Bloke Biography
Bloke is the moniker of electronic musician Yaniv Navot.
Yaniv Navot was born September 8th, 1981 in Haifa, Israel. Born and raised in the suburbs of Haifa, artistic Navot soon became fascinated with the exploratory nature of futuristic electronic music. Navot began exploring alternative experimental electronic music styles, such as early glitch music, idm music, breakbeat and drill and bass manipulations.
Living near a deserted military facility, the young electronic musician joined the Israeli Defense Forces in 1999, immediately after finishing High School. It was there where he first started experimenting with different musical instruments and styles. Later that year, Navot began recording his own electronic music, using simple tracker software, developing his own unique style under the plain pseudonym Bloke.
On August 2002, Bloke finally released a debut EP, "Music for Electric Lobe" (12''), on the Berlinish independent record label, Digital Kranky. The 12'' 5-track vinyl featured a collection of varied electronica works, ranging from rough experimental electronic music to more popular forms of electronica such as breakbeat and jungle. Music for Electric Lobe introduced Bloke as a young aspiring Israeli electronic musician. On August 20th, 2003, Britain's legendary Radio 1 broadcaster, John Peel, played Bloke's Micro Attempt on the Keeping it Peel program.
Shortly after, further, more experimental works, were released on various independent boutique labels in Europe and The U.S.A, such as Estrunax Records, Kraked A.I, 2PlayerMusic and Binkcrsh (see discography section for more info).
In 2004, Bloke co-founded together with fellow musician Eliad Wagner (AKA: Stuchka Vkarmanye), the independent label ±G6PD Records as a personal platform, in order to allow exposure to innovative ideas in futuristic electronic music and similar minds. Later that year, Bloke released a first (official) full length album. "Experiments in Aesthetics" was the first album to be released on the home label ±G6PD Records. The album discusses the nature and aesthetics of experimental electronic music (glitch music, idm music and freestyle electronica music), presenting a dynamic electronic journey, portraying as a lucid dream.
In 2005, a second full-length album was released, a re-issued old production by Navot, simply titled "Sennin Taoist Immortal". The Sennin Taoist album was released on ±G6PD Records as a free MP3 album, presenting 15 free downloadable unreleased tunes that were re-edited and digitally re-mastered by Bloke. Some of the tracks on the album were originally recorded back in the days when Navot was in the army.
In 2006, following a successful 3-track download single on Machine-Records (that was later sold exclusively on Warp Records' Bleep.com), Bloke's third full length album, "Tears of The Broken Warrior", was co-released on Machine Records and on the home label ±G6PD Records. The combined effort gave birth to a unique concept album, involving a personal story of a broken warrior trapped in a surreal world. This time, Bloke decided to focus on more danceable experimental electronic music mixed with emotional drill and bass breaks.
In the last few years Bloke has been performing and DJ'ing in Europe, the UK and Israel. His music is played regularly on various Radio stations such as London's first radio art station Resonance 104.4FM, Israel's 106fm and more. He is considered to be a unique and exceptional musician, especially in the Israeli experimental electronic music scene, and is highly regarded for his high skilled programming techniques in handling super-fast beats and complex compositions and productions
Contact Bloke: info [at] bloke-music [dot] com | * Click for Hebrew version: יניב נבות
Hot Review
Sennin Taoist Immortal (re-issue)
"When summer refused to come and I took some indepth listenings to 'Sennin Taoist Immortal', I realized that behind the beats that crowd tracks like 'Extract' or 'Japan' there is some serious, almost structuralist experimenting in sounds going on. The result of this is Navot seemingly being more interested in the way sounds change in miniscule details when doubled or layered more than the effects of putting various sounds over one another." (Cracked Reviews)
