About Me
Niko began his career managing a racing pit crew and starting a Suzuki motorcycle dealership in New York. In 1977 he helped build the now world-famous Record One Studios in California. He was lead engineer at Record One and in 1984 he began producing and recording independently. His artists have included Neil Young (The Volume Dealers), Melissa Etheridge, Keith Richards, Herb Alpert, KISS, Stan Getz, John Doe (X), and most recently, Martin Scorsese, John Mayer, Herbie Hancock, Sting, Pixar, and Daredevil Jane.
In 1989, Niko co-founded Fakespace Music to create musically driven virtual reality experiences. Presenting the worlds first virtual reality music piece at SIGGRAPH 1995, they débuted two new patented technologies with exciting commercial and artistic potential: The Soundsculpt Toolkit and Third Dimension Video.
Niko and the other Fakespace Music founders undertook a new venture in 1998: To design and sell Sonicbox, an internet radio stand-alone device designed to simplify selecting and listening to Internet radio stations. With Niko as President/CEO, Sonicbox was successful in raising venture capital and integrated its technology with several mass-market consumer products. In 2000 the company was re-named iM Networks and in 2001, it merged with Japan's software giant, Softbank.
In 2006, Niko produced Neil Young's Living With War, The ATMA, the ill-fated Master McCarthy and mixed 20 years of Bridge School Benefit Concert recordings by artists such as Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, Bonnie Raitt, Simon & Garfunkel, The Pretenders, Blues Traveler, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, David Bowie, Tracy Chapman, and many more. He also helped develop start-up company LibSyn, working in association with Fakespace Labs.
Still working with new talent and start-up companies, Niko now calls Nashville his home and works out of the world famous BLACKBIRD STUDIO. He is co-founder in Just Great Management with partner Dan Nash.
(And of course the ever elusive Honda RS125 racing campaign.)
