Using keyboards and cassette recorders Conrad Hoyer started recording his first songs and mixes in 1993, 11 years old (born september first 1981) at the time. By 1995 hardcore music had become very infuential for the Dutch youth and he started using computer software to write hardcore songs.
With the artists of the Ruffneck label as main lead he worked on perfecting his technique, specialising in fast, breakbeat-orriented juno-sound hardcore.
In 1998 DJ Ruffneck was convinced of Conrad’s talent after recieving a 4 track cd-demo, and asked him if he would like to join his labels Gangsta and Supreme Intelligence. And thus at 16 years old Conrad became the youngest artist to join the crew. The period ‘98-‘00 can be seen as a learning period in which Conrad released a few records as Trypticon and a few more tracks as Ophidian, but was still struggling to be consistent and to find an own place within the hardcore scene.
Things changed in 2001. In this year Conrad joined Enzyme Records, started building his own studio and started his studying Music Technology at the Utrecht School of Arts. He decided to drop the Trypticon-project and concentrate on producing as Ophidian, focussing on slower hardcore, with more techno and electronic music influences. Enzyme started a sub-label called Enzyme X on which more experimental hardcore could be released, which came as a blessing because it provided exactly the space that Conrad needed to define himself and his style. From this moment on progression was fast, and he released quite a number of tracks including his first solo-album, Ophidian - Blackbox, in 2003.
Now Conrad has finished his study and as Bachelor of Music Composition and Production he faces a future in the music bussiness, as a producer mixing and mastering, as DJ and live performer, but still mainly as artist exploring the more experimental areas of hardcore, techno and electronic music.
A while back I made a mix which was a journey through the history of Enzyme, from the beginning with Enzyme 01, through to it's ten years of existence. Here it is for your enjoyment. I've included the Decade of Enzyme Mashup I did with Ruffneck to make it extra complete.
Tracklist:
1. Endymion - It's All Music
2. Enzyme X - Poison
3. Meagashira - End of Line (Endymion Remix)
4. Nosferatu & Endymion - Broken Rules
5. Nexes ft. Nosferatu - Welcome to Nexes
6. Hamunaptra ft. Nosferatu - Soul Entrapment (Riot!)
7. Ophidian - Nurse
8. Knightvision - Apocalypse
9. Nosferatu & Ophidian - Psychiatric Ass
10. Meagashira - Lost in Music
11. Nexes - X-Plore
12. Hamunaptra - Neon Genesis pt.1 (Yataah)
13. Ophidian - Butterfly
14. Ophidian & Hamnunaptra - Whispers of a Nameless Fear
15. Project Omeaga - Prednison Attack
16. Endymion - Pussy Motherfuckers
17. Enzyme X - Rauwkost
18. Enzyme X - Rattlesnake
19. Enzyme X - Optjenkere
20. Enzyme X - Skummes
21. Ophidian - Phaseshift
22. Nosferatu - NZMDFC 1
23. Enzyme X - Dissonant Poetry
24. Enzyme X - Nightbreed
25. Ophidian & D'Spyre - Reminiscence of a Future War
26. Mindustries - Throes of Rejection
27. Endymion - Rock the Part-E
28. Nosferatu - Cameltoe
29. Ophidian - The Middle Children
30. Enzyme X - Seconds From Disaster
31. Ophidian - Angel
32. Ophidian - Pepperspray
33. Ophidian as Raziel - To Destroy What Is Broken
34. Mindustries - Massdriver
35. Hamunaptra - Limytz
36. Sei2ure - The Sleepwalker
37. Ophidian - Predator & Prey
38. Nosferatu - Beaver Cleaver
39. Nosferatu - Knock Out
40. Ruffneck & Ophidian - All the Way Down
41. Enzyme X - Blood Omen
42. Endymion - Payback (D-Passion Remix)
43. Nosferatu - Bustin Da Crowd
44. Endymion - Bio
45. Ophidian - Pegasus
46. Nosferatu & Endymion - Pass the Bottles
47. Weapon X - Planet Rocker
48. Ophidian & Ruffneck - So Many Sacrifices
49. Weapon X - Coke Sniffer
50. Wedlock vs. Comababy - Void Sector (Solitude: Ophidian)
51. Nosferatu - Project 5601
52. Endymion & Evil Activities - Vengeance
53. Endymion - Abduction
54. Nosferatu - Bloodlust
55. Ruffneck & Sei2ure - Armorgeddon
56. Ruffneck & Ophidian - Elegy (Nothing Can Last Forever)
57. Weapon X - Where My Party People At
58. Nosferatu & Evil Activities - Sick of It All
59. Nosferatu & Ruffneck - Poop
60. Sei2ure - Rocket Fuel
61. Nosferatu & Endymion - Another Way Up
62. Endymion - Chaos
63. Enzyme X - Superfly
64. Nosferatu & Endymion - Judgment Day
65. Synapse - D.M.T.
66. Endymion - Anger (Ophidian Remix)
67. Nosferatu & Endymion - Drunk With a Gun (Evil Activities Remix)
68. Synapse & Ruffneck - Vows of Doubt
69. Ruffneck & Synapse - Disruption of Balance
70. Ophidian - Abandon
71. Ruffneck & Ophidian - A Decade of Enzyme Mashup
https://soundcloud.com/djophidian/ophidian-a-decade-of-enzyme
