DJ Deft | en

Deftones is an American Rock/Alternative Metal band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1988, consisting of Chino Moreno (lead vocals and guitar), Stephen Carpenter (guitar), Sergio Vega (bass), Frank Delgado (keyboards and turntables), and Abe Cunningham (drums and percussion). Vega (formerly of Quicksand) took on bass duties in mid-2009 in substitution for Chi Cheng, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident in Santa Clara, California on November 4, 2008. Cheng remained in a coma until his death on April 13, 2013 due to cardiac arrest. While they were mostly an alternative metal band in their early years, their sound changed...

Deft is an electronic music producer based in Croydon, London, United Kingdom. Despite his young age, Deft has already managed to establish a sonic personality in his music that is earning him support from all the right people, in all the right places. Following a fairly standard musical upbringing – you know the usual: learning to play drums, playing in bands with cringe worthy names, drawing influences from hip hop and electronic music – Deft took the next logical, some might say cliché, step and started making music with software experimenting with drum loops and basic production. A forgettable experiment...

Deftype has been producing since 1998 in his homestudio. The Gemischtwaren ep is his first publication, released on the Phonocake Netlabel. Soon, more releases were publicised on different other netlabels. Living and working in Dresden, Deftype creates music, that as he says is a kind of diary that consists of tracks, associations, feelings of one year or any other given amount of time. Check also www.myspace.com/deftype and deftype's blog for full quality music downloads of recent netlabel releases! .