Ronin

Ears to the Future

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RONIN _-_ Ears to the Future

Welcome to the new Ronin site

Welcome to this, the new website for UK based audio/visual artist, underground media magnate, catalyst for hire and general trouble-maker RONIN. It comes in the form of a blog entitled Ears to the Future.
I've just got back from doing some small gigs in Japan - recordings are on the Audio page.

Ronin logotype

You can find out more about me on the others pages but in short: It all began in 1998 with the formation of the H.E.A.D.F.U.K. Sound System. Since then I've been putting tracks to wax and playing electronic dance music for the feet and the brain live as much as I can in the UK and Europe. Over the years the Headfuk Music Unkorporated label dwindled to it's now currently zero output and I generally became more and more focussed on producing music in the live set format. In a squat party, field or half-decent club is where I want to be heard - and so I tailor my music to work in that format.

Since 2008 I've also been dabbling in some VJ and DJ sets too which retain many of the techniques and aesthetics of my livesets. This is also slowly coming together in an audio/visual marriage - as my liveset is being developed to become one laptop for audio and another one synced and doing video output, all managed from the same set of MIDI controllers. Check the audio and video pages for some of my work in these areas, though I am notoriously bad at documenting my own work! 

 

Site update

After a lame second half of 2008 I'm trying to get my arse in gear. First of all, finally, a site update and new design! On the content side this means a new DJ set, the first recording of a new improvised live setup I've been beavering away on and I've dug up mp3s of the first and only solo vinyl release I did back in 2004 - the ill-fated Riot Squad label probably never got off the ground primarily due to this weird and confusing first release. Hardcore heads would be let-down by the two minimal electro tracks on there... likewise, the electro/breaks contingent would poop their undies when they flipped to the filthy broken beats on the other side. Anyway, s'not my fault - that's what I was making at the time and err, the world probably wasn't ready for it. I should have a big pile of 'em left somewhere, but I can't for the life of me find them. Ears to the future!

 

The Putsch project

I've also teamed up with some kindred to form PUTSCH, a new live and mostly improvised audio visual dubstep/breakcore project. We had a few wicked gigs in 2008, though we're still very much still forging our setup... you can check out a more recent audio recording BY CLICKING HERE or just GO HERE to check out the Putsch website.