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Aarktica was conceived in the winter of 1998 when sole member Jon DeRosa’s permanently lost his hearing in his right ear. As his hearing loss became less of a distraction and more of a new way of listening, Aarktica became a means to execute the soundtrack of the life in mono he now faced; one of audio distortions, aural hallucinations and a reliance on painkillers. The first album No Solace in Sleep (Silber Records, 2000) was a series of minimal guitar and tape compositions, glacially paced and effected, recorded on a 4-track cassette recorder in various NYU dorm rooms.

This release echoed across the Atlantic, and Aarktica soon released the Morning One EP on Ochre Records (UK) in 2001, gaining accolades and airplay from the venerable John Peel.

Soon after, Aarktica released Or You Could Just Go Through Your Whole Life and Be Happy Anyway, Bliss Out v.18 (Darla Records, 2002) and Pure Tone Audiometry (Silber Records, 2003). These releases combine lo-fi electro, noise and shoegaze with the ambient textures of modern composers like Morton Feldman and Ingram Marshall, defining Aarktica’s innovative drone pop hybrid. These were also the first Aarktica albums to feature guest musicians to realize DeRosa’s ultimate goal: to create drones and textures from the timbres of instruments, not solely from reverb units and delay pedals.

It was also during this time that DeRosa began his classical Indian vocal studies with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.
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  • Dec0mposer

    change main picture pls

    last month
  • Berniethomas68

    Just found out about this band - liked em - right from the start and at the beginning

    February 2012
  • Dark_Iced

    Geniuses...

    January 2012
  • Antihumans

    In Sea

    December 2011
  • molly_quin

    Beautiful music.

    June 2011
  • fullsource

    In Sea is great. The two songs with vocals really bring the album from a great ambient record to classic indie album. Top stuff. Glad I picked it up last year. Definitely my favorite Aarktica album.

    January 2011
  • EraserKid

    IN Sea is good except the parts with singing.. bleh.

    October 2010
  • Silpheone

    бляяяя... бля-бляяя..... бля-бля-бля-бля...... Ice разрывает меня ностальгией по холодной зиме-2008... %| пздц

    August 2010
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EVEN MORE In Sea reviews! (updated 1/12/2010)

5 Jan 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/aarktica

Frequency Squaredhttp://amplitude-phonography...blogspot.com/2010/01/aarktica...html6 January 2010This album of starkly beautiful (mostly) guitar tracks …

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