It all started with the "Some Kind Of Order" CD which was distributed through the MoMT label back in 2005. The music was very exciting and fresh: electronic with sharp rhythm patterns, brillant EBM/techno from the technique side of things, which I felt was half human and half Artificial Intelligence. And the sounds used (and which are still used today on the new albums) were spacey and yet very precise. Lots of unreleased tracks were once made available onto the Holon MySpace page. Tracks such as "Variant 13", "Deluge", "Biocide", the latter being my favorite if that era. And then Holon disappeared for almost 10 years. Before the project was reactivated in 2015.

After releasing my first album "Some Kind Of Order" I found a full time job, I was in my mid twenties and three years out of college it was time to get serious. I had to give my full attention to the job and simply lost the will to work on any more music. It sounds banal but real life got in the way.

You're right, life got more stable both financially and personally which in turn allowed me to direct my attention back to creative endeavors. I also got comfortable with new software, Ableton Live, which completely revolutionized the way I work. It allows for very fast and creative workflow.

Even though I consider those early days ancient history I think I have some backups somewhere of all the old tracks. I'm not one hundred percent sure there would be a strong demand for them, and personally I would rather look forward than backward but if anyone wants them I could make them available, maybe on soundcloud or a direct download.

All the tracks on those new albums have been created in the last three years. I was dabbling with some ideas during my hiatus but nothing really came of it.

In my opinion in today's world the majority of listeners get their music from digital, mainly Spotify, Youtube, Itunes and some Bandcamp. For a niche musician like myself it's simply much easier and convenient to bypass the old music label system and release directly through Bandcamp. That doesn't mean that physical releases don't have their place(there is a lot of great vinyl out there) it's simply not very viable in my particular case.

I never really made any effort to contact labels after reactivating the project. And as far as I know no labels have shown any interest, they're free to contact me through soundcloud, bandcamp or facebook. I had individual tracks released on indie label compilations but nothing more than that. Whether the lack of interest speaks to the quality of my releases I have no idea. I'm comfortable with releasing through Bandcamp and Itunes directly and while a proper label release would give me more exposure and a wider audience, well, my music is out there for people to find and that's all that really matters.

Over the years, at least a couple hundred.

I record all the time. I usually have one finished track per week. There is no real plan to it, I simply work on new music and after a while I select the tracks that fit together thematically and compile them into an album. I don't really do concept albums, it's usually just a collection of tracks that I feel fit a certain mood. As to how many tracks I've recorded over the years? At least a couple hundred.

You're spot on, there is no denying that Rhys and Bill and their multitude of projects had an influence on me. I started listening to them in the early 90's ("Tactical Neural Implant") and they continued to be influential for a very long time. Not as much these days but definitely they've left a mark on how a lot of us perceive dark electronic music. I also listen to a lot of Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and early Autechre.

This may be surprising to hear but none. I'm completely isolated from the scene, I work full time and now also have a family to raise. Music is extremely important to me but I'm also very busy with other things. I think of myself as a passionate outsider who loves to create this type of music but was never really a part of a larger scene.

Over the last several years I devised very fast workflow by using Ableton Live which allows me to create music very efficiently. An average track takes me about 15 to 20 hours from beginning to end. That includes composition, mixing and mastering.

One of my secrets is that 80% of my music is done by actually playing it into the sequencer using a keyboard controller or drum pads instead of programmed step by step using a mouse. This allows me to come up with the main structure of a track very quickly, usually within a couple of hours.

With modern technology there is no need to write limited demos first and then blow them out into a full production, that was done in the past as people had a limited amount of hardware and wrote basic tracks which they then took too full fledged studios to flesh out. This was of course very expensive and time consuming. These days you can do everything at once, compose, mix, master almost all at the same time as there are no limits to the amount of tracks and processing power available.

Thank you, the majority of the drum sounds are done by me using a drum synthesizer and about half the synth sounds are done from scratch. I do use some presets to save time, usually tweaked to my liking. Programming new sounds is very time consuming but once done the sounds can be reused multiple times. I made this string sound that I reuse constantly and it's become a staple of most of my tracks.

I dabbled with vocals early on but it sounded silly so I gave up. I concentrate on delivering certain moods through the music alone. I find that instrumental music has a much longer lasting effect with me personally while I tend to tire of "songs" very quickly.