Tom Middleton

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Tom Middleton

Tom Middleton (born 18 August 1971) is a British

United Kingdom

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recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ.

A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James

Aphex Twin

Richard David James , aka Aphex Twin, is an electronic musician who has been described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music." He founded the record label Rephlex Records in 1991 with friend Grant Wilson-Claridge....
(with whom he shares a birthday), co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the Analogue Bubblebath
Analogue Bubblebath

Analogue Bubblebath was the first Extended play released by electronic musician Aphex Twin and the first release in the Analogue Bubblebath series....
EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records

Mighty Force Records

Mighty Force Records was a record shop and influential early techno music record label based in Exeter, Devon, South West England between 1990 in music-1995 in music....
. This was followed by his first solo outing, "My Splendid Idea", under the name Schizophrenia for the same label.

Soon after, he teamed up with Mark Pritchard.

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Tom Middleton (born 18 August 1971) is a British

United Kingdom

Aphex Twin

Mighty Force Records

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988....
and ambient music

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses on the timbre characteristics of sounds, particularly organised or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality....
), Global Communication

Global Communication

Global Communication is an electronic music act, composed of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard . Their debut LP, 76:14 is one of the most acclaimed albums from the ambient music genre and from 1990s electronic music in general....
(primarily ambient), and Jedi Knights (electro funk

Electro (music)

Electro is a genre of electronic music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 and funk records. Records in the genre typically have electronic sounds and some vocals are delivered in a deadpan, mechanical manner, often through a Vocoder#Musical applications or other electronic distortion....
and house music

House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
), plus lesser-known aliases Chameleon and Link & E621. Global Communication's 1994 ambient album 76:14
76:14

76:14 is a 1994 ambient music album by Global Communication. Originally released on Dedicated , the album has been re-issued a number of times, most recently in 2005 in a remastered and expanded version....
is widely considered to be a landmark of the genre.

The pair also founded their own record label, Evolution, which is sometimes informally referenced as Evolution (Crewekerne) to differentiate it from other record labels with the same name. A compilation of early Evolution material was released jointly by Evolution and Warp Records

Warp Records

Warp Records is a pioneering independent United Kingdom record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in electronic music....
in 1995 as The Theory of Evolution. The label name later changed to Universal Language Productions and launched a sublabel, Heard, then became E3 before finally winding down operations. The labels launched early releases from artists such as Matthew Herbert

Matthew Herbert

Matthew Herbert ; also known by the anonyms Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, and Wishmountain; is an influential and critically acclaimed British electronic musician....
, as well as Middleton & Pritchard under their various guises.

Aside from Schizophrenia, Tom's solo projects include The Modwheel (experimental house music), Cosmos (progressive house music) and AMBA (ambient/classical). , Cosmos's "Take Me With You" was his most successful track. In Summer of 2007, Middleton abandoned the AMBA moniker, while still focusing on the ambient genre fusing classical traditions with electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing....
, featuring orchestral, choral and electro acoustic arrangements. A new EP, Excursions 1 was released on 10 September 2007 while the album Lifetracks

Lifetracks

Lifetracks is the debut solo album by respected United Kingdom electronica artist Tom Middleton, released in the UK on October 1 2007 and the United States on November 6 2007 ....
was released on Big Chill Recordings on 1 October 2007 under the name Tom Middleton.

He has also done a mix version of Rob Dougan

Rob Dougan

Rob Dougan, also known as Rob D is a genre-blending music composer. Mixing elements of orchestra, trip hop, and bluesy vocals, his work is tangentially relatable to electronic music....
's, "Clubbed To Death

Furious Angels

Furious Angels is the debut album by Rob Dougan, released in June 2002 in the United Kingdom and in July 2003 in the United States and Europe....
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Tom Middleton

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