Esa Ruoho started composing electronic music in the mid-1990s and, after 2000 has been releasing recorded music (remixes, compilation-tracks, original work) on many labels, on such labels as deFocus records (Great Britain), Merck Records (Miami, Florida, US), U-cover (Belgium) and many others.Being born in Finland led to a detectable melancholia and a juxtaposition of chilly coldness reminiscent of the Finnish winters and a mixture of dampness, warmth and morning dew-like freshness bearing a striking similarity in feel to the forests during the seasons of spring, summer and autumn.
Esa was marinated in a layer of inspiration and support from fellow Finnish composers, helped along by luminaries such as Brothomstates (Warp) and also, early on, with the IDM/Electronica couplings of Merck Records, Neo Ouija and the tracker / demoscenes.
His Dew and Smog EP is a collection of four tracks, made in the varied areas of the grayness of French Place, Shoreditch/London (Goodbye Frenchplace), in the middle of the morning during a rainstorm near the mountains of Rila/Bulgaria (Dew), the buzzed out suburbia of Kontula, Helsinki/Finland (Clavia Sunday Smog) - and the various areas of Belogradchik&Pomorie&Plane back to Finland from Bulgaria (Dubkop).
