Toby Hrycek-Robinson is a British producer, composer, and recording engineer from London, UK.

Biography

Hrycek-Robinson began his career in Germany where he spent time as a sound engineer working for

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and

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in Cologne's Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studios. By the early 1970s he had moved to Dieter Dierks' studio, where he recorded with a number of

krautrock Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electronic music, a ...

bands, including work on CAN’s '' Landed'' album in 1975. During this period he used spare studio time to experiment with visiting musicians, often working under pseudonyms such as "The Mad Twiddler" or "Genius P. Orridge". He also teamed up with

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artist

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, creating the mythological ''Pyramid'' label to release the tracks under names such as ''Cozmic Corridors'' and ''Golem''. Much of this material was eventually released on the ''Virgin'' and ''Psi-Fi'' Labels from 1996. After returning to Britain, he opened Moat Studios in London and worked with a wide range of avant garde and rock musicians including

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, and

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. He also engineered a series of recordings with Derek Bailey from the mid-1990s until Bailey’s death in 2015. Apart from his work with musicians, Hrycek-Robinson has composed the themes and incidental music for television, including a number of audio plays for

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Selected discography

Hrycek-Robinson served as producer or engineer on the following records: *1975: Can – '' Landed'' (Mixing) *1976: Pell Mell - ''Rhapsody'' (Engineer) *1998: Derek Bailey – ''Play Backs'' (Engineer) *1998: Derek Bailey – ''Tohjinbo'' (Engineer) *1999: Scarlet's Well – ''Strange Letters'' (Producer) *2000: Union Wireless – ''All Her Life'' (Producer) *2000:

– ''

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'' (Engineer) *2001: Bows – ''Cassidy'' (Producer) *2001: Derek Bailey and Shoji Hano - ''Fish'' (Engineer) *2001:

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– ''What Becomes Before'' (Engineer) *2001: Derek Bailey – ''Ore'' (Engineer) *2001: Pat Thomas – ''Nur: Solo Piano 1999#'' (Mastering) *2002: Scarlet's Well – ''The Isle of the Blue Flowers'' (Producer) *2002: Derek Bailey & Franz Hautzinger – ''Derek Bailey / Franz Hautzinger'' (Engineer) *2002: Derek Bailey – ''Ballads'' (Engineer) *2003: Ivar Grydeland / HISS – ''Zahir'' (Engineer) *2003: Rebel Powers (

and

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) – ''Not One Star Will Stand the Night'' (Engineer) *2003:

– ''Blemish'' (Engineer) *2006: Derek Bailey – ''To Play: The Blemish Sessions'' (Engineer) *2006: Joseph Holbrooke Trio – ''The Moat Recordings'' (Engineer) *2006:

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– ''Language Lessons'' (Producer) *2006: Mothers of Invasion /

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– ''Hot Rattlesnakes'' (Engineer) *2006:

– ''6 Billion People'' (Producer) *2008:

– ''Matachin'' (Mixing) *2014:

– '' I See You'' (Engineer) *2017: Can – ''The Singles'' (Mixing) *2020:

– ''Little Noises 1990-1995'' (Composer, Producer)

References

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