Producing sophisticated psychedelic Chill Out music is a discipline within the electronic
music scene that is similar to playing Jazz in a certain respect: It needs maturity and
extensive musical experience to go beyond the scope of standards, to become really
good and extraordinary. This might have to do with the fact that this kind of music is
not aiming a busy dance floor, rising its hands and shouting out loud during the breaks.
Instead of that, it is made for the individual mind and therefore includes a less functional
but pretty intellectual, mature and also very artistic moment. Seen in front of this background,
the history of Koan gives some interesting hints about the astonishing musical quality of
this Russian duo.

The early ninties with their wild and excessive Techno parties, exotic culture artifacts of
another world, that brought Daniel Roeth to the scene: he experienced electronically generated
Hard-Trance and Acid-Techno in the underground clubs of Moscow as a passionate DJ.
Discovery of the fascinating creative possibilities that were offered by the tracker programs,
first widespeard form of software based audio sequencers, some time later, made him neglect
the turntables more and more often to dive deeper and deeper into his very own universe of
sounds instead. In this situation it was only a question of time until he met William Grey
known as dr. Klaxer, who was an essential part of the Demo-scene in later part of 80's.
In those days Grey programmed his own 8-bit musical codes for Atari-800, Commodore-64,
wrote PC tracker-modules and worked on experimental sound-design for independent
gaming-industry. William always successfuly combined musical activity with his main
work at ambulance service in Moscow as doctor. And his noisy-experimental solo-project
called "Paranorma" dedicated to contemporary medical elaborations and real ambulance
sound-atmospheres.

Joining their creative energies in a mutual studio in 1993 Roeth & Grey brought three projects
to life: Vacuum Stalkes follows the ideaof "Digital Dance Sampledelica" or "Digital Techno",
which is Progressive in the original meaning of the term, Fatum Sci-Fi is a project dedicating
abstract noise experiments, IDM and Minimal and finally the Chill Out project Koan became the
most popular of these three. Beside these activities, Daniel Roeth is also busy with composing
music for video games and Russian documentary films. In the end of 2008 Roeth & Grey
launched new electro/minimal-progressive studio-act under eponymous alias.

After sixteen years of constant evolution, of trying and testing different hardware and software
and finding the limits of their possibilities have formed a sound that is outstanding both in the
ideas and arrangements behind it as well as its production quality. So Koan today represents
top-notch Chill Out music that seeps into the listener's mind with touching harmonies and a mind
bending brilliance. Beside being highly active in Russia, the duo has also chilled numerous
international Trance festivals around the globe.