Spector

Spector the band have been around for a while now in one shape or another, in its original conception it comprised of John-Paul Denton and John Elliott but it is now just John-Paul who writes under this name.

In its early conception the pair worked on various tracks and remixes for the likes of Steve Lawler and Dave Seaman, and appeared on compilations by Nick Warren and John Digweed.

They have appeared on Playstaion, PC and Wii games and written for big TV ad campaigns. In the last 2 years John-Paul has been working on various genres of music under the Spector guise and recently began to complete his new pop tinged project of electronic fuelled dance music, with collaborations on each track from various singers, including John Elliott.

History

John-Paul joined Global Underground when he was 18 and they had just released their first ‘Tony De Vit’ album (1997). He worked as a typical tea boy for a few years then started to get more involved with the company. Over a 7 year period he went through various working roles, merchandising, marketing, sales, accounts to eventual end up as there tour manager. While he was there tour manager he travelled with DJ’s such as Steve Lawler, Deep Dish, Sasha& Digweed, and Satoshi Tommie etc on varying album tours all around the world. When he left Global he went to work for Steve Lawler briefly as his personal tour manager in 2003-4 Since then he has been concentrating on making music and developing his skills as a producer. John-Paul worked on a lots of TV advert campaings in the past years along with bands and singers on various styles of music from rock to Hip Hop.

Record History

There first release was on a label called Sog in Switzerland; they signed a tune called ‘Drift away’ (2002) which they would follow up with a tune called ‘The Haze’ later in 2004.

They then appeared on Nick Warren’s Reykjavik GU24 album (2003) with a track called 'Avatar' - 'Dub In Time'

Following this they did a few remixes for Dave Seaman’s label ‘Audio Therapy’ (2004). (there remix of Dave Seaman’s ‘Own worst enemy’ appeared on a Ministry of Sound album alongside Cold Play, Gomez etc.)

They then signed a track called 'Marshal Lore' 'Its Good To Talk' to Steve Lawler’s imprint ‘Harlem’ (2004)

They then signed ‘Elektrify’ to Forensic (2005)

Following this they released a couple of tracks on ‘Apache records’ called Lawless (2005) and another on Nascent called ‘Narcotic fuel’ (2006)

They were asked to do a remix for Trafik’s ‘Club Trafikana’ album released on Global Underground (2007)

After this John-Paul released a few things on his own imprint ‘Alibi Vinyl’ and from this he managed to get a track on a Channel 4 ad campaign (2007) and inclusion on John Digweed’s Transistions 4 CD (2008)

www.alibivinyl.co.uk

New Spector Sessions on Samurai FM !