Jan Borchers is an artist who employs a variety of techniques. Although he started out as a painter his career shifted from Land Art and environmental works to photography, electronic music and field recordings. Living in The Hague he started in September 1999 working together as AU, producing electronic music in the studio as well as in live multimedia settings. Releases for USA labels Locust, Foxglove, Staalplaat in Berlin, grondrecords and on his own label  Tegel  was  a result of this collaboration. In 2007 he started playing bass in the The Haque based experimental rock band “soft posh”. In 2009 he started his solo project “Crystal Archives” producing noise scapes and field recordings. He also is active as a festival organizer and promotor for major Dutch experimental/alternative music festivals like  State-X New Forms and Ground 4.

http://www.tegel-records.com/tegel.html
http://www.state-xnewforms.nl
http://www.hetdepartement.net