Zachery Allan Starkey is an electronic musician and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York City. His songs combine elements of electro, synth pop, post punk, house music, new wave, and no wave with deeply personal lyrics. Starkey’s combination of sweeping, infectious synth melodies, kinetic dance rhythms, distinctive vocals, articulate, honest lyrics, and passionate live shows have helped him develop a strong cult following.

In January 2013, Starkey started work on his third full length record, entitled DIY. Recorded with Co-Producer Brian Lee Smith of Sub Tech Zero in a grimy basement studio in the arts enclave of Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York, DIY was completely written, arranged, and performed by Starkey, with Smith using his production and engineering expertise to add sparkle to Starkey’s songs and instrumentation.

“I called the album DIY because it very much reflects the circumstances under which the album was made”, says Starkey. “I was a working class kid from industrial Ohio who came to New York City on a train with nothing my goals and work ethic. The songs on DIY are about everything I have been through, good and bad, as I worked to carve out a place for myself here in NYC. The album is essentially a diary of my life in NYC over the past four years.”

April 2013 saw the release of DIY’s first single, the extremely moving Into the Sun. “Into the Sun is a song I wrote about the death of my Grandfather”, Starkey says. “I was very close to my Grandfather when I was growing up. He was killed by a drunk driver when I was 14 years old, and Into the Sun is about coping with this death. It’s one of the best songs I have ever written.”

Upon it’s release, Into the Sun caught many ears with moving subject matter. The Deli Magazine noted, "By combining basic darkwave synths with Gary Numan-esque vocals, Starkey’s newest single, ‘Into the Sun’, paints personal loss in simple poetic strokes.”

We’re All FUCKED! Followed Into the Sun and preceded the release of DIY in May 2013. A biting critique of Wall Street and the US economic crisis, We’re All Fucked quickly became a Brooklyn club hit due to it’s populist outrage and huge synth hooks. Within a month of release, both Into the Sun and We’re All FUCKED have been picked up by underground radio stations from New York City to Los Angeles to Buenos Aires to Lima, Peru.

With two more singles from DIY in the future, plus music videos and lots of concerts, ZAS and DIY have a most busy year ahead.

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