James Clements, better known as ASC, is a British electronic music producer who currently resides in
Del Mar,
California
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.
He has been releasing music under the alias ASC since 1999, and originally gained popularity as a
drum and bass
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producer.
In the late 2000s, he was one of the key artists in the emergence of the autonomic genre, along with artists such as
dBridge
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and Instra:Mental.
He is now largely releasing ambient jungle drum and bass on his own label Spatial, alongside the likes of Aural Imbalance.
He was married to dubstep producer,
Vaccine
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, who died in 2023 at the age of 43.
Discography
Albums
* ''Environments'' (2003)
* ''Open Spaces'' (2004)
* ''Remixes & Collaborations'' (2006)
* ''Heights of Perception'' (2009)
* ''The Astral Traveler'' (2009)
* ''Nothing Is Certain'' (2010)
* ''The Light That Burns Twice as Bright'' (2011)
* ''Decayed Society'' (2012)
* ''Out of Sync'' (2012)
* ''Time Heals All'' (2013)
* ''Truth Be Told'' (2014)
* ''Fervent Dream'' (2015)
* ''Imagine the Future'' (2015)
* ''No Stars Without Darkness'' (2016)
* ''Trans-Neptunian Objects'' (2017)
* ''Astral Projection'' (2018)
* ''Trans-Neptunian Objects II'' (2018)
* ''The Waves'' (2019)
* ''Rainfall'' (2019)
* ''1138'' (2019)
* ''Realm of the Infinite'' (2019)
References
Living people
English drum and bass musicians
English electronic musicians
English record producers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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