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Technicolour

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About Me


Technicolour is a 29 year-old music producer originally from Luton, now based in the industrial leviathan that is Byfleet, Surrey. He has been listening to fast electronic music ever since he tuned into Pressure FM in 1992 and heard Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era’s ‘Far Out’. His first musical purchase was the cassette version of The Bangles ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’, but in the interests of credibility we shall instead acknowledge his first ever vinyl purchase; Acen’s ‘Trip II The Moon’. In 1993 the two records pictured above were released. Technicolour got rather excited by these pieces of music and sweared his allegiance to the junglist cause.
Along with an ongoing penchant for drum & bass in all it’s forms, the pale-skinned beardo got into lots of other great music during his formative years, particularly the 1970’s cosmic jazzfunk of Lonnie Liston Smith and Herbie Hancock, and Steely Dan's wonderously weird funk pop. In 2004 he bought a computer and started making drum & bass on it.
Since then, things have been progressing rather nicely, his tunes sounding less and less shit with every project. In 2006 the composition ‘Deep, Backward, Square’ was included on Knowledge Magazine’s ‘Best Unsigned Producers’ covermount CD, and later in the year 1Xtra chose the tune ‘Everything Is Everything’ to be included in their prestigious Cutting Room competition. Thanks to his massive extended family, the voting resulted in a victory. It also caught the ear of Ennex Records, who duly acquired the aforementioned track and released it in 2007.
Technicolour has now been signed to Drumsound and Simon 'Bassline' Smith's Technique Recordings. His debut single 'Good News Green / Empty' dropped in February. Technicolour is very pleased about this and hopes to make many more tunes that they will want to release.

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Member Since: 11/19/2007
Band Website: technicolourmusic.co.uk
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Sounds Like: A rough amalgamation of all of the above.
Record Label: Technique Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

whistle crew

Whistling. One of life's little pleasures, I'd reckon. But not exactly an over-used resource in drum & bass thus far. Well, I'm bucking the trend. There's a new tune up on my player called 'Whistle Bu...
Posted by Technicolour on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:36:00 PST

it’s all gone a bit new age

It's Bank Holiday weekend, so in between watching The Further Adventures Of Sinbad and drinking what the NHS would class a 'potentially hazardous' level of alcohol I've had some free time to rustle up...
Posted by Technicolour on Mon, 26 May 2008 12:39:00 PST

symmetry / high noon / unending / canyon&

Naming tunes. It's a bit of a headache sometimes. Admitedly, once the record is on the deck no-one gives a monkeys, and there are far more important things to concentrate on during the production proc...
Posted by Technicolour on Fri, 09 May 2008 02:47:00 PST

a new hunch

Yow. Here's my latest installment in the 'Based On A Hunch' series. Part 5 is on a world music kind of flex, each track coming from a different country in the world. As always it's a complete mixed ba...
Posted by Technicolour on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:45:00 PST

nice

Rejoice, there's a new tune on my player. Its called 'At The Spot' and it's on a steppy, head-nodding kind of tip. To be honest, on a lot of my previous tunes, I've been trying to push everything up t...
Posted by Technicolour on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:36:00 PST

architecture & bass

More new music on my player today. It's called 'Le Corbusier', which is a totally pretentious title for what is essentially a 7-minute roller for people to swing their bodies in time to. But the big a...
Posted by Technicolour on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:41:00 PST

spreading the good news (green)

My debut single 'Good News Green / Empty' is out on limited promo right now, from all good specialist shops. You can grab one ( if you're quick ) from www.redeyerecords.co.uk, or www.chemicalrecords.c...
Posted by Technicolour on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:15:00 PST

the blues

Another week, another tune on my player. I'm quite prolific at the moment and its really not like me at all. Usually I spend weeks tinkering and procrastinating over the smallest of details, meaning n...
Posted by Technicolour on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:29:00 PST

new tune / old idea

I've gone back to an old tune of mine and given it a new lick of audio paint. It used to be called 'Parsons Green', but is now listed as 'Revenge' on my player. I reworked it because the sample is jus...
Posted by Technicolour on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:28:00 PST

fingers in pies

Whilst not making derivative drum & bass from my Byfleet bedroom, I also dabble with a bit of hip-hop, and bash out some live jazzfunk when I get the opportunity. Below are the links to a couple of my...
Posted by Technicolour on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:25:00 PST