Hunksten Proudfoot

"HP" has been a writer of one kind or another all his life, dabbling in short stories, alternative history and poetry. The writing morphed to composing and lyrics, and became integral to the other creative areas of his life. A gardener, a maker, a thinker, a poet... " things must grow from a seed, into plants, or into song" so he says. His brand of electronica is "Poetronic" - creating sounds and melody by combining an idea or experience with a myriad of electronica based influences to texturize a story through music.
Using both real and synthisized instruments, vocals, and any object in particular that "catches his fancy", mixing melody and tempo with percussives and layers of filtering is a trademark of his current work. Although unashamedly electronic, Hunksten's Australian origins have given him to be deeply influenced by the sounds of nature, albeit, assimilated and digitized.Prior to signing to Thirteen[rec] , HP's freely shared back-catalogue has had more than 80, 000 downloads world wide.
His debut on Thirteen[rec], WALK THE EARTH out now ON THIRTEEN[REC] is an "around the world at light-speed" instrumental journey that takes the listener on an upbeat aural-holiday, inspired by places as far apart as Australia, Europe and the Mid-East.
Hunksten offers here a blending of dischordant melody and tribal rhythms.
HE IS CURRENTLY WORKING WITH RENOWNED VOCAL COACH RUSSELL PENN ( one half of vibrational/healing/tonal music outfit KYANITE ) IN THE MAKING OF HIS AUTUMN 2009 RELEASE "TRUTH SERUM" , WHICH WILL FEATURE AS HUNKSTEN'S FIRST VOCAL ALBUM. A rough demo of the first single THE BEST ONE can be heard here. Hunksten is also involved in the Souk Azibi project with Russell, and Kinan Atassi ( Soul-Tek/Kyanite/Thirteen[rec] Honcho ) which aims to put a new twist on some classics a-la Ibiza chilled. Stay tuned for more info...
Hunksten's evoultion is one to watch.
Through the Thirteen-family, Hunksten has also worked on remixes for Victoria Wilson-James, "Change My Life" , and for Vanity Project's "Techno" .
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His first album release is available now on iTunes