The beginning stages of IJO’s musical career took place in the intersection of dark ambient, drum’n’bass and drill’n’bass styles. Later the talented producer moved on to exploring the more accessible easy listening, ambient and IDM territories (though not renouncing his personal attachment to twisted drum’n’bass). Yet even this lighter musical material bore the traces of his experiments with darker and heavier styles, manifested in syncopated polyrhythmic beats and carefully crafted atmospheres. The real breakthrough in his career came when his light and jazzy The Driw Play EP was released by the online label Sutemos (http://www.sutemos.net/), after which IJO became an obligatory participant of major electronic music festivals and audiovisual projects in Lithuania, much to the listeners’ delight.

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Being an active part of the Lithuanian electronic music scene, IJO already performed live with German IDM combo Funkstorung, Ceephax, Luke Vibert, Plaid, A Guy Called Gerald, Ed Rush amongst many other.

In 2010 IJO set up a micro record label called Blikmuzik (www.blikmuzik.net).

Releases

Melancholika (Surfaces Netlabel, 2003)

The Driw Play EP (Sutemos, 2004)

Computer Pop EP (Sutemos, 2004)

Untitled EP (Plain Productions, 2006)

(Untitled) LP (Not-On-Label, 2007)

Quastic! Tracks (Envizagae, 2007)

Rown 4 (Envizagae, 2008)

Super Serious (Puta, 2009)

The White Out EP (Resting Bell, 2009)

Selektida (Sutemos, 2009)

Floka / Minutower (Plain Productions, 2009)

Verbal Dance EP (Bit-Phalanx, 2010)

Galla Shot / Ubikus EP (Lowvibe, 2010)

Delay Preform (Blikmuzik, 2010)

The Easy Listener (Blikmuzik, 2011)

Remixes

FusedMARC - Tear & Tie (IJO Small Beatin Remix) (Sutemos, 2005)

FusedMARC - Tear & Tie (IJO Amb Remix) (Sutemos, 2005)

Coras - Sapnai (IJO Remix) (Miesto Muzika, 2008)

Leon Somov feat. Jazzu - Who R U (IJO Remix) (Sutemos, 2008)

Koen Park - An H-R Diagram (IJO Remix) (I,Absentee, 2009)

HK119 - Space Pt.1 (IJO's Bardak Remix) (One Little Indian, 2010)

Ruxpin - Her Body Smells Of Cinamon (A Remix By IJO) (n5MD, 2010)

Leon Somov feat. Jazzu - Print (Terror Clock Remake By IJO) (Sutemos, 2010)

bookings - ijo.info@gmail.com

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