Antech
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Biografía
- A former member of Earth Leakage Trip, now producing minimal, down tempo ambient, fourth world, deep dub sonic experimentsWhen I was brought up in the 1970's, my parents had the radio on all day, I'd be hearing Motown, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, as well as my dad's tapes of Sicilian folk music. At the same time my uncle was regularly playing guitar in a local band, and used to take me with him to these gigs. All of this inspired me to start learning the guitar at 8 years old. I've been playing guitar as my first instrument since. I was also tinkering with gadgets at the time, taking apart radios and turntables, seeing how things worked and modifying them for my purposes, I built my own reverb tank from the spring from inside an old heater at 11 years old, and a mobile sound system for my bike ! Once I was at secondary school, I was exposed to a lot more influences, and heard electro for the first time. When I heard 'planet rock' I was blown away, there was no turning back. My guitar starting gathering dust as I started scratching, looping beats on a cassette recorder with the pause button, scratching, and playing my sisters old yamaha keyboard (which I later realised was actually a full on FM synth with midi !) whilst recording onto another tape machine trying to figure out how to create the sounds I was hearing. Having got my hands on an 808 a few years later, I realised what I was missing back then ! Around the late 80's and early 90's rave culture exploded in the UK, my friend and Quote Record partner, Hans-Jürgen and I started a local club night called ‘Club Gaia', we played mostly electronic music, cine film abstract loops, plenty of smoke and strobes and some live bands. We then joined forces with a local rave crew to promote more full on acid house / techno nights ... the legendary 'decompression'. A good time was had by all. The excitement I felt from the music during those times, hearing the first early techno and acid, still sculpts my music to this day. At the same time, I was also involved with Neil Sanford, of Earth Leakage Trip, who released the seminal acid house classic 'psychotronic EP' as the first release on Moving Shadow in 1992. I was later to join forces with Neil, to release our own productions under the name 'Earth Leakage Trip' on Direct Source, Peacefrog, and NexGen records. Neil Sanford and I also record as a live freestyle band, under the name of ‘Spooky Distance’ also on NexGen records. Having gone through many guises and styles, my most recent releases (2013/14) were on Quote Records, I recorded tracks as 'Antech', a tightly structured deep tech sound sprinkled with a touch of my soulful background. At the same time, I was also running my own reggae sound system, playing reggae, dub, jungle, dancehall and the like to bass heads around Hertfordshire. Since then, and moving out to the West Country, near Frome and Bristol, I have re-structured my catalogue, consolidated, and re-named as SCIAMAN (based on the Italian translation of ’Shaman’), a vehicle for birthing a newer, fresher, more authentic sound, which will encompasses all my musical influences, including dub, electronica, techno, ambient, psychedelic amongst others.̸EP's 1, 2 & 3 on sciaman.bandcamp.com
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