General Midi (DJ)
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General Midi (born Paul Damian Crossman) is an English
breakbeat Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that uses drum breaks, often sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as Florida breaks, hip-hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat ...
DJ. In an undated online interview, Crossman named Al Watson as a writing partner and engineer, who also works with him in the duo Starecase. General Midi has released several singles on breaks labels including TCR and
DJ Hyper Guy James Hatfield (born 23 February 1977) better known by his stage name DJ Hyper or just Hyper, is a British DJ, producer and remixer, known for his use of live bass, guitars and uncompromising vocals. He has done remixes for artists such a ...
. He released his debut album titled ''Midi Style'' on
Distinct'ive Records Distinctive Records (formerly Distinct'ive Records) is a UK based record label founded in 1995. The label has hundreds of releases from artists, most notably Hybrid, Way Out West, and Ils. History Distinctive Records was initially founded ...
in October 2005, and a follow-up, ''Operation Overdrive'' in 2009. General Midi provided an hour-long guest mix and accompanying interview for Annie Nightingale's late night breaks show during the promotion of ''Operation Overdrive'' in 2009. During the interview, Annie and General Midi discussed the use of non-sampled specifically recorded vocals used throughout ''Operation Overdrive'' (this being a rare feature in breakbeat music at the time). General Midi has received considerable play on
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, where he is noted as having 31K listeners and 16 albums. Paul Crossman now works as a secondary school computer science teacher at
Teddington School Teddington School is a co-educational state school for ages 11–18 (11-16 for the main school and 16-18 for the sixth form), located in Teddington in the borough of Richmond upon Thames in south-west London. It has had academy status since 20 ...
after stopping DJing.


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General Midi's website
DJs from London Living people Breakbeat musicians British electronic dance music DJs Year of birth missing (living people) Musicians from Bristol DJs from Bristol {{UK-electronic-musician-stub