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Ian K

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About Me

A self-confessed music addict, I spent quite a bit of time growing up messing around with keyboards and later became interested in music technology and electronic music. I got a second hand Roland SH-101 and a TR-606 for my 15th birthday and started using Cubase on the PC. I completed the Audio Engineering Diploma at SAE in Liverpool in 2006 and have recorded, engineered and mixed demos for a few local artists as well as producing my own on Logic Pro on the Mac. I've started doing the sound for a small club night in Liverpool with DJs and live bands.

My Interests

Music production, making beats, audio engineering, the art of making music, listening to music, mixing, playing keyboards, collecting records and CDs...

I'd like to meet:

Like minded people

Music:

Grew up listening to early 90's guitar bands and late 80's early 90's Detroit techno, New York / Chicago house and UK electronica, trip-hop, drum and bass and acid jazz. Currently listening to all sorts of music - anything leftfield or anything with soul, either deep or just a groove, whether its electronic, hip-hop, folk, psychedelic rock, nu-jazz or old jazz, digging 70's blaxploitation movie soundtracks, old soul and funk 45's, afrobeat, latin, stuff you can dance to, or stuff you can't dance to and you've just got to listen to. some of the things I've been listening to and some of my influences: 808 state, derrick may, gerald simpson, carl craig, warp records, aphex twin, evolution/universal language records, theo parrish, moodymann, masters at work, 4hero, gilles peterson, bbe, ubiquity, stones throw, blue note, tru thoughts, sonar kollektiv, jazzanova, unabombers, a tribe called quest, de la soul, massive attack, norman jay, funkadelic, eddie hazel, jimi hendrix, bernard purdie, gil scott-heron and brian jackson, herbie hancock, james brown, marvin gaye, stevie wonder, curtis mayfield, bobbi humphrey, johnny pate, antibalas, tony allen, fela kuti, main ingredient, chi-lites, jill scott, questlove, j dilla, madlib, mark pritchard, nightmares on wax, far out records, ecm records, soul jazz records, quantic & qso, heritage orchestra, the rebirth, deodato, mr scruff, tom middleton, beck, talking heads, zero 7, doves, nick drake, jose gonzales and so on and so on... As someone once said "I've got simple taste in music - I like the best!"