RND () is the transpacific pairing of San Francisco DJ/producer David Gropper and LA/Tokyo DJ/producer/guitarist Robert Palazuelos. Meeting by chance in a Japanese Film class at UC Berkeley and realising they had a lot in common, they soon ended up in a studio experimenting with various synths and drum machines. Music quickly took flight. Their debut track 'Ripples' was in Sasha's record box for many months, gathering a huge buzz from Sasha's support whilst touring and dropped by "the man like" to massive response at Creamfields. john digweed also featured 'ripples' on new years and Soon DJs all over the world were 'randomizing' their crowds with RND()'s colossal tracks, no doubt assisted from the incredible remixes by such international stars as JONDI & SPESH (Looq Records), JOSH GABRIEL (Gabriel & Dresden, Motorcycle) and MOMU (Bedrock). The past few years have seen RND() in the studio, bringing their sound to new heights, as well as cultivating new talent and close friends in a multitude of side-projects, such as the industrial band RICHARD AND THE FUNHOLES, as well as Rob's solo work called MR. EMPTYHAND and david's projects dyskinesia (with brian cox of telemetry and the dial freaks) and flipform (with tadashi ozaki).