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Released: Oct 11, 2010

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Genre: Ambient / Electronica / Trance
Location Alaska, Ve
Profile Views: 26536
Last Login: 4/11/2012
Member Since 11/3/2007
Website www.20-12-online.com
Record Label Spiral Traxx
Type of Label Indie
Bio
The very idea that you can fight a clean and sterile war where everybody holds dear to the Geneva Convention is nothing but a myth. Exercises that we’re spoon-fed so that we can turn a blind eye to the true horrors afflicted in the names of peace, freedom and liberty. Collateral damage, regrettable civilian casualties. These are phrases that we all hear smoothly delivered at press conferences without fully grasping the meanings. They translate into children without arms or legs, mass destruction of private property and the devastation of families and life styles. Every war has these casualties and in every war there is somebody hanging from their thumbs in a dark room with a bag over their head for our safety. Accept the cost and fight a total war using any necessary means or don’t go to war at all. There is no nice way to occupy another country. Make peace with and understand those you are at odds with. A successful alternative is too horrifying for a truly civilised society to contemplate. I managed to enjoy a fairly carefree childhood and was one of these kids that actually enjoyed school. When I look back I think that nowadays I would have been classed in with the nerds. Awkward round girls and I think really the last kid in school to get kissed... The summer of my 17th year changed all that. Three things happened…Sex, playing in a band and my father dying. Life was never the same again. For starters I flunked out of school and could not be in the same room as my mother for 5 minutes without a fight starting. Within six months I had moved out and into my first shared house and swapped the synthy electro duo I was in for a slot in a four-piece psychedelic rock band playing keyboards.We all lived together; partied together and toured, toured, toured. Carefree times in a battered old mini van when we felt we could conquer the world. It couldn’t last and I headed for London looking for a job in a recording studio. I had no real idea of what I wanted, I just knew I was in love with all the toys and the studio was the only place I wanted to be.Did the usual run of tape-op to engineer and then onto production and once again written contributions and recording as an artist. I have had the privilege of working with a few of the world’s greatest musicians and have recorded everybody from the fantastically famous to the obscure and sometimes bloody awful. Coffee adverts, film soundtracks, electro, ambient, rock, jazz and back again. Remixes, concept albums, pushy Japanese executive producers, excesses of every type, monk like existence, and every station in between. I went round the world, had my arse wiped in luxury, slept unwashed and hungry on cold floors and I’ve think I’ve just about been there, seen it, done it, and I’m damn glad I did. During my UK based time I was part of the tight nucleus that made up The Orb. As well as writing for the debut album I was responsible for most of the mixes and a big chunk of the song arrangement. That gave me a pretty big stamp on the sound of "Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld", which has possibly been the biggest critical and commercial success for the band. I left after this first record and I wish Alex love and success. Other projects from around the same time period that saw me making writing contributions were the debut albums of Steve Hillage’s System 7 and Tony Martin’s Hypnotone. It was during the making of these records that I finally got to exercise to excess the passion to view and use the studio as the biggest most creative instrument of all. Soundscapes and my ambient fantasies could run free. Brian I loved you for the inspiration.After a few years the dream started to fall apart for me and I knew it was a time for a change. That change was to get out of the circle I was in and the catalyst was following my heart and a woman to Germany. Work was no problem as my management kept me supplied with things to do and I’d reached a point where I no longer had to be based in