Subsurfing

Collective fronted by English producer Greg Hunter and Japanese instrumentalist / producer OBI. Their music has been described as ambient / atmospherics, with enchanting Indian textures and deranged hi-tech dub, through the combined use of electronics and live instrumentation.Obi and Greg first met in Tokyo, where The Orb were recording Assassin, and the pair immediately found a lot of common ground between them. Already during the first Subsurfing sessions at the Butterfly studio in London they attracted the attention of musicians like Kenji Jammer (Bomb The Bass, also collaborating with a.o. Tim Simenon and Keith LeBlanc in the live project Night Of Interference), Kris Weston, Charlie Hall (The Drum Club), Steve Hillage (System 7) and Youth. Some of them contributed to the Frozen Ants album and together with the band and other guest musicians Baluji (sitar, auto harp) and Jean (Chinese cello, kokyu) made it a electro-ethnic landmark (1996).