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TIME-LINE OF A SPOON...
(or Simon Neale)
1977 - Born in Portsmouth, UK.
1980 - Made first mixtape aged 3 on my Dads music centre with Police, Stones & other records!
1985 - Junior school buys Yamaha PSR keyboard, i'm obsessed!
1986 - Dad buys Casio keyboard, obsessed with this also!
1987 - Forced to play trumpet at school!
- Listening to ANYTHING electronic! Depeche Mode, New Order, Gary Numan and even Jean Michel Jarre!!
1988 - Heard my first Acid record, Londonbeat "Theres an Acid House Goin On".
1989 - Go to a very forward thinking school & find a TB303 & Juno 60 in the music room cupboard!
- Music teacher say's "mmmm, they make acid house with a 303!".
1990 - Hear a Kevin Saunderson mixtape, HOOKED!
- Start sampling & making beats using Atari ST with Notator & Akai S950 sampler at school.
1991 - First hear a proper Hardcore mixtape (Krome & Time), obsessed with 140bpm breakbeats and Rave noises!
- still way too young to go to a club!
- Became a disciple of the new Essential Selection on Radio 1.
1992 - Found out my best-mate's nieghbor (Brian Carew) is a house DJ... started to listen through the wall every day!
1993 - Summon up courage to knock on his door to ask for a proper listen.
- Summon up courage to have a go... hooked!
- First heard Gat Decor's "Passion" & Acen's "Trip 2 The Moon"... wow!
- Hung out with Liam Howlett @ Prodigy gig, we briefly become mates!!
- Hardcore gets cheesy, bring on the Jungle!
- Left school, I'm lost without equipment. :(
1994 - Liam helps me out buying some old equipment, releases 2nd album and disappears. :(
1995 - Got bored with Jungle/DnB, Sasha Essential mix "changes my life"!
1996 - Stopped producing & let turntables become a part of my body.
1999 - Musically Lost! :(
2001 - Worked in a friends record shop.
- Discovered Propellerhead's Reason software!
2002 - Christened "Dave" by Fly Mic! :)
2003 - Edit audio for Fly's radio show, then christened "Spoons" too (you do the Maths).
2004 - Left Record shop, made "21st Century".
- Mark Knight signs "21st Century" to Toolroom & opens Essential mix with it! :)
2005 - Seamus Haji signs "Sunrise" to Big Love.
- Remixing for Stealth, Cyber & Data.
2006 - Made "At Night", added to 3 track "Outside EP" for Toolroom.
- Remixing more & more...
- "At Night" becomes ridiculously big & crosses so many Genres, even Tiesto & PVD are playing!??
2007 - Made "Sylo EP" with Mark Knight.
- Essential new tune "At Night" becomes "Bad Girl (At Night)" ft. Lisa Maffia on vocals.
- Start new studio project with Pete Tong & remix Robyn's "Every Heartbeat"
- Buy a keyboard from a friend of Gat Decor's, end up remixing "Passion"... Crazy!
2008 - Writing my album!
- Asked to do a show on BBC Radio 1, amazing! Start Feb 1st!
MORE SOON :)
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STUDIO...
Apple PowerMac G5 2.5 Quad 4GB ram
Novation Remote 37SL keyboard controller
Motu Ultralite audio/MIDI interface
Minimoog Model D
Roland Juno 60 with Kenton Pro-DCB/MIDI
Roland SH101
Sequential Circuits Pro-One
Roland TR909
Roland TR808
Kenton Pro-2 CV/MIDI
Reason 4
Logic 8
Ableton Live 6
Recycle 2
Loads of Synth & FX Plugins
Adam P11a active monitor speakers
BBC Radio 1 In New DJ's We Trust TWICE (for unknown reasons!)..
2007 Interview...
Pete Tong's In New Music We Trust on Radio 1LINKS...