The man behind Heliotrope is M. Selmer. Born 1971 in a small town called Holbaek approx 60 km west of Copenhagen in Denmark.

His interest in music started as a young boy, when he started listening to the Danish radio guru Kim Schumacher. In about 1987 he bought a Commodore 64 computer which he made his first very simple tracks on. At the same time he started DJing in a mobile discotheque and at the local radio station, but he just felt an urge to make more music himself.After replacing the C-64 with the Amiga 500 computer, he bought a 4 track tape recorder, a drum machine and a keyboard and soon after his first “real” sampler – the Ensoniq EPS-16.

But after a year he sold it again and began to make more serious techno on more professional equipment.

At this moment Heliotrope is the main project for the Danish techno artist, but he still has some old side projects called Skylab Dahlia, Ginkgo Groover and Quite Explicit.

In 1998 Heliotrope was signed to Hypnotic Records – a division of Cleopatra – which lead to a two-track 12-inch vinyl release and a feature on compilation.

In 2000 he started his own label Skylab Music.