Remote_

[aliases: Mike_Binary / Mike Oliver]

Born in the south west of England, Remote_ always enjoyed monkeying about with musical instruments and his early experiments with a casio sampling keyboard have now, thankfully, been lost in the annals of time.

A general love of electronic music started his affair with producing and writing and with an extremely simple and low budget set-up he began on the course that would bring him up to the present.

New Order and acid house were the sounds that defined the early years of production although with the basic equipment he had managed to scrape up the sound mostly took on a melodic, Detroit-edged feel with strings, delay and reverb playing the biggest role in the music.

From there and into the Basic Channel years a reduced sense of melody and a more spacious, echoing of tone became the overriding sound with the chain reaction series providing another important reference point. This has manifested itself more in the overtly minimal works of recent times.

Even now, though, there's a melodic sound that harks back to the feeling of mid 90s uk electronica from labels such as Likemind, Otherworld and even Peacefrog as well as a more dubbed out, Berlin texture.

Simplicity is the key.

Remote_ manages Smallfish Records - a renowned online specialist in electronic music and is to be found up to his eyeballs in a variety of electronic orientated cds and vinyl on a daily basis.

His blog entitled Remote_ Thoughts has been temporarily put on hold whilst Smallfish takes up every waking moment of his day, but he's still just about managing to find time to work on an album for Meanwhile and several other projects.

Remote_ has released tracks on Meanwhile, Smallfish, Neurhythmics (as Mike_Binary), U-cover, Neo Ouija, Concentrated People, Styrax Records, Blasé (as Mike Oliver), Keyboard Monkey, Polymorphic Music and 12k's MP3 label Term.

Coming Soon:

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various - cottage industries 5: diaspora - 2xcd - neo ouija [neo031cd] - October 2008
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Complete Discography:

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ontayso versus remote_ - solitude x - cdr - u-cover [u-covercdr063] - 2008

01 ontayso - solitude x
02 remote_ - solitude [original version] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
various - simplicity is the key - 3" cdr - smallfish [fish8cm-18] - 2008

01 quantec - gloaming
02 sven weisemann - floatation verb
03 remote_ - tracing lines
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various - in loving memory 3:4 - 12" - styrax [strx008] - 2007

a1 atheus - deploy
a2 quantec - metamorphosed
b1 bvdub - alone in the crowd
b2 remote_ - reveal
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remote_ - solitude - cdr - smallfish [fish12cm-02] - 2007

01 splice
02 solitude part 1
03 solitude part 2

available now from smallfish records
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remote_ versus ontayso - celestion - cdr - u-cover [u-covercdr044] - 2007

01 remote_ - celestion [original version]
02 ontayso - celestion ii

available from u-cover -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
remote_ - celestion - cdr - smallfish [fish12cm-01] - 2007

available now from smallfish records
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remote_ - uninstall ep - 12" - meanwhile [mean006] - 2006

a1 | public service / a2 | footsteps
b1 | tundra / b2 | from the past
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remote_ - changes in style - cd - concentrated people [cp003cd] - 2006

01 delay
02 a-tonal
03 d-hell
04 lost
05 drift
06 decimal
07 radiant
08 palestine child
09 symmetry

available now from smallfish records
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various - polymorphic sampler 20060126 - cd - polymorphic music - 2006

track 07 - reveal - written and produced by remote_
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remote_ - piano_sequence [pp2_seq]- mp3 - term. [term.12] - 2005

written and produced by kenneth kirschner and taylor deupree - reinterpreted by remote_
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remote_ - celestion ep - 12" - meanwhile [mean004] - 2005

a1 | celestion [edit] / a2 | celestion [sound hacker remix]* b1 | a-tonal / b2 | permafrost
all tracks written and produced by remote_ except * remixed by sound hacker [dolphin/jones]
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various - blablabla - cd - blase [blad01] - 2003

track 06 - paper cut edit [mike oliver remix] - written and produced by scanone | remixed by mike oliver [aka remote_]
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various - all hands on decks - 12" - neurhythmics [nr005] - 2003

track b1 - signature - written and produced by mike_binary [aka remote_]
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vertical cat / remote_ - split - 12" - smallfish [12fish002] - 2002

track b1 - palestine child track b2 - face up - written and produced by remote_

available now from smallfish records
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j. junker - several events - 12" - neurhythmics [nr001] - 2002

track b1 - fade the drums - co-written and co-produced by mike_binary [aka remote_]
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stasis / remote_ - split - 7" - smallfish [clown] - 2001

track b1 - silvergun - written and produced by remote_

available now from smallfish records
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various - keyboard monkey 2 - 7" - keyboard monkey [kb002] - 2001

track a1 - binary - written and produced by remote_
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