Reptiljan first bends your mind, then breaks it. Reptiljan shamelessly nicks rhythms from the fastest of genres and twists them around. Reptiljan samples everything that isn’t nailed down and puts it all through a grinder.

Reptiljan is a manic burst of noise, hectic rhythms and splintered guitars, making the listener squirm, laugh uncontrollably and see lizards on the walls. Reptiljan is violent, humorous, witty and destructive, twisting your ears into a knot and then pointing a finger (claw?) at you, laughing. Reptiljan moves so fast, you end up being out of breath, sweating in your seat.

Reptiljan is music you can laugh at! This music is far removed from the dead seriousness and graveness all too often connected with electronic music.

Reptiljan lives under the skin of Niko Skorpio. Donning this alter ego, he lets go all the energy bubbling inside him, sparing nothing. When it comes to Niko Skorpio, he has been actively involved in underground music scenes from the beginning of the 1990’s. He has behind him a number of different line-ups, styles and albums; Reptiljan is perhaps the loudest and most energetic!

Sounds Like?

“Short tracks going on, eleven in about thirty minutes, of highly fucked up rhythm stuff, going at an incredible speed – sometimes the bpm is so high, the sound becomes a drone. Ultra vivid rapid cut ups, taking samples from grindcore bands, feeding them to computer’s plug ins, until mayhem arises. Although listed with eleven tracks, it rather hears as one long track. Music that leaves the listener quite tired after this intense thirty minutes. Think Doormouse and Venetian Snares, dressed in black and playing grindcore and you get the picture of this.” (Vital Weekly on The Hellbender Suite)

“Mixing noise, grind core, drill n base and the semi experimental avant- garde over the eleven, fairly short, tracks makes for one very unusual unsettling listening experience. Very fucking unusual it has to be reiterated. (…) Breakneck beats collide with obtuse electronic bursts and patterns of noise that fly off in different tangents then fall apart before joining up again to repeat the process. Unrelenting in its desire to disorientate and confuse. Comparable to…no-one I‘ve ever heard of. It has multi personality disorder stamped high across its forehead. So many styles wrapped up in the same body of music.” (Aural Pressure on The Hellbender Suite)

“Hypnotic minimalist chaotic weird ambience, with noizy samples. Reptiljan pick us up and let us discover what are chaos and destruction. A kind of total war with strange weapons.” (Giag on The Hellbender Suite)

“Reptiljan sorvaa kaikesta tästä konehälystä informaatioähkyisen puolituntisen joka repii, riuhtoo ja ylikuormittaa mieltä. Tästä ylikuormituksesta saa pirunmoiset sävärit. Sen kiihdyttävästä meluekstaasista löytyy sekä hauskoja oivalluksia että toden teolla piinaavaa meteliä. The Hellbender Suite vie kuulijansa ääripäästä ääripäähän, jättää jälkeensä hikipisaroita ja raukean mielentilan.” (Noise.fi Hellbender Suitesta)

”(Pangrenade) combining various hyper speed (often to an unrecognizable level) beats with fast musical loops, harsh distortion, and what sound like insanely over the top distorted vocals. On occasion it calms down to a tangible beat with some ambient loops against it, but rarely, and it’s over in a flash.” (Aversionline on Pangrenade)

“Reptiljan transforms waveforms of digital noise into compelling swarms of grizzling clicks on his self-titled CD. Pushing noise drones are infiltrated into some bizarre melody lines sounding more alienated than catchy. An interesting cocktail of melody and abstraction that could well be the Free Jazz soundtrack for some futuristic sci-fi flick. Associations first of all point towards Pan Sonic and Ryoji Ikeda.” (Vital Weekly on Reptiljan)

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