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EMP

Electro Magnetic Pulse

About Me

EMP's Ultravox remix competition entry is now on-line:http://www.ultravox.org.uk/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imag eFolio.cgi?direct=Covers_competition/May_31st_2008/04._Best_ Re-mix_submissions&img=Please give it a listen and a vote if you like it :)New Magnakartah/EMP collaboration track "Ring My Bell" on-line! Please go to Blondie Gangs' MySpace on my Top Friends. Already featured on a Number One-charting compilation with Sean Kingston, the track made No.3 in the National Music Week Club Breakers and No. 7 in the Commercial Pop Club chart!I am a: Record producer/remixer/music technology lecturer and occasional DJ. Artists/labels that I've remixed/produced for: Newton Faulkner, Uniting Nations, Lisa Scott-Lee, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Gina G, Dario G, Warner Bros, Universal, Code Blue, Sony BMG and Gut Records. Airplay on Radio 1 + Pete Tong's Essential Selection. Top 10 single as a producer in 1998 with "Mas Que Nada"(recently covered by Black Eyed Peas) by Echobeatz.Produced song "All My Days" for Martin Freeman film "Confetti". Won "Best Remix" on the official Ultravox website for "My Sex". Chequered job history including; Designer, Musician on QE2, worked in Cyprus, Dubai, USA, Brighton.Co-wrote and produced two tracks on Melanie C's "Beautiful Intentions" album including the title track and "Take Your Pleasure", which has gone Platinum in several countries.Highlights - meeting The Human League at the aftershow party London Kentish Forum gig (see my Pics). Goldfrapp gig @ Reading 5/2/06 + seeing The Cure's 3 1/4 hour set at the Albert Hall + Depeche Mode/Goldfrapp/Thomas Dolby @ O2 Wireless + Electronically Yours gig at Hoxton Bar 11/10/07.

My Interests

Music. Design. Apple Mac's. Pool. Gigs.

I'd like to meet:

Johnny Borrell from Razorlight so that I can twat him one and Hannah Spearritt from Primeval ;0)View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

Electronic: Kraftwerk, Goldfrapp, The Human League, Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget, Martin Rushent, Giorgio Moroder, Hoboken, The Presets, Trevor Horn, Rex the Dog, Pendulum, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Tiga, Yazoo, OMD, Ultravox, Heaven 17, Hard Corps, Kosheen, The Droyds, Simple Minds (New Gold Dream-era), The Prodigy, Tangerine Dream, Electribe 101, New Order, John Foxx, Mylo, Ferry Corsten, The Thrillseekers, Cygnus X, Visage, Our Daughter's Wedding, Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze, Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, Gary Numan/Tubeway Army, Ultramarine, Tocadisco, Art of Noise, Underworld, Hardfloor, Paul Van Dyk, Above and Beyond, Vangelis.Otherwise:Bob Mould, Husker Du, Sugar, Rammstein, Editors, Maximo Park, The Cure, The Pixies, REM (Pre-"Monster"-era), Crowded House, Massive Attack, Nine Inch Nails, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cocteau Twins, Pink Floyd, Sisters of Mercy, Killing Joke, Metallica, Bloc Party, Jah Wobble, System of a Down, Gorillaz and Morrissey.

Movies:

Hellboy, 300, This is England, Pan's Labyrinth, Control, Saw 1-4, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Dawn of the Dead (remake and orginal), Fargo, Twenty Four Hour Party People, Jacob's Ladder, The Exorcist (One and Three), Battle Royale, Blade II, Audition, Some Kind of Monster(Metallica), Event Horizon, Star Wars, Alien Quadrilogy, Evil Dead Trilogy, Any George Romero Zombie Movies, Shaun of the Dead, The Shawshank Redemption, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9-11, Groundhog Day, Miracle Mile, The Virgin Suicides, Halloween, City of God, Manhunter, Schindlers List, Road Trip, Made in Sheffield, Moog (A Documentary), The Thing (John Carpenter), Spinal Tap, Depeche Mode 101, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc and The Omen Trilogy.

Television:

Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Father Ted, MTV Dance/MTV2, Grand Designs, Anything without Davina McCall and Kerry Katona in it.

Books:

"Touching from A Distance" - Deborah Curtis, Anything by James Herbert, "Stripped" Depeche Mode - Jonathan Miller, "I Was a Robot" - Wolfgang Flur, Henry Rollins Black Flag book (Name escapes me...)

Heroes:

Ralf Hutter (Kraftwerk), Martyn Ware/Phil Oakey/Ian Craig-Marsh (Human League), Vince Clarke, Robert Moog, Alison + Will (Goldfrapp), Alan Wilder/Martin Gore (Depeche Mode), Robert Smith (The Cure), Rammstein, Bob Mould

My Blog

Player Updated

Check out my new player with a selection of EMP remixes including latest Human League "Dreams of Leaving" remix. Cheers to Jer for sorting out the code for the player! Paul x
Posted by EMP on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:52:00 PST

New EMP DM Remix

New EMP remix of It Doesn't Matter 2 from Black Celebration still available from Secrets Online/Electronically Yours. Check out the reviews so far below :)   'This is f****** great! Just to actua...
Posted by EMP on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:19:00 PST

Some Feedback on the EMP DM remixes.....

'I never tire of WIME remixes. Nice one!' - Precious Insight'Damn, Im away from home (3 nights in Paris!) must remember this is here. I have to say, your Army of Ood mix of JtR is one of the best DM r...
Posted by EMP on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:17:00 PST

EMP Rocks Romo Night in Gothenburg

Got a nice message from Tobbe who runs the Romo night in Gothenburg, Sweden where Covenant, Human League and all THE major players in the electro scene have played:"Hi!I played your Fad Gadget remix a...
Posted by EMP on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:35:00 PST