Tom Middleton

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Middleton at Glastonbury Festival 2009
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Sleep Better
  UK 41 March 29, 2018 (1 week)

Tom Middleton (born August 18, 1971 ) is a British musician, DJ, remixer and record producer, who also became known under pseudonyms like Schizophrenia or E621 .

Together with the musician Mark Pritchard , he has published several albums and singles since 1992 under project names such as Global Communication , Jedi Knights , Link & E621 and Reload .

Life and career

After studying classical music on the piano and cello, Middleton began to focus more on electronic music in 1989. In the same year he met Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin . With this he recorded, among other things, the piece En Trance To Exit , which appeared on the Aphex twin single Analogue Bubblebath in 1991 . In the same year, Middleton's first own single, My Splendid Idea, appeared under the pseudonym Schizophrenia

Middleton became known to a larger audience through his collaboration with the musician Mark Pritchard . First, both released under the project name Reload , which was originally a solo project of Pritchard. The first joint releases such as The Reload EP or The Biosphere EP , the jointly produced pieces were still labeled as Reload & E621 . Soon, however, Middleton became an integral part of the project and the album A Collection Of Short Stories was only released in 1993 under the name Reload .

At the same time, the duo founded the ambient project Global Communication , which was best known for the album 76:14 , which was released on Dedicated in 1994 . The album received mostly good to very good reviews and was described by the critics of The Guardian as an “unfathomably beautiful, timeless masterpiece” on the list of 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die .

Middleton and Pritchard turned to electro in 1995 with the Jedi Knights project . In the same year the single May The Funk Be With You was released on Clear and in 1996 the album New School Science on Evolution. Between 1997 and 1999 three more singles followed as Jedi Knights .

In 2006 the Reload project released a new album called Evolution . The following year, Middleton's solo album, Lifetracks, was released.

Middleton also released numerous DJ mixes and presented various compilations, such as the Crazy Covers series , which deals with unusual cover versions . He is also known as a prolific remixer who has released well over a hundred remixes both solo and with Pritchard.

Discography

Solo albums

  • 2007: Lifetracks (Big Chill Recordings)
  • 2011: Glasstracks (Big Chill Recordings)
  • 2018: Sleep Better (UMC)

Singles & EPs

  • 1991: Schizophrenia - My Splendid Idea (Mighty Force)
  • 1996: The Mod Wheel - Spiritcatcher (Evolution / Universal Language Productions Ltd.)
  • 1997: The Mod Wheel - Destination Morocco (Heard)
  • 1997: The Mod Wheel / Earthtribe - Optimystic / Stranger (Global Headz)
  • 1999: Tom Middleton - A Jedi's Night Out (DMC Publishing)
  • 1999: Tom Middleton - A Jedi's Night Out (DMC Publishing)
  • 2004: Freeland , Wink & Middleton - Rise Above (Marine Parade)
  • 2007: Tom Middleton - Excursions 1 (Big Chill Recordings)
  • 2008: Tom Middleton - Remember The Love (The IMS Anthem 2008) (iO Music)
  • 2009: Tom Middleton - Hypnotizer (Urbantorque)
  • 2009: Tom Middleton - Kalahari (precious | music)
  • 2010: Tom Middleton presents The Chiswick Reach All Stars - Nutsin (Mukatsuku Records)
  • 2011: Tom Middleton - Gliding (Urbantorque)

Remixes (selection)

  • 1997: Fluke - Slid (Modwheel Mix)
  • 1997: The Beloved - The Sun Rising (Tom's Drum & Bass Mix)
  • 1998: Pulp - Party Hard (Tom Middleton Vocal Remix)
  • 1999: Incognito - It Ain't Easy (Tom Middleton Cosmos Remix)
  • 2000: Ian Pooley - 900 Degrees (Tom Middleton Cosmos Party Mix)
  • 2000: Mandalay - Not Seventeen (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix)
  • 2001: Goldfrapp - Utopia (Tom Middleton's Cosmos Acid Dub)
  • 2001: Jamiroquai - You Give Me Something (Cosmos Deep Space Mix)
  • 2002: Röyksopp - Remind Me (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix)
  • 2002: Gotan Project - Santa Maria (Tom Middleton's Cosmos Mix)
  • 2002: Tiga & Zyntherius - Blue Sunglasses (The Tom Middleton Cosmos Re-Edit)
  • 2004: Kylie Minogue - Chocolate (Tom Middleton Mix)
  • 2004: Faithless - Mass Destruction (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix)
  • 2005: Bebel Gilberto - Simplesmente (Tom Middleton Balearic Mix)
  • 2005: Sia - Numb (Tom Middleton's Cosmos Mix)
  • 2005: Schiller - Ruhe (Tom Middleton Remix)
  • 2006: Mighty Dub Katz - Guaguanco (Tom Middleton Remix)
  • 2007: Mika - Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) (Tom Middleton Remix)
  • 2008: The Verve - Love Is Noise (Tom Middleton Remix)
  • 2008: The Feeling - I Thought It Was Over (Tom Middleton Mix)
  • 2009: Orbital - Halcyon (Tom Middleton Re-Model)
  • 2009: Bent - Beautiful Otherness (Tom Middleton Remix)
  • 2010: Dave Seaman - Triangle & Strings (Tom Middleton Mix)
  • 2010: Music Go Music - Light Of Love (Tom Middleton Club Mix)
  • 2011: Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now (Tom Middleton Cosmos Remix)
  • 2011: Robert Babicz - Beautiful (Tom Middleton Liquatech Remodel)
  • 2012: Orbital - New France (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix)
  • 2012: Saint Etienne - Popular (Tom Middleton Cosmos Remix)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Middleton in the UK charts
  2. ↑ 1000 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die at guardian.co.uk, accessed October 27, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Middleton, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES E621 (pseudonym); The Mod Wheel (pseudonym); Schizophrenia (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician, DJ, remixer and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1971