... I was sitting, in the middle of the night, in this apartment with this old guitar... My favorite moments on this album are all just kind of very in-the-moment, instinctive, freestyle/train of thoughts. So I was just playing, and I take notes on my phone all the time - so I opened that and started playing these chords, started recording it just for the idea, and it was just one of my favorite memories of writing music ever. Suddenly I was singing this middle section completely through, kind of like half going through these random sentences on my notes on my phone, and I guess just coming up with it on the spot. I think the album, for me, was a lot of work like that: Little moments of now this fits together. Two completely separate ideas now make sense.

EDEN: That's a really good way to put it, yeah!

EDEN: I think I know the context - the sentence is, "I lost myself to writing with too much intent." But it's reflective of more than that - at 2015, I was 18 years old and was thrown into the music industry. I had never talked to anyone from the industry and suddenly I'm being flown to meetings, having label people coming to me... I lost myself! I didn't go off the rails or do anything crazy, but being able to just slow down for a second was something I just couldn't do for a year and a half. I felt kind of... I dont know what the right word is. This is why I make music: I struggle to describe things all the time, and that's what the album is, you know?

But the second tour I did in 2016, I was in a van going around America. I can't sleep sitting down, so I'm sitting kind of across the back row of this van, just looking out the other side of the window for 20 hours, and it was great! This was the first time in two years that I got to sit and do nothing: Not think of anything, not have to reply to emails. I was on tour; I was in a van; and I was only thinking about tour. Tour's stressful - it's always been kind of stressful for me - but I got to just sit there and think about things, and look out the window. I didn't put pressure on myself to be doing something productive, and I think that was helpful - not to mention, seeing people who love the music was a nice reminder of the actual scale of this. It's easy to look at a number on the internet and think of it as a statistic, rather than human beings.

So I got home from tour, and I made "start//end," and that was the keystone moment of the album for me. Previously, I could never make anything longer than 20 seconds. I made "start//end" out of a bunch of ideas that randomly came together, and the end result felt really cool. With the whole album, I just chased this feeling: If it was weird and I wasn't quite sure what it was, but it felt right and I thought it sounded cool and was exciting, I went for it.

EDEN: Exactly! I was really trying to not have any of that; I wanted every second to feel right, and to feel like it's a progression. That's why the album became quite asymmetrical, amorphic, or modular in its structure; it's like a weird, deconstructed pop album. I haven't changed the way I wrote things; I've always had that kind of straightness and vocally-centric music... But I can't copy and paste the first half of the song into the second half and change some words; that doesn't cut it for me. This is the way that I've enjoyed myself most while making the music. I guess, maybe that's why I'm so excited... With Vertigo, I had no preconceptions, no ideas going into it. I just made things! That's exciting, in a nervous laughter kind of way sometimes, but it's exciting.

People ask me what's the album about: " How would you describe the album?" And like, if I could tell you what I'm trying to say on the album, I'd just tell you or write it down and show it to you. The album is the best description of the album!

It's like a weird, deconstructed pop album.

EDEN: That's the thing, I don't think I write like that: I'm not trying to tell anyone anything, aside from myself. The lyrics aren't there for me to tell you, or explain how I am. The lyrics are sometimes there for me to try and make sense of the world, but those two things are not the same; I'm not trying to validate myself, and the goal is not for you to listen to the song and be able to understand what I think. It's probably the case, but it's not the goal. I'm trying to make things that resonate with me, and if that's because I've been confused, or thinking about something for too long, then me writing it is my disentanglement of whatever that knot is. If it sounds like an explanation, then that's just my way of doing it.

Other times, my lyrics are more abstract and just me being expressive. None of it is really to paint a picture of myself. I guess I use writing as a way to come to terms with myself, and the things around me in my life: The good, the bad, and whatever happens. It's my way of dealing with things.

EDEN: [smiles] Personally, if you think of my personal journey as an artist... The last song is one of the oldest, and that first song is the question. I guess that speaks to a sense of what the album content is about. It's like, situationally, nothing has really changed; I haven't climbed a mountain and seen this beautiful view at the end: I'm still at the bottom of the mountain, but it's a mindset switch. Everyone has these moments where everything is overwhelming, weird or new. It takes a split second - and it might take a day, a year to feel like that - but you feel better about stuff. And nothing's changed - you haven't moved, given up anything or done anything; you just feel better about it, and that's kind of what the album is.

EDEN: Exactly. So much of life is about trying to get the mountain to come to you. This is, I guess, the moment where neither you, nor the mountain, have moved, but you understand it now. You get it. The whole album is me talking to myself about it, I guess.

