Peter Gabriel, Cocteau Twins, Killing Joke, A.C. Boutsen, Thomas Heckmann, Bauhaus, Daniel Lanois, The Cure, Brian Eno, Nine Inch Nails, New Order, Gary Numan, Crystal Method, Hybrid, William Orbit, System 7, Pink Floyd etc etc etc
Nick has run the gamut of musical styles since childhood, having studied classical guitar and piano, and playing guitar, bass and double bass in everything from punk, rock, blues and jazz bands, before acid house and hardcore convinced him that technology could be a friend to the musician - and so it was that the nineties saw Nick flitting between sub-genres of dance music like a fly on a buffet table, picking up influences and technique along the way. A three-year stint as part owner-engineer in a recording and rehearsal facility in South London gave Nick valuable production experience and a good idea of how not to run a business!
Nick started writing downtempo music as an antidote to the psy-trance that was ubiquitous in his life at that point - this music quickly caught the ears and eyes of Humphrey Bacchus, then label manager at Youth's Dragonfly Records and it's chill-out sister label, Liquid Sound Design. Several compilation releases and remixes later, Dragonfly released Nick's debut long-player as Tripswitch, entitled 'Circuit Breaker', and his reputation as a downtempo producer was sealed. Since then Nick has been in high demand with a steady stream of releases, gigs, remixes and collaborations, and is currently working on a new Tripswitch album and an album collaboration with dub maestro Gaudi.
Never one for pidgeonholing, Nick is content to 'just try and write good music'. Sometimes however the borders get blurred, and for the sake of clarity Nick has now created another persona, Codemonkey, as a channel for the heavier, breakzyer end of his output. 2 brand new Codemonkey tracks (one a collaboration with Seb Taylor, http://www.myspace.com/sebastiantaylor) have recently featured on 'Bite Me', a downloadable music expansion pack for the new blockbuster game 'Prey' by 3DRealms.
2001
Tripswitch - 'Shamanic Tea' - featured on 'Mana Medicine' (LSD)
2003
Tripswitch - 'Exiled' - featured on 'Butterfly Dawn' (LSD)
Tripswitch - 'Silver' - featured on 'Butterfly Dawn' (LSD)
2004
Tripswitch - 'Silver (ott remix)' - featured on 'Wider Horizons' (LSD)
Ott - 'Escape from Tulse Hell (tripswitch remix)' - featured on 'Wider Horizons' (LSD)
Tripswitch - 'Viscous' - featured on 'Namaskar' (Indica Music)
2005
Ott - 'Escape from Tulse Hell (tripswitch remix)' - featured on 'Tantra Trance' (Millenium Records)
Tripswitch - 'Circuit Breaker' album (Dragonfly Records)
Tripswitch - 'Roll Your Own' - featured on 'The Dream Temple' (Millenium Records)
Gaudi vs Tripswitch - 'Subdown' - featured on 'Dissolving Clouds' (Interchill Records)
Gaudi vs Tripswitch - 'On the Edge' - featured on 'Soul Vibration' (Liquid Records)
Tripswitch feat. Tanina & the PGC - 'Quanta' - featured on 'Chillogram' (Peak Records)
2006
Tripswitch - 'Cumulus' - featured on 'Vajra' (Indica Music)
Tripswitch - 'Calabi Yau' - featured on 'Arcana' (Interchill Records)
Gaudi vs Tripswitch - 'Subdown' - featured on 'New World Dub Vol 1' (System Recordings)
Codemonkey - 'Time Coil' - featured on Bite Me! Music inspired by Prey (Directsong)
Codemonkey - 'Hunted' - featured on 'Bite Me! Music inspired by Prey' (Directsong)
Tripswitch - 'Roll Your Own' - featured on 'Claude Challe Presents: Just Good Music' (Challomusic)
Tripswitch - 'Roll Your Own' - featured on 'Jose Padilla - Caf.. Solo' (Resist)
Tripswitch - 'Calabi Yau' - featured on 'New World Ambient Vol 2' (System Recordings)
Tripswitch - 'Collider' - featured on 'Illuminations' (Liquid Sound)
Gaudi vs Tripswitch - 'Subdown' - featured on 'The Art Of Chill 3' (Platipus)
2007
Tripswitch - 'Strange Parallels' - featured on 'GU30 - Nick Warren - Paris' (Global Underground)
Tripswitch - 'Roll Your Own' - featured on 'GU30 - Nick Warren - Paris' (Global Underground)
System 7 - 'Moopie Love (Tripswitch Breaks mix)' - featured on 'System 7 - Hinotori (Wakyo)
Tripglitch - 'Orgone Motor' - featured on 'Devil in the Detail' (Interchill Records)
Tripswitch - 'Circuit Breaker Rewired' album (Dragonfly Records)
2008
Orchid Star - 'The Heart Of Ibu-At (Tripswitch remix)' featured on 'Birth / Re-Birth' (Dragonfly Records)
Tripswitch - 'Lyra' - featured on 'Future Memories' (Interchill Records)
Tripswitch - 'Silver (ott remix)' - featured on 'Silk Pearls Vol. 2 ' (Cocoon Recordings)
Tripswitch - 'Exiled (Gaudi remix)' - featured on 'Globetronica by Pathaan' (Platipus)
Tripswitch - 'Tachyon (Codemonkey's Cosmic Rumba remix)' - featured on 'Supperclub Beauty' (United Recordings)
2009
The Orb - DDD (Codemonkey remix) - featured on The Orb - 'DDD Remixes' (Six Degrees)
Forthcoming
System7 - 'Moopie Love' (Tripswitch Breaks mix) is being tweaked for inclusion in the forthcoming Mirror System album.
New Tripswitch album to be released on my new label Section Records in late 2008! Label launch, dates and more releases will also be announced soon ...
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Hay Nick! Wow, so you survived Greece? ;-) I realy loved it @ the Aurora Festival, and I'd realy like to thank U very much for this wonderfull souvenir! I hope we'll meet soon one day. Verry kind geetings, Huby
Hi thanks for the add. Keep up the good work, good to be connected. Welcome to Dhuna. Stay tuned and ALL THE BEST :)
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Hello everyone !
We spent really good time with all of you people who we met on tour last year. I am pleased to inform you all that my new chillout album "The Return" is released now!
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Many thanks and regards for you all. Please feel free to get in touch.
I hope all is well and good and I just wanted to let you know I've just put up a new track called ECHO so I thought you might want to have a listen. :o) It's just the instrumental version I did not long ago but I do have a full section of vocal to arrange into this track so I'll keep you posted on the outcome! :o)
I appreciate your time and support and any comments posted.
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