B. Ashra has been producing electronic music for 30 years. Based in Berlin, B. Ashra's
music ranges from meditative ambient music to sound experiments and acid techno. Since
this sometimes led to confusion, B. Ashra releases only ambient, downbeat and
experimental music since the beginning of the 2000s. As Robert Templa, he releases
techno/electro and as Hackbert, he releases tech-house, glitches, very experimental, and
harder sounds.
B. Ashra has made a name for himself in the international electronic music scene with
numerous live concerts in many clubs and at open air festivals. He is active in other
band projects such as Cosmic Octave Orchestra, 70db, Brain Entertainment Laboratory,
Morphon, Tohil Mons and Psychotikum.
He has worked with many internationally renowned musicians on a wide variety of projects
including Youth (Killing Joke, The Fireman, The Orb), Steve Schroyder (Star Sound
Orchestra, Tangerine Dream), Dr. Walker (Air Liquid), Cem Oral aka Jammin Unit (Air
Liquid), Matt Black (Coldcut), Peter Missing, Wolfram Spyra, Rainer Von Vielen,
Oriom, Eru, Ricky Deadking, Mijk Van Dijk, Cosmic Baby, Sheldon Drake, Carsten Thorwald,
Daniel Katzenstab, Ümit Han, Steve Baltes, Bob Humit, Der Dritte Raum, Thomas D,
Sigyn M, A.R. Funkhauser, Jewel, MoTom, Rachel Sacks, and McMurphy.
He has also organized a number of ambient events in Berlin, including the legendary
Ricochet Gathering 2010 in Schönberger Rathaus Berlin with the help of Steve Schroyder,
Bernd Kistenmacher, and Ute Herriger.
In addition to being a musician, he is a sound designer and mastering engineer at his
Berlin recording studio GL Audio and
manages two record labels; Separated Beats and
Klangwirkstoff Records.
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