London to work, but it just wasn’t the same anymore. I knew I wanted out, but everybody I’d talk to would tell me what a great job I had, how exciting! My friends thought I was mad to think about giving up and I didn’t know what the hell I would do instead anyway. The final push came with the knowledge that I was going to be a father and I knew I wanted to be one that would be there for my child so I quit. The last bit of commercial work I did was a remix for Tony Banks from Genesis. Luck smiled on me when a major German export company that I was aquatinted with offered me a job and I quit one career and started a new one almost at once. After spending years making music I was all of a sudden selling it instead. It wasn’t long after this that the mother of my son decided she preferred her old boyfriend better. Maybe I’d lost my shine with a 9 till 5 and I’m fairly philosophical about the whole affair. I gave up writing music even for my own pleasure as I felt I nothing more to say or contribute, and I was happy to turn my back on something that almost felt like it had happened a life time ago and to somebody else. Ten years pasted and it wasn’t until my twelve year old son started to ask about the framed discs hanging on the wall or what dad had done for a job before that I started to think about all my old gear in storage in the cellar. I dragged it out and after playing around for a few weeks was surprised to find out that I was enjoying myself, and that it was so easy to start writing again. Maybe I had something to say after all and lots of ideas just started to spill out. A trip to my local music store followed and I was soon kited out with all the latest gear. That was a major culture shock after being out of the loop for ten years. When I left, everybody was still working on Atari 1040 computers and the Akai S1100 sampler was considered state of the art. Everybody still used tape and even though we’d got as far as digital multitrack tape machines being fairly common, hard disc recording was still a clumsy super expensive toy best left to the likes of Trevor Horn. Now I have a complete studio on my desktop and one with more flexibility and possibilities than most of the Neve or SSL top-flight studios I’d worked in (provided I didn’t want to do things like record a drum kit which I don’t).It didn’t take long until the flow of ideas began to take a more coherent form and I realised that I had the makings of a concept album for want of a better description. After writing and recording for a little over a year I’m now finished and the album is now available from Amazon, Media Markt, Saturn, Psyshop and a host of other outlets. I hope you like it and you stick around for the next one.
Members
Andy Falconer: Concept, Arrangement, Programming & General Conductor.
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..Adverts.. ..African Head Charge.. ..Air.. ..Aldous Huxley.. ..Albert Hofmann.. ..And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.. ..Asian Dub Foundation.. ..Ash.. ..Art Of Noise.. ..Brian Eno.. ..Bell Canto.. ..Beastie Boys.. ..Blur.. ..Black Grape.. ..Bomb The Base.. ..Brian Wilson.. ..Chemical Brothers.. ..Chicane.. ..Cooper Temple Clause.. ..Cure.. ..Dalai Lama.. ..David Sylvian.. ..David Bowie.. ..Depeche Mode.. ..Devo.. ..Dub Pistols.. ..Editors.. ..Eels.. ..Everything But The Girl.. ..Feeder.. ..Foo fighters.. ..George Orwell.. ..Gorillaz.. ..Goldfrapp.. ..Hives.. ..Human League.. ..Iggy Pop.. ..Isaac Asimov.. ..Japan.. ..Jean-Paul Sartre.. ..Joe Klein.. ..Joi.. ..Joy Division.. ..Kate Bush.. ..Kid Loco.. ..Lamb.. ..Led Zeppelin.. ..Leonard Cohen.. ..Les Negresses Vertes.. ..Lou Reed.. ..Mahatma Gandhi.. ..Massive Attack.. ..Matt Groening.. ..Michael Moore.. ..MGMT.. ..Moloko.. ..Neil Gaiman.. ..Neil Young.. ..New Order.. ..Nikola Tesla.. ..Orbital.. ..Orb.. ..Paul Anka.. ..Paul Oakenfold.. ..Peter Ustinov.. ..Philip Glass.. ..Philip K. Dick.. ..Pink Floyd.. ..Quentin Tarantino.. ..Radiohead.. ..Richard Dawkins.. ..Rick Rubin.. ..Robert Fripp.. ..Robert Anton Wilson.. ..Roisin Murphy.. ..Stereophonics.. ..Steely Dan.. ..Stevie Wonder.. ..Talk Talk.. ..Timothy Leary.. ..Tom Waits.. ..Underworld.. ..Van Morrison.. ..Waterboys.. ..Wong Kar Wai.. ..XTC.. ..Yello.. ..Yellow Magic Orchestra..
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