Tapage

Tapage is the solo project of Tijs Ham, a prolific Dutch electronic musician who weaves complex, distorted electronic rhythms with dark, drifting, ethereal melodies. Inspired by the harder, more glitch-heavy end of IDM (Autechre, Somatic Responses) as well as post-rock groups such as Do Make Say Think, Ham began producing music in 2002, contributing to tracks by Dutch hardcore techno artist Ophidian. Tapage began appearing on compilation 12"s on Ophidian's Meta4 label, and the two artists released a collaborative EP on Bionic Recordings. Tapage collaborated with Meander on the...