Deceptikon is Zachary Wright, an instrumental hip-hop / IDM artist from Portland, Oregon USA. After releasing a full length album on mp3.com called Approximating (e) in 1998, he signed with American label Merck Records in 2002. His label debut Lost Subject, a limited 12" ep, was released in January 2003. A full-length album on CD of the same name - Lost Subject - was released by Merck in May 2004. Another limited 12" EP, Lost Subject 2 was released by Merck in July 2004.
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Deceptikon is Zachary Wright, an instrumental hip-hop / IDM artist from Portland, Oregon USA. After releasing a full length album on mp3.com called Approximating (e) in 1998, he signed with American label Merck Records in 2002. His label debut Lost Subject, a limited 12" ep, was released in January 2003. A full-length album on CD of the same name - Lost Subject - was released by Merck in May 2004. Another limited 12" EP, Lost Subject 2 was released by Merck in July 2004. 2004 also saw a download-only release of a live set called Live From Oregon. Wright moved to Tokyo in 2005 or 2006. In 2006 he self-released a tour CDr limited to 200 copies called Birds of Cascadia featuring 5 new tracks and 5 remixes of other artists. January 2007 saw the release of Greater Cascadia, a 12" EP again released by Merck. Following that, a full length CD of the same title was self-released in September 2007 and re-issued on CDr by Belgian label vu-us in 2009. A mix CD called Ascii Ghettoblaster was also self-released in 2007. His next release was a download-only full length called Mythology Of The Metropolis in March 2010 on Daly City Records. In 2011, a limited 12" EP of the same title was co-operatively released by Daly City Records and Tokyo Ghost Island. http://www.deceptikon.net/industries
