Biography
Maurice Bakes and Simon Noble.
Biography according to Simon Noble:
"I began producing music in the early 90's after spending four years in the Army. Following a brief six month music technology course in Huddersfiled I began work as a recording engineer/programmer at Spirit Studios in Manchester, UK at the same time I was having the time of my life at Raves all over the country.
As well as being a rehearsal room for the likes of “The Smiths” and “The Happy Mondays” Spirit Studios was renowned for outputting Electronic classics such as Hardcore Uproar by Together, Pacific 202 by 808 State and Candy Flip's Strawberry Fields. This place was heaven for me, studios all over the shot, loads of like minded people around and Ten Cafe Bar upstairs to host the social side of things.
At Spirit I began learning and nurturing my studio skills and soon found myself producing, engineering and co-writing on many records such as rave classic “Don't Go” by Awesome 3, Take Me Away by Mix Factory and “Let the Bass Kick” by 2 for Joy. During this period, many nights and studio downtime were put to good use experimenting with my own ideas and sounds.
In 1993 I began collaborating with Manchester DJ, Welly as Rebound and Void releasing records such as "Make it Funky Now EP" and "Orcana" on Manchester Underground Records. We also did remixes such as “Who Can Make Me Feel Good” by the Bassheads. I also spent a lot of qaulity time with best mate Doug McCourt (see friends Idiotek, Kenzo) experimenting, trying out new things and generally avin a right buzz, we'd lay down a groove in 10 minutes and then dance to it for an hour. We finished a few tracks and released them as The Wickermen, Pipeline(Fantastic Records) was the best one.
This period of my life came to a close in 1998 when I left Manchester and moved to Leeds to set up my own recording studio.
Not long after my own studio was setup in late 1998 I was introduced to a guy who owned a record shop in Cambridge. His name was Rowan Blades. With Rowan I would go on to write and produce for the next two years under the guise “Breeder”. As Breeder we tried to create peak-time progressive house floor-fillers, and our aim was to make them rock and be good enough so that Sasha and Digweed would play them.
The first tunes we wrote were "The Chain " and “Twilo Thunder”,we gave them directly to Sasha and John Digweed and for over a year,they played them around the world at clubs such as Twilo in New York and Tyrant in London. After the release of Sasha’s legendary Global Underground 009 San Francisco compilation which featured “The Chain” and “Twilo Thunder” the demand for these records began to reach fever pitch and as a result we finally released "The Chain" in 1999 followed by "Twilo Thunder" a few months later. These two releases sold in excess of 25,000 copies world-wide.
More singles such as "New York FM" and "Tyrantanic" followed as well as popular Breeder remixes for Orbital (Nothing Left), Evolution (Phoenix), Grace (Its not Over), BrotherBrown(Under The Water)and Tilt(Children).
Unfortunately due to differences of opinion and other issues Breeder split in late 2000, this culminated in the downfall of Rhythm Syndicate Records and Breeder were relagated to the has beens and the could have beens, a big big shame. However five years on myself and Rowan have recently made contact with each other, expressed our sincere apologies for being a couple of knob-eds and have even discussed getting back in the studio. We always had a right laff in the studio, and Rowan was a hungry fucka like me so who knows.
Probably my most successful tune to date has to be "Hoochi Koochi Man" by Maurice and Noble which I wrote and produced with good mate Maurice Bakes in 2003. This tune was our second release after "Faith Delivers"(Distintive records 2002) and gained many accolades such as Pete Tong's Essential New Tune at the 2003 Miami Winter Music Conference, Pete Tong’s tune of the summer 2003(FHM Magazine), No1 in the Buzz chart, No1 in the coolcuts chart, plays by Sasha worldwide including Glastonbury, featured on DeepDish's Global Underground 025 compilation and was finally released on Loaded Records (Skint) in 2004 marking their 100th release. As well as these two releases Maurice & Noble remixed "Fouk"-T:EMPO,"Everyone Else"-Canteen,"Twisted"-Dreamcatcher and "Cabaret"-Morel.
Since 1999, I have enjoyed many trips over to Orlando Florida to work and collaborate with good buddy Bill Hamel (see friends) as Mezz. Last year I went over to Bill's and while I was there I met these two guys James and Art from a Florida based band called Spacebar (see friends). Anyways me, Bill, Art and James spent a few days in Bill's studio and wrote a couple of tracks.One is called "Things Change", it's still a demo as we wrote and recorded it in one day, it's a cool tune, check it out and see what you think!! Hopefully I will be returning to Florida soon to collaborate with them on some new stuff and finish off "Things Change"
I am currently working on some new stuff with Alex Van Spall (new wicked upcoming DJ from Leeds, defo one to look out for), early days yet so no project name, will post some of our stuff here soon so hit me with some feedback if ya get chance when you hear it.
Off traveling the world soon to write some solo stuff on the laptop (probably some glitchy fucked up groovas), learn how to surf and work on these film project ideas that have been occupying my mind for some time now.
Anyways, I'm only going to put up tracks here that are unreleased and unsigned , coz I need some feedback and I need people to tell me its good or really good or maybe to rip it up and start again. There are no tunes yet as I've only just got into this myspace malarkey but please return coz there will be soon
So….peace t ya all…..ayeeeeeeeeee!x!x!x!x!
My projects: Breeder, Maurice & Noble, Mezz(with Bill Hamel), Rebound(with Welly), Redbak, Void, 2Heds(with Doug McCourt),The Wickermen, Drunken terrorists."
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