john truelove (and whatever talent happens to be hanging around when I'm feeling creative)
Influences
The Prodigy, Sex Pistols, Mr Fingers, Jamie Principle, Shep Pettibone, Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, PiL, Joy Division, Talking Heads, Guiseppe Verdi, Johannes Brahms, Madonna, Diamanda Galas, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Moby, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Dave Clarke, The Monkees (Head album), Beatles (revolver), Rolling Stones, Hardfloor, A Guy Called Gerald, Kevin Saunderson, Derek May (for Strings Of Life), Underground Resistance, A Man Called Adam, D.A.V.E. The Drummer, Devo, Public Enemy, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Ed Rush, Grooverider, Mylo, Armand Van Helden, Green Velvet, Kylie (aaah Kylie!), Alanis Morisette, Skunk Anansie, The Normal, The Clash, Sven Väth, Westbam, The Killers, Elbow, Vitalic, S Express, Louie Vega, Vangelis, Thomas Newman, Abba, Elton John, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. The The, Donna Summer, Candi Staton, Chic, Sister Sledge and anything else Nile Rodgers has touched, the Cure (three imaginary boys), Siouxsie And The Banshees, Fatboy Slim, Chaka Khan, The Human League, Young Marble Giants, Sinead O Connor, Kate Bush, Gui Boratto, Sigur Ross
Sounds Like
...or more accurately sounds *I* like ------- bang bang bloomin bang . doof doof doof doof. with plently of room for eclectic alternatives. punk an' rawk an' choral an' anything with melody an' anything with dissonance an' acid house an' techno (techno, techno) an' wierd out there arty shit that's so pretentious it makes you laugh out loud (well it does me) an' anything that is visceral and kinetic but all as long as they are original unless they are very good copies or worthy tributes or imaginative reinterpretations or twisted...actually anything and everything twisted...and yes, YGTL is an anomaly, kind of, but not really if you really really really don't want it to be...life is one long list of contradictions anyway so hey...fuck it...let's dance!
You Got The Love came out on Positiva/EMI on 6th Feb 2006 and charted number 7 UK Singles Chart. Working backwards from that a story of the same record being released in 1997 and 1991 (with different attitude and vibe each time - but all produced by me). In between times i've managed to make the odd (!) other record , and some of them have even charted - but nothing to match YGTL in success - though headlining live at Brixton Academy (as Lectrolux my Hard Dance persona) was a bit of a coup and a total buzz...
If you want to know, as far as YGTL is concerned, i am most proud of my Now Voyager Mix (1997), the one that was the closing music for the final Sex & The City episode. As everyone likes to joke, I've made an entire career out of one record - but then Status Quo made an entire career out of one riff and i'd like to think that i've had better hairstyles than them (sometimes) and i've still got my septum (last time i checked...).
I spend the time in between regurgitating the same record every 7 or 8 years managing other artists, publishing other (talented) people's music, working their music into film, TV and commercials, and generally nurturing talent - all of which i really enjoy. I gave Sister Bliss (of Faithless) her first ever remix, signed Goldie to his first major deal, ran a label in the early/mid 90's with Dave Clarke releasing all his early material , nursed Rachel Auburn through the early stages of her career (later she became Candy Girls), had a gold record in Australia with Wayne G & Stewart Who's "Twisted" which I released thru my record co and published, and continue to work with such techno luminaries as Chris Liberator and D.A.V.E. The Drummer . If it moves me I'll do it. Corporate bullshit has always done my head in - indie is the way to preserve artistic integrity (says the man who signed his last record to EMI - ha!).
I've got quite active politically in the music industry of late, nobbling MP's and industry leaders, campaigning on behalf of the independent dance sector and DJ's, and generally trying to ensure that the new copyright act , which is still at the stage of being talked about, has some bearing to the reality of the (new) world at large. When I'm feeling grown up, I sit on various panels and committees at the various rights societies (PRS, MCPS), and bring issues to their attention with varying degrees of effectiveness :-)
On the creative side, I'm currently (July 2006) demo-ing a follow-up to YGTL which is starting to sound pretty good. It might be done by xmas (seriously - i make music verrrry verrry slowly!). And I've just done my first ever RnB mix (of the same song), which is the slowest track i've ever done, and was a right laugh to make. I don't think that Dre and Pharrell need be quaking in their boots just yet, mind...
In terms of taste I'm currently, somewhat to my surprise I'll admit, loving and living the Berlin/Shoreditch minimal techno thing, though I haven't made any tracks in that style...so far...
stop press!
have just taken delivery of the video for My Life by Nimrod, which is a side project of Micky Modelle's signed to Maelstrom (Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto etc). Animated and directed by Murray John with filmed footage by Dick Jewell it is quite sublime and I just had to display it here for a while
Hello! ... A quality afternoon session for you to consider on Sunday 20th April, wicked d.j.s, wicked sounds... Elektro/Minimal, Acid, Old Skool and TECHNO... Hope you can make it...Cheerz! :)
:-D .. browsing through your comments section: it's all drinks, late nights and valium.. i say bring back nights of 1930's-hat-compleat-with -widows-vale wearing and more debauchery. big love x
