Undo is a sparse electro-sonic duo helmed by Los Angeles natives Ory Hodis and Mike Jerugim. Their sound, while simple in its effect, pushes the envelope of what audiences have heard – collecting and repackaging sounds into melodic, sultry, and intricate compilations – and held together by an underlying emotional base.Hodis and Jerugim met at the age of five and have been playing music together since junior high-school, leading to what would be at the time a pivotal road-trip to Sedona, Arizona. Armed with an electric guitar, a digital keyboard and a four-track recorder, the young musicians experimented on their first “weird†recordings together, using electric shavers and variable tape speeds.Hodis and Jerguim’s taste for the strange-but-beautiful carried over into college and life thereafter, where both found themselves in the redwood forests of Santa Cruz, learning how to produce and engineer recordings and compose computer music.The seminal move in both their careers was when both returned to Los Angeles in 1998 to join LA based electronic-alternative-rock band Woven. Hodis’ haunting vocals and whining guitar alongside Jerugim’s mastery of the digital keyboard, loops, and sequences made the two of them indispensable to the band’s success – and it was soon after that Woven signed to Interscope Records in 2001.
Unsatisfied with the band-experience by itself, Hodis and Jerugim continued to work together in Hodis’ downtown studio, co-writing songs for the Hodis-helmed Jupiter Boy. Soon after, at the time of Woven’s first EP and LP releases, Hodis and Jerugim began to create what would become the first recorded product of Undo. Their locale moved from downtown to Jerugim’s parents’ garage, where the duo sought shelter from major label stress and embattlement; and while their equipment was sparse, their creativity flourished.
In 2004, Jerugim left Woven to pursue an independent artist and producing career, releasing two albums under the name of Ruger Seeds, and producing artists That Noise, Tra La La, Fuzzy Dunlop and Michael Bishop. Hodis remained a member of Woven, which he still is today, while also working on his solo project My Lonely Loop.
In 2006, Undo came together again, finally with the time to dedicate to its growth and full-development. Since then, Hodis and Jerugim have compiled, remixed, and mastered five years worth of material, and they are eager to unleash their product out into the world.
