The son of a robotics engineer, Nicholas C. Raftis III has been programming since computers were just green letters on a black screen. Using his father's high-speed engineering computers he began to create music. He discovered the Detroit rave scene, playing some of his first underground shows in his teen years with artists like Juan Atkins, and the Wu-Tang Clan. In 2004, his debut album titled "Upon Cycles" was published on the UK based Planet-Mu label under the moniker "000" (triple-zero). "Only two circles are needed to form the sign for endless. The possibilities for 000 aka Nicholas C. Raftis III are also endless. He chose to build sounds into delicate, post-modern, complex structures of what is only badly described as electronic music. Greatly talented with the gift of almost intuitively finding the right beats and sounds to put together, he stays with computer-generated sounds that range from old keyboards to the fringes of power-electronics and the rhythm-bastards of old Warp-records. All mashed into one big pile of beautiful art."monochrom