Born and raised in Bristol, Nick Edwards first came to prominence under the guise of the jagged and dark electronics of Ekoplekz through a string of self-released CD-Rs and word of mouth. Edwards became a part of the emerging Bristol dubstep scene, starting out as a music blogger under the name Gutterbreakz. As a music and vintage synth enthusiast, Edwards had already been recording analog-inspired music for over two decades. He named the Ekoplekz project after an Eko organ he found in a charity shop in 2010. That same year, Punch Drunk released Edwards' official debut 12", Stalag Zero; it channeled the experimental loops of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the feverish energy of early dubstep, and then drenched them in delay and reverb. ~ Aneet Nijjar