EDEN: I'm thinking really hard about this, just to make sure... 'Cause everyone assumes all my songs are about breakups. There's not a breakup song on this album; it's a selfish piece of work. It's introspective; I'm not thinking about other people. Take the first line of "take care": " How could you be so careless? I sweat this, I swear," is not about the other person. It's about me - this means so much to me - and it's me thinking about that. I've actually had this feeling a lot, in my life, in the last year and a half, that I've tried way too hard for this shit to be happening to me, when things go wrong.

There's not a breakup song on this album; it's a selfish piece of work.

EDEN: No, I definitely don't. I'm making songs aware of other ones - so, the album is an album idea from the get-go. Calling it Vertigo, I kind of had this concept of how I wanted the album to be - to mean something different in reverse ... All of the songs are there for a reason; it's not filler, it's purposeful. That's what I wanted to do, and that's what I wanted to create.

I kind of had this concept of how I wanted the album to be - to mean something different in reverse.

EDEN: I guess at the moment - 'cause it'll change over time - I love the second half of "wings," and I love the middle section of "icarus" in-between the two drum bits. Why? I don't know... I love "wrong," and I love the first verse of "take care"... I love the end of "forever//over." I love it all, and all of it is where it's supposed to be, and feels right - but those are my favorite bits. I'm sure it'll change in a few weeks or a few days.

EDEN: It's really stuck together at the start, for sure. I was talking about "gold" and "crash" with some people earlier, and how they've reacted as singles... I was kind of thinking how, in the context of the album, "crash" is a much more interesting song, and outside the context of the album, it's a little more generic. This speaks to how, like, you can write a sentence and the things that come before and after are what make that sentence either genius, or normal and ordinary.

EDEN: I feel like sometimes it'll ruin people's interpretations. And I feel like sometimes, even what I say about [my music] might (or might not) be 100% what I mean. Words don't reflect what the song is, to me; the song does. So I made the song, so I don't think I can describe it that well to you, and if I did, I might have a different description or perspective on it soon. On top of that, I don't want people to think, o h, that's not what I thought, and then lose their connection to that piece of music. You know, the point about this - about any art - is the fact that I can look at a painting, or read a poem, and get a different insight or interpretation to it than you can.

EDEN: I hope my album makes others feel okay. The whole thing kind of revolves around little things feeling massive, and maybe massive things not mattering that much. As I said, those seconds... like, the transition from "crash" to "gold," you feel like everything's shit or overwhelmed. Then your mindset changes, and you know everything's going to be okay.

That's the thing: I guess, I'd had this internal freakout the last year and a half before I started making the album, not understanding what's going on around me and being thrown into this new world, and then it's just, trying to get your feet planted on the floor again.

It's clear that EDEN retains a deeply intimate connection to his music, and that vertigo means so much more than an "album" to him. It is its own little world, both a reflection of, and the result of the past few years of his life - a pastiche of thoughts, emotions, sounds and ideas that don't mean much on their own, but gain new significance when stitched together. Spend some time with this record, and pay close attention to the "little things," as Ng calls them - the various clips that make up a soundscape; the changing directions of a guitar riff. Ultimately, it is these fleeting details that make vertigo great, and help EDEN soar.

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photo © Jimmy Fontaine

:: EDEN 2018 Tour ::

03.01.18 - Houston, TX // White Oak
03.02.18 - Austin, TX // Scoot Inn
03.03.18 - Dallas, TX // Trees
03.06.18 - Phoenix, AZ // Crescent Ballroom
03.07.18 - San Diego, CA // House of Blues
03.09.18 - Santa Ana, CA // The Observatory
03.10.18 - Los Angeles, CA // Fonda Theatre
03.13.18 - San Francisco, CA // Regency Ballroom
03.15.18 - Portland, OR // Hawthorne Theater
03.16.18 - Seattle, WA // Showbox SoDo
03.19.18 - Salt Lake City, UT // The Grand
03.20.18 - Englewood, CO // Gothic Theatre
03.22.18 - St. Paul, MN // Amsterdam Hall
03.23.18 - Milwaukee, WI // The Rave II
03.24.18 - Chicago, IL // House of Blues
03.26.18 - Detroit, MI // Saint Andrews Hall
03.28.18 - Toronto, ON // Danforth Music Hall
03.29.18 - Montreal, QC // Corona Theatre
04.02.18 - Boston, MA // Paradise
04.04.18 - New York, NY // Irving Plaza
04.05.18 - New York, NY // Irving Plaza
04.06.18 - Philadelphia, PA // Union Transfer
04.07.18 - Washington, DC // 9:30 Club
04.10.18 - Pittsburgh, PA // The Club at Stage AE
04.11.18 - Columbus, OH // Newport Music Hall
04.12.18 - Nashville, TN // Mercy Lounge
04.14.18 - Atlanta, GA // Variety Playhouse

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EDEN's debut album vertigo is the intimate patchwork of a life lived, an emotional and nuanced musical journey that fully realizes the artist's vision. It started back in 2015 with a name: vertigo. Dublin-based singer/songwriter/producer Jonathon Ng, still in his late teens, had recently adopted a more stripped-down approach to his music - a significant contrast to the heavily layered electronic dance music he was previously making.

