Back in 2011, Zach Mason released his first Bandcamp album via the
moniker Zaturn Valley. Prior to this, he was creating and producing
various projects and genres since 2003.
After hearing early vaporwave, he decided to create his 회사AUTO
project in 2012, and then his ambient cyberpunk project Tech Noir in
2015. He has a multitude of other [secret] side projects as well.
The majority of his releases are on his
bandcamp, and many releases have seen physical releases on cassettes or
CDs.
He continues to work with a wide variety of musicians in and out of
the vaporwave community. All artwork and designs from the 회사AUTO
album _N and onwards have been created by designer
Carson Greenway.
"Hway Saw Ah Toe"
The first part of the name "회사" is Hangul lettering, and in Korean it means Company. The latter part "AUTO" is German and means car. Inspiration was drawn from his time living in Europe and Korea, and he used to drive a company car for a Seattle lawfirm, hence the name.
회사AUTO started out as an experimental classic vaporwave project back in 2012. Since then, each album pulls from a wide array of genres from jazz, r&b, electronic music such as IDM and House, glitch, hip-hop, ambient, etc. Tech Noir is a side project that focuses more on cyberpunk atmospheres.
Feel free to email him to have your question added to this F.A.Q.