Hide your record collection, Here comes The Unknown Stuntman

Armed with only a sampler, this guy has been terrorising the music world, breaking into people`s record collections, stealing the best the best bits, putting the end results onto the black market and then laughing as the public lap it up. He`s managed to get featured on 6 music with radio support from Zane Lowe to John Peel - now that is a sentence a lot of other musicians would love to have ascribed to them - not bad eh?

His sound is best described as a collage of many genres, but coming together to make one, using samples as arrangement rather than entertainment. ("See how clever I was mashing seven nation army with the theme to dads army?" does not apply here.) The sample heavy "The best of ... Everyone else" album featured below is very much as far away as you can get from that genre of ham fisted use of other peoples work. It hip hops all over the shop - only pausing the head bouncing for the cinematic "The Mailman" which got itself airplay on BBC 6music. It hints at more thoughtful, pastoral side to his music making than say "2000 kilos of Christ"

He also has a knack for titles too, you noticed yet?

On his remixes however, he favours the production side of things taking more of a front seat to the sampling, "Two headed boy" has more of a pure, clinical aesthetic to it - which is not something you hear on his current album. Talking of production, he`s been working with Billy Ray Martin (Yeah, electribe 101) and the results are out next week, and I`m very intrigued to find out just what they`ve done together. Not many women posses a voice that sounds so seductive - even over an electronic beat with no sexual lyrics.... not like Billy Ray. (Listen to "Your Loving Arms")

Another source of interest is that the mask never comes off. I haven`t a ******** clue who he is. I just hope he`s not my college jazz tutor, or my landlord. (one has a porn tache - the other, very little taste) We live in the same small city, and as musicians we`ve more than likely crossed paths over the years (cue twilight zone scary music) .. but fuck it - it`s been ages in music since we`ve had an element of mystery around an identity. Even Rupert Murdoch doesn`t even know ... and he`s fucking Australian!

So What`s up today is a mish mash of his works so far,there`s much more stuff out there that he`s done, but in the interest of keeping the page load time to a minimum - I`ll have to leave you wanting more - But... I`ve left you lot some links so you can get it for yourself.

On a more personal note, He`s had to go into hospital recently (due to a bong/gas mask accident) and is currently getting some well earned recovery time at home, so get well soon fella. (Or as we say in leeds "you lazy cunt, get out of bed and get back behind your mixing desk")

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