Tom Middleton - Bodega - Cork IE - May 2008

Biography of Tom Middleton

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.

http://www.myspace.com/tommiddleton