My name is Jeremy Rike and I’m 29. I live in Columbus OH and record music under the name Dose. Although I am very thankful for it’s discovery, I never intended for my music to be heard by anyone other than my close friends. Prior to Dose I was recording hip-hop beats for a local group but that wasn’t fulfilling me artistically. I knew I wanted to branch out and develop my own unique sound, so I started experimenting with new ambient sounds and started sampling tracks that I grew up on as a kid. My parents got divorced when I was young and I remember my dad turning on the radio at night to a station that played really cheesy sappy romantic love songs about heart ache and love. Although these songs are really lame on the surface, a lot of them contain great hooks and emotion that can be flipped into something new and soulful, (sometimes I get a bit carried away while sampling these songs that I end up jamming out/dancing to these corny tracks, fortunately no one else is around to laugh at me). These ballad based love tracks have sort of become the backbone to my sound now, I love being able to take a track from Michael Bolton or Sinead O’Connor and turn it into something that bangs and at the same time hopefully upholds some sort of deep emotion or feeling for the listener. Like I said before I never intended for my music to go beyond the ears of a handful of friends but I really cant describe how thankful I am that I can share my music with people all over the world now. It’s a nice feeling being able to put yourself and emotions into a piece of music and then have people genuinely have love for it, It’s a great reward. Since my music has been unleashed on the world I have received a lot of kind responses to it and that has given me the drive to take it more seriously and keep on progressing. I recently started recording music with a female friend named Chelsea for a side project we have yet to name. She has an incredible voice and I am providing the backing tracks to her angelic vocals. This side project is a more simplified style than the Dose music I record now but it all still comes from the same part of my soul and it fulfills my inner Indie needs. I hope to continue this musical journey and I really appreciate all of the love I have received from it, I love my listeners and I am so happy to share this music with them.
Dalibor Zekic
Halcyon is a DJ currently learning the arts of electronic music producing and collaborating with Lotus Eater of the Soundcutters collective currently stationed in a small town of Zrenjanin, Serbia.
