nick dawson - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Nick Dawson is currently working on new music and art for the paperscissorstone netlabel with Joe Ellis of Trimsound. The label will feature quality original tech/house & electronica for free download and should be up and running in spring '08.Nick spent his formative years playing guitar/bass in experimental bands CCO and Sonic Lodge in Liverpool, bought a Roland 303 in '98 and was DJing free parties and clubs by 2000. Often playing alongside Joe & Tom Ellis, Leif Knowles and Sam Watson.Founder member of Medicine@theBay in Aberystwyth with Tom Billington/Gareth DeGator and Submerge@theOrangePeel in Rhyl with Barney, Fil Devious and Little Jon between '00 - '04, playing a meaty mix of Detroit & Birmingham techno. Producing his own music since 2005, Nicks sound is about clean, syncopated percussive layers and polyrhythms, working against deep melodic phrases.Look out for links to the paperscissorstone site soon. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual &VideoID=27375507

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/22/2006
Band Website: paperscissorstonemusic.co.uk
Influences: Surgeon, Jeff Mills, Regis/Female, Wunsch, Paradroid, Plastikman, Carter, Villalobos, Burial, Shackleton, Kode 9 & Spaceape, Border Community, Autechre, Kid606, Aphex Twin, Rob Hubbard, Ridley Scott, Boards of Canada, David Attenborough, Glen Velez, Trimsound, Tom B, Fil D, The Advent, Dr. Watson, Sleep, Tortoise, Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, Davis, Coltrane, Pastorius, Primus, Black Dice, Matmos, Don Caballero, Prefuse 73, Squarepusher, John Peel, The Michael Coulas quartet in it's many guises, Meldhau, Muhly, Radiohead, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Wolf Eyes, Godspeed You!, Rollins, Shadow, Who Dat, Doom, cLOUDDEAD, Fischer, Rindt, Colin Chapman, Graham Chapman, Jake & Dinos Chapman and all the genius pulled from untold record boxes over the years, lucky me.
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Record Label: paperscissorstone
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New release on Paperscissorstone

Hello,My new e.p. - No Social Commentary (PSS004) will be released soon on Paperscissorstone so I though I'd put some excerts up here for everyone to have a listen to.Breakfast Club is here in its en...
Posted by nick dawson on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:38:00 PST

net.label

paperscissorstone net.label will be online soon, sorry for the delays... our new address is; www.paperscissorstonemusic.co.uk launch exclusive e.p.’s - free downloads! dawson - incorrected pss00...
Posted by nick dawson on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:19:00 PST

Dollboy 8-7-07 @Mediashed, Southend, Essex.

Telephasic Workshop was moved, at the last minute, to the Mediashed this weekend and fair play to Rob and Stu for managing to get a decent crowd there. The Sunrooms was closed due to some sort of brea...
Posted by nick dawson on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:51:00 PST

MediaShed 17/06/07

Played a set in a warehouse in Southend on Sunday, not what I was expecting at all though. A do at the MediaShed is quite a unique thing and I really buzzed off it. Organiser Dave Valentine invited me...
Posted by nick dawson on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:11:00 PST

daft Punk @ o2 Wireless - 16/06/07

Hyde Park, 16th June '07 - o2 Wireless Festival Aye, it was nice to be in Hyde Park of a Saturday afternoon even though there was a lack of decent acts to look forward to. Calvin Harris was exactly th...
Posted by nick dawson on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:43:00 PST

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid @ Manchester Academy

Last night Yozzer & I went into Manchester to see Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid. I'd taken the train up from Southend on Sea and I've liked Four Tet for years so I was hoping for something s...
Posted by nick dawson on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:17:00 PST

Old live set

I dug out an old set from my days as resident at Medicine with Tom & Gareth and thought I'd share a little bit with y'all. Those with a keen eye will have spotted from the pic that it's The Bay in...
Posted by nick dawson on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:43:00 PST

Crashed, good style...

Well it can happen to anyone, and I suppose it happens to everyone once in a while. My PC has crashed, big time. Whether it was a trojan or not is unclear but I've lost the lot, so the collabora...
Posted by nick dawson on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:16:00 PST