Aidan's first band was the Beatles. He started the band in Liverpool but soon ran into difficulties as in his words - "they were a bit rubbish" After several unsuccessful months of trying to teach them chords he gave up and headed on down the West Lancs highway to a town called Manchester.
After he got over the culture shock he went on to start a 'disco' called 'The Hacienda'. As he states in his autobiography 'Yeah I Fuck*n' Did That!' "It was ok for a bit but. . . I got a bit sick of all the students" He also found the the music scene a bit stagant so he decided to head for the bright lights of London town.
When he arrived in London he very quickly adapted to metropolitan living. One of the biggest changes in his life at this time was his diet. He went from a diet that consisted almost entirely of Fray Bentos pies, pasties and chips to a cleaner living, less socially acceptable form of eating called 'Being a Vegetarianism'. Soon he started citing his favorite dishes as being things like braised butterbeans in a tomato confit on foccacia instead of baked beans on toast. He was quickly dismissed as a London Wanker by his friends up North that hadn't had shot each other for crack money or been arrested.
Which was fine, as with this in mind he decided to move to a place called Shoreditch and cut his hair in a jaunty fashion. Soon, many other people followed him and what was a tiny hamlet on the outskirts of London town with not even a bingo hall or a chippy that did gravy quickly became a thriving hub of culture and his haircut multiplied throughout that part of town.
It was around this time that Aidan was working in his studio one day and accidentally sped up the sample of a drum loop that he was making for his "pub band", Public Enemy. Despite it being 'a bit speedy' he decided he liked it, and, as chance would have it there was a Richard Attenboough film on tv about the Amazon. This was in the days before computers and in those times people used to use these antiquated things things called samplers. The problem with samplers was that at the time didn't have enough letters in them to let you call things like 'The track I made whilst watching a tv programme about the Amazon'. Aidan decided to call it "Jungle" instead and so a musical sub culure for wiggers and boys in baseball caps from Essex was born. . .
Around the same time another of Aidan's little projects started taking off. Aidan had developed a means for his friends to communicate with each other via their computers. During a particularly philanthropic moment he decided that the world should have this technology decided and us it for the common good so he made it freely available to you and I. Interestingly enough several people still use it even to this day, you are actually using it now. You might know it under it its more common name of 'The Internet'.
Soon Aidan's eye was cast upon other, newer projects. Aidan had two young continental fellers with silly haircuts working for him in his studio and he had taken it upon himself to school them in the 'dark arts' of music. Sadly they were slow learners and during a moment of uncommon frustration he cursed them for being "Daft Punks" a name that although they were a little hurt by at the time soon became a term of endearment. He taught them a lot about the use of filters and modulation and you can hear this on the music project "Homework" (So called as most of the tracks were devised as excercises for the boys to work on when not under Aidan's tutelage).
Shortly afterwards Aidan discovered ket by accident when he was out tranquilising his cats. He realised it had almost magical qualities and it radically altered the music he was making, stripping it back and back to almost the bare bones of it's form. Aidan decided to call this music Minimal or technonotf*ckinghousemusic for short.
His holidays in both Detroit and then Germany a decade or so ago saw the new music and Aidan's influence being spread far further than it's and his original place of birth. Subsequently many other followers and practicioners of electronic music in both of those countries have taken up the torch. . . This is a new chapter but strangely enough it still feels like the beginning. . .
Aidan passes on his warmest regards and he hopes that you like the music. . . He also reminds you that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. You'll figure it out. . .
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