The sonic brotherhood of Erol Alkan and Richard Norris. Strange things are still happening.

www.richardnorris.bandcamp.com
Richard Norris is a musician and producer based in London, currently working on a series of ambient/deep listening/experimental releases on the Group Mind label. He showcased this music at Nile Rodgers' Meltdown Festival on the Southbank, London, on August 7th supporting Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, playing the music from Stranger Things.
His work includes co-producing the 1988 album 'Jack the Tab' one of the first UK acid house records, which resulted in an appearance on the cover of NME. A record deal with Warners as the Grid followed, with Soft Cell's Dave Ball. The Grid produced 10 hit singles and 3 albums, including the million selling 'Swamp Thing'.  Norris subsequently collaborated with a number of artists, including Joe Strummer and Robert Fripp. His work with Erol Alkan as Beyond The Wizards Sleeve resulted in many well regarded edits and remixes. The BTWS album 'The Soft Bounce' was a Rough Trade record of the year.
He has also produced albums and mixes as solo psych project The Time and Space Machine, remixing many artists including Warpaint, Tame Impala, Brian Eno, Noel Gallagher and Erasure. His Group Mind label has regular releases via Bandcamp, streaming and independent record shops, and a Bandcamp subscription service with regular vinyl, CD and download releases.
The Grid have recently signed to BMG and will be releasing new music and playing live dates in 2024. His memoir 'Strange Things Are Happening' is published by White Rabbit on 21st March 2024.

contact - rgtnorris@gmail.com

www.mute.com

Mute was founded by Daniel Miller in 1978, and since then has signed and developed some of the world’s most influential recording artists – including Goldfrapp, Liars, Moby, M83, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Laibach, Yeasayer and Richard Hawley – and become home to a crop of emerging talent and recent signings such as Cold Specks, Polly Scattergood, Big Deal, Beth Jeans Houghton, Josh T. Pearson and Apparat.

Whilst maintaining a firmly eclectic roster, from the earliest days of The Normal, Fad Gadget and DAF through to the techno era with artists such as Plastikman / Richie Hawtin and Speedy J, and to the present day with electronic artists such as Diamond Version and Maps, the label has always been a champion of electronic music.

Mute is also home to the catalogue of a host of seminal artists such as Can and Cabaret Voltaire.

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The Time and Space Machine released their second album 'Taste The Lazer' on Tirk in 2012, and are following this with a third album for 2013. The band are supporting this with UK and European festival dates, and a EP entitled 'Magic Hour' (featuring Cornershop remix) will be released this Spring. The band is a 5 piece (drums, guitar, bass, Hammond/Keys, guitar/vocals), including Richard Norris (vox/guitar), Richie Crago (guitar), Stuart Carter (bass), Craig Mathewson (drums) and Craig Warnock (Farfisa/Space Echo/Korg).
The first album 'Set Phazer To Stun' was a Rough Trade album of the month and made the 2010 Top 100 Rough Trade albums of the year.

The live band features mind altering oil wheel and projections. Set Phazer To Stun...

Live gig bookings - A Giant Leap - monica.m@agiantleap.net

Band Contact - richardwired@hotmail.com

Websites - www.ttasm.com
www.setphazertostun.blogspot.co.uk

Live dates - 

March 16 - Manchester Band On The Wall
May 24 - Meadowlands Festival, Glyne, Sussex


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