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These Humble Machines
''These Humble Machines'' is a compilation album by American electronic musician BT, composed of edited versions of songs from his album ''These Hopeful Machines''. Released on April 26, 2011, the album was released with the intention of making the album more accessible for newer listeners while still displaying the same technical prowess found in its predecessor. The album features some radio edits ("Suddenly", "Always") while also liberally using splice editing and fade-outs to edit down songs ("The Emergency", "Every Other Way", "Le nocturne de lumière"). Track listing Personnel * Track 1: Vocals by BT and Christian Burns * Track 2: Vocals by BT. Background vocals by Christian Burns. * Track 3: Vocals by JES. Background vocals by BT and Christian Burns. * Track 4: Vocals by JES. * Track 6: Vocals by BT. Background vocals by Christian Burns. * Track 7: Vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw. Background vocals by BT. * Track 8: Vocals by BT. Background vocals by Christian Burns. * Tra ...
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BT (musician)
Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1971), known by his initials as BT, is an American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, and audio engineer. An artist in the electronic music genre, he is credited as a pioneer of the Trance music, trance and intelligent dance music styles that paved the way for Electronic dance music, EDM,Tyler Gray"Would You Want to Hear This New Circa News Sound Whenever News Breaks?"''Fast Company (magazine), Fast Company'', October 3, 2013. and for "stretching electronic music to its technical breaking point." In 2010, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album for ''These Hopeful Machines''.BT"First-Time Nominee: BT (Part One),"Grammy.com, January 18, 2011. He creates music within myriad styles, such as classical, film composition, and bass music. BT holds multiple patents for pioneering the technique he calls stutter editing.Clayton Perry"Interview: Brian Transeau – Singer, Songwriter and Producer,"''S ...
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Christian Burns
Christian Anthony Burns (born 18 January 1974) is an English singer. He is the son of Tony Burns of the Signs, a Liverpool-based rock band signed to Decca Records in the 1960s. Career Burns was a member of the popular British band BBMak, along with Mark Barry and Stephen McNally. The group sold nearly three million albums worldwide and had a top 5 single with "Back Here", in the UK. In the United States, "Back Here" reached No. 13 on the Hot 100 and received heavy video play on MTV and ''TRL''. In 2003, the band broke up, and all the members went on to pursue solo careers. Since then Burns has been collaborating with other artists and dance projects. In 2007, he worked with Tiësto on the track "In the Dark", for the album '' Elements of Life''. He collaborated with Tiësto again on the track entitled " Power of You", where Tiësto used the alias Allure. He has also collaborated with Benny Benassi, on the song "Love and Motion", and American singer Jes Brieden on the ...
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The Psychedelic Furs
The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in London in February 1977. Led by lead vocalist Richard Butler (singer), Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs are one of the many acts spawned from the British post-punk scene. The band had several hits in their early career. In 1986, filmmaker John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes used their song "Pretty in Pink (song), Pretty in Pink" for his film ''Pretty in Pink''. They went on hiatus after they finished touring in 1992, but resumed in 2000 and continue to perform live. The band released ''Made of Rain'', their first studio album in nearly three decades, on 31 July 2020. Career Early days (1977–1980) Richard Butler stated that the Psychedelic Furs began rehearsing in his family's front room but were soon banished because of the noise. The band was initially called RKO, then Radio. They later vacillated between calling themselves the Europeans and the Psychedelic Furs, playing gi ...
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The Ghost In You
"The Ghost in You" is a song by the English rock band the Psychedelic Furs, written by the band's lead vocalist Richard Butler and bassist Tim Butler. It was the second single from the band's fourth studio album, '' Mirror Moves'' (1984). As a single it peaked at No. 59 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, number 68 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 85 in Canada. British filmmaker Tim Pope directed the song's official music video A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to .... Track listing 12" single (Columbia – 44-04984) # "The Ghost in You" (Full Length Version)" – 4:17 # "Heartbeat (New York Remix)" – 8:15 12" single (Columbia – 38 04416) # "The Ghost in You" – 3:38 # "Heartbeat (Remix)" – 5:10 References External links * 1984 songs 1984 s ...
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Rob Dickinson
Robert Dickinson (born 23 July 1965) is a British musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter previously of the band Catherine Wheel.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 664-5 Dickinson was raised in Norfolk, England, and is the paternal cousin of Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson.Soren, Tabitha (1992)Wheel of Fortune, '' SPIN'', July 1992, retrieved 2 July 2011 He is now a solo artist and the founder and creative director of Singer Vehicle Design since 2009, which performs restoration and modification of client vehicles. Career While a member of Catherine Wheel from 1990 to 2000, Dickinson co-wrote and sang lead vocals on several hit singles. However, after the 2000 release of Catherine Wheel's last album, '' Wishville'', the group disbanded. Dickinson contributed vocals to two tracks on The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex album, '' Life Begins Again'', which was released in January 2005. Dickinson returned to the music scene in ...
