Abe Van Dam

Abe Van Dam, from Ottawa, Canada, first started producing electronic music in 2011, but his affinity for creating music goes back much further. Citing early influences like Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, the Who, and while In high-school - Tool, Alice in Chains, and especially Soundgarden. In those teen years, Abe first explored song-writing, and developed a passion for putting chords together on a guitar... as well as exploring his writing skills. In the late 1990s Abe was introduced to electronic music by a friend, introducing him to compositional pioneers from Ninja Tune, also, artists like Amon Tobin, Autechre, and Aphex Twin – a catalyst for forming new musical ideas. At the time, Ottawa’s main underground club, Atomic, was home to Marty Villeneuve, one of the City’s first successful electronic music producers. Abe recalls Villeneuve’s track “Delilah