Koen Holtkamp

Koen Holtkamp is an experimental musician working with guitar and electronics, best known as one half of the drone duo Mountains with Brendon Anderegg. He co-founded the label Apestaartje with Anderegg while studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1990s, and he later moved to Brooklyn. His solo records build long pieces from processed guitar, synthesizers and layered textures. Holtkamp first recorded alone as Aero, with Pretend and Rises & Falls (2003) on Apestaartje.