Jesper Skaaning Musical artist

Jesper Skaaning (aka Acustic) is a Danish electronic musician, producer and film composer.He started his career as a guitarist in various experimental punk bands in the early 1980s and was inspired by European electropop and early electronic Music, especially by Kraftwerk. At that time he formed a band, Acustisk Ungdom, from which he later took his name.He formed the Future 3 electronic trio together with Anders Remmer (aka Dub Tractor) and Thomas Knak (aka Opiate) in 1994.He is also a member of People Press Play (which is Future 3 plus Sara Savery) and has a duo project with Remmer,Jesper & Anders aka Recycler 202.With his sense of harmony, and his consciously minimalist approach, Skaaning constructs a sound which is forthcoming without trying too hard to please.At the moment Jesper is working together with guitar and bassplayer Djon on the sideproject Spring, which is a return to more guitar oriented material with discrete use of vocals.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)
Acustic
Altra
Skaaning
Hometown
Copenhagen
Denmark

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Musical artist

Career started1980
associated musical artist
Future 3
People Press Play
BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Electronic music
Ambient music
Intelligent dance music
record label
April Records
Hobby Industries

Jesper Skaaning on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jesper+Skaaning
  2. http://www.myspace.com/acusticdk
  3. http://www.thesilentballet.com/reviews/acustic.html