John Rowe is a British goth musician, dance music producer, DJ and record label manager from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom. He performs under his own name and is also associated with Seraphin Twin.

Music career

Rowe plays in several styles across band, DJ and production work. He spends ten years in the alternative psych-rock band Herp Nurp, where he fronts the group and shares chief songwriting duties. The band plays across the UK, records two albums in the late 1990s at Impulse Studios, and signs to Big Fat Records in 2004.

Alongside his band work, he takes a music technology course in the late 1990s and develops a stream of techno releases in the mid-2000s. These appear on labels including 4-Stroke in Belgium, Stranamente in Italy, Testin’ Out in the UK, his own D.E.S. label and Bonzai Records. He also performs live with techno artists including Dave the Drummer, Guy “Geezer” Mc Gaffer, Ben Sims, Roland the Bastard, Ant and Chris Liberator.

DJ and live work

For more than a decade, Rowe plays for promoters and party crews including Freaky Dancing, Trauma, Cubensis, Anti-World, Detox, Radar, Kiddstock, Strange Days, Ourmas, Cause and Effect and Citric Acid. This work takes him to raves, festivals, clubs and pubs across the UK, where he DJs alongside Eat Static, Mark EG, Anne Savage, Rodi Style, Paul Glazby, Ed Real and Vinyl Groover, among others.

Other projects

Rowe continues to work in the studio and plays drums for the post-punk group The Flabbergasters. He also practices with his own band Schizophonic, where he sings and plays guitar, and records techno material as Phantom Freq. He does this for his label Hypnohouse Trax. He also runs the Cybernetics collective, which brings together musicians, DJs and performers and promotes home-grown talent through events, raves and parties in Newcastle and elsewhere.