URM Toronto, Ontario
URM is the solo project of Jamie Todd also of dreamSTATE. Entangled in electronic music since 1983, first with new wave
synth pop project Modern Times and soon after in 1986 with Canadian electronic pioneers Radio Silence.
With Scott M2 (also of dreamSTATE) they curate the long-running AMBiENT PiNG concert series in Toronto and are founders of the DRONE:KLUB community drone-improv group.
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