Ryan Lee West (born November 10, 1985), known by his stage name Rival Consoles, is a British electronic musician,[1] living in London.
[2] He learned to play guitar in his youth, but later switched to electronic production, studying music technology at De Montfort University.
West has remixed tracks by Jon Hopkins, Vessels, Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Max Cooper, Noisia, Sasha and Toydrum among others.
[3] Rival Consoles' style is a combination of ambient, shoegaze, minimal techno and cinematic—often created with analogue synths, pedals and degraded processes.
Pitchfork described Rival Consoles' sound as "high-brow, avant-garde electronic music in the vein of Jon Hopkins and Nils Frahm".