Biography
Bryan Müller, operating from his Munich base as an electronic producer, generates vivid and angular sounds under the SCNTST name, moving restlessly across approaches that incorporate house, techno, trap, hip-hop, disco edits, and ambient electronics. His alternate main identity, Skee Mask, narrows the focus to techno's atmospheric core paired with inventive drum programming. SCNTST opened with direct electro-house before the first album, Self Therapy in 2013, which moved between genres while an energetic thread held the pieces together. The next full-length, Puffer from 2015, shifted toward ambient textures, and the EPs released in the interim tested various unconventional production angles.
Raised in a quiet settlement outside Munich, Müller joined multiple bands and appeared in a stage musical. Around 2010 he learned Ableton on his own and promptly assembled tracks in his bedroom. An unplanned social-media message to Boys Noize led to a signing on the producer's own label. The debut single "Monday" appeared on Boys Noize within a year, though Self Therapy marked the point where his style fully developed. A rapid sequence of releases followed, including the EPs Forever 16 and Keep on Giving plus the mixtape F.Y.A.; much of the material dated from his earliest experiments and drew parallels to J Dilla and Flying Lotus. In 2014 he quietly launched the Skee Mask alias, which aligned with the Zenker Brothers and resulted in cerebral techno output on Ilian Tape. The following year SCNTST issued Puffer, a second album consisting largely of ambient pieces. Focus then centered on Skee Mask for three years, producing the 2016 debut album Shred and further EPs on Ilian Tape. Output from both projects overlapped in 2018 when the albums Scenes and Sketches from the Lab (SCNTST's third) and the widely praised Compro (Skee Mask's second) arrived within weeks of each other, bringing the combined tally to thirteen EPs and five albums across eight years.
Raised in a quiet settlement outside Munich, Müller joined multiple bands and appeared in a stage musical. Around 2010 he learned Ableton on his own and promptly assembled tracks in his bedroom. An unplanned social-media message to Boys Noize led to a signing on the producer's own label. The debut single "Monday" appeared on Boys Noize within a year, though Self Therapy marked the point where his style fully developed. A rapid sequence of releases followed, including the EPs Forever 16 and Keep on Giving plus the mixtape F.Y.A.; much of the material dated from his earliest experiments and drew parallels to J Dilla and Flying Lotus. In 2014 he quietly launched the Skee Mask alias, which aligned with the Zenker Brothers and resulted in cerebral techno output on Ilian Tape. The following year SCNTST issued Puffer, a second album consisting largely of ambient pieces. Focus then centered on Skee Mask for three years, producing the 2016 debut album Shred and further EPs on Ilian Tape. Output from both projects overlapped in 2018 when the albums Scenes and Sketches from the Lab (SCNTST's third) and the widely praised Compro (Skee Mask's second) arrived within weeks of each other, bringing the combined tally to thirteen EPs and five albums across eight years.
Albums
