From Tampere, Finnish producer and DJ Ilpo Kärkkäinen began making a name in the tracker music scene in the mid-1990s, before turning his focus to drum and bass as Resound around 2001. He established the Rebound label in 1997, then built a run of releases across Metalheadz, Renegade Hardware, Function Records and Exit Records. His work has also appeared on Samurai Music, adding another label to a career rooted in drum and bass. His 2001 single “Underground / Spiral Web” came out on Warm Communications.
Kärkkäinen met Loxy at Therapy Sessions in London in 2006, and the pair later made the album Burning Shadows. Resound subsequently joined Loxy and Ink to form I.L.R. Studios; the trio released music through their own label in 2020. Kärkkäinen also established the Resoundsound imprint and developed Rhytual as a label for music beyond his drum-and-bass work, while deciding to keep Resound as his artist identity rather than divide that work between aliases.
In 2022, Resound released “Stop Motion (Loomis Remix)” on I.L.R. Studios with Ink, Loomis and Loxy. His 2023 releases included “Dispatch Dubplate 20” on Dispatch Dubplate and “FR012” on Future Retro London, both made with Loxy, as well as “Shades of Red” on Architecture Recordings with Ink. In 2025, he released “Dunn's River Falls” with Loxy on Straight Up Breakbeat.
