Artist description A fusion of Trip hop, Club, Blues and Classical Guitar music.

Music Style Electronic music with soul. Influences from everywhere, especially blues, jazz, soul, classical , techno and triphop.

Musical Influences Hooverphonic, Jamiroquai, The Avalanches, Classical Music, Sonic Animation, Sting

Similar Artists Hooverphonic, Moby, St. Germain, Groove Armada, Jamiroquai, Bent,

Artist History Got my first acoustic in '96. Growing up in a house where the music was polarised between my mum's Enya and my dad's Blues pretty much guaranteed my eclectic tastes. In '99 I couldn't enter a Guitar competition because I couldn't jam, so I spent the next few months learning to improvise and write riffs and loops on my cherry red electric guitar. One day I discovered multitracking software and drum sequencers, and started recording loop based music as something to jam too. (at that time I was jamming to my CDs, am I the only guy who plays an acoustic to trance music?) This was around the same time I got heavily into more artistic electronica, artists like Moby and Hooverphonic have been huge inspirations for me. I started to really appreciate the depth and drive of music. So why does a good boy like me get involved in the thump-thump of electronic music? I feel that electronica has the greatest opportunity for artistic integrity as a musician. Other forms of music have hard and fast unbreakable rules, but electronica and pop have room to take inspiration from everywhere. Pop, however, has gotten a reputation recently for promoting butts and breasts with little concern for the cliched and derivative music they perform. I try to write music that does things you wouldn't expect but still like to hear, and can satiate my unimpressive capacity for boredom. I hope you like listening as much as I liked creating. :)

Group Members Andrew Maxam, who plays the guitars, keyboards, panpipes and programs the drums

Instruments Hammerhead Rhythm Station, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Midi Synth - Yamaha PSR-270, Panpipes, A Long Stereo Cable, 3.5-6mm adaptor

Albums Threefold

Location Sydney, NSW - Australia

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