System 12

Music:

Member Since: 9/13/2007
Band Members: Jon Shoesmith and Alistair Hall.

Jon: I met Alistair at Blackburn college back in 2002 and discovered his addiction to record collecting had already become increasingly worrying. We all tried to help him but he just wouldn't listen, he was becoming a complete record junkie. Break and dinnertime would be his time of indulgence, not to mention after class where he would go in search of his fix at Record Exchange and various charity shops around the town. Now he has a lock up in Manchester because his room is collapsing.

Alistair: I became aware that Jon was unlike the other people when I encountered him back in college. He never listened in class and was often snappy towards the lecturers, preferring to sit on his own listening to the same song over and over again than socialise with the other classmates. Sometimes he would do strange things like change the desktop screensavers in the computer room into odd pieces of verse and once went nuts and flooded the downstairs media centre claiming he needed to breathe. We were all aware that he was an alien. Apparently System 12 is his home...
Influences: Bong-Ra, Venetian Snares, AFX, Monsta Noodle, Skoud, Ghost, Jonny L, Yuzo Koshiro, Cube::Hard, Gross Prophet, Noize Punishment, SphereX, DJ Richard Hillman, DJ Pure, Acen, Zeal & Litta, Life 4 Land, F.S.O.L, Atari Teenage Riot, Scud, Drumcorps, Brainticket, DJ Phantasy, Infected Mushroom, Liam Howlett, Bob James, Tangerine Dream, Soulwax, Boards of Canada, Battles, Black Lung, Kevin Saunderson, Phluph, Kanal Audytywny, Motorcycle, Sikth, Scooter, Uptown, Kool & the Gang, DJ Clue, Dust Brothers, DJ Scud, Alan Parsons Project, DJ Shadow, Q-Bert, Urban Shakedown, Ian Brown, Altern8, Slusnik Luna, Massive Attack, Silicon Teens, Kraftwerk, Tricky, Creation Rebel, Kevin Saunderson, Dillinja, Avalanches, B12, Michael Garrison, Orbital, I Monster, Slipmatt, Opeth, Noisia, The Meters, Shakatak, Goldie, UNKLE, Paul Van Dyk, Kevin Energy, Barnes & Barnes, Dr. Dre, Lothar and the Hand People, Shortwave Set, LFO, UB&B, SDB, Isao Tomita, Bodyrox, Liquid Liquid, Rhubarb, Bookstore(RIP), Art of Noise, Arthur Baker, Pink Floyd (Ummagumma), Neuronium, Pretty Purdie, Birtha, Tablas. Any producer on Soulseek who's not a twat...
Sounds Like: Shards of history reassembled to reveal distorted images of the past, screaming and swearing through the language of sound.Join the System.
Record Label: DIY
Type of Label: None