ArtistInfo

Xndl

voc, sampler,
Electronic and Hip-Hop/Rap
A.k.a. Thomas Berger

In 1994 he started DJing, in 1999 he founded the Offbeaters artist community and in 2001 the Offbeat Network followed by the indie-record-label SUBVERSIV* REC in 2002. SUBVERSIV*REC have released 45 records the last 5 years presenting a lot of underground/abstract hiphop artists from collectives like Anticon, Project Blowed, Afterlife, Plague Language or Shadowanimals and even their own artists, The Offbeaters. As a producer, he's been turning heads around the world with his music ranging from hip hop to electronic to drum and bass/brokenbeats.Since 2002 he has also done the audio mastering of numerous releases featuring artists like Botanica Del Jibaro, Shapeshifters, Anticon, Plague Language and many others... He was responsible for the production of the international group GUNPORN ( SIAZ/Cavemen Speak, NOMAD /Cavemen Speak, MARCUS Graap /Stacs of Stamina and BLEUBIRD /Endemik) and he is also producing for ANCIENT MITH / Motion Recordings as ruSHYA. Besides these projects he is working on numerous dark electronic/soundtrack-projects with his mate CFX and even his solo-stuff - featuring artists like Brzowski,Epic, Time, Soda and many more ... He also has a faible for strange cover-versions and is a remarkable singer without ever having the intention to be one... His alter-ago for vocal-appearances is XOX. He is also webmaster and designer of www.offbeaters.com & www.subversiv-rec.de and also responsible for numerous other designs for flyers,stickers, shirts, covers and web-sites... He decided to stop the work for SUBVERSIV*REC. at the end of 2007 and to start a new label called COGNITIVE*DEFECT in 2008. The new label is concentrated on more electronical sounds and experimental instrumentalism --> Illbient, Glitch, Breakcore, IDM, Downbeat and so on...

Instruments

• Vocals

Genres

• Electronic
• Hip-Hop/Rap
• Dance
• Reggae

Plays With