Artist description We write dynamically powerful, moody songs which often have deeply personal, angry lyrics. Despite the use of technology, our songs have an very organic and human feel.Imagine Prong jamming with Cubanate and Gary Numan after taking some of Pink Floyd's drugs at a Drum 'n Bass gig.......

Music Style Industrial Dance / Darkwave

Musical Influences Killing Joke, Gary Numan, Joy Division, Cubanate, NIN, Portishead, Tricky, Prong, Faith No More, The Swans, The Prodigy, Pink Floyd, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode

Similar Artists Prong, Cubanate, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode,Massive Attack

Artist History During the Autumn of 1996 Collusion Inc. was formed by Andrew J. Howarth and long-time musical sparring partner, Phil Taylor, after several unsuccessful years of playing in local bands. Setting up a home studio (now affecionately named "The Fleshing Room" after a short story by part-time drum programmer, Paul Joyce) they set out to fuse their 80s Goth Rock, Punk and New Wave influences with 90s Industrial Dance, Breakbeat, Techno, Drum 'n Bass and Trip Hop.Some 50 songs have been written in the studio over the last 3 years, of which 9 appear on the band's debut album entitled "Hate Campaigns". Rough mixes from the album posted on the Internet have received good reviews on the U.S. based website, "Riffage", whilst the song "Reins" was given "featured" status on another U.S. website, "MP3.COM". There it rose to number 3 in their Darkwave chart and number 4 in their Industrial chart during December, 1999. U.S. radio stations, both on and off the Internet, have recently picked up on the band with KUCI's show "Closed Caskets For The Living Impaired" and In Perpetual Motion's DJ Mac playing out tracks from the album.Spurred on by their steadily growing popularity on the Internet the duo are currently setting up their own record label, Collusion Productions, to release Collusion Inc. material to a wider audience. All the writing, recording, mixing, mastering and artwork is now being done in The Fleshing Room to free them from the constraints of working in commercial recording studios. 7 new songs, along with revamped versions of older material, are already in advanced stages of development for their second album, which now has the working title "Remnants".

Group Members Andrew J. Howarth : Vocals, guitars, programming, sound design and production. Phil Taylor : 5 string fretless bass, programming and sampling.

Instruments Yamaha SY-77, Yamaha DX-7s, Yamaha TG-500, Yamaha TG-33, Quasimidi Quasar, Terratec EWS-64XL (x2) , Waldorf MicroWave PC, Emagic Logic Audio 4.5, Fruityloops Pro, Cool Edit 2000, WaveCraft, SimSynth 2.7, VAZ+ 1.7

Albums Hate Campaigns

Press Reviews Legends #107 Feb issue, 2001.http://www.legendsmagazine.net/107/collusion.htm

Location Bolton, Lancashire - United Kingdom

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