Aris Kokou was born in Athens in 1977. At the age of 8 he studied piano and harmony. He completed his studies in the classical harmony at the age of 16 and then he studied modern harmony, organology and composition that concerned the blues and jazz musical scene. At the same period of time he took lessons on music technology. His musical influences arises from the first electronic producers, such as J.M. Jarre, Vangelis, 90s dance electronica , atmospheric drum & bass (Good looking records κ.α.), Deep house Tech house (Plastic city, Ibadan, Guidance, Paper records, Naked Music κ.α.), soul (60s-70s, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye κ.α.), Jazz (Duke Ellington, George Benson, Bill Withers, Pat Metheny, Blue Note κ.α.), Neo soul (Sade, Brand New heavies,Incognito, Maxwell, D Angelo ) and finally Soul-hip hop (De la soul, The Roots, Dj Spinna, Om records) etc. Aris Kokou has been an active member within the International electronic scene for the last ten years. Back in the 1990s Aris Kokou in collaboration with Bill Makris creates the project Intersperse and records more that seven 12’’ for the legendary label of Ltj Bukem, Good Looking records. Their project gains great reputation and support from the drum and bass community and the Intersperse tracks a place in plenty of compilations of the label such as Progression Sessions 5 και Logical Progression Level 4. At the same time he creates alongside Bill Makris a new project titled Eastern Strategy and they create deep and tech house tracks for Plastic City Suburbia. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.