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Minotaur Shock

About Me

Minotaur Shock is the musical side of David Edwards. There are currently 2 albums, a compilation of old hits and some EPs out there. Click the images below for more info.

Minotaur Shock has done remixes for, amongst others, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol, Stars, Super Furry Animals, Hard-Fi, Holy Fuck and Diefenbach.

The next album is all finished and will be released this year. It's called "Amateur Dramatics".

Click on one of these pictures to go to iTunes or somewhere and listen to some more Minotaur Shock music. If you like what's coming at your ears, you can buy it without even going outside!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/19/2005
Band Website: minotaurshock.com
Band Members: D Edwards
Influences: Can
Chic
Plaid
Japan
Sparks
Cluster
Phoenix
The KLF
Tortoise
Autechre
Gil Evans
Stereolab
Judee Sill
Harmonia
Daft Punk
Pavement
Portishead
The Monks
Metro Area
Miles Davis
Steely Dan
Mr. Fingers
Underworld
Philip Glass
Aphex Twin
Luke Vibert
Max Tundra
Steve Reich
Art Of Noise
Os Mutantes
Frank Zappa
Gentle Giant
Shuggie Otis
Scott Walker
Led Zeppelin
The Zombies
Wim Mertens
Robert Wyatt
Jim O’Rourke
King Crimson
Prefab Sprout
The Millenium
Talking Heads
Todd Edwards
Thomas Dolby
Cocteau Twins
Fleetwood Mac
Hall and Oates
Curtis Mayfield
Todd Rundgren
Burt Bacharach
John Carpenter
The Left Banke
Giorgio Moroder
Van Dyke Parks
Serge Gainsbourg
Polly Jean Harvey
The Wedding Present
Olivia Tremor Control
Global Communication
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Evelyn ’Champagne’ King

Sounds Like: facebook page
allmusic.com
dotmusic
prefixmag.com
playlouder.com
Record Label: 4AD
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Holy Remix

Alright?The Minotaur Shock "Broadmead Redevelopment Version" of "Lovely Allen" by Holy Fuck is now available, it is. I've got 5 copies right here, thanks to the lovely people at Young Turks....
Posted by Minotaur Shock on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:35:00 PST

warwick and his pudding

Quick, head on over to Warwick's blog (Warwick is the pensmith behind most Minotaur Shock artwork). He is reaching the climax of his fantastic 24-part illustrated Christmas story about the attack on a...
Posted by Minotaur Shock on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:14:00 PST

ron

Ok so look at this facebook groupRon is attempting to send himself crazy by listening to my song Muesli on a loop for a week, and recording a video diary at the end of each day.Ron is in Canada, ...
Posted by Minotaur Shock on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:12:00 PST

record

so last weeeek i put a lid on the can that is the next Minotaur Shock album.it feels a bit like finally handing in a bit of coursework or something, its kind of nice knowing that you can't do any more...
Posted by Minotaur Shock on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:03:00 PST

doing

Alright, here's the thing. Been keeping it quiet for a long while, but that's ok. Thought I'd stick my nose in to let you know the whys and wherefores.First up, this Stars remix album is out around ab...
Posted by Minotaur Shock on Fri, 18 May 2007 01:27:00 PST

Got me a new one!

Just got a beautiful new baby girl, apologies for relatively few other releases for a while.  There are a few things in the pipeline though, I'll keep you posted when stuff materialises.Apologies...
Posted by Minotaur Shock on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:42:00 PST

Get you a free mix!

OK then, now you can get a free 30 minute mix if you visit minotaurshock.com and sign up to the mailing list. ...
Posted by Minotaur Shock on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:52:00 PST

Get you a free track!

If you visit www.minotaurshock.com and sign up to the mailing list, you will get sent a link to download an exclusive free Minotaur Shock track.  With me singing on. ...
Posted by Minotaur Shock on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:11:00 PST