Ysatis was born in Athens, Greece, and developed an interest in the synthesizer through exposure to electronic music by artists such as Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre in the late 1970s.
At age 15, he left Greece to move to New York City, where he acquired some musical equipment and began experimenting.
He met and started working with Taylor Deupree in 1993 and released a number of albums and tracks, with a variety of styles and under a few different names.
In 1997, Ysatis returned to Athens to help the growing Greek electronic music scene.
His latest solo work on the Tresor label moves to a classic techno feel.