Colin C. (born Colin Cameron Allrich in

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) is an American musician, remixer, audio engineer, and sound designer who began his career as a self-taught musician and producer with the first wave internet musicians associated with MP3.com's launch in the late 90s while living on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In these early years he was known for exploring PC computer based sequencing with

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and working in various early EDM genres. Colin found music inspiring from an early age and as a teenager discovered electronic music via U.S. based

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Imports such as Underworld and Autechre that would fuel his desire to produce and DJ. Colin spent the early 2000s living in Los Angeles, California working a day job with Apple computer as a Logic Pro certified trainer and DJing around LA and Hollywood nightly, opening for DJs such as Paul Oakenfold. With connections in the Progressive House and Progressive Breaks community, he began to release club music with labels such as Lost Language, Cyber Recordings, Thrive/Renaissance and Global Underground. Having stated he doesn't see himself stuck in a particular genre, Colin's work evolved in 2010 when a Post-Punk Rock song written as his self described Deadwave HORRORFALL project was selected by

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to be included in the HBO series

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after being pitched by his bandmate through mutual connections. From here Colin's Slighter project wrote “No Control” for FOX's “

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” for character Sweets’ gun range montage and in 2011 with providing “Hells Gates” to a street fight scene in

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“

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” staring

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. Colin spent most of the 2010s syncing music to various television shows as well as The People's Choice broadcast. Believing that he is best suited in the studio than performing live, Colin's production work led him into sound design with collaboration with

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to create award-winning

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packs for users to tighten up their mix engineering skills. Colin has also created sample packs for Splice, CAPSUN ProAudio, Soundtrack Loops and others, as well as mixing and mastering for various clients out of his The Cell Studio. Colin releases music under his own publishing and label, Confusion Inc., after having self described “bad luck” with working with labels. Calling his projects ‘music for consumption’ from his various projects on Bandcamp Colin explore styles adjacent to Industrial with high-profile remixes for

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artists

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side project Trash Deity, and

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as well as others like

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(Space Manoeuvers' "Stage One") and Adjust Recordings (Dan Welton's "Lisopain"). His remix of "Lisopain" was well received by DJ

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who included it in his "Sequential" mixed compilation for

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which was distributed stateside by

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and worldwide with

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. He is the adopted son of

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and

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Projects

* Slighter * HORRORFALL- A musical collective with rotating members, first single "Necroplasm Fix" debuted on ''

'',

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. * Heatsync * The Pushers * Deeptone Source:

Selected discography

* Slighter - Turmoil

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"] * Slighter - Deadly [FOX "Lethal Weapon (TV series), Lethal Weapon" and SYFY "Defiance (TV series), Defiance"] * Slighter - Hells Gates [Lionsgate Films "

" and Showtime "

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"] * Slighter - No Control (Single) - written for FOX's "

" * HORRORFALL - Necroplasm Fix [HBO "

" Soundtrack] * HORRORFALL - All Away [USA Network "Covert Affairs" Soundtrack] *

- Renaissance: Sequential : Dan Welton - Lisopain (The Pushers Sublingual Dub) * John Graham (as 'Space Manoeures') - ''

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'' : Stage One (Deeptone Remix)

Notable remixes

* "Next War", "Leveled" -

* "Hard Times", "New Son Army" -

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* "Shadow Horizon" -

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* "Ragemaker" -

* "No Cable" - Landscape Body Machine

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allrich, Colin Cameron 1982 births Living people Record producers from Massachusetts American electronic musicians Remixers American dance musicians Tracker musicians