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About Me

One-time member of beatmeisters Weird Attractors , also served with Processional Drummers at Edinburgh's Beltane fire festival as well as playing and teaching with Edinburgh Samba School .

More recently I had a wonderful year or so playing percussion with global carnivalistas Orkestra Del Sol , before moving to London in October 2005 to go back to college. (The Weirdies remix above, featuring MC tallest man , was my leaving present to Edinburgh I guess.)

I Managed one last tour with ODS in summer of 2006 but then college commitments took over. :-(

Been producing and remixing music on and off since around '99, including soundtrack work for large outdoor shows by te pooka that have toured Glastonbury, Brighton and other UK festivals.

DJ-wise been playing global beats for a few years now, from Bhangra to Bossa, Turkish hip-hop to Arabic breakcore, and especially all the interesting and inspiring places inbetween. Been spreading the Balkan Beats message in Edinburgh since early 2005, along with two fellow ex-weirdies and Orkestra del Sol members Matchu P and DJ Marco.

As of July 2008 I'm back in Edinburgh for the foreseeable future, and working on a few new remixes in that mythical 'spare time'.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/07/2006
Band Website: http://www.mungbean.org/
Band Members: Chris Hand
Influences:

First and foremost, the one and only John Peel - directly or indirectly responsible for 95% of what follows (in no particular order)...

Transglobal Underground, Squarepusher, New Order, Glastonbury, Chico Science and Nacao Zumbi, DJ Shadow, Kraftwerk, Talvin Singh, King Tubby, Boards of Canada, Future World Funk, Asian Dub Foundation, Mercan Dede, Nitin Sawhney, Orbital, gypsy brass - esp. Fanfare Ciocarlia, Boban Markovic and Mahala Rai Banda; Charlie Gillett, DJ Dolores, Cheb I Sabbah, The Specials, Grandmaster Flash, Pandit Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Goran Bregovic, Ninja Tune, Dreadzone, Eno, Six Degrees Records, Shantel, Motorhead, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Tom Waits, The Damned, Gilles Peterson, Megadog, Whirl-y-gig, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Brazilian Percussion in general and Maracatu, Forro, Coco in particular. Plus many, many, many more.

Brothers and sisters in rhythm, inspirations, influences, friendship, support and encouragement -- Orkestra del Sol, Weird Attractors, cheex, Sanskrit aka Spirit of the Junkyard, anonymi, te pooka, Vaudeville, Edinburgh Beltane crews over the years, Edinburgh Samba School, Irian Jaya, Bebado, Carnival Collective, Samba Ya Bamba. Big love.

Thanks to last.fm , here's a list of what I've been listening to recently.

And these are my most-played artists since April 2005:

Sounds Like: a happy accident
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New Remix Uploaded

Back in July I did a remix for Anonmyi, and the track was released on 9th September on the CD "Monkey Botherer" on Little Rascal Records in Australia and New Zealand. Available "soon" on download too...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:40:00 GMT

DEPARTURE LOUNGE BALKAN BEAT SPECIAL

Back on the Decks!My first DJ gig in Edinburgh for a while.... warming up for The Baghdaddies doing a live set, and followed by Astroboy and Jimenez with Cammy on the live beats.more info on the DL si...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:55:00 GMT

Free at last

Well I just graduated from my two-year masters yesterday, which means that after spending 2 years in London with NO LIFE WHATSOEVER I am now emerging from the chrysalis, spreading my wings to dry in t...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:43:00 GMT

... AWAY WE GO ...

Right, tomorrow I'm heading off with Orkestra del Sol (pls note spelling, Norwich City Council!), on tour in Greg's newly-acquired ex-police riot van. This might come in useful in jumping queues...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:16:00 GMT

start

just trying this out, and seeing if I can hack the appearance so it doesn't look so crufty...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:36:00 GMT