About Me

I'm Cai Murphy, an Engineer/Producer/Percussionist from N. Ireland.
I started to roadie in 1992 for Eric Wrixon of Them and Thin Lizzy fame, when I probably should have been doing my homework. In '94 I got a gig as the house engineer at the legendary Warehouse in Belfast, I then moved to London in '95 where I got into studio work: making tea. In '96 I joined Intimate studios where I immediately started working on sessions for the Stranglers, Transglobal underground and Jah Wobble. In 2002 I came to Tokyo and I'm still here, I think.Recently I have been helping out on a project for Greek Pyramid Productions with director Scott Larson , not getting round to finishing a Coppe' album for Mango+Sweetrice and mostly just working in a bank.
Other recent projects include writing a track for the Light Rhythm Visuals DVD "Notations" and producing a track "I Live In a Lava Lamp" on Coppe's current album "Fi-lamente". I've also been engineering live shows for Coppe' , MJ Ultra and the Kitchencynic . And most recently; playing drums with Kuchi .Before coming to Japan I mixed live for artists such as Jah Wobble ,
Temple of Sound and Fun-Da-Mental .I have recorded and mixed for a variety of artists across many genres from folk to techno.
Credits include; Recording, Mixing, Producing, Programming and Editing.
Artists include; Jah Wobble, Temple of Sound, Fun-Da-Mental, Lunar Drive, Lucinda Sieger, Transglobal Underground and John Wetton.
See my discography.I rarely finish my own tracks and don't take my own music too seriously, so it can get pretty fucked up and often binned. I prefer to work on other peoples music (which does include fucking up Jpop; see Chemicals and Crystal) as I can more easily differentiate between the wood and the trees.

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Music:

Member Since: 18/08/2007
Band Members: Cai Murphy
The Wavy Flag Men
Sounds Like: Step Into My Office; Live Mixing by Cai Murphy(that's me):

My first trip to Japan: June 2001 cai murphy reviews

Reviews

The album opens with the gentle tones of Black Water Melon, produced with Spoomusicâ€™s Ariel Gross and Dave Ramen, and the scintillating Nicola with Dutch artist Kettel. Plaid contribute a lush new version of last yearâ€™s Lavender Oil, Mickey The Cat dresses Alien Mermaid with a delicate groove and rich soundscapes, and later, former Jah Wobble engineer Cai Murphy wraps a delicate blanket of found sounds around CoppÃ©â€™s sweet voice on the frugal I Live In A Lava Lamp.
CoppÃ© Fi-lamente album review from http://londonmilk.blogspot.com/I think Deep Space are doing something that has a foot in all camps whilst building their own musical landscape. At this juncture I would like to say the dub mixing and exotic sound manipulation by the engineer was a joy to behold. I know the sound engineer is called Cai,_ I asked him after the gig, and I think people like him should get more recognition.
Review for 'The Studio' Hartlepool, Friday November the 19th. 2000[Passage to Hades by Jah Wobble and Evan Parker is on the sound system.] This music in the background is an example of how complicated things can get. Jah Wobbles engineer, Cai Murphy, is a guy who goes for broke. Jah Wobble uses him on gigs and on recording, which is quite unusual. He is a phenomenal risk taker. Sometimes things can go completely mad, because he drives things so hard. But when it works, I think it is extraordinary. This record sounds to me like somebody spent five months in production. Actually, Cai works so quicklyHe was almost itching to begin the post-production before we had finished playing. He was already playing us back stuff with bits of dub-type interactive engineering while we were supposed to be listening back to what wed done. Let me at it. Let me at it. This thing was worked at very quickly. He is an improvising engineer. He wants to get involved. He takes chances that sometimes produce howling feedback; everything has gone for a moment. But the payback when it works is extraordinary. There is a depth to the mix that is extraordinary for something that is done so quickly, so spontaneously.
Evan Parker interview by John Eyles. www.allaboutjazz.comLove the toons on yer MySpace, but mate, I've got hundreds of CDs like that wot I bought cheap from my man in Chesham. You can have 'em, you don't need to make any more.
Johnny Patt by Email.

Record Label: Unsigned

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