Ali Khan is proud to be a Canadian electronic music producer and digital-music label operator for Kokoro. His discography includes appearances on Cocoon and Fabric London compilations, featured by by techno superstars Sven Vath, Matthew Dear and many more. His passion for electronic music dates back 25 years, when as a youth, he attended adult education course in sound synthesis methods and theory. He devoured the material, and learned the theory behind additive, subtractive and FM synthesis and got to play hands-on with Fairlight and Yamaha synthesizers. The course focused on the acoustic physics behind the sound. He was immediately hooked by the concepts and the richness of sound that could be produced. In the following years, Ali collected equipment and started writing music, based on a musical foundation he’d previously established through percussion and piano instruction.
Throughout the years, Ali Khan played in a variety of bands as a keyboard player and as solo electronic music act Subculture. These experiences really rounded out his feel for grooves and improvisation. Khan credits this fact to why he’s never been shy about playing live, as far back as 1997, with mountains of gear, long before laptop performances had emerged.
Around 2005, he discovered Native Instrument’s Reaktor, a modular software synthesizer. At that point, his sound changed dramatically, almost overnight. Using Reaktor, he was able to experiment with new synthesis techniques and really complex modulation that were previously not possible with hardware.
Ali Khan continues to write music, published through Kokoro, a personal outlet for deep, dubby atmospheric productions. He recently performed at the MEME festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has released tracks with music partner Joe Silva as music-duo Tonepushers.
Khan’s more recent production style combines the essence of Zen and precision of electronics to create atmospheric, stripped down techno music.
