Geir Jenssen (1962, Tromsø, Norway) is an electronic musician known for his ambient and ambient-techno compositions. His album “Substrata”, released in 1997, is considered to be one of the best ambient records of all time.

Jenssen started making music in 1983, inspired by artists like New Order, Depeche Mode, Wire and Brian Eno. During the second half of the eighties he was part of the Bel Canto trio and recorded music under his moniker Bleep, resulting in the album “The North Pole By Submarine” in 1990. In 1991 his project Biosphere started, of which the first releases were the single “The Fairy Tale” and the album “Microgravity”. Both were released on Norwegian imprint Origo Sound and later reissued in Europe by Apollo (the R&S ambient subsidiary label), which allowed him to reach a wider audience, interested in dance music and the laid-back variations of the chill-out scene. In 1995, jeans brand Levi's used his track “Novelty Waves” (from his second album, “Patashnik”), for an ad campaign on television, which was the first time the brand ever used electronic music. In 1997 Biosphere released “Substrata”, an album that marked his evolution towards a more minimalist, beatless sound, to this day one of his main features. Since then, Jenssen has continued to release several albums of icy and static ambient, with an extremely pure sound, besides making the soundtracks of various feature films. In 2011 he released the album “N-Plants”, inspired by the Japanese post-war economic miracle. The album's theme referenced the Japanese nuclear plants and, oddly, the album was released a month before the Fukushima disaster.

Selected discography

“Microgravity” (Apollo, 1992)

“Patashnik” (Apollo, 1994)

“Substrata” (All Saints, 1997)

“Cirque” (Touch, 2000)

“Shenzhou” (Touch, 2002)

“Autour De La Lune” (Touch, 2004)

“Dropsonde” (Touch, 2006)

“N-Plants” (Touch, 2011)