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Hungry Horace is the producer behind Abandoned Uranium Workings, but is usually creditted as DJ Cresswell. He is also responsible for experimental AUW side project Docking Bay 94.
The background behind AUW and Hungry Horace is a long and contnuing one, and it would seem music has always been a driving passion, and sometimes I think the only thing keeping Horace sane.
From his beginnings as a punk-styled toddler DJ - running around smashing vinyl at every opporunity - HH soon progressed through the music ranks without actually realising it. Programming skills took their first turn whilst getting to know the PLAT and BEEP commands of a first computer, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2, before progressing into the 8-bit sample techniques of Protracker on the Commodore Amiga 500.
This trend continued and HH began to support his sequencings with an array external hardware, citing his "analogue babys" in the collection as the Roland TB-303 and the bass-tastic Octave Kitten. Only by the year 2001 was a decision made to move on from the Amiga 1200 and the brilliant tracker that was Octamed, and on this day HH can be found content with a life with Cubase, although it would appear, far less content with the hardware on which it resides.
A recent creative streak has emerged however, with the construction of beats, breaks, basses and all round loops, by being armed with a Sony PlayStation Portable, a big bag of home-recorded samples and a copy of the sequencers PSP-Kick and PSP-Rhythm. Over on his unique MySpace page, HH keeps a blog better described as "the diary of a studio," in which this is discussed.
The AUW album which was produced a while back, as a completed culmination of this history thus-far, you can get from the regular website.
There's a video of a live practice (so you know it *can* be done!) avalible here
Current projects include work as producer to the band Arthur & Martha, producer alongside house & breaks DJ, Duncan K under the guise of MODE: Repeat and work on a new album entitled One Man and His Droid, which features lashings of PSP sequencing power, a stack of 8-bit samples, whilst endevouring to maintain the AUW-standard of dance-floor readyiness... watch this space for more info.
If you fancy a listen to some of the Hungry Horace DJ mixes, download some at this link here.
Some slightly more obsure remixes can be found at this site here!
Horace is now one of the resident's of the MODE night at The Loft nightclub in Maidstone. Check the FaceBook group for more details.
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