They — who go by many names — were born in the 80s. While growing up in the 90s, their musical taste was formed with experimental jazz, dark trip hop and hip hop. As a digital native, their ongoing search for combining old-school synths and with slightly-off drums resulted in a bunch of halfway finished ideas and a few demos, published under various names.

Kontrovist was born in 2020 during the worldwide lockdown due to the Coronavirus that causes Covid-19. The world was groaning. And it still is.