Jon Russell started making music in 1988 or thereabouts. He started with an Amiga computer with an 8bit sampler plugged into the back of it. Within no time he was achieving 'demo of the month' in Music technology magazine. Jon was awarded this accolade on several occassions.

Throughout the early 1990s similar awards were granted by the likes of 'The Mix'(including a track called '2000' given away on a cover CD), 'Melody Maker', and 'Future Music'(Including the track 'Electronique' featured on a cover cassette) magazines.

In 1993 Jon journeyed up to Manchester to visit sound engineer Mark 'Staggman' Stagg. During February of that year Jon and Mark produced 'Electronique'. Three versions were put together plus a more ambient track called 'Refrain'. Jon returned in the July with Andy Sturmey (now gig photography extroadinaire) and the trio produced what became 'The Tanzmusik e.p). The tracks were 'Optimum', '2000', 'Sonar', 'optimum'. Desy Balmer's 'Nice and Nasty' label released this on vinyl in 1994.

In 1996 Jon was noticed by producer Pascal Gabriel. Jon learned a lot from Pascal about music experimentation. On buying a new sampler Pascal told Jon to 'go and record your mum's washing machine'! Pascal introduced Jon to Claudia Bruecken (of Propaganda and Act). He sent her cassettes of ideas for months and months until a simple demo was recorded called 'Play along'. That same year Jon met up with Holly Johnson who was to really inspire Jon to think about the structure of 'the song'. Jon got his own acoustic performances of 'Relax' and 'Love train' on a summer's day in London just before Concorde made its appearance in the distance...

During 1997 Jon teamed up with a Danish vocalist called Eva Christiansen who Pascal introudced to Jon. They recorded 7 tracks together under the name 'Exhale!'.

Jon spent the next few years upgrading his home studio and experimenting with making tracks which lacked the vocals he desperately needed to make anything commercial.

During the early part of the new millenium Jon once again teamed up with Claudia Bruecken and also with Paul Humphreys (of OMD and Listening Pool) for their new 'Onetwo' project. Most of the time was spent with Paul in the studio producing backing tracks and a good team began to develop. Jon definitely looks back and sees Paul as a real mentor at that time. The first release was an e.p called 'Item'. Jon programmed on all five songs and co-produced/co-wrote 'Element of Truth' and 'Signals'. There then followed an album and Jon managed to co-write 'The theory of everything part 1 and part 2' and was extremely happy when Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk emailed to tell him that he thought the percussion programming was really good. It was the influence of Kraftwerk that brought Jon and Paul together for this new venture. Jon was responsible for almost all of the percussion programming with the tracks he did with Onetwo, as well as sharing synth programming duties, this included the track 'Cloud Nine' which features Martin Gore of Depeche Mode on guitar. A dream come true for Jon, a huge fan of Depeche Mode.

Jon went to working on his own project and released the Kraftwerk-esque 'King of the Mountains' maxi single at the end of 2008. This followed his first live performance supporting 'Oppenheimer Analysis' in London for Brave Exhibitions. Soon new collaborators were found to work with. The vocals and lyrics of Iebole, Blue-Jean Muir, Deborah Lequoque and Marlonski were all added to the Jonteknik sound. The album 'Sounds From the Electronic Garden' was released and achieved album of the month at 'Soundmag.de' as well as album of the week from 'Poponaut' in Germany.

A new single has just been released called 'Pride in Your Pocket'. This is from a new working relationship Jon has forged with Martin Philip in Sweden. New exciting collaborations are to follow for the next Jonteknik album due to appear next year.

Overall, Jon has been fortunate to have his music featured on worldwide television (Discovery, BBC, Film24 to name a few). He regrets some sour notes along the way but has attempted to mend them but to no avail. You can't ignore past achievements and the combinations that made it happen. Jon would love to work with Paul again but it seems unlikely. Jon would like to worry less than he does but he can't. Jon would love to think that people don't listen to one side of a story and not give a thought as to the biases this may involve but it is not within human nature. Jon, above all, would like to simply have people enjoy what he does but that's all down to you reading this. Thank you.