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Ulrich Schnauss
Ulrich Schnauss (born 8 September 1977) is a German Electronic music, electronic musician and producer based in London, England. He was a member of Tangerine Dream from 2014 to 2020. Biography Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German seaport of Kiel in 1977. He had piano lessons when he was seven. He became interested in a range of music: My Bloody Valentine (band), My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Tangerine Dream, Chapterhouse (band), Chapterhouse, and early Bleep techno, bleep and breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see his musical influences in Kiel, so he moved to Berlin in 1996. Schnauss' musical output began under the pseudonyms of View to the Future and Ethereal 77. These electronica and drum-driven pieces were noticed by Berlin electronica label CCO (City Centre Offices), to which Schnauss sent CDs on a regular basis. Schnauss developed these submissions to CCO into his first album under his own name, ''Far Away Trains Passing By'', released in E ...
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Kirsty Hawkshaw
Kirsty Hawkshaw (born 29 March 1969) is an English electronic music vocalist and songwriter. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she is known as the lead vocalist of early 1990s dance group Opus III (band), Opus III, and her collaborative work with other musicians and producers. Career Kirsty Hawkshaw is the daughter of the late British production music/film music composer and disco record producer Alan Hawkshaw, who was known for composing themes for TV programmes such as ''Grange Hill'' and Channel 4 game show ''Countdown (game show), Countdown''. Her mother is German-born Christiane Bieberbach. At the age of 19, the singer's career in show business was started with the help of famous German producer Frank Farian, who in 1988 released her dance single "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" on the CBS Records International , CBS record label. At that time, she was introduced to the public under the stage name Kirsty Shaw. The single "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" attracted the attention of promot ...
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The Rose Of Jericho
"The Rose of Jericho" is an instrumental single by experimental trance musician BT, his first from his sixth studio album, '' These Hopeful Machines''. Track listing Production and recording The main synth section of "The Rose of Jericho" was created with an Oberheim Four Voice analog synthesizer layered with Native Instruments FM8, later processed through a Stutter Edit plug in he created on Sonik Architects. Release Three years after the release of his fifth studio album, '' This Binary Universe'', BT released the first part of the single through Nettwerk and Black Hole Recordings exclusively on digital music retailer Beatport seven days after its initial due date on June 2. The motif behind the June 9 release date was due to Sonifi, an innovative iPhone application created by his software company Sonik Architects. Earlier in the year, BT played twelve seconds of the song on his 12 Seconds website. A second release has been announced for June 23 through the same re ...
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Jes Brieden
Jes Brieden (born May 10, 1974), known professionally as Jes (stylized as JES), is an American singer, songwriter, producer, composer, and DJ. She is a co-founder of the US dance band Motorcycle, who released the song " As the Rush Comes" in 2003. Early life Jes Brieden, born and raised in New York City, studied art and singing in an art school. She first began experimenting with music production at her friends' studios. By age 16 she made her first vocal recordings as a reference vocalist, and was also working as a backup singer for several major recording labels. After Jes answered an ad in the newspaper called ''The Village Voice'' when she was still a teenager, she recorded her first song. At the time, she sang in various bands. Career 2002: Guardians of the Earth In 2001, while she was working at a recording studio in LA, Jes met Mike Olson, and the two formed Guardians of the Earth. Songs they produced include "Star Children" and "One Moon Circling". "Star Children" was ...
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Every Other Way
"Every Other Way" is a song by American musician BT featuring Jes, released as the second single from BT's sixth studio album, '' These Hopeful Machines''. It's also the first of two collaborations with singer Jes from the album. After lengthy negotiations with BT, the song was remixed by PureNRG (Solarstone and Giuseppe Ottaviani), with BT & Jes - Every Other Way (PureNRG Extended Remix) being released December, 2017. Track listing Music video A music video was shot for "Every Other Way" and it features both BT and Jes in the music video. The music video was released on the same day that BT's new website was launched. References 2009 songs 2009 singles BT (musician) songs Jes (musician) songs Black Hole Recordings singles Trance songs {{2000s-electronic-song-stub ...
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Andrew Bayer
Andrew Michael Bayer (born 1987) is an American DJ and Grammy-nominated music producer. He is best known for working with Anjunabeats as a multi-genre artist and English deep house sublabel Anjunadeep. Born in Washington, D.C., Bayer was piano-educated as a child before graduating with a degree in music synthesis at the Berklee College of Music. His first professional music projects involved working with Scottish producer Alan Nimmo as trance music duo Signalrunners and releasing multiple extended plays and remixes through Anjunadeep. Bayer's first studio album, ''It's Artificial'', was released in 2011 and seen as a multi-genre musical record. His second album '' If It Were You, We'd Never Leave,'' which comprised a more downtempo sound, was released in 2013. The record was supported by lead single "Lose Sight" and peaked at number 19 on the US Dance charts. Bayer's third studio album, ''In My Last Life'', was released in August 2018. Besides being involved in Signalrunne ...
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Suddenly (BT Song)
"Suddenly" is the third single by experimental trance Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the dir ... musician BT from his sixth studio album, '' These Hopeful Machines''. Track listing References {{Christian Burns 2010 singles Trance songs 2010 songs BT (musician) songs Songs written by Christian Burns Nettwerk Records singles ...
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