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Polyploid

About Me

Chris Gannon has been writing and producing music since the early '90s and has written albums under the name Polyploid and also his own name. ( Polyploid on Discogs ).

He ran Helix Records in the mid '90s and before that was recording on a little known label called Intruder under the larger label HOS (Heidi Of Switzerland).

He used to live in Brighton and has gigged and DJ'd in many countries using all sorts of different names to avoid contractual problems!

Having been Head of Video And Animation at a media agency in Newbury for the past 7 odd years he is now a freelance Flash designer, developer and consultant yet still manages to write and produce music. You can check out his audio blog here .

He hasn't DJ'd or gigged for a few years due to the fact he vomits every time he has to perform and so prefers to stay in his studio and coax stuff onto the Internet through a tiny digital, track-shaped hole he has created.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/4/2006
Band Website: http://www.gannon.tv/polyploid
Band Members: Chris Gannon
Influences: Fila Brazilia, Eat Static, Robert Leiner (Source), Ozric Tentacles, Autechre, The Egg, African Headcharge, Air Liquide, System 7, Vangelis, Tones On Tail, Underworld, State River Widening, Speedy J, FSOL, Spooky, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Dire Straits, Erlend Oye, Faith No More, David Bowie, The Cure, The Irresistible Force, Harold Budd, CJ Bolland, Biosphere, Aphex Twin, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, John Barry, The Orb, Orbital, Might Math, Leftfield, Justin Robertson, John B, Jerry Van Rooyen, Jean Micel Jarre, Harold Budd, Higher Intelligence Agency, KLF, Brian Eno (godfather of ambient), Fields Of The Nephilim, Timo Maas, Pop Will Eat Itself, Pink Floyd, Kitaro, John B, Coldcut, Earth Leakage Trip, Art Of Noise, Tangerine Dream, Sven Vath, Black Grape, Global Communication, Fluke, Reload, The Grid, Guns ’n’ Roses, Half Man Half Biscuit, Jacknife Lee, Jesus Jones, Fenomenon, Flight of the Conchords, Tiki....the list grows daily :)
Sounds Like: Pouring a bag of audio pixels into your eye
Record Label: Chill Tribe Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Grow Our Own now available in all iTunes stores!

Well that was super quick - you can now get your copy of the album from your local iTunes store.iTunes USiTunes JapaniTunes Canada iTunes UK and Europe iTunes New Zealand iTunes Australia Phew...So t...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:25:00 GMT

Polyploids Grow Your Own now available on iTunes!

For those of you who haven't yet bought an album and would like to but you either prefer digital downloads or you just prefer to buy individual tracks you can now preview, pick, choose and download th...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:59:00 GMT

The albums have finally arrived!

The new CD has finally arrived and I am so pleased with how it's looking and sounding - big love and respect to PKS (ChillTribe records) for making such a great job of it! You may or may not know that...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:57:00 GMT

New album tracks uploaded!

Ok so here are 4 tracks from the forthcoming album 'Grow Your Own' - I hope you like them and if you do, get off your fat arse and buy the album - it's all for charity and you KNOW it makes sense! ALL...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:33:00 GMT

Grow Your Own

New Polyploid album coming soon! Chris Gannon (AKA Polyploid) from the UK is back with a new album 'Grow Your Own', this time exploring the chilled side of break beats. Polyploid was a familiar name...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:24:00 GMT

New album on its way...

Ok so the master CD has been sent to the pressing plant and the new album will be available soon - I can't wait! The new album, 'Grow Your Own' is a fairly eclectic mix of dub, breakbeats, dance and a...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:09:00 GMT

Squash and Stretch baby yeeeah!

I've finally got round to doing a spot of music - it's just a doodle really and developed from an animation I created for a new online music/band trading site (soon to be announced). Bit of a dep...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:54:00 GMT

I'm celebrating my 1000th listen!

...and back by popular demand I am reposting Soup And Spooks  (I didn't realise people liked it so much - nice to know so thanks for all your messages! I'm gonna replace 105 Miles A Moment but yo...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:44:00 GMT

Don't forget!

If you didn't get a chance to listen to any tracks that aren't on MySpace anymore, you can always listen to them anytime from here: http://www.gannon.tv/audioblog Previous tracks have been: Soup And S...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:19:00 GMT

On with the show...

Back to normal now (ish) with a track I wrote a few years ago called "Feeling By Numbers" where I decided (for right or for wrong) to sing on it. It was supposed to be about missing this girl I w...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:49:00 GMT