"At night in New York, builds worlds out of voltage and digital wavelengths. His story begins in northwest Arkansas, where Nicholas Long grew up among his father's guitars and the hum of Passing Note Studio. A Depeche Mode concert in 1991 flipped the switch, sending him home with a Roland Juno 106 that became his permanent obsession. From then on, he spoke in oscillators and filters, carrying the studio's name forward after his father's death as a gesture of memory and continuity."
"College bands gave him room to sharpen his craft, recording on a Tascam 4‑track, layering MIDI and sequencers, sketching out the blueprint of the artist he would become. Life carried him through Boston and New York, where he worked before turning to graduate studies in history and library science. His thesis on Kraftwerk and post‑war German pop revealed that his fascination with electronic sound had always been more than casual."
"From there, the catalogue unfolded like chapters in a restless book. "Green Decay," with longtime collaborator Christopher John Donato, seethed with political frustration and environmental despair. "Space Art and Angels" lifted listeners into the cosmos, chasing dimensions and the human soul. "The North and the Sea," released in 2022 on State of Bass Records, mapped Arctic landscapes and freedom, with Nala Spark stepping in as co-writer and vocalist alongside Donato, Bryan Brown, and a global cast of voices."
Nicholas Long builds analogue-driven electronic music out of memory, instruments, and inherited studio culture. Early exposure to Passing Note Studio and a Roland Juno 106 shaped a lifelong obsession with oscillators, filters, and synthesis. College bands and home recording broadened technical skills while graduate study and a thesis on Kraftwerk deepened historical and aesthetic understanding. Personal losses prompted the founding of Wavewulf and the assembly of vintage synthesisers and drum machines. Releases traverse political despair, cosmic exploration, and Arctic landscapes, featuring collaborators and vocalists that extend the project’s sonic and thematic range.
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