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About Me

Digitonal have been going in one form or another since 1997, although the band's fusion of cinematic strings and electronica beats wasn't fully realised until 2002 with the addition of Samy and Callum to the lineup. Acclaimed releases for Toytronic and Seed records followed which fused the boundaries of both modern classical and electronic movements, garnering across the board praise from critics of both faiths. Their latest release introduced legendary ambient vocalist Kirsty Hawkshaw to the lineup who the band continue to work with.
Digitonal are live favourites with high-profile shows under their belt for the Royal National Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cheltenham International Festival of Classical Music, The Dedbeat Festival, and the Big Chill festival, as well as many more across the UK, US and Europe.
discography
Digitonal 2002-2006: A Sampler
Self Produced, 2006.
Live at O2
Seed Records/Bleep.com exclusive
Recorded at the Oxygen Bar, San Francisco, April 2004.
Download from Bleep.com now
In Silence EP
Cactus Island Records 2005
Sold Out
The Centre Cannot Hold EP
Seed Records 2004
Buy from the Seed Records shop for £3.99
23 Things Fall Apart
Toytronic Records 2002
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/4/2005
Band Website: digitonal.com
Band Members: Andy Dobson - Keyboards, Clarinet and programming
Samy Bishai - Violins and string arrangements

with contributions from:

Joshu Doherty - Beats and additional production
Kat Arney - Harp
Jo Quail - Cello
Kirsty Hawkshaw - vocals
Influences: Bola, Plaid, Black Dog, Posthuman, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Orbital, Autechre, Future Sound of London, Irresisitable Force, This Mortal Coil, Massive Attack, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Michael Nyman, John Dowland, Monteverdi, Purcell.
Sounds Like: Orbital, FSOL, Plaid, Michael Nyman, A Silver Mount Zion, Murcof, Dreams.
Record Label: Just Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

that's all folks...

After much messing about, we've finally got our new site up and running at http://www.digitonal.com/ - visually not much different to what was there before, but a better backend in place which will al...
Posted by digitonal on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:29:00 PST

experimenting

i played a bit with reaktor 5 over the weekend on my new laptop. Josh from Posthuman asked me to do a live session with him over at Smallfish on thusday night and, since i don't really like playing d...
Posted by digitonal on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:19:00 PST

updates, updates, updates

i've added some tunes to the myspace player today. One is an old "hit", Come and Play, from our first album. It's probably our best known and most requested tune, even though much of the production ...
Posted by digitonal on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:06:00 PST

techno

Went to the Seed night on friday night. 8 hours of messy techno. On the one hand, it's quite nice to see the rise of techno again, after the frankly embarassing trance years. Techno ...
Posted by digitonal on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:54:00 PST

work and play

All work and no play makes andy a dull boy they say...it's been frustratingly busy lately, with both Callum and myself locked down into dayjob hell just as things are getting busy with us again. ...
Posted by digitonal on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:33:00 PST

It's summer already

Despite the fact that my nads feel like they're about to drop off, we've been getting that warm summery feeling today with the official announcement that we're going to be booked for The Big Chill. T...
Posted by digitonal on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:32:00 PST

Where to start

Lets start with some vitriol. Just what I need the day after turning 31. Huxley from the medialounge recently leaked a copy of the DVD of The Shining rescore we did last year out ...
Posted by digitonal on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:42:00 PST