Brothomstates is one of the stage names of Lassi Nikko, a Finnish

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 composer and musician. He also used to produce music in the demoscene

Demoscene

The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...

 under the moniker of Dune in the demogroup

Demogroup

Demogroups are teams of demosceners, who make computer based audio-visual works of art known as demos. Demogroups form a subculture collectively known as the demoscene....

 Orange. His works are mostly downtempo or ambient, but he is also well known for his complex and abstract melodies and unique sounding drum programming.

In the media

The track "Adozenaday" from the Qtio album featured on a TV advertising campaign in the UK by the soft drinks manufacturer Sprite

Sprite (soft drink)

Sprite is a transparent, lemon-lime flavored , caffeine free soft drink, produced by the Coca-Cola Company. It was introduced in the United States in 1961. This was Coke's response to the popularity of 7 Up, which had begun as "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" in 1929...

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Discography

• kobn-tich-ey (1998) (independent MP3 release)
• Brothom States EP (2000) Exogenic
• Qtio (2001) WARP
• Claro (2001) WARP
• Rktic (2004) WARP
• Brothomstrain vs Blamstates (2006) Narita

External links

• http://www.brothomstates.com/
• http://warp.net/records/brothomstates
• ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/dune/
• CDAK