Nickolas Mohanna for Progressive Electronic

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   Born in 1979, Nickolas Mohanna is an American musician, audiovisual artist and writer from Brooklyn, active since 2003. Mohanna began issuing music under the name Vakhchav from 2006 and 2009, releasing five limited-run CDRs while an art student at University of California, Davis, before dropping the moniker for his given name by 2010's Transmission Hue. Since then, his discography has expanded by over a dozen more as of this writing, distributed under various labels, one of which Mohanna's very own multimedia imprint Run/Off Editions (established in 2014).

Using processed guitar, synthesizers, brass, percussion and even hand-made playable sculptures, Mohanna combines instruments with field recordings and samples from the Internet, shaping densely-layered and perpetually-shifting kaleidoscopic soundscapes. The New Yorker's mostly-improvised style borrows from kosmische musik and sound collage, with critics comparing him to classic Tangerine Dream, Oneohtrix Point Never, Golden Retriever, Biosphere and even Oval, the Necks and Fennesz. Percussive and free improv influences crept into his work by 2019's Smoke, blossoming completely by 2021's Nerve Plexus, which saw Mohanna shaping a new musical idiom of electroacoustic jazz and drone similar to his contemporaries Aidan Baker, Fabio Orsi and Oren Ambarchi.

"Double Pendulum" (2023)
https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/album/double-pendulum

"Transmission Hue" (2010) https://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/transmission-hue

"Parallax View" (2013)
https://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/parallax-view

"Chroma" (2017)
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chroma

"Nerve Plexus" (2021)
https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-plexus

"Speaker Rotations" (2025)
https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/album/speaker-rotations

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	Born in 1979, Nickolas Mohanna is an American musician, audiovisual artist and writer from Brooklyn, active since 2003. Mohanna began issuing music under the name Vakhchav from 2006 and 2009, releasing five limited-run CDRs while an art student at University of California, Davis, before dropping the moniker for his given name by 2010's Transmission Hue. Since then, his discography has expanded by over a dozen more as of this writing, distributed under various labels, one of which Mohanna's very own multimedia imprint Run/Off Editions (established in 2014). Using processed guitar, synthesizers, brass, percussion and even hand-made playable sculptures, Mohanna combines instruments with field recordings and samples from the Internet, shaping densely-layered and perpetually-shifting kaleidoscopic soundscapes. The New Yorker's mostly-improvised style borrows from kosmische musik and sound collage, with critics comparing him to classic Tangerine Dream, Oneohtrix Point Never, Golden Retriever, Biosphere and even Oval, the Necks and Fennesz. Percussive and free improv influences crept into his work by 2019's Smoke, blossoming completely by 2021's Nerve Plexus, which saw Mohanna shaping a new musical idiom of electroacoustic jazz and drone similar to his contemporaries Aidan Baker, Fabio Orsi and Oren Ambarchi. "Double Pendulum" (2023) https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/album/double-pendulum "Transmission Hue" (2010) https://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/transmission-hue "Parallax View" (2013) https://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/parallax-view "Chroma" (2017) https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chroma "Nerve Plexus" (2021) https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-plexus "Speaker Rotations" (2025) https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/album/speaker-rotations