Fancy Mike

Working as a contemporary electronic producer, there are a number of restrictions that are implicitly placed upon you. The pressure to make the next banger or to provide a coherent successor to your last output can force people to look at the music in quite a clinical way. Formulas are worked out and the next batch of tunes are made in that way. However, without doubt it is the people that do their own thing regardless, the people for whom making music is a compulsion, a race against time to get the sounds out of their head, that make the impact that lasts beyond the next big dub. Fancy Mike is a member of the latter group, a self-confessed obsessive who painstakingly extracts the music from his head.

Music is an exploratory process, constantly working against his theoretical and technical limitations, he feels his way through his compositions getting them out of his head and onto record however he can. This auto-didactic approach perhaps explains the creative freedom with which his music is imbued. Built upon the work of 25 years of beat experimenters, his music soaks up elements of hip hop, house, dub and even some skewed pop sensibilities and filters them through the nuances of tv and film soundtracks. With an array of influences that ranges from Brian Eno and Philip Glass to Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, this broad and fluent musical context informs the depth and vision of his music.