Artist description Spacious, hard, and complex techno from a man who loves nature.

Music Style Ambient

Musical Influences Jarre, The Orb, Shpongle, Luke Slater

Similar Artists Future Sound of London, The Orb, Oliver Lieb

Artist History Northcore is Carl-Joakim Gibbons. He was born in Denmark in 1974, and moved with his family to Melbourne in 1983. He started writing music at an early age with a Roland D-10 and an IBM XT. His early influences were Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream, so it was no surprise that he gravitated towards the raveparty-inspired explosion of new ambient music that occurred in the early nineties. The Orb, Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue became his new musical heroes. In that period, Carl wrote ambient music under the name Nonspace, and enjoyed some generous airplay on local radio, and in the car stereos of relaxing forest ravers. With the assistance of Seraphic Records, Carl arranged gigs at Global Warming, where the chilled-out crowd especially enjoyed his more chunky, tech-ish numbers. Inspired, Carl created the Northcore artist moniker, which started out as a techno-only sub project, but which today encompasses nearly all of his creative output, ambient works included. Northcore has played his tunes out at Melbourne's best clubs and raves, including Escape, BassStation, Revolver, XSIVE, @mosphere, Earthcore, Dark Forest, and Rainbow Serpent Festival. His tunes appear on many respected local and international compilation CDs, as well as on his five self-released albums. His music has also been heard in award-winning documentaries, short films, international fashion shows, computer games, and multimedia pieces. Carl's recent move to the UK has gone hand-in hand with a substantial studio upgrade to tackle his new remix and production requirements.

Instruments Sampling: EMU ESI-2000; Kontakt. Synths: Roland JV-880, Atmosphere, PAiA Fatman. Mixing: Yamaha 01V. Computing: Pentium 4 running Logic 5.5.1.

Location London, London - United Kingdom

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