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The way EDEN puts attention on phrases/sections of a track which typically may not be a focal point of a track and enhances/hyperbolates  it as well as also not going "over the top"  and adding some nuance with his production as a whole has affected me in the way I produce in how I accentuate parts of my tracks

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Martin O'Donnell's music was able to influence me in how he can effectively build a musical environment based around a theme, the textural/alien sounds coupled with the larger than life instrumentation that accompanies his music paints a perfect image of the story that the music is trying to tell, especially the tracks "Covenant Dance" "Enough Dead Heroes" "Lament For PVT Jenkins" and "Devlis, Monsters" from the Halo: Combat Evolved OST.

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EDEN Interview- debut album vertigo, leaving dance music, studying science, parents

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Dublin based artist, singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist EDEN, has released his much-anticipated debut album on January 19, via Astralwerks. He is currently preparing for a massive North American tour beginning March 1, with many dates already sold out. Along with the album also premiered was his video entitled "Float".
The album is a powerful and passionate, compelling mix of brilliant vocals, relevant subjects and vibrant music. His first US tour was immediately sold out after he cultivated a large online audience following the release of his debut EP in August 2015. He was able to accumulate 145 million streams between his two EP's.

I shared questions and answers with EDEN about his captivating music, his producing skills, and his love and fascination for music...
Louder Than War: What inspires your lyrics and melodies?
It all comes from whatever I'm thinking about. Whether that's a feeling or a memory; whatever is on my mind is what inspires me. I guess I use writing as a way to figure things out or to come to terms with the ups and downs in life; to untangle myself a little.
You produce your own music and videos; do you feel like you were destined to be a part of the music scene and create?
In a weird way, I did. Growing up I always imagined that I would somehow end up being a musician professionally. I wasn't really sure how, or at what point in my life it would happen, but I had a feeling. I am just really glad it has turned out the way it has. I get to create exactly what I want to create and have people around me that support it. Wouldn't change a thing.
Is there a specific message that you wish to get out there with your new release?
Not particularly. I didn't write any of this for people to get a specific feeling or idea from it. That might end up being the case but it wasn't the purpose. I was just trying to express myself and create something that felt honest, exciting and that resonated with me. But if there is a moral to the story it's probably that its ok. No matter what is or isn't going on, its ok. Nothing is insurmountable, and there is nothing you can't move on from. Most things are never really as good or bad as they seem.
You've been touring for a while; can you describe your connection to the audience while performing live?
From the very first seconds of my first ever show it has been pretty surreal. I had never played a show until March 2016, and the very first verse of music I played was sung back to me by everyone in a sold- out room. That was crazy. And it has been that way ever since then.
If you could have your ultimate musical stage fantasy, what would you need to happen?
I actually won't say. I have an idea I'm really passionate about, but unfortunately am just not in a place to be able to make it happen. So I'm just going to save it for the future.
Who were your musical influences while you were growing up?
When I was quite young I was obsessed with Michael Jackson and Queen. I used to sit outside in the garden and sing along to their songs for hours. But as I grew up I had a lot of musical obsessions, from boy bands when I was really young, to hip hop, to classic rock, to metal bands, to EDM and R&B. I tend to really deep dive into genres, and then when I have explored most parts I like and they feel less new slowly backtrack out again.
How personal is your new release?
This album is really introspective. It's really weird to finally be releasing something that means so much to me, but also as an album that I have worked on alone for years its strange knowing it is now out there for the world to see. Exciting, terrifying, and cathartic all at the same time.
If you could say anything to your fans and followers, what would it be?
Thank you, much love!

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Words by Eileen Shapiro

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Dublin based artist, singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist EDEN, has released his much-anticipated debut album on January 19, via Astralwerks. He is currently preparing for a massive North American tour beginning March 1, with many dates already sold out. Along with the album also premiered was his video entitled "Float".

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Yesterday, the song that birthed the Halo theme.

Halo's theme is built upon gothic monk chants and orchestral swells, but its inspiration has roots in an unlikely source.

During an interview on IGN Unfiltered airing later this week, Halo composer Marty O'Donnell shared the origins of the Halo theme and how The Beatles were partially responsible for its inception.

Around the time of MacWorld 1999, O'Donnell remembers the development team at Bungie creating a demo to be shared onstage. Despite the rapid progress they made, the demo still lacked the music it would need to help make a good impression.

Sensing the urgency, O'Donnell offered to create a theme for the demo, making a deal allowing him to retain the rights to the composition and license its use for an estimated $3,500.

