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Beats & Pieces – Some Angel History In The First Person Pt2

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Posted on April 8, 2009 Posted by The Angel

There are only a few degrees of separation between myself and The Pharcyde, Spearhead, The Brand New Heavies, Donald Byrd, Mystic and Frente all from my early days in LA signed to Delicious Vinyl starting my journey remixing and producing and figuring out how to cope with all this sunshine after years of that famous London grey…

One of my earliest and most bizarre memories of the time, was meeting Harry Shearer at Spring Break ‘93 in Daytona Beach with the Delicious Vinyl crew and The Brand New Heavies, who were playing… then seeing Pauly Shore mobbed by more fans than any band, then having Harry give me some really sound advice about indie labels and an inevitable lack of accounting… smart guy.

My early Delicious Vinyl days spawned these remixes among others: The PharcydeBrand New HeaviesBrand New Heaviespeople_150thenewgroove_150

The full production/remix discography lives here

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Beats & Pieces – Some Angel History In The First Person Pt1

Categories: Beats & Pieces - The Angel History
Posted on March 1, 2009 Posted by The Angel

It was April 29th 1992 when Mike Ross, head of Delicious Vinyl, flew me from London to New York so that we could meet and discuss a record deal. He and his team would fly in from Los Angeles and meet me there.

They booked me into a recording studio in the city to check me out in action. I always suspected that they just wanted to make sure that I really was doing all my own programming, writing and producing. So armed with some vinyl and dats (those were the days) with my library of sounds and created samples, I headed over to the studio where they had rented in an Akai S1000 Sampler, an Atari 1040ST and Cubase. It was there, that I wrote, “Freedom Is A State of Mind”.

So there I was in the studio, like I was on another planet… but late in the day I was shaken out of my creative cocoon, when we switched on a TV in the control room and saw Los Angeles in complete chaos… the riots had broken out and Mike & the Gang had barely made it out on one of the last flights to leave the city that day. This was one of my early introductions to LA while I was feeling back at home in NY, but still living in London… The images came with such foreboding and it’s been a bittersweet mixture of loveliness and trauma ever since…

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