Astral

Raised in East London and now residing in Hove East Sussex this is the new project of AL Bloomfield.
With a 20 year break but still obsessed with small Synths, Drum Machines and Modules.
His first collaboration was with Ant Miles and Andy C under the name of Tyranny with tracks called Off me Head and Overthrown and released on his own label called Music Project Records.
Then he went on to Manage N-JOI for two years travelling to all ends of the World listening to lot's of amazing Dance Music.
Then thanks to Solomon Parker he became a Music agent at Concorde International Artistes where he worked for six years booking various bands and DJ's. He was the world wide agent for Scooter and used to DJ on their shows. Other Artistes included Jimmy Somerville, Empirion , DJ Jamie Smart ,Liquid and label tours for XL Recordings, Positva and React Records.
Farley Jack Master Funk taught him to DJ as came in from Chicago on early flights and stayed at his flat before the office opened.
He started to DJ with contacts in the Business and became a resident DJ at the Dogstar Brixton and Megatripolis at Heaven in Charing Cross London plus many festivals for Megadog.
The next release would see a new label called Grand Prix Headphone recordings with vinyl called Tripping Monks and Earth God.
Some remixing followed with his friend Wayne Garnett under the name of Silicone Beats where they Re mixed Pump up the Jam by Technotronic and A star is Porn  by Clubfoot.
He was approached by Zip Dog Records to write a tune for their Club Meets Dub series so he delivered a tune called Prophet a Man under his own name which was released on vinyl and CD.
A visit to GAK Music in Brighton 2018 re lit the fuse and Ableton software and a keyboard was purchased and over the months added many affordable mini synths and drum machines were added such as the Korg Volcas , uno synth and drum, Arturia Mini brute plus Roland TB3 Tr8 JU06A and Electron Model Samples and Cycles. Modal Craft 2.0. Bastyl  Microgranny.
Alan always had a life long ambition to do an album so he set about to write.
Most of his tunes are themed based with his love of Strings, pads, beats and samples. The album called influences was completed Feb 2020 with Paul Hardcastle, Orbital and all Dance Music being inspirational.  Second album called reflections completed in May 2020.  
More albums are to follow this year on Model Cycles and samples by Electron with the amazing Corbin Sounds doing the arrangement, production and mixing as well as Jim Corbin being an incredible Ableton teacher. The fifth album called Combinations will be released on 14th July 2020. Then the Korg Volca Album in August 2020.  Then an album called Synthesizers released in September 2020 followed by the Roland MC 101 Album around October.  
Mini Synth Collective play out at small open mike nights for fun Dawless just using the on board sequencers and continue to look at new hardware which is small yet powerful in Sound and features.

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Music is the only thing that makes us breathing

Steven Curtin is a Wisconsin born Detroit area musician/engineer/psychologist, who started building his own modular analog synthesizers in the late 70s and continues building and playing hybrid digital-analog electronic music instruments.  One possible description of his sound output is experimental ethno ambient with an old school meets newer school approach.  He also plays bass, including fretless and upright, and anything else with strings that doesn't run the other direction, guitar looping etc, and plays Djembe, Doumbek, and Bodhran in various drum circles. For the past several years he's been playing and studying the ancient Mbira, learning and communicating with a teacher and Mbira builder in Zimbabwe Africa.

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