According to O'Donnell, he was given the direction to make the theme feel "ancient, mysterious, and epic." While driving to his co-writer's home studio, O'Donnell remembers brainstorming.

"[A]s I was driving, I thought 'Okay, ancient...you know, monks are ancient, so I'm going to start with some sort of monk chant, and it's got to be hook-y, it's got to stick in people's heads and then we'll go on to something sort of epic and pounding; cellos and drums, and stuff.'"

It wasn't until he began singing The Beatles' song 'Yesterday' that the theme started to take form.

"I've always analyzed [Yesterday's] melody; it's got one high point, it's got one low point, it's got four sort of irregular phrases," he said.

"So, [the Halo theme is]...not a copy of the Yesterday melody, but the Yesterday melody inspired me to put that together, because I thought, 'Well, if I have one high point, one low point, to four irregular phrases but still do a legitimate monk chant melody...it may be able to have legs.'"

The song eventually became a fully-worked composition, with the monk chants being performed by three jingle singers, O'Donnell, and his co-writer Michael Salvatori.

While discussing the origins for the theme, O'Donnell affectionately recalls the car being one of his brainstorming sanctuaries.

"The majority of the stuff I've written - that people like - pretty much, I'm sitting at the keyboard," he says. "But, it's funny to me that the two most memorable or successful individual melodies I wrote in the car."

For more on Halo, Bungie, and O'Donnell's career, check out the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, airing later this week. And don't miss our month-long coverage of O'Donnell's new game, Golem.

Cassidee is a freelance writer and the co-host of a freelancing podcast and a geek culture podcast. You can chat with her about comics, video games, and Corgis on Twitter.

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Yesterday, the song that birthed the Halo theme. Halo's theme is built upon gothic monk chants and orchestral swells, but its inspiration has roots in an unlikely source. During an interview on IGN Unfiltered airing later this week, Halo composer Marty O'Donnell shared the origins of the Halo theme and how The Beatles were partially responsible for its inception.

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EDEN grew up listening and singing to Queens music, could be seen as a source as to how the dynamics of some of his songs are explosive at one moment and then almost a whisper at another.

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EDEN has done a cover/remix of Michael Jackson track "Billie Jean" so it would be no surprise that he was influenced by his music, the pop vibe of some of his music may have been influenced by Michal Jacksons music as he grew up listening to it.

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EDEN saw how artists like skrillex and Deadmau5 were able to create music all by themselves on a computer and thats what had inspired him to begin to learn how to produce EDM tracks under his previous alias "The Eden Project"
In this he was able to (just like how Skrillex did) couple musicality of non-electronic music and the form of EDM.

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Funtcase has disclosed his first single he saved up and bought was the track "Gravel Pit" which may be suggestive to his love for rap/grime and in turn the result of creation of tracks and collaboration with other rap artists such as Footsie and Foreign Beggars

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Killa Kela Podcast - Funtcase (DPMO, Dubstep / Bass Music DJ Producer)

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Your EDM with Funtcase at Lost Lands 2017

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in this interview Funtcase went on record to say that his metal phase and being in bands never directly influenced his tracks but there is elements in his tracks that reflect that part of his life. This could be further reinforced by the Lost Lands 2017 interview he did where he mentions that he did listen to a large amount of metal and he carried the energy from that genre into his production (@2:00 in the interview). One track of his that reinforces this influence is the track "Titanium" that features drums and agressive bassliines that feel similar to metal guitar riffs.

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FuntCase talks about the first DnB tune he loved coming out of his metal phase.
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The first Drum & Bass artist that was what inspired Funtcase's love for Drum & Bass specifically with their track "Bandwagon Blues", this influence of Drum & Bass carried over into the sound design of his tracks. An example of this is his remix of the track "Requiem" by

The McMash Clan and Kate Mullins, especially in the atmosphere created on the build up and fx of the drums in the intro, as well as the flow of the bassline.

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The First band that started his love for metal which feels reflected in some of his tracks.

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As well as being one of the most noteable collaborators in O'Donnells career, he has been shown to have said that he was a fan of Pauls music

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When brainstorming one of his calling card soundtracks, the main Halo theme track, O'Donnell famously used the song "Yesterday" by the Beatles as a way of structuring/framing the monk section/hook of the track

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Specifically the Soundtrack to "Ben-Hur", O'Donnell would listen to it a lot at a very young age which sparked his dream of wanting to write/compose music.

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Composer for the orginal Halo videogame trilogy.
Based in the US.

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Hailing from Ireland with a background in being trained in a variety of classical instruments and a catalogue of EDM releases.
Currently now produces EDM infused Indie-Pop.

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Dubstep + Drum & Bass producer, hailing from the UK.
One of the most notable dubstep producers of modern day dubstep.

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Myself.
(and I)