Chris Douglas (musician)

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Chris Douglas (born August 4, 1974) is an American electronic musician from San Francisco, best known by the stage name O.S.T. He helped shape the early IDM and experimental electronic scenes, blending ambient, industrial, and electro-acoustic sounds.

Growing up around the San Francisco rave scene, Douglas began DJing and making tracks in the early 1990s. At 17 he moved to Detroit to work with Mike Banks of Underground Resistance and James Stinson of Drexciya. He released his first EP as O.S.T. in 1992 on Switch Records, launching a long career of boundary-pushing music. In 2002 he was invited by Autechre to support their Confield tour, and in 2003 he performed at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival they curated. Douglas later moved to Berlin after a personal tragedy and has lived there since.

In 2012 he had a busy year, releasing a double album and an EP on Icasea, putting out Onsime on Amhain’s Bandcamp, and performing at festivals such as Roskilde, Exotic Pylon, and CTM. He also contributed a remix to Ektoise’s Distortions.