Tom
Middleton Biography
Hailing
from the deep South West of England, artist, producer,amateur Cordon
Bleu and Fusion Chef, and in-vogue remixer with DJ residencies in the
capital and a bi-monthly Deep Step, House, Chillout and Breakbeat Radio
show on Kiss FM.
(key
facts : Archbishop Benson and Truro School Old Boy 77-
Classically
trained 'Cellist and Pianist, grew up on a diet of 80's Electro, Synth
Pop, Hip Hop, Goth, Rock, Jazzfunk, Early Acid House and Detroit .
Learned
"the Art of Sampling" Djing and music production from the
Electronica-genius Richard "Aphex Twin" James back in 1990.
Set up
cult label "Evolution" with partner Mark Pritchard in '91.
Released 7 highly collectable EP's..including The seminal Global Communication
Grandfather Clock track.."Ob-selon Mi-nos". ('94)
Key releases
:
Reload "A Collection of Short Stories" LP on the Infonet
imprint ('93) and the debut Global Comm LP "76:14" plus
remix LPS "Pentamerous Metamorphosis" and "Remotion"
on Dedicated.('94)
"The Theory of Evolution" LP collection of early classics
on the Warp imprint.('95)
Drum and Bass project Chameleon on the LTJ Bukems Goodlooking label('96)
Electrofunk and breakbeat project Jedi Knights "New School Science"
LPon the Universal Language label ('96) plus various Deep Tribal Tech
House incarnations like Secret Ingredients and Modwheel.
Signed Matthew Herbert's WishMountain EP's to ULP('97)
Mixmag live 27 : "A Jedi's Night Out" compilation ('99)
Signed to Island Records in '99 and released the club anthem "Summer
in Space" under the Cosmos moniker.
Currently
working on Cosmos Album, and Amba Audio-Visual Chillout project, including
unique Big Chill festival performances with a 30 voice Choir. [For
further information on the Big Chill See Links]
Key member
of NuJazzFusion/Electrofunk/Drum'n'Bass/SciFi 5 piece live improv
band The Bays rocking the festival circuit and wooing crowds wherever
they play.
Tom champions a state of the art 'fit-in-a-rucksack" laptop computer
set up when jamming with The Bays…known as the "Science
Department."
[See Links for audio from recent dance Rhythm
festival in Holland..where band was voted best act of the festival]
And if
that's not enough…has produced a box full of club remixes too,
including Leftfield, Pulp, Underworld, Prince, AllSaints, Eddy Grant,
Goldfrapp, Lamb, Incognito and Depeche Mode.
On a
constant quest for the ultimate solutions for dance music production
on a budget Tom highly recommends the one box wonder drum machine
-sampler-sequencer -synth Yamaha RS7000, and for Mac users; Propellorheads
Reason Software and Emagic Logic Audio.
A keen ProTools user, self confessed technophile, practicing Jedi
Knight and advocate of both digital and analogue media in the Arts.
Feedback is warmly encouraged!
email: tomidi@hotmail.com
