| AtmoWorks.com is a label owned and operated by Vir Unis, John Koch-Northrup, and Matt McDonough working in concert with a team of dynamic and talented individuals to bring you the best in electronic music. AtmoWorks was founded in 2001 by Vir Unis and James Johnson. James left in February 2008 to pursue sound design and composing. John and Matt joined AtmoWorks a short time later. |
   In 2001, with Vir Unis, James Johnson created AtmoWorks.com, an online catalog for the works of like-minded ambient and electronic artists. It has been met with great success and continues to grow with the ever-expanding technologies made available for consumers. AtmoWorks.com has created a fluid outlet that allows listeners the opportunity to sample the works of its artists without the high cost attached to traditional delivery methods. Please visit http://www.james-johnson.net for more info   Brian McWilliams is a multimedia artist and web page designer currently residing in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He's released a number of well received, uncompromising, dark ambient titles to date (most of which can be found here at Atmoworks), working under the name Aperus and in collaboration with John Phipps as Remanence. Brian brings his expertise in web design and programming to the Atmoworks team and offers ongoing improvements to the web site on a monthly basis. Please visit http://www.mpathrecords.com to learn more about Brian's ongoing musical explorations.
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  Vir Unis has been creating electronic and psychoactive ambient music now for nearly two decades. His diverse pallete of sonic textures creates a unique space in which purely atmospheric and beatless albums like The Drift Inside and Aeonian Glow sit side by side with albums like Pulse n Atmo, Mercury & Plastic, and Book of Mutations that display a more beat driven environment still steeped in the glow of atmosphere and deep space. Using a variety of textural sources, from organic field recordings on one end to pure computer sound abstraction on the other, Vir Unis slices, dices, mixes, and chops these raw textures into a highly refined fractalized blend of audio food for the mind and body. He has also worked with a variety of well respected musicians in the field, such as Steve Roach, Saul Stokes, Christopher Short, Interstitial, and James Johnson. Searching for a pure, direct way to communicate with like minded listeners, Vir Unis formed AtmoWorks in the Winter of 2001 with James Johnson as a means to faciliate the increasing amount of work coming out of the studio. In the Spring of 2004, he and James co-founded AtmoStreams, an internet radio streaming center for AtmoWorks Music. AtmoStreams is unique in that it provides an intimate setting in which artists from around the globe can stream live music directly from their studios. In this era of independent music, AtmoStreams provides a path for artists to communicate directly with listeners like never before.
Phonaut has been DJing and experimenting with his own productions in the Chicago area for well over a decade. Starting with occasional gigs spinning in various lounges and clubs around the city, he then began broadcasting his own late-night transmissions on WNUR's Streetbeat program. For over 7 years his radio show provided exposure for more obscure downtempo and ambient artists not normally heard on the airwaves. As booking manager and venue scout for Atmoworks in the Chicago area, he also helps maintain the AtmoStreams online station. He is currently studying sound art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Head over to http://www.phonaut.com/ to read about his latest activities. |
