The Key Ratio project is the culmination of Ankur Soods 20 years background as a DJ and producer in various music genres. Born in 1984 Ankur started DJing Psy-Trance at the young age of 13, spending his young teen years frequenting all types of raves, he went on playing gigs from around 2000. Organizing and promoting events from 2004, he later went on to found and co-organize the, by now legendary, Freqs of Nature festival for 7 years until it was brought to an end in 2018, in order to make space for his techno project Sharad Sood, as well as for his audio engineering career. The COVID lockdowns gave him space to realize he had always focused on making music he could play in his sets, rather than making music for the sake of the music, and that led to the creation of the Key Ratio Project as well as the start of the Never Not Now label together with: Naty Seres, Nathaniel S, Mad Zach and his friend since kindergarten Tobias. His production approach is a hybrid set up based around a large and extremely rare, analoge, Austrian analog mixing desk, from 1991. The synthesizers, modular system, drum machines, samplers, step sequencers and effects, are controlled by a computer and summed on the mixing desk using racks full of dynamics and processing. This technique limits him to a no-recall, one-take mixdown approach, which means, once he decides a song is done and the 2-track is recorded, there is no going back.