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Zi9mortius



Zi9mortius is an American electronic musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, DJ and digital artist.

2011-2016: Early projects
Zi9mortius was founded in 2011, starting as a live electronic drumming show and was booked in midwest venues throughout Milwaukee, WI and Chicago Illinois.

In 2012, Zi9mortius began producing electronic music seriously using a Korg MS-20 app designed for Apple ipad as an experiment.

In 2013, Zi9mortius moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career landing a job at Icon Collective located in Burbank Los Angeles.There he would work on his own music productions while creating digital art for the school which had helped launch the successful careers of electronic acts such as Kayzo, Slander, Kayzo, Jauz, Nghtmr, Sullivan King, Yultron and others.

Collaboration with other artists
As a digital artist, Zi9mortius is best known for working with influential artists such as Nicki Mina j.

In 2015, Zi9mortius animated and directed a lyric video for the Ninteen 85 and Maya Jane Cole produced grammy nominated song "Truffle Butter" by Nicki Minaj feat. Lil Wayne and Drake. The video was Produced by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records. The youtube vevo release of "Truffle Butter" has over 57M views.

2016-2019: Underground Sounds
From 2016 onward, Zi9mortius continued to produce, engineer and DJ original electronic dance music performing sets at underground raves, warehouses and art galleries in Hollywood, CA.

2020-Present
After visiting Pluto's cave for the first time in 2021, Zi9mortius began to conceptualize a live music video/visual story based around the ancient volcanic lava tube.

Zi9mortius released his debut self-titled 6 track album, Zi9mortius on May 24th 2023. The album features layered vocals with hard hitting techno, dubstep, trap and progressive metal influenced beats and synths.

On July 13th of 2023, Zi9mortius along with an 7 man crew embarked on a treacherous mission to haul live sound and DJ equipment into Pluto's cave for a 1 take live performance. The performance included live electric guitar, synthesizer and Egyptian ney flute played over a live original DJ set on Pioneer CDJ 2000's. The tracklist included unreleased tracks such as "Alchemy" and "Deep Tunnelz."

On September 6th 2023, Zi9mortius live from Pluto's cave in Mount Shasta was released on the official Zi9mortius youtube channel.

Influences, musical & visual styles.
Musical influences include a lengthy list of electronic music producers, metal and jam band acts such as LTJ Bukem, Goldie, Aphex Twin, Adam Beyer, The Prodigy, Korn, Deftones, Meshuggah and Tool.

The Zi9mortius guitar sound has been inspired by legendary musicians such as sitar player Ravi Shankar, tabla player Zakir Hussain, Steve Vai, Adam Jones, Stephen Carpenter, Eric Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia and Eddie Van Halen.

Musical Style
The Zi9mortius sound has evolved into a genre blending sound of minimal techno, dub techno, dubstep, trap, drum and bass and jungle with live progressive metal guitar and ambient synths. Zi9mortius is also a vocalist and singer/songwriter on tracks such as "Without You" "Purple FIre" and "Ascending."

Equipment List

 * Gibson Les Paul Custom Black 72'
 * Fender Cyber Twin (guitar amp head)
 * Diezel VH4 (guitar amp head)
 * Moog Subsequent 37 Synth
 * Korg MS 20 Synth
 * Pioneer CDJ 2000's or 3000's
 * Pioneer DJM-900NXS2 mixer
 * Egyptian ney flute

Visual Artistry
Zi9mortius visual artwork is purely computer generated and contain artistic styles associated with Dali, H.R. Giger, Alex Grey, MC Escher, Davinci and Ayahuasca inspired artwork.

Process
Zi9mortius uses his own proprietary invented method and process to create one of kind digital animations and artworks.

Mixtapes

 * The Portal EP (mixtape) (2011)


 * 33 (mixtape) (2020)

EP's

 * Clean Progressions EP (2023)

Studio albums

 * Zi9mortius (2023)

Music Videos

 * Zi9mortius live from Pluto's Cave (2023)