Jon: I met Alistair at Blackburn college back in 2002 and discovered his addiction to record collecting was increasingly worrying after two years of doing it. We all tried to help him but he just wouldn't listen, he was becoming a complete record junkie. Break and dinnertime would be his time of indulgence, not to mention after class where he would go in search of his fix at Record Exchange and various charity shops around the town. Now he has a lock up in Manchester because his room is collapsing.
Alistair: I became aware that Jon was unlike the other people when I encountered him back in college. He never listened in class and was often snappy towards the lecturers, preferring to sit on his own listening to the same song over and over again than socialise with the other classmates. Sometimes he would do strange things like change the desktop screensavers in the computer room into odd pieces of verse and once went nuts and flooded the downstairs media centre claiming he needed to breathe. We were all aware that he was an alien. Apparently System 12 is his home...
Influences
Bong-Ra, Venetian Snares, Xanopticon, AFX, Yuzo Koshiro, DJ Pure, Acen, Zeal & Litta, Rotator, Life 4 Land, F.S.O.L, Atari Teenage Riot, Rotator, Scud, Drumcorps, Brainticket, DJ Phantasy, Infected Mushroom, Liam Howlett, Bob James, Tangerine Dream, Soulwax, Boards of Canada, Battles, Black Lung, Kevin Saunderson, Phluph, Kanal Audytywny, Motorcycle, Sikth, Scooter, I:GOR, Uptown, Kool & the Gang, DJ Clue, Dust Brothers, DJ Scud, Alan Parsons Project, DJ Shadow, Q-Bert, Urban Shakedown, Ian Brown, Altern8, Slusnik Luna, Massive Attack, Silicon Teens, Kraftwerk, Tricky, Creation Rebel, Fatboy Slim, Dillinja, Avalanches, B12, Michael Garrison, Orbital, I Monster, Slipmatt, Opeth, Noisia, The Meters, Shakatak, Goldie, UNKLE, Paul Van Dyk, Kevin Energy, Barnes & Barnes, Monsta Noodle, Skoud, Ghost, Jonny L, Dr. Dre, Lothar and the Hand People, Shortwave Set, LFO, UB&B, SDB, Isao Tomita, Bodyrox, Liquid, Bookstore(RIP), Art of Noise, Arthur Baker, Pink Floyd (Ummagumma), Neuronium, Cube::Hard, Gross Prophet, Noize Punishment, DJ Richard Hillman, Pretty Purdie, Birtha, Tablas.
Sounds Like
We are heavily inspired by the free party scene of the 90's, and produce detailed music surrounding concepts inspired by both musical exploration into DJ Alistair's extensive records collection and the people that we know and support us.
Check out our bio to find out about us, the music and what we plan for the future!
System Twelve is the project of producer Jonathan Shoesmith and DJ Alistair Hall.
We are based in the University Of Cumbria Art College in Carlisle.
Well howdy there folks, we wanna meet people interested in getting involved with our set! :-3 People who feel open minded and want to input something; people who would like to bring their individual interests into a performance situation; and most of all - party people!
Anyone can get involved! To add to this we're also looking for:-
DJs
Vocalists
Dancers
Musicians
Performing Artists
Creative Writers
Graphic Artists
Photographers
Body Artists
Contemporary Artists
Promoters
Get in touch! You don't have to be from the Uni to get involved.
Check out the information to the left to catch our vibe, yo! ;-,
If you feel like you wanna get involved, hit us up with links to stuff that u're interested in as an individual, or to stuff u're doing yourself. Remember this can be anything you want.
Hey, thanks man. Pity it's not on the EP, you might have bought one ;) It'll be on my album once I've finished the other tracks.
The start of Flashback's sounding good. Why don't you leave full ver's of your stuff up in the player? There's some older tracks of yours I'd like to listen to from time to time, hey!
basslines are an essential part of life and should be enjoyed by everyone, especially the elderly!.. aye was good craic man, lockdown was a good nite. i think the jazz organ sound i used was from the combinator in reason 4. i've pretty much saved up for an akai mpc -so i'm gonna start using that in future with the roland juno + v-drums +bass.. maybe buy a kaoss pad. do u know much about hardware 303 emulators like futureretro? u live in carlisle btw? -Al
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