Mark Ty-Wharton (born Mark Tinley; 18 March 1963) is a British music technologist, informal logician and

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who specialises in presentations using sound art. He is best known for his work as a

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and

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with

Adamski Adam Paul Tinley (born 4 December 1967), known professionally as Adamski, as well as Sonny Eriksson, is an English DJ, musician, singer and record producer, prominent at the time of acid house for his tracks "N-R-G (Adamski song), N-R-G" and " ...

Duran Duran Duran Duran () are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor (bass guitarist), John Taylor. After several early changes, the band's line-up settled ...

, TV Mania,

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and others.

Bands

In 1982, he formed the band Peeping Toms with Shaun Morris, and left several months later when they found a bass player; the band has continued to play, in various configurations, for over two decades. He was inspired by industrial band SPK to begin working on solo projects involving the layering of sounds on a high-end tape recorder, while playing in numerous other bands on the side. He played a

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session in 1984 as part of the band Dormannu, continued forming and reforming bands, worked in and founded various

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s, and acquired numerous

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s and other acoustic toys along the way. In 1988, he formed Britain's first acid house band the Garden of Eden with Kiss FM DJ Steve Jackson, vocalist Angela McCluskey and fashion designer Pam Hogg. The recording charted at number 93 on 24 December. He then formed Diskord Datkord with his brother Adam Tinley (better known as

) and Jonny Slut of

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which signed with SOHO Records and released one single. Tinley then worked for Adamski, first as a programmer, then as a sound engineer while touring Europe and the United States to promote the single " Killer".

Duran Duran

In 1993, Tinley was introduced to

by Rob Ferguson, hired as a keyboard programmer, and soon became an integral part of their songwriting and production team, working intimately with keyboardist

Nick Rhodes Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates; 8 June 1962) is an English keyboardist and producer, best known as a founding member and the keyboardist of the band Duran Duran. He has also been the only constant member of the group since their 1978 ...

. " hodes willsay 'I like this sound, but can you make it like this?' So when we first started he went through all the sounds on all the keyboards and decided what sounds worked for various songs, then asked me to modify those that weren't quite right. And sometimes he'll just describe a sound and I'll sit down and make it for him." Their workhorse keyboard is the

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, along with numerous other technological gadgets. Tinley helped to set up the home studio which came to be known as "Privacy" in the living room of guitarist

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which is where the band recorded their 1993 '' Wedding Album''. He also toured with the band, helping to prepare and maintain the complex synthesizer set-ups used by Rhodes during live shows. Tinley continued working on Duran Duran's subsequent albums ''

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'' (1995), '' Medazzaland'' (1997), '' Pop Trash'' (2000), and ''

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'' (2004). He also produced

with Rhodes, and created the TV Mania project with Rhodes and Cuccurullo.

Private life

In 2016, after taking a ten-year career break to come to terms with his diagnosis of

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, Tinley opened a music shop in Glastonbury, UK.

References

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