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John Roome is a British born, NYC based composer/producer (aka Witchman) he has released 2 critically acclaimed albums "Explorimenting Beats" and "Heavy Traffic" (Deviant Records) and produced the likes of Finitribe (Infectious
Records). co-written a remix album with Jammin Unit (of Air Liquide),
released on Blue Planet Records as well as beat-heavy side projects such as
the Unknown Ghosts. Add to this his programming and production work on Ian
Astbury's (The Cult) solo album 'Spirit, Light, Speed', The
Jungle Brothers, The Orb and Dansk noisemakers Livstrompet.
To widen the field further, Witchman also contributed beats to David Toop's
album 'Spirit World' (Virgin Records),produced and mixed tracks
for John Shirley, the cult sci-fi and screenwriter of The Crow. On the remix
front he has remixed tracks by Clawfinger, The Creatures, lan Astbury,
Gary Numan, Curve, Cornershop, J-lo and Nikka Costa etc, with compilation
inclusions running well into double figures. John is currently wrapping up a
joint project of a more heavier variety with Afrika from the Jungle
Brothers.
Having spent the last few years as part of electronic pioneers The Orb,
John is now predominantly working within the realms of film, tv and gaming.
John has scored the following movies; 'Messengers', 'Dead End
Road', 'Song of Songs', 'Want', 'Final Curtain', Able Danger and most recently 'Lonely Joe'. He has provided material for John Leguizamo's 'Undefeated','Into the Sun',John Carpenter's 'Masters of
Horror' as well as contributing music to various other projects including popular television shows like 'Robbery Homicide','Cold Case', 'CSI MIAMI', 'CSI NY', 'Moonlight', 'Nip Tuck' and 'Las Vegas'. He scored Sega's "Full Auto" video game for the XBOX 360 and Full Auto:Battlelines for PS3 and music for the trailers Miami Vice, Secuestro Express, 28 Weeks Later, Rambo 4, Live Free Die Harder, Pathology, 12 Rounds, Ninja Assassin, The Prisoner, We Own The Night, Death Race and the new Crank 2 trailer
On the film front, John is currently scoring a "untitled" project for Fox FX as well as
2 other confirmed up and coming features, 'Death Walks the Streets', 'Styrofoam Soul' featuring Norman Reedus and Brady Corbet.
Hi John, thanks for the add. You are producing amazing music, I really like what you do.
Feel free to check out my music and let me know what you think. There are also two of my DJ mixes available for free download from the blog section on my page. I hope you'll enjoy them.
Oh, yeah one of my favorite composers used it on his film score for Creepshow, John Harrison, i didnt know because your music is so amazingly dark and ambient that i figured that might have been one of the instruments of choice, either way your the man John lol
Hey John, it has been ages since i've left anything for you, i wanted to ask a question since my musical knowledge has exapanded lol have you ever used a Prophet 5 synthesizer?
Hi John, thank you so much for the add and comment. Yes Malta is treating me fine even though it's a little too hot at times... Best wishes from one Brummie to another =)
You know, I popped by here and listened to all the new stuff you'd put up here a couple of days ago. I was gonna leave a comment, but a weenie client called and I didn't get the chance. I love this atmospheric thing you've been on. :D
Victim of the credit crunch here, just passing some time checking some profiles. Always good to hear your blend of beats, atmospherics and other good stuff, i'm off to drop "explorimenting beats" take it easy. Andre. LSR.
