Herv's magificent remix of Whanau from my last album is available for free as part of the !Kaboogie! 5th Birthday sampler. I have collected a few other remixes which will no doubt surface for download very soon.

I have begun experimenting with a new setup that allows for a more a lot more instrumentation and improvisation and have also taken up trumpet so expect some live appearances with all new material in summer 2011.

I am Jonathan O'Riordan, a singer, musician and electronic producer from Dublin. Although I mainly focus on guitar, I also play saxophone, electric bass, glockenspiel and whatever other instruments I can fit into my home studio. I have been making musical noises of various sorts since the early 1990s. As a singer-songwriter, I have played in various venues in Dublin, Galway, London, Paris, San Francisco, Auckland and Wellington. I have also played in various bands - namely Phned cZensic and Schpampipe - as guitarist, bassist and singer.

I began making electronic music in 1999. My first electronic performance was in 2002 for Alphabet Set at the first Dublin Electronic Arts Festival. I released my first 12" two years later on the Invisible Agent label (more info below). My current musical flavour is a fusion of electric guitar, live looping and crunchy electronic production, resulting in a rich, vibrant, uplifting sound with a distinctly funky edge. Follow the various links further down the page to hear some of my tunes.

(Début album released July 2009)

Five years in the making, "Tumatakuru" is a blazing mix of funky guitar chops, breakbeat rhythms and crunchy synthesised gorgeousness. It was written and produced in Wellington, New Zealand, hence its title, which is Maori for "Wild Irishman".

Consisting of eleven tracks, it moves between sparse acoustic pastures such as the stripped back "Moonlight on a Rhino's Horn", which features acoustic guitar, saxophone and drums (performed and recorded by Mark Finlay), to the roaring bassline and savage, unrelenting beats of the vocal-infused "Chunky Nonsense", textural, soporific soudscapes like the haunting "Evensong on Woodwind Swamp" and funky, rock anthems like "Yeux Du Faucon".

Released as a limited run of 100 CDs, with gorgeous artwork from Annushka Sonek-Wienert. It can be purchased for €10 from Spin Dizzy and Road Records in Dublin. The album can also be purchased by mail order from Road or by emailing me directly.

Live @ Jigs & Rigs Festival (Aug 2009)
This is my almost complete Live Set from the Jigs and Rigs festival on Rathlin Island from the August Bank holiday weekend 2009.
(38 mins | 52 MB | 192 Kbps mp3)

Splanc Radio Interview (July 2009)
This is my interview from the Friday evening show Splanc on Ireland's Newstalk FM
(20 mins | 14 MB | 192 Kbps mp3)

"Introduction to Vibrolounge" Mix (March 2007)
This is a mix of rare and unreleased tunes by various Vibrolounge artists hosted by Invisible Agent.

Two Little Words (2004)
A free 9 track EP.

Love Rhino / 2Bit Split (2004)
2 thumping stompers available to purchase on vinyl or download for free.

Alphabet Set
An Irish electronic music collective responsible for bringing Love Rhino to the stage. Tons of music to download for free here.

Invisible Agent
An Irish electronic record label who released my first record back in 2004. Tons more music to download for free here.

Sound is Art
An online magazine edited by Margaret Noble dedicated to hosting field recordings submitted by different artists weekly.

The Vibrolounge
This small collective of like minded electronic noodlers, is where I first started out in this wilderness called electronica.

!Kaboogie!
If you live in Dublin and like bass you have not lived till you have been to one of these events.

2Bit makes electro, dubstep from Ireland for your ears and ass.
Cignol makes new school electronica with old school flavours.
Ebauche makes emotive and often terrifying electronic gorgeousness.
G Frequency makes hip hop for rappers and is big in Japan.
Halodarkly makes guitar fuelled, jazztronic uberfunk.
Herv makes ravegasmic blipcore crunchtronica.
Margaret Noble is an experimental electronic sound artist from Ireland.
Pier is a bassist and electronic noodler.
Rude Doc is a drummer, guitarist and producer extraordinaire.
Spectac designs crunchy, sparky electronica.
Sunken Foal makes gorgeous electronic music with acoustic guitar.
Thalamus makes wobbley, melodic electroacoustica.
T-woc makes dublicious junglestep.