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Hailing from South Wales very own Motor City, Bridgend. 33 year old Chris Poacher has long been heavily influenced by Kraftwerk, Orbital, Warp Records and the halcyon days of hypnotic grooves.
His first steps into producing electronic music were way back in 1989 (starting out on an Amiga!), making demo tunes and remixes for 'cracking groups' such as Destiny UK & Sprint UK. His first band ambitions started in 1991 with the 'Delta4' outfit, and with the help of a now infamous DJ Dave London, would help unwittingly unleash his 'pro-tracker' ideas on a sometimes baffled audience every weekend at local nightclub 'Benz'.
What started out as a bit of fun, soon became an obsession as he found himself trawling the pages of the Freeads weekly paper and visiting car-boot sales all around the UK, buying up any 2nd hand pro-equipment he could get his hands on, With the advantage of studying computer programming at college, his firm grasp over technology led him to spend hours upon hours, finding ways to program equipment to make it sound unique.
A lot of the equipment he bought has been sold, mainly due to lack of space, though Chris still keeps a core group of synths that he uses regularly and honed his own personal sound from. (see kitlist blog).
As Chris remarks, "I've spent many long hours, if not days in front of all sorts of weird synth's, programming them and discovering how far I could push their sonic abilities.
After producing several hundred demos and having spent most weekends out on the dance floor in places like Bristols Lakota and Birmingham's Atomic Jam at the famous Que Club (where he and Owain first met) in the mid 90's. Chris signed his first record deal to MMI in 1998, a small Birmingham base label, under the guises of "Emulator" and "Spectral Associate" (his Drum and Bass alias); actually signing the contract on the decks stand at the Que Club.
He released a string of 12s, performing live sets alongside some of the top names in the DJ scene in South Wales, the Midlands, as well as a set at the Birmingham Arts Festival at Centenary Square and making several appearances in Amsterdam, Holland.
Since the end of his first record deal, Chris has since spent a lot of time researching new studio solutions to get the perfect results, recently transferring to a half digital, half analogue set-up. He explains, " Having started with a computer based studio set-up on the Amiga then moving over to synths and samplers, I now run a hybrid solution, keeping the warmth and feel of my favorite analogue kit, combining it with the crystal like clarity and 'skies the limit' functionality of the digital hard-disk recording world; oh and you can never have too many knobs to twiddle either!!"
Currently, Chris is in the process of recording the new album project with his ever trade marked perfectionist synth programming, as well as working alongside long time friend Owain_K as "Digital Motion".
Official Releases
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(see blog for full inventory of music 1991-2007)
Emulator
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MHR001 : Plastik Cats/Truth Hurts
MHR002 : Germany Make The Best Pencil Sharpeners/I Hate Golf!
MHR003 : 3dMUSIk [4track e.p.]
MHR004 : No Fate/Syzygy
MHCD01 : A Collection of Mind Adventures: Vol.1 [cdlp]
Digital Motion
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ADSR001 : Automaton e.p.
ADSR002 : Transitions e.p.
ADSR003 : Control (feat. Jamie Anderson 'epic' mix)
"Dedicated to the memory of Pat, my father, who died 11/2005."
REWIRE14: Rennie Foster - From The Ashes
(remixes featuring DJ 3000 & Digital Motion)
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