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Adam Hurst

Have a listen to the Teo Macero interview see blog

About Me

Interested in music and sound in all sorts of different capacities. Come from a background playing jazz and funk - went through underground dance music, and on into more wonderful and weird things since. I think I've just surfaced in 80's pop. Oh dear. This can lead to a bit of a musical identity crisis at times. Like the idea of doing stuff for film or animation so if you make visual work and would like to collaborate with me on a project I'd love to hear from you. Thanks for looking and listening, Adam.
Some more of my tracks here on the tape: (Use the forward and back arrows to scroll through the different tracks - can take a while to load.)
- Everyday Things (Madosini remix - Nanny Tango and Melt 2000)
- Dawn Treader (Song written by and Vocals: Madeline Miller)
- Zeep remix
- 6's and 7's
- The Source (ft. Fran Andre/ PremGeet on the cello)
- Parallels
- Sunshine
- Dawn Treader remix
- Brushthing

You can also check out my anysounds project here .
A track of mine from 2001 called 'Que' with dancing by David Elsewhere.
Have been playing around with some clips of animation (from 'Waking Life' - Richard Linklater) to go with a new beat I made and this is the result. Very crude as new to this but interested to explore images with music. Not sure if it works but here it is:
"Moments"
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Charity shop is a sample based music project. Each track is made with the following rules: a single visit to a charity shop - a limit of £3 to spend on records - the track can only use sounds from those records purchased. Here is the project in it's entirety:


 


Intro - mobile update (Mencap, Seven Sisters Road, London)
Shelf life (broken mix) (Mencap, Seven Sisters Road, London)
Lola Blackstock (Second Chance, Blackstock Road, London)
Shelf life (Commonwealth mix) (Mencap, Seven Sisters Road, London)
Hackney Sense (Sense, Hackney, London)
I see (British Heart Foundation, Dudley)
Easy lover * (Mencap, Seven Sisters Road, London)
Icy (British Heart Foundation, Dudley)
Shelf life (slow mix) (Mencap, Seven Sisters Road, London)
Lost property (Fara, Shepherds Bush, London)
Weird chocolate (British Heart Foundation, Dudley)
Would it make any difference? (The Hospice Shop, Welshpool)
Auto-edit + (British Heart Foundation, Dudley)
* all sounds taken from ‘Easy Lover’ by Phillip Bailey and Phil Collins
+ remix of ‘Automatic’ by The Pointer Sisters

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/9/2006
Influences: In no particular order: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, The Weather Report, Jaco, MAW, Swag, Restless Soul, Nathan Haines, MdCL, Bugz (and all seperately too..), Jimpster, J Dilla, Hefner, D'Angelo, Patrick Smooth (for an essential mix that was taped and played for years), Gilles Peterson, Bert Shilperoot (for teaching me Saxophone and introducing me to jazz), Early Jamiroqui, 'Taking Off' at the junction in Cambridge for introducing me to funk, Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Gat Decor, Chic, Todd Edwards, MJ Cole, Grant Nelson, Nuphonic, Back to Basics in the early days, LTJ Bukem, Mowax, Ninja Tune, Big Dada, Jazzanova, Domu, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Frank Zappa, Steve Reich, Sam Frank and lots of other quality stuff too..
Sounds Like: Some of my projects and music:

Charity shop - A project where tracks made could only use records bought in a given charity shop with a max limit of £3.

anysounds - sounds sent in by people through the internet and any tracks made only use sounds donated. See www.myspace.com/anysounds.

Sounds of Easthope - A project with visual artist Sheilagh Jevons. Sounds and people recorded from the village of Easthope and compiled to accompany her exhibition called 'Liminality'.

'Reckless Woman'/ 'Stomp it Down', released on Out of the Loop Recordings in 2002 under the (very original) name 'Listen to the Music'.

'Everyday Things' - Remix of artist Madosini - Track originally called 'Bafazi'. Forthcoming on Melt 2000 and Nanny Tango.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New music in player

Some info about the new music I have added in my player: 'I See' and 'Shelf Life' are new versions of 2 tracks from my Charity Shop Project I did a while back. They now both feature some amazing keys ...
Posted by Adam Hurst on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:37:00 PST

Teo Macero interview

Just came across an old tape a friend gave me years ago of a Teo Macero interview. He was lucky enough to meet Teo in the states and record a short interview with him. The sound quality is terrible an...
Posted by Adam Hurst on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:59:00 PST

Giving away my old computer

I have an old mac I don't use any more - a performa 6400/1800 - and I would like to pass it on to a new young music maker (preferably), or to someone who could make use of it creatively and isn't in a...
Posted by Adam Hurst on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:14:00 PST

an underground mix

Some of my all time favourite music. It lasts just over half an hour and has a bit of an underground theme. It should start automatically and fades in gradually so don't worry if you don't hear anythi...
Posted by Adam Hurst on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:02:00 PST

Drums..

This is amazing!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glrbndJPEGo&mode= related&search=
Posted by Adam Hurst on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:05:00 PST

Charity shop

A bit of info about what I have been doing recently..Since the end of last summer I have been making tunes using charity shop records to sample. It turned slightly more extreme by trying to use only w...
Posted by Adam Hurst on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:21:00 PST