Derek VanScoten, now known professionally as Cloudchord, is an American music producer, multi-instrumentalist and electronic musician. Based in Austin, Texas, he has been actively releasing solo material since 2009. In 2011, under the moniker D.V.S*, he released "Before I Sing", an 11-track masterpiece merging modern Hip Hop with vintage Motown and Soul Jazz. In January 2010 he released "Beyond the Looking Glass," a 4 song preview of a 2-volume release due out this spring.

In 2015 he abandonned the D.V.S* alias to focus solely on his Cloudchord project. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.