Artist description Experimental ambient electronica

Music Style Ambient Electronica

Musical Influences TDream, Schulze, Eno, Fax label

Similar Artists Early work like TDream, Jarre, Vangelis - music through the DiN label similar to Fax records

Artist History Ian Boddy has been at the forefront of the UK electronic music scene since 1983 when he both performed at the very first UK Electronica Festival in Milton Keynes and released his first vinyl album The Climb.In the 4 years preceding he had been experimenting at an Arts Council funded studio in Newcastle whilst at University. His early work resulted in 3 cassette only releases on the Mirage label as well as several local concerts. These early tapes showed Boddy gradually forming his own style through a long self teaching process in the techniques of analog synthesis and tape manipulation.After the success of 1983 he went on to release another 2 vinyl albums, Spirits and Phoenix, as well as performing several concerts throughout the UK. However it wasn't until 1989 that his first CD release, Odyssey, came out on the EM label Surreal to Real. After Drive, his second release on the Surreal label Boddy formed his own record label, Something Else Records , through which he released a further 4 solo albums as well as reissuing his 3 early vinyl albums and the cassette only release Jade on CD. Furthermore he released three collaborative CD releases with some of Europes finest exponents of EM, namely Andy Pickford, Ron Boots and Mark Shreeve.He continued to expand his concert appearences which has now passed over 70 events with concerts in the UK ( including several more UK Electronica appearances and two shows at the Jodrell Bank Planetarium ), Holland ( once at the Klemdag festival and twice at the alpha-Centauri festival ) , Germany and most recently in Philadelphia in the USA.Alongside these mainstream EM activities Boddy has also built for himself a formidable reputuation as a sound designer having produced a series of sample CD's for sampling specialists Time & Space. Furthermore he has also become involved in library music having penned four such CD's for the publishing company deWolfe as well as producing some music for a computer games company.Thus we come up to the present with the formation of his DiN label in 1999. Unlike his private Something Else Records the DiN label was set up to allow Boddy to actively form different collaborations with a wide variety of musicians as well as release other artists music. In its first year it has achieved widespread critical acclaim for it's adventurous outlook at the world of EM and has seen 6 releases with Boddy being involved in 4 of these ( one solo and three collaborative projects ). More releases are planned for the second year as well as Boddy's first concert in the USA.

Group Members Ian BoddyIn collaboration with : Markus Reuter on DiN 2 - Distant RitualsNigel Mullaney recording as Dub Atomica on DiN 4 - AutonomicChris Carter on DiN 5 - Caged

Instruments Synths inc analog modular, sampling & MAC sound design

Albums The Climb, Spirtis, Phoenix, Jade, The Uncertainty, The Deep, Symbiont, Continuum, Phase 3, Octane, Rare Elements, Box of Secrets, Distant Rituals, Autonomic, Cagedecrets, Principle,

Press Reviews Caged in The Wire - May 2000" On a cursory hearing you might misjudge this as an overscripted meeting of two Old Skools - dub and industrial - where route logic trumps roots friction. Give it gestation time, though, and the chthonic soundings of these two old souls - Chris normally partners Cosey, Boddy has been doubling himself for 13 years on his own DiN label ( not to be confused with the Berlin imprint ) - repays your attention in shades. The grid may be linear, but the mood is dank and windblown, flinty, waywardly British. Caged has a verifiable personality - 'Under-Dub', as the aptly titled closer puts it - where too much nu-skool dub just sounds like Lego-bit homage. B & C's carefully plotted hyp(g)nosis bubbles with reticences, resonances, lurches and larvae, it unearths moods beyond most modern plagiarists. Catch the way the bassline comes in on the opener 'Concussed' - red sun splitting grey clouds - seamlessly interlacing drift/tone and beaten tracks. Subterranean drip and echo, percussion like midnight syntax tapped out on pipes - an unnerving, claustrophobic soundtrack for that Harry Lime moment when all your shadows catch up with you".Autonomic in December 1999 issue of FlipsideStripped - down, minimal and expansive. A hybrid of Fila Brazillia and a sullen Brian Eno. An elegantly crafted electronic vision, awash with titanic tracks possessing such party - starting titles as Atomicity and Ionosphere. As murky as its cover, as soothing and tranquil as a flotation tank, Dub Atomica's Autonomic is the perfect balm to soothe away those early morning blues.Dub Atomica are a collaboration between Ian Boddy, a veteran of the European electronic music scene, and beats-master Nigel Mullaney. Their workouts are expansive, both in length & breadth. Dubwise vibes provide the cohesive thread through which you pass icy moodiness, minimalist futurist ethnicity, lilting hip hop, and mutating, phased reverb. Despite their moniker, Ionosphere is the closest it gets to dub, but even that's soon shattered by some abrasive U-Ziq-style beat mayhem. Autonomic is about dub as a flexible, underlying approach, but it doesn't avoid the occasional descent into smoothed-out meandering.File Under : a chillout experience without the snooze factor.

Location Esh Winning, Durham - United Kingdom

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