First electronic noises Ioan ever made came from a demo version of ReBirth (somewhere around 1998) and he found this activity to be quite an enjoyable way of pissing off his neighbours in the spare time, considering his love for Prodigy-inspired beats and sounds.
However, things turned a bit more serious a year later, when, after watching a documentary about the rave culture in Western Europe and US, he decided it would be idea to build an analog synthesizer himself. He never did that so far, but all that research took him deep into understanding sound synthesis and processing.
Then, a friend showed up one night in 2002 with a recorded music video of Autechre - Gantz Graf.
Reactions turned from “WTF?!?” to “Dude, this is interesting !” to “OMG I love it, where do I get more of this ?!!!”. From there, things went on pretty straight-forward.
Just to make things clear, “Cycler” is a name chosen before Ioan develloped a passion for mountain-biking, and it has something to do with loops / cycles. Not that you'd give a fuck.
