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About Me

Dante Jones has been making electronic music in one guise or another since 1981. His first 'synth' was a ZX81. It made no sound. However, feeding the thing back into a tape deck and exploiting the CPU noise to play scales.Moving onto a Commodore 64, Dante Jones got his first taste of electronic music composition. Using 'Electro Sound' and 'Ubiks Music' DJ created soundtracks for both the games he was writing in 6502 Assembler as well as submitting one of the first purely computer composed music for his O'Level music.Eventually progressing to the Amiga A500, Dante Jones released a number of popular Industrial music demos out into the public domain scene under the name '500 Things...'Taking a brief hiatus between 1993-1995, '500 Things...' came back as a hobby and a break from the day job creating music for personal please and rarely for public consumption.In the early 2000's Collaborated with spoken word artist from San Francisco, Andrea Renee Johnson, to form 'AndJuliet'. This transatlantic relationship spawn two successful online EPs.Dropping the '500 Things...' name, Dante Jones went onto release a popular online mashup mix that took such weird turns as blending Shakira with Mouse On Mars, and Public Enemy with the soundtrack from Signs.Now, Dante Jones returns to his roots creating distorted, dub heavy, chip tune glancing, movie sampling, beat mangling tunes - mixing this up with the occasional acoustic pieces on his album, 'Conelrad'. Given away as a free download in return for a donation to UNICEF, the album is a homage to classic horror, UFO conspiracy, Cold War propaganda, and the pioneers of space travel.

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Member Since: 01/05/2005
Band Website: http://dantejones.com
Band Members:
Influences: Mouse On Mars, Meat Beat Manifesto, Death Cab for Cutie, Japan, Pixies, Pop Will Eat Itself, Radiohead, 13 & God, Tom Waits, David Sylvian, Gamelan, Recoil, Pink Floyd, Tino Corp, King Tubby, Scientist, JuJu, Amon Tobin, Air, Fingathing, Jack Dangers, Mum, Sixtoo, Super Collider, The Postal Service, Beastie Boys, Asia Born, Blackalicious, Busdriver, DJ Kentaro, Deltron 3030, DJ Q-Bert, DJ Shadow, Dr Octagon, Fannypack, M.I.A., Missy Elliot, Public Enemy, Prefuse 73, RJD2, Timbaland, Front 242, Hula, Cibo Matto, Cornelius, Guitar Vader, Kahimi Karrie, Aco, Ryo the Skywalker, Boom Boom Satellites, Muffrare, Tujiko Noriko, Buddha Brand, Hifana, Nitro Microphone Underground, Shakkazombie, Halcali, LiL'AI, Puffy, Laugh & Peace, Pizzicato 5, Plus-Tech Squeezebox, Takako Minekawa, The Bad Plus, DJ Food, DJ Yoda, Neneh Cherry, Prince, David Lee Roth, Kiss, Henry Rollins, Nicole Blackman, William S. Burroughs
Sounds Like: SETI-DUB
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Master and Server

Uploaded the Masters from the Conelrad Radio album and removed the demos. You can get the whole album for free from http://www.medullacorp.com. Donations to Unicef in return are greatly appreciated!Pl...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 09:57:00 GMT

UNICEF and free good stuff

Right now I am spamming you all with this:medullacorp.com is offering offering a free album download from Dante Jones and a free Puzzle game for both Mac and PC. All we ask in return is a donation to ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:55:00 GMT

i died on myspace

...but I came back :) Feel pretty bad because I have a lot of new people following me and I've not had a chance to check out any of your stuff. The thing I hate about the iPhone myspace app (which ...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:03:00 GMT

Mac Bore...

It's official. I've become a Mac bore. One of those guys who has used Windows for years but finally bought a Mac and realised they were wrong all these years.Now I find myself in a weird situation. I'...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:18:00 GMT

The Wonderful Wizard of Dub...

First things first, I've just uploaded a new track called 'People Are Evil'. Please check it out!!Been a while since I blogged but have good reasons. As hinted at in my blog, I was working a Lucasf...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:33:00 GMT

Time, enough? And mastering freely.

I seem to find that the times when work is most crazy, and I'm my most tired, I always end up writing more music. I guess I use music as my escape. I'm most of the way through the tracks for the album...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:50:00 GMT

Ticking Clock...

Time is ticking. Busy is me. My project is in the last few days and I'm tired. Let's just say it's something to do with a guy named George, a movie that is opening on the 15th, and the same hardware t...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:16:00 GMT

D-D-D-d-d--d--d---d U-U-U-u-u--u--u---u B-B-B-b-b--b--b---b

I'm moving back over to my Emu 0404 now that Vista seems to know it exists. Must have been the service pack that finally arrived on my desktop. I've been using a little M-Audio box I picked up at the ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:42:00 GMT

Tiny Synth Porn - Free VST Love

I just picked up the DS-10 for the, erm... Nintendo DS. It's a great little cut down version of the old Korg MS-10. So far it's all coming out acid but it's great for those seq style bleeps and bloop...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:25:00 GMT