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The Art of Mix

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Member Since: 3/8/2007
Band Website: You're on it ....
Band Members: Andrew Longhurst: Piano and keys, prog'd drums/perc, orchestral manoeuvres, sampling, synthesis, BVs -Joined by occasional guests:Mike Findlay: GuitarsJon Green: BassCameron Findlay: DrumsTim Ravenhill: Fretless magic*** Production, engineering, arrangements and programming - Andrew Longhurst (The Art of Mix)**********************
Influences: Hola, hola, hola - tooooo many to mention - but I'll give it a go and some of this your gonna hate ....Beethoven, Rachmininov, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Mendelson, Stravinsky, Chopin (The masters, just listen and learn), The Beatles (for whom absolutely no praise is high enough and no list of influences can miss), Chicory Tip, Heatwave, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Elvis Costello, Stevie Wonder, Chick Churchill, Patrick Moraz, Buggles (Album called Adventures in Modern Recording is still seminal), ELP, Trevor Horn, Tim Simenon, Martin Rex (RIP - sadly missed and one of the best engineers ever to grace the music industry), Mike Oldfield, DJ Shadow, BT, AST, Maurice Jarre, Jean Michel Jarre, Lalo Schifrin, Leonid Stokowski (Fantasia), Dave Gilmour, Eric Clapton, The Blue Man Group, Ravi Shankar, Nitin Sawnhey, my ma (who playing classics to me endlessly when I was small), Mozart (Requiem ...), Coldcut, Massive Attack, The Chemicals, The Orb, Arksun (friend, pupil, teacher and the best ears ...), Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle, Quincy Jones, George Martin (Thanks for letting an aspiring producer play with Strawberry Fields) Geoffrey Williams, Jools Baker, Womack and Womack, Grandmaster Flash, The Clash, all those who are nowing emerging and who have so much to teach and most recently to Andy Voss for sharing his passion for music and lighting the flame again .....
Sounds Like: Big, huge, massive, tiny bits of passion
Record Label: The Art Of Mix

My Blog

New Andrew Longhurst site launched

I have launched a new MySpace site at www.myspace.com/andrewlonghurstThis site is where I am putting up my more acoustic and/or classically influenced compositions which don't quite sit on the meaty, ...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:41:00 GMT

As with music, so with language

It has been suggested that my use of language is sometimes too florid - perhaps a better word might be complicated or maybe even 'busy' making it hard to understand. Language, whether written or spoke...
Posted by on Thu, 10 May 2007 16:09:00 GMT

Arrangements ..

Been an odd few days here arrangement wise. Had an arrangement to go and see Alcatraz Swim Team on Friday and completely forgot - again. Can't understand why as I am absolutely gagging to see them liv...
Posted by on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:00:00 GMT

Lecturing as Gloucester Arts and Technology Campus

Just spent the afternoon lecturing second and final year students at Gloscat. The lecture was Use of Music in Media and lasted about 2 hours. I took shed loads of gear - PC, racks of outbaord, keyboar...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:58:00 GMT

You are all gits

Oh yes indeedy - you are all gits. Why, when all were so keen to tell me how good MySpace is and how much is has helped them and how easy it is and I really should have my own site up, why d...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:45:00 GMT

Shock - Horror - Tweeter lives again!

Goodness gracious me and strike an light guvnor if me tweeter hasn't just resurrected itself from the dead! Life is again sweet and I can stop panicking. I always say buy the best speakers you can - n...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:10:00 GMT

Blown tweeter

Bugger - just found I've blown a tweeter on my gorgeous and quite irreplacable BM15As ........ Can't find a spare as yet but must do so quickly as I am lost without these :-(
Posted by on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:29:00 GMT

Elusive tracks ....

Sunday morning above Stroud - the sun is out, I am sitting on the step looking south towards Rodborough - (Hi Emo, AST - you up yet?) drinking coffee, smoking a roll-up and wondering when I shall get ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:13:00 GMT

What to do?

So here I am in a small but beautiful hidden corner of the Cotswolds wondering if the 17th century outbuilding - that was converted into a recording studio some years ago and has more recently been a ...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:40:00 GMT

Literary love and loss

So there I am typing away, witticisms wittering, mirth pouring forth, illusions of allusions and obliterated alliterations lighly shaken and not stored .... three blogs in a row that I've crafted, lov...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:10:00 GMT