Illuminati

Recent mini album - download only - http://www.net-lab.co.uk
Net-Lab’s 24th release, ’Five Themes for Future Reference’ is a collection of five previously released but rarely available Illuminati tracks recorded between the years 2001 - 2003 and now made available again; remixed, remastered and encoded to 320kbps.
First launched in June 2006, Net-Lab is a collaborative project run by members of InspireBox Media. The label also features work by an array of artists that you may recognise as already having releases on labels including Wrong Music, Adadaat, Sublight and Planet Mu.
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I’m Dave Clarkson, a Manchester (UK) based musician who records and occasionally plays live under the name Illuminati. My music under the name Illuminati has been in existence since January 2000.
Prior to Illuminati, I was involved in playing keyboards, synths and beating metal with experimental trio ’Away with The Mixer’ (1983-85), playing drums and twisting analog synth sounds with ’The Beat Thing’ (1985), drumming briefly for proto Boo Radleys ’The 4th Man’ (1987) and jazz ensemble ’The Earl Grey Quartet’ (1986-87), drumming and percussion for African band ’Odudua’ (1987-89), and drumming and making a noise with the space jazz eight piece ensemble ’Whitecube’ (1996-2000).
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ILLUMINATI DISCOGRAPHY:
Albums:
’Searching for the New Land’ (newsense recordings 2004)
’Ocean Almanac’ ( lotta-continua 2004)
’Meta Medica’ ( lotta-continua 2007)
’Espionage’ with King Dice ( lotta-continua 2007)
’Five Themes for Future Reference’ ( net-lab 2007)
coming soon....
’Light Entertainment’ live recordings 2000 - 2005 ( lotta-continua 2007)
EP’s:
’CDEP1’ (Planetsounds 2000)
’CDEP2’ (Planetsounds 2001)
’Live’ (RSI 2001)
Compilation Appearances:
’PST Blue 1’ on ’Laboratory Series Volume 1’ CDr (Planetsounds 2001)
’Knucklehead Bump’ on ’Death to Disco’ 12 inch album (no label compilation 2001)
’PST Green 35’ on ’Jukebox’ mp3 series (Jerome Joy 2001)
’1936’ on ’Laboratory Series Volume 2’ CDr (Planetsounds 2002)
’Ocean Almanac edit’ on ’Flat Pack Antenna’ 12 inch album (Hearing Aid 2004)
’Precious Stone’, ’Chinook’ and ’Prussian Blue’ on ’Noisemakers 3’ CD (Noiseweb 2004)
’Bodyclock’ on ’Mandolin Records’ Compilation CD (2005)
’House of Delusion’ on Brian Lavelles’ iir org website
’Analogue Tranquiliser I’ on Noiseweb.
’Elixir of Pink Frost’ on DJ Flywheel’s Ninja Tunes Forum ’Miniatures’
Illuminati music is distributed and can be purchased from the following:
- icr distribution
- piccadilly records (UK)
- norman records (UK)
- low energy network (UK)
- possible music (Germany)
- aquarius records (United States)
ILLUMINATI IS OPEN TO RELEASING MUSIC ON OTHER RECORD LABELS. IF YOU RUN A LABEL AND WOULD LIKE TO RELEASE MUSIC BY ILLUMINATI PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.
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DVD/film soundtracks:
’Lancashire Youth Games’ (Dave Griffiths, 2001)
’Codec/x’ - New British Video and Sound Art ( codecx , 2003)
’Cnyht Bachelor’ ( Justin Neal , 2005)
Storyrooms (Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, UK, 2005)
’Horror Film Short’ (Richard Ranchum, 2007)
ILLUMINATI IS OPEN TO CONTRIBUTING SOUNDTRACK MUSIC TO FILM OR DVD . IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.
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The work of Illuminati has been broadcast on:
BBC Radio 3 Mixing It with Mark Russell
BBC Radio 3 Late Junction with Verity Sharp
ResonanceFM , (London)
.....and as part of the 2004 Commonwealth Film Festival.
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Gigs have included ’Sprawl’ (London), ’Baggage Reclaim’ (London), ’Intergration 4’ (Preston, photo above), ’Futuresonic’ (Manchester) and ’Burst Couch’ (Manchester), sharing gigs with Keith Rowe, Colin Potter, Si-cut.db, GPUD, Disco Operating System, Ben Drew, Toshi Makihara and Posset.
Gigs have featured visuals by Hollowsphere
Short clip of illuminati live at Warrington Improvised Festival 2006 here
ILLUMINATI IS OPEN TO GIGS. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BOOKING ILLUMINATI PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.
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I’m also behind pop sensation monte cristo , one third of the experimental trio triclops , co-organise the Burst Couch experimental music nights in Manchester and co-founder and co-operator of the lotta-continua record label together with Gareth Bibby ( disco operating system ).
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