The Past

After co-founding the production collective Clear Air Turbulence with his friend and long time collaborator Cosmo Valseca, Jason Vine formed ScarKord in 2001 as an outlet for producing remixes.

The first official ScarKord release was a remix of Donkey Tugger's 'Losing', featured on the soundtrack to the short film 'Burnt Sienna', released in 2004. This was soon followed by an original ScarKord track 'Cosmonaut', which appeared on the Annexia compilation album, released in 2005. Around this time, Jason also collaborated with George Fox aka UTM on a new arrangement of his track 'Get By'.

After completing a number of unofficial Jesus Jones remixes, one of which was voted 'Best fan mix' by members of the Jesus Jones forum, the ScarKord remix of 'Culture Vulture' was made available for exclusive download from the Jesus Jones website.

Queen Mary's track 'Nothing (ScarKord remix)' was then released in May 2007 on the Synthvox compilation and can also be found in remastered form on Mary Pastorius's retrospective album 'From then until almost now...'

More recently, a reworking of the OursVince track 'Around' was made available to download from Jamendo as part of the Autour d'Around remix album. The reworking has subsequently been featured on both a rock climbing video and a falconry documentary.

The Present

2010 sees Jason making a conscious decision to move away from remixes (for now) and concentrate on collaborations and original material. The first fruits of this are a new Clear Air Turbulence track entitled 'Sail Instead' and two new ScarKord EP's which can be downloaded from the ScarKord shop

The Future

As has long been muted, 2010 will hopefully see Jason and Cosmo taking Clear Air Turbulence and ScarKord live in one form or another. Full details to be announced later in the year.