Diverse and interesting electronica, seventies popular music, ECM Records, dub, Basic Channel, The Blue Nile, ELO, Crosby Stills Nash, deep tech house, Joni Mitchell, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Aphex Twin, Hillage, The Orb, The Beatles, David Sylvian, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Ultramarine,
alucidnation is Bruce Bickerton.
He's been writing and producing music since 1992, amassing a broad spectrum of what he'd describe as 'good quality listening music for the home and the head'.
To the uninitiated, Bruce's music is probably hard to catergorize. It can range from blissed out ambience through to deep, dubby beats, taking in electronica and songs along the way.
Having been playing the piano (and various other bits and pieces) since his formulative years, Bruce always liked to improvise, messing around with chord structures and vocal harmonies. It was only when he took the plunge in the early nineties and invested in a small MIDI studio setup that he was able to realise some of those ideas.
This resulted in a scramble of activity over the course of the next ten years, when he spent a good deal of time recording rough improvisations on whatever medium came to hand, whether that was cassette tape, DAT or MD. These improvisations either culminated in finished pieces, or if the groove or feeling wasn't there, they were either discarded, or put to use in future compositions.
This way of working still informs much of Bruce's work these days, even with the advent of modern digital editing software :
"I like to get a loop up and running that's 'doing it', and then just hit the record button and let the vibe take me away for about 15-20 minutes. Out of this, there's bound to be something that's useable - sometimes the whole thing is!"
alucidnation eventually came to the attention of prolific producer Tom Middleton back in 2000. Bruce had produced a limited edition CD of material he'd been working on in 1999 (just 10 copies were pressed up!); one of which found its way to Tom and then by word of mouth to Pete Lawrence, co-curator of The Big Chill, a music and arts organisation based out of the UK.
Pete signed alucidnation up to the then fledgling Big Chill Recordings label on the strength of 'I'm Not Bad', a ditty that Bruce had penned in a few hours.
Since then, BCR have released two EPs and a debut album, all of which have been critically well-received. The sound of alucidnation has surfaced on lots of compilations throughout the world, and Bruce has lent his hand to numerous remixes.
He's collaborated with various composers of note, including Tom Middleton, Ulrich Schnauss, Laura B, Pete Lawrence, Another Fine Day, The Verbrilli Sound, Pitch Black and others.
Bruce is carrying on the lucid tradition. writing material for his next release.
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From Buenos Aires Javier Orlando and Raul Carrasco, after his great debut in DeepClass with his work Thinking in the night and counting on international artists's support such like Laurent Garnier, Dubfire, Inland Knights, Halo Varga, Shur I Khan, DJ Misjah, Lawnchair Generals, Jazzy Eyewear, Jay West, Fabien Kamb, Strakes ( Lost My Dog ), Subsky, Da Funk, Underground Love, bring his new work called "Underground love" refered # 37 at deepclass records, with remixes in charge of Jimmy & Fer Ferrari, Helly Larson and David Ordonez.
DeepClass Records present:
"Underground Love" by Javier Orlando & Raul Carrasco
rmxs by Helly Larson Jimmy & Fer Ferrari David Ordonez
"Odds on favourite for the Ibiza 2009 anthem", Grant Nelson
The third release from the french talented house label, Lolita is a house track coming from a briliant collaboration of ex-Africanism member Gwen and Bertrand Dupart.
The remix comes from Rocco, who's earned more and more attention due to his massive releases on Freerange, and famous remixes of Dennis Ferrer and Claude Monnet.
Main feedbacks:
Copyright (Defected - UK)
teched out dopeness! beautiful
Martin Solveig (Mixture/Universal - France)
Cute Track, nice remix too, i'll play the original in my radio show
Nick Warren (Hope Recordings - UK)
Brilliant track will play this all year i can see
StoneBridge (Stoney Boy Music Stockholm - Sweden
Ah, What a lovely track - summer!
Get It also on Traxsource by clicking on the Cover
Don't Miss also Space Breaks Party with Argy, Martin Solveig & Gwen :
we've uploaded a couple of new tracks onto our player. They are 2 off the EP that contains 4 brand new remixes of Deep Space Lament. One has been remixed by t
Thank you for being our friend and being connected to us. As we told you, we are a n electro-pop-rock band from Lausanne, Switzerland.
Our promo EP with 4 full quality tracks and the biography of the band, together with a few pictures are available now as free download (as a .zip file) at the following link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/r9fkjv
So listen to it and pass it on :)
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Notre EP promo contenant 4 titres en pleine qualité ainsi que la bio du groupe et quelques photos est disponible en libre téléchargement sous le lien suivant (archive .zip): http://www.sendspace.com/file/r9fkjv
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