DJ Olive

DJ Olive (* 1961 in Boston as Gregor Asch ) is an American sound artist and turntablist who mainly produces in the Illbient genre, but is heavily influenced by jazz and new improvisation music.

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DJ Olive, who grew up in Rhode Island , Nova Scotia , Trinidad and Australia as the son of ethnologist and filmmaker Timothy Asch , graduated from the State University of New York Purchase with a bachelor's degree in 1987 . After living in Greece, he moved to Brooklyn in 1990 and became a member of the Williamsburg arts scene . “His sound sculptures, based on free improvisation, had an extraordinary standing not only in the musician scene, but also in the art scene in New York.” For example, in 2002 he organized Roof Music: Sunrise on a Rooftop in Brooklyn , a sound installation that was intended to unite all participants culturally.

In 1994 he founded the trio WE (with Ignacio Platas alias Once 11 and Rich Panciera alias Lloop ) , which claimed to fill ambient with content. He also worked with the Lunchbox group ; he formed the ambient jazz band Liminal with Lloop and former Lounge Lizards guitarist Danny Blume . He contributed to Uri Caine's Urlicht album as well as to its version of the Goldberg Variations , which he also presented in Europe. He played with Christian Marclay's turntable trio at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Center Pompidou and the Cologne Philharmonic . From 2003 he presented some solo albums; he also worked with Arto Lindsay , Medeski, Martin & Wood ( Bubblehouse ), Elliott Sharp , William Hooker ( Mindfulness 1996), Zeena Parkins and Dave Douglas ( Keystone 2005, Spark of Being 2010).