grIMP (Brent Dove) is a Musician/Producer from Dallas, Texas and is one of the co-founders of Waxtooth Records. He has been been producing music since 1998. He has produced music for various bands, artists and projects including: BioGliphic, Hologram Dagger, Poindexter, Brenian Swift, Blunt Force Crew , Folium, Leaf, Cainam, and more.

grIMP approaches music production by incorporating the ‘bricolage’ mentality: using hardware to make original sounds not meant to be made, and combining samples into new soundscapes that allow the listener an unique modified perspective – yet keeping the sound concepts linear and progressive. An avid collector of sonic hardware, grIMP leans towards using hardware synths and drum machines and classic 8/16 bit computers and generally uses software as a way to structure the machines (insert robot-army joke here).

Hardware used by grIMP:

• Records – (samples)
• Akai Ax80 – (analog synth)
• Akai MPC 2500 – (sampling)
• Akai MPK 49 – (controller)
• Roland  Gaia – (virtual analog)
• Roland Jp-8000 – (virtual analog)
• Roland sp-606 – (sampling)
• Roland Spd-s (sampling drum pad)
• Yamaha cs2x – (virtual analog)
• Yamaha Pss-140 – (fm Synth)
• Ensoniq Mirage – (8-bit analog sampling)
• casio sk-1 – (synth/sampling) original
• casio sk-1 – (synth/sampling) circuit bent ver.
• Commodore Amiga 500 – (16 bit sampling/sequencer)
• Commodore 64 – ( 8 bit synth/sequencer)
• Gameboy (DMG) – (8 bit synth/sequencer)
• Gameboy Advance – (8 bit synth/sequencer)
• Atari 800xl – (synth)
• Alesis Drum pad controller

Software used by grimp:

• Reason
• Abelton live