Hagop Tchaparian

British-Armenian artist Hagop Tchaparian makes organic techno that incorporates traditional acoustic instruments and field recordings along with analog synths and dance beats. A longtime associate of Four Tet and Hot Chip, he released his 2022 debut album, Bolts, on Kieran Hebden's Text Records. As a teenager, Hagop Tchaparian played guitar in Symposium, a London-based pop-punk band that received an enormous amount of hype from leading U.K. music weeklies NME and Melody Maker. The group reached the British Top 40 with two albums and a handful of singles, and opened for major ...