Holon

Members: Mark Rydyger.
Genre: Ambient, Electro, EBM, Synthwave.
Biography:
Started sometime around the 2000, Holon is the solo vision of musician Mark Rydyger. Know for his tight programming style of sharp rhythms and fluid medolies, Mark describes his methods as being “half human and half Artificial Intelligence. Heavily inspired by cyberpunk and 90s-era electronica, Holon takes techno-EBM techniques flood it with a spacy, ambient fullness.

The name “Holon” is rooted in Arthur Koestler’s book, “The Ghost in the Machine” (1967). The phrase to hólon is a Greek word preceding the Latin analogue universum, in the sense of totality, a whole. Specifically, a holon is something that is simultaneously a whole and a part.

Albums:
• Total Systems Failure (2003)
• Some Kind Of Order ‎(2005)
• Augmented Reality (2015)
• Echoes Of The Void (2017)
• Connect | Isolate (2017)
• Disruptive Technology (2018)
• Breaking The Simulation (2019)
• Trust The Machine (2020)
• Experiments Against Reality (2020)

EPs:
• A New Sun Rises (2020)

LINKS:
Bandcamp: holon-subatomic-audio.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/mark-r-3