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Shotokan Disco

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Shotokan Disco Welcome...
Thank you to my long-suffering girlfriend Sharon
for putting up with my sh*t.
background
I grew up in a big village called Rhosllanerchrugog near Wrexham, North Wales. I now spend most of time between Derby, my home; Wrexham, my second home; and with friends and family in Essex, Bolton and Nottingham.A lifetime obsession with music, design and martial arts has led to this project. I have previously quantum leaped through a variety of forms - student, Karate instructor, record shop buyer, guitarist, keyboardist, saxophonist, TV music composer, computer engineer, HIFI design project manager, software designer, electronics design engineer, website designer, technical author.
live set
The Shotokan Disco live set involves me using a laptop, soundcard, midi controllers, keyboards, guitars, bass, mic, projector and camera. I improvise parts of my tracks, and completely new improvised parts to build up tracks using all the instruments and by programming drum machines, software and synths along with various live FX.
Bookings welcome. live mixes, pictures and videos posted soon
Solar Chi label
In February I set up a record label / collective of artists named Solar Chi. We have a compilation album coming out soon and are looking to put on label events at various cities and towns nationwide. The label includes the fabulous talents of:
Kernal
Louise Cato
Mank
Micrographia
plusplus
The Blue Fruit Project
other artists / bands / DJs / events that are close to the labels hearts and involved in some of our projects are:
Beatglider
Coley!
Hillmisters
Hybernation
Little Penguin
Luv*Jam
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Working Classes
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Subscribe Unsubscribe described as: "Jose Gonzalez meets Moodymann""fookin' awesome" "reflective""A well progressed tension of sound waves" "gorgeously effective" "nice layers and sweet guitar work" "you blend the organic and digital worlds quite nicely." "nice page this" "beautiful, spacious" "very fine tunes. so quiet and full of alien love" "Hey I've tried your page and am having trouble loading the player" "ian brown meets the orb" "atmospheric spacey production" "Nice use of electronic and live recording" "stone roses meets orbital meets shotokan disco???" "reminds me of chilled Underworld stuff" "i like the shotokan" "quality" "im loving these tunes" "oo 'er Mrs" "makes me think of glaciers" "sorta sunday afternoon chill"
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My Interests

