Alf Bamford, known professionally as Technikal, is a British
hard trance and
hard dance disc jockey and record producer.
Biography
Bamford started becoming known as a "cutting edge" hard dance DJ , when his single "Annihilation" garnered significant airplay on the
BBC Radio 1
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John Peel show.
Bamford, as well as being known under the alias Technikal, also releases music under the further alternate name Technikore.
Technikal reached number 10 in the
UK official dance music chart in 2005, with his single "Global Panic/System Shock".
As Technikore Bamford has performed on
BBC Radio 1
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, including a guest mix for the
Kutski show in 2011.
In January 2012 Technikal released the mix album ''Resonate 6 - The Brutal Sound of Hard Trance'' on the
Tidy Trax label. It was critically well received in ''
Mixmag'' magazine with a 10/10 rating, and was named ''Compilation of the Month''. Later in September that same year, the Technikal "eclectic" hard dance compilation album ''Soldier of Sound'' was also named as ''Mixmag'' ''Compilation of the Month''.
As Technikore, along with
Andy Farley and Mark Eg, he released the 2012 compilation album ''Harder Louder Faster''. Featuring tracks running at BPM, the album was named as a
Mixmag ''Compilation of the Month'' for November.
As Bamford, he co-wrote the
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song "
All the Wrong Places", which peaked at number 13 in the
UK singles chart in 2013. In September 2016 his single produced with Steve Hill and Yoz, "Keep On Rockin", was named as ''Mixmag'' tune of the month.
In 2022 a track co-produced with Suae, "Dance With The Groove", was included on the compilation album ''Devotions: Chapter I''.
As of 2016, Bamford has moved to Australia.
Discography
See also
*
:Songs written by Technikal
References
External links
*
*
Interview with Alf Bamfordon HarderFaster.net
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Living people
21st-century British musicians
Year of birth unknown
British electronic dance music DJs
Tidy Trax artists