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TD

Tom Dean The Bass Machine

About Me



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Bio: TD aka. Tom Dean, is a musician and producer. Drawing his inspiration on everything from old school funk, to jungle, drum & bass, and downtempo. Tapping into his skills as a bassist and producer, TD makes tracks spanning the spectrum of drum and bass from atmospheric to hard hitting steppers, and smoked-out downtempo grooves. As well as his individual endeavors, TD is one third of the production trio TNT. Weighing in on bass, TD brings his styles of funk and breaks to the mix. TNT's album is available from TNT Recordings . TD is currently involved in a number of new projects and collaborations with some highly talented artists, forthcoming on CBU!!!... Check out the rest of my crew on CarbonBased United

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Member Since: 1/22/2006
Band Website: carbonbased.us
Band Members: TD: Bass Guitar Keyboards Gear Ableton MIDIbox SID v2 ProTools

Influences: Everything from: LTJ Bukem, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Ninja Tune, and Thievery Corporation. To: Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Curtis Mayfield, and Parliament Funkadelic.

ok.. and John Taylor I admit it.

Herbaliser, Red Snapper, Hexstatic, Shadow, Goodlooking Records, Shy FX & T-Power, Ed Rush & Optical, Omni Trio, Artemis, Roni Size, Photek, Hype, Zinc, Ganja Kru, Prisoners of Technology, all manner of Jungle and Drum & Bass!

oh yeah, and Im old skool Punk Rock.
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Record Label: CarbonBased Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

MIDIbox SID!!!

I have recently finished building a MIDIbox SID.. a phat little synth built around the SID sound chip from a Commodore 64 !!! it's an open source project called MIDIbox hardeware platform, and you ca...
Posted by TD on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:37:00 PST

New tracks and unreleased previews...

Lots of new stuff forthcoming on CBU... I'll be showing new stuff off in my player as we ready new material for this summer.Projects and collaborations from TD and the rest of our crew at CBU!
Posted by TD on Thu, 03 May 2007 11:09:00 PST

Free Promos on Beats Digital... NOW!

Look for Promo tracks from TD, Roundhouse, TNT on Beats Digital. The promotion is on now, promo page is here...
Posted by TD on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:18:00 PST

Happy Halloween mofo's... Frank's Here!

Everything's all right... Frank's here! haha
Posted by TD on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:54:00 PST

Attention all MC's - vocalists - singers!!!

Calling out any and all mc's & vocalists...YOU want remixes...WE want aca's...lets hook it up! ...Our crew wants any vocal collab, remix project, etc.jungle / d&b / downtempo / house ...you name it.Ju...
Posted by TD on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:08:00 PST

'The Real TD' available iTunes, Rhapsody, Music Net Now.

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Posted by TD on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:44:00 PST

Gear list for the tech-heads...

I am a total tech-head, and I love to read what people use for gear in their studio. That said, here's mine...I make everything in my personal studio at home, with a fairly basic and streamlined setup...
Posted by TD on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:51:00 PST

I Know You Gonna Dig This...

TD"I Know You Gonna' Dig This"...
Posted by TD on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:19:00 PST

The real TD...

70M D34N is in the house... First post on MySpace. I'll be sorting this out in quick order. Soon will be putting up links to all sorts media from TNT Recordings and CarbonBased. TD
Posted by TD on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:26:00 PST