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Member Since: 10/4/2006
Band Website: solarchi.com/shop
Band Members: Just the Shotokanand his toys.
Influences: :: 808 State :: A-House :: Adamski :: Air :: Amina :: Tori Amos :: Dave Angel :: Anthrax :: Aphex Twin :: Louis Armstrong :: Richard Ashcroft :: Badly Drawn Boy :: John Barry :: Basement Jaxx :: The Bays :: Beastie Boys :: Belle & Sebastien :: Mr Benji :: Bjork :: Blondie :: The Blue Fruit Project :: Bluestates :: Blur :: Bomb The Bass :: Marc Bolan :: Brit Hop & Amyl House Compilation :: Ian Brown :: LTJ Bukem :: Tim Burton :: Kate Bush :: Can :: The Carpenters :: Cat Stevens :: Nick Cave :: Tracy Chapman :: Chemical Brothers :: Swapnil Chilka :: Chopin :: Stanley Clarke :: The Clash :: Coldcut :: MJ Cole :: Coley! :: Coopz :: The Coral :: The Cranberries :: Crash Test Dummies :: The Cure :: Daft Punk :: Miles Davis :: :: De La Soul :: Death In Vegas :: Robert De Niro :: Deprogrammed Crew :: Dinosaur Jr :: DJ Cam :: DJ Krush :: DJ Shadow :: The Doors :: Dope On Plastic Compilations :: Nick Drake :: The Drakes and the Smouts :: Ian Dury :: Dust :: Bob Dylan :: Echo & The Bunnymen :: Tommy Emmanuel :: Brian Eno :: Esbjorn Svensson Trio (EST) :: Everything But The Girl :: Ezio :: Faith No More :: Faithless :: FFFR records :: Fleetwood Mac :: John Franks :: Freur :: The Fugees :: Furry Collars :: Future Sound Of London :: Stan Getz :: Terry Gilliam :: Glan Llyn :: G Love & The Special Sauce :: Gong :: Guns n Roses :: Nick Harper :: Roy Harper :: Thomas Harris :: PJ Harvey :: Harthouse Records :: Myles Haughton :: Jimi Hendrix :: Steve Hillage :: Huun Huur Tu :: Inspiral Carpets :: Iron Horse :: :: Iron Maiden :: Isley Brothers :: The Jam :: Bert Jansch :: Keith Jarrett :: Ed Alleyne-Johnson :: Robert Johnson :: Grace Jones :: Scott Joplin :: Ronny Jordan :: Junior :: Killing Joke :: Kings Of Leon :: The Kinks :: KKlass :: KLF :::: Lamb :: Steve Lapsley :: Led Zeppelin :: Leftfield :: Lego :: John Lennon :: The Levellers :: Little Angels :: Alex Lloyd :: Duncan Lloyd :: Lush :: Madness :: Mank :: Aimee Mann :: Bob Marley :: Stephanie Marsland :: John Martyn :: Massive Attack :: Curtis Mayfield :: Metallica :: Pat Metheny :: Moloko :: Money Mark :: Morcheeba :: Ennio Morricone :: Morrissey :: Van Morrison :: Mother Love Bone :: Motorhead :: Motown :: Bob Mould :: Mo Wax :: "STOP READING, TAKE A BREAK" :: Roisin Murphy :: My Computer :: Nightmares On Wax :: Ninja Tunes :: Nino :: Nirvana :: Stina Nordenstam :: Sinead O'connor :: Nouvelle Vague :: Oasis :: William Orbit :: The Orb :: Orbital :: Ozzy Osbourne :: Ozric Tentacles :: The Pale :: Panda :: Alan Parker :: Paul Parry :: Pearl Jam :: People Watching :: Lee Scratch Perry :::: Pink Floyd :: The Pixies :: The Police :: Pooh Sticks :: Portishead :: Primal Scream :: Prince :: Sean Privett :: The Prodigy :: Public Enemy :: Public Transport :: Q Magazine :: Queen :: Radiohead :: Rage Against The Machine :: The Real People :: Red Hot Chili Peppers :: Res Band :: Matt Jack Roberts :: Rutto :: Nitin Sawnhey :: Screaming Trees :: Seal :: The Scientist :: Ravi Shankar :: The Shazzer :: Shlomo :: Shocking Blue :: Sigur Ros :: Simon & Garfunkel :: Skitz :: SL2 :: Small Faces :: Smashing Pumpkins :: The Smiths :: Sneaker Pimps :: Spearhead :: Marky Spektrum :: Spill :: Davy Spillane :: St Etienne :: St Germaine :: Star Wars :: Stone Circle :: Stone Roses :: The Stranglers :: Danny Sugarman :: System 7 :::: T99 :: June Tabor :: Tangerine Dream :: James Taylor :: Tchaikovsky :: Tek9 :: Jake Thackray :: Thin Lizzy :: Tinariwen :: T'Pau :: T-Rex :: Tricky :: Trojan Records :: Tunng :: Two Lone Swordsmen :: Tom Waits :: U2 :: Underworld :: Unkle :: The Urdd :: Ward 13 :: Warp Records :: Wasp :: Paul Weller :: Irvine Welsh :: The Welsh Wizard :: Barry White :: Whitesnake :: John Williams :: Luke Williams :: Paul Williams :: Jah Wobble :: Wordplay Label :: World Upside Down :: Ysgol Morgan Llwyd ::
Sounds Like: a fresh new blend of the good old stuff.
Record Label: Solar Chi
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Linen Industry presents Shotokan Disco feat. Mr. Benji

Linen Industry presents Shotokan Disco feat. Mr. Benji Shotokan Disco - Photgraph by Marc NadinExperimental live jam set with Mr. Benji, the notorious Derby Freestyle MC. Shotokan Disco (Mark Dixon) c...
Posted by Shotokan Disco on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:22:00 PST

Live Photos

The gig went well for Shotokan Disco on Friday (6th July '07) in Leigh-On-Sea.Here's some photos from the show, kindly provided by Dean McCarthyLive PhotosAn audio mixdown of the gig will also be avai...
Posted by Shotokan Disco on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:54:00 PST

My Fav Tracks

My favourite tracks808 State - Cubik, Pacific State, In Yer FaceA Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo RayA House - Endless Art, Take It Easy On Me Adam And The Ants -  Stand & Deliver Adamski - Killer...
Posted by Shotokan Disco on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:13:00 PST

My Fav Gigs

My favourite gigsAmiina - Birmingham 2006Aphex Twin - Glastonbury 1997Richard Ashcroft - Machester 2006The Bays - Big Chill 2005Belle & Sebastian - Nottingham 1998 Terry Callier - Derby, 2002Nick ...
Posted by Shotokan Disco on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:14:00 PST

Available For Remixes

I am available to remix work for like-minded artists.I will have tracks available for others to remix.Please get in touch if you are interested~Shotokan Disco...
Posted by Shotokan Disco on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:13:00 PST