Rival Consoles
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Rival Consoles (Ryan Lee West, born 1985) is an electronic musician from England who creates driving, experimental dance tracks primarily with analog equipment. Over the course of his career, his music has ranged from the challenging IDM of his early EPs to more overtly club-oriented electro-house releases like 2011's Kid Velo, with works such as 2015's Howl consisting of intricate compositions focusing on a restricted amount of sounds.
Ryan graduated from De Montfort University after experimenting with sound production. He made his Erased Tapes Records debut in 2007 as Aparatec with the glitchy, acid-tinged Vemeer EP. Later in 2007, he premiered his Rival Consoles moniker with the Decadent EP, which combined breakbeats with increasingly complex and dramatic synthesizer melodies and arrangements. Continuing his harder-edged IDM sound, the EP Helvetica was released in 2009.
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