Started by playing blues piano in pubs and keyboards in an indie band. Moved through prog to funk and played all over Devon and Norfolk with a three piece funk trio - name unrepeatable, but like "The Pawn" with an O. Studio and live sessions on Rhodes and Clavinet for drum 'n' bass artists "E-Z Rollers" and "Flytronix" and laid-back post-club with "Taxi". Best experience: An album and two tours with "Mac Tontoh and the Kete Warriors", a fourteen-piece afro funk band, mainly from Ghana.
Home recordings of various artists ("Hyper Kinako", "Bearsuit", "Instruments of Joie" and other Norwich sounds, most especially Shaney O'Linsky), some of which made it onto Peel.
Many other ludicrous gigs and projects: Beefheart-inspired one-man-band "The Organ Monkeys", free music with "Dry Riser", SF-electronic-prog with "Borg Applause", funk with "The Chops", bastardised country with "The Cactus Quartet" and family fun with "Girly Energy"...
Recently moved to Japan with my wife and two daughters and am beginning the process of making music again, having traded reel-to-reel machines for a laptop and a banjo.
OUT NOW! exclusively on Beatport - Lightshapers 'Retaliation'. Backed with remixes from Journeymann Vs Barrcode & 601. Support from Jay Cunning on Kiss FM and Annie Nightingale on Radio 1.
Good to hear from yer. Some splendidly performed tunes you got here.
Well I finally got into some Beefheart. I found Trout Mask Replica a bit hard going but came across some more accessible stuff on a virgin compilation called 'V'. I followed it up and got a record with a record from a band called Mallard who were originally the 'Magic' band. Top stuff.
Anyway out to the Wensum Lodge tonight, I'm hosting it down there these days.
Hey Joe I really like poor little Robot! Hows it all going with the English school? Things here ok, my little brain gets fried on my course but I'm sure it's character building! I've got my very own community choir to play with now! What joy! well there not exactly mine but they let me borrow them.
Love "Poor Little Robot" it's fantastic! hope you and your family are well and feel obliged to remind you that, in the words of George Clinton, "the funk is it's own reward"
Lovely to see you and your clan. Thanks very much again for putting us up. We..re back to the UK tomorrow, its been an amazing trip. On Friday at Akemi..s company party I played very loud guitar to a room full of business people directly after Hideki Saijo had finished belting out YMCA! You could have cut the atmosphere with a piece of industrial welding gear. Some people seemed to like it but I think crab woman would have gone down better.
Fresh from achieving high scores on Kid 606's Tigerbass imprint, LUKE'S ANGER is back with the first release on his new label: Bonus Round Records. Bonus Round 001 sees Anger delivering 4 more huge tracks 100% guaranteed for the dancefloor - full of the analogue bassweight, naughty 8-bit crunch and extremely tweaked edits you'd expect from the rising star of bashi bashi techno.
'Tear shit up' is a Miami style workout - fatty 808 rolls and a frenzied breakbeat powered up with insane synth tweaks and sharp vocal edits. 'Whipsaw' provides a next level bleep bass workout for the party freaks, while 3dit's mix of Tear Shit Up adds a dark sci-fi twist and some well judged 4/4 beef. Anger rounds off the EP with Sid Nasty, one of his biggest tracks yet. Like being happy slapped in a games arcade, it's got the most dirtiest C64 noises laid over the ruffest bass skank you can imagine. This is going to be burning up floors for a very long time to come...
