In his teens Valentin experimented with 4 track recording, developing his own techniques to incorporate backing tracks into live performance. With the birth of the internet, he began composing soundscapes of piano, synthesiser and spoken poetry to accompany his visual content online. With later advances in digital workstations and consumer software, this developed into writing and recording compositions for filmmaking projects. From 2019, he began producing music shows and in creating backing tracks for these, took a more in-depth look at DAW capabilities. What began with producing a wide range of cover versions, evolved into an experiment with songwriting and in collaboration with musician Will Hughes, he produced an album of original material, released in 2024 as 'Live from the Opium Cafe'. 

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