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David Morley

David Morley: Electronic Music Composer & Producer

About Me

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Although producer David Morley ( www.davidmorley.com ) has been involved in a range of recording projects, encompassing trance and techno as well as the more ambient and "intelligent" offshoots thereof, his work has been marked by a consistent experimentalism, earning him a reputation as a compositional innovator among producers, DJs, and home listeners the world over. Born and raised in England, Morley's name is most often associated with the Belgian techno scene, primarily due to early R&S releases as Spectrum, TZ4, and under his own name which helped to solidify the label's nascent sound. Spectrum's "Brazil," recorded with R&S owner Renaat Vandepapeliere, was a visionary fusion of dancefloor techno/trance and ambient/experimental strains that helped earn R&S its association as an important force at the fore of European dance music. Morley, together with Outlander's Marcos Salon, was also behind the fourth release (known as TZ4) in R&S' Test Zone series (and co wrote 2 of the TZ7 tracks with Maarten Van Der Vleuten with whom he also wrote the classic and highly sought after black label "Mantrax - Sonic Circus"), an important signpost in R&S' early development. In 1994, Morley released his first two EPs under his own name -- "Evolution" (the first release on R&S sublabel Apollo) and "Shuttle" (on R&S-proper) -- both exploratory ambient/electro classics that sit neatly next to the works of such artists as Biosphere, Aphex Twin, and Higher Intelligence Agency as early examples of ambient/intelligence techno. More recently, Morley has released increasingly dark and textural works, both solo and in combination with former Inky Blacknuss collaborator/current Mo'Wax signee Andrea Parker. In addition to the pair's Infonet EP Angular Art (1995), Morley and Parker recorded the Too Good to Be Strange EP (Apollo, 1995) under the name Two Sandwiches Short of a Lunchbox (later used in the Tom Cruise film "Vanilla Sky"), as well as contributed tracks to R&S ambient sublabel Apollo's second label comp The Divine Compilation. Morley's debut full-length, Tilted, appeared on Apollo in 1998. He also co-wrote Andreas Parker's classic debut "Kiss My ARP" on Mo Wax and has recently released a variety of songs on Miss Parker's "Touchin' Bass" label and on Sub Rosa's sub label "Quatermass". A new album is apparantly in the works for release this year..... His music is published by Bug Music Create or get your
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2006
Band Website: davidmorley.com
Band Members:
Influences: Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Black Sabbath, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Klaus Schulze, Alan Holdsworth, Tom Waits, Andrea Parker, Popol Vuh, Can, Krautrock, LOADS of Warp artists (Autechre of course), Broadcast etc etc, Ivor Cutler, Monty Python, Pink Floyd blah blah blah...
Sounds Like: You tell me...
Record Label: Ursa Major
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New CD released!!! "Ghosts"

New CD release!I have released a CD called "Ghosts" as these songs have been haunting me for 10 years ;-)The songs (9 in total) are from 1990 - 2000 and have been re-edited and re-mastered in 2007.If ...
Posted by David Morley on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:39:00 PST

composing

It's decided. My next release is going to be hardware based. I have for a while been feeling more and more frustrated by all things sequencing in computers. Somehow, it is hard to focus for me and the...
Posted by David Morley on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:40:00 PST

Welcome

Howdy people and if you happen to be here, thanks for dropping by .. Been editing some tracks which I am going to release this autumn. I have a love/hate relationship with editing. Sometimes you can f...
Posted by David Morley on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:16:00 PST