Bright Music for Dark Times . . . . Colombian (Brooklyn based) multi instrumentalist Ela Minus is a humble rebellion to the overly produced-laptop driven electronic music scene. Ela is a one-woman all hardware electronic orchestra. Following a strong desire to maintain the essence of improvisation both in recorded as well as on live music, she does not use any laptops in absolutely any stage of her production or live performances. She does everything herself and performs live using only hardware machines and her voice.

Originally a drummer Ela has had a long career as a multi instrumentalist for countless projects. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. She moved the Boston to attend Berklee College of Music where she graduated with a dual major on drum set performance and Music Synthesis and later moved to Brooklyn, NY. Where she still resides now.

Ela has already received a massive array of press from the New Yorker to Pitchfork, has been a Spotify Radar artist, achieved the A list on BBC 6 Music and Radio 1 support in the UK.

Minus makes all her own music on outboard equipment which she adorns with slogans like ‘Bright Music Dark Times’. We have selected some videos here below which brilliantly demonstrate Ela Minus’ set up.

REMEZCLA Hardware demo 

KEXP session January 2021

Amoeba Remote Session October 2020

FACT Magazine Patch Notes