Dead Air came into existence in 2023 as Arkhyanax and Sauron were increasingly scratching their breakbeat itch with tracker software (Renoise mainly), taking on collaborative production principles that were more common 25 years ago than today. As material amassed, Dead Air came about, functioning both as a production moniker, as well as an archaeological entity that revisits and remasters classic modules, and finally as a label, a natural progression into a playground for their productions, remixes and remasters. Approached with a mixtape mentality and a love for handcrafted limited run releases, with a low bar for remixes and a "no cash earned" philosophy, having fun crafting remains the foundation for the guys and for the label.

Arkhyanax aka Joseph Krietz began his journey in the cold reaches of Argentina, where sleepless nights online led him down rabbitholes of hard electronic music, scenes and labels of the past revealed and experienced through clones of legacy software used at the time, among others a FastTracker 2 clone that runs on modern computers, and a shareware version of Renoise. With these tools, Joseph dove straight into producing various forms of hardcore, breakcore and rhythmic noise under a variety of pseudonyms, this running parallel to him exploring the archived history of tracker music; Joseph has amassed a vast collection of 90s "mods" and samples, and has connected with both active and inactive artists from that era. Some of Josephs music has seen the light of day through labels like Moon Musiq, Speedcore Worldwide, and Vomit Hurdy Gurdy. His evolution as a producer is marked by a continual exploration of styles, though his passion for speedcore remains.

Sauron aka Adrian Moen Guthe was introduced to music production at a young age by his father, who showed him Cubase on an Atari ST. His real awakening came with FastTracker 2, shown to him by his neighbor around the same time internet arrived in his household in 1998. Having had the foundation laid by his older brother with early dutch hardcore compilations, the internet opened up a world of harder styles like noisecore and speedcore. Despite the lack of a local scene in his native Norway, Adrian quickly started producing and latched onto online tracker groups like United Elements Of Hate and later co-founded Nevrotik Pleasures. After a hiatus, he returned to production with Renoise some time in the '00s, and then in 2010 co-founded the 300AD collective, as well as the doom metal duo Compost Golem a bit later, who remain active today. Onward through the '10s Adrian again abandoned Renoised for a few years, trying out different live hardware setups and recording a lot of grody acid techno, while in 2017 he was urged by someone in the scene to submit a track for a compilation, later several old and new tracks was released on compilations under the Sauron moniker, his continued outlet for noisecore and speedcore.