Neutron 9000

Neutron 9000 was one of several projects helmed by British techno and ambient producer Dominic Woosey. Over three full-lengths (from 1990's The Green House Effect to 1994's Lady Burning Sky) and a handful of singles and EPs, Woosey moved from ambient house and bleep techno to the more cerebral side of early trance. He also released an album under his own name, two as Mysteries of Science, and numerous compilation tracks.

Woosey began releasing solo material as Neutron 9000 in 1990, with the lush ambient techno full-length The Green House Effect and the more club-ready 9000 AD EP both appearing on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Profile+Records%22">Profile Records</a>. He also recorded every track on the Subsonic Bleeps compilation, under different aliases. Woosey remixed songs by <a href="spotify:artist:7Fo8TAyGJr4VmhE68QamMf">Talk Talk</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:31obJnEmHX81bUzzfLAiM6">Test Dept.</a>, and Effective Force, and Neutron 9000's second full-length, Walrus, appeared in 1991. More vocal-driven than the first album, the album featured tracks co-produced by Aaron Greenwood and Matthew Denny, as well as a Kevin Shields guitar credit (a riff from <a href="spotify:artist:3G3Gdm0ZRAOxLrbyjfhii5">My Bloody Valentine</a>'s "Soon" was used in the song "In Heaven"). The project also released the harder, more trance-driven Back with a Vengeance single. Continuing to explore the fledgling genre, Neutron 9000 and the Mysteries of Science (another Woosey moniker) released the Tranceplant EP on Berlin's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22MFS%22">MFS</a> label in 1992. Under his own name, Woosey released an ambient solo album, Straylight, on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Recycle+or+Die%22">Recycle or Die</a>. He wrote or co-write nearly every track on the United Frequencies of Trance series, which put out six volumes during 1992 and 1993. As Neutron 9000, he remixed tracks by <a href="spotify:artist:5TQaBSTOSypp7S4jfSnN3F">Sven Väth</a>, M-Age, and <a href="spotify:artist:2DiecQcRbDuSJuSPKtirrX">Buck Tick</a>, and released a third album, Lady Burning Sky, on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Rising+High%22">Rising High</a> in 1994.

Two Mysteries of Science albums appeared on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Instinct+Ambient%22">Instinct Ambient</a>, but Woosey disappeared from the music scene around 1995. In 2021, Lady Burning Sky was reissued by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Turbo%22">Turbo</a>, whose founder, Canadian DJ/producer <a href="spotify:artist:5l9wiTZVfqQTfMDOt0HtwC">Tiga</a>, had met Woosey on a trip to Europe during his early clubbing days. A <a href="spotify:artist:1EULJuDFWpZ9xg4YwtUGGt">Daniel Avery</a> remix of the album's title track was also released. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi