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Deeper than the abyss |
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| Location: | Solar System, |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Jul 13, 2008 (86 days back) |
About Me |
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| Very few artists can lay claim to the amount of diversity ASC shows. Although his forte is primarily drum & bass, ASC has never restricted his music to one particular style or genre. Growing up in Wolverhampton, London, and Bradford England, UK, James absorbed a wide variety of music and took his first steps into production and DJing at the age of 15. By 16 he had secured weekly shows on local pirate radio stations, and began to sequence music with a friend using the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga tracker packages. Soon enough he started playing small venues and later invested in a modest studio setup with his then studio partner Future Link. As the duo toiled away in the lab, building their production acumen and preparing to record demos, they were hit by a stroke of impossibly bad luck. While backing up the pair's progress with a ZIP drive, a virus unexpectedly wiped out the hard drive of their PC and all their music was lost. After a short break, James decided to go solo. Bouncing back quickly from the crippling hard-drive mishap, James put together a 7 track demo in 1999, for Nu Directions and revered label; Good Looking Records. The former label picked up 6 ASC tracks right away, and the latter picked up the remaining track, which was rinsed for a lengthy spell by the legendary LTJ Bukem. With a firm basis now established and material beginning to get signed to a number of international labels, it was only a matter of time before Nu Directions decided to release ASC's debut LP. Paying homage to the massively influential group Future Sound of London, James decided to name his debut album Environments ; a reference to FSOL's unreleased and long lost album by the same name. In fact, FSOL were so inspirational to James that he shortly created a new project, Intex Systems, in the tradition of that group's cutting edge musical experimentation. Under the guise of Intex Systems, James set out to write electronic music with no genre classifications. Subsequent drum & bass experiments were signed to NYC label Offshore Recordings, and a full length LP entitled Research & Development was released in 2006 on James' own Covert Operations imprint. Intex Systems is set to showcase the diversity and extent of James' production skills and represents his forays into soundtrack design. Recently adding the Mindspan name to his production arsenal, this has become a project for all things deep within the minimal techno field. Already gaining momentum with this guise, this indicates the wide array of ASC's production skills and once again showcases his diversity. Mutual respect between DJs and producers has seen James working with and remixing for veteran and new talent like Deep Blue, Blame, Psidream, Resound, Subwave, Future Engineers, Pariah, Deepflow, and G-Force. With his sound reaching far and wide, James has toured as a DJ across England, Australia, USA, Estonia, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium. If all this weren't enough to keep one busy, James also runs his own imprints, Covert Operations, and Cov Ops Ltd. Video of myself from my recent European tour 18/08/07 - ASC @ Sfinks, Sopot, Poland ASC - Earthtones. Thanks to Arcon2 for the video. ASC - The Rain. Thanks to Arcon2 for the video. Useful Links: ASC Site Intex Systems Microsite Solar Empire MySpace page Discography Covert Operations Covert Operations Online Store .. DON'T spam me with flyers and mixes and check my mates best friends dogs new tune and shit like that - your comments won't be approved. Use bulletins like everyone else. There's a ton of my own tracks which can be checked out on the Beatport player below. They can also be bought from Beatport aswell, as iTunes, AOL Music, and other stores. For exclusive ASC MP3 content, you need to visit the Covert Operations store at - http://store.cov-ops.co.uk |
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 4/3/2005Band Website: asc.cov-ops.co.uk / virb.com/asc Band Members: James Clements Influences: 808 State, The Prodigy, Blame, Odyssey, Future Sound Of London, Slowdive & Polar Check out the ASC website at: http://asc.cov-ops.co.uk Updated every month at least! New clips, blog, info, the works! Sounds Like: No one else. Record Label: Where to start... Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Drum & Bass) |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Release Update for 08 |
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| I thought I’d take the time to do a little informative update as to what I’ve got coming out this year. I was going to do this in some sort of chronological order, but this is drum &... Posted by ASC on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:15:00 PST |
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Mindspan - The Aeon Expanse - COVCD005 |
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| COVCD005 - Mindspan - The Aeon Expanse01 - Helion Prime02 - Co-axial 103 - Aleph04 - Sepia05 - Resource06 - Nova Ocean07 - Typem08 - Voyager09 - Contours10 - Co-axial 2ASC’s minimal/dub techno/a... Posted by ASC on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:18:00 PST |
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ASC Euro Tour - Postponed |
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| Due to circumstances beyond my control, I’ve had to postpone the upcoming tour in May. Just some brief information on why this has happened. As you may, or may not know, I am an E... Posted by ASC on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:04:00 PST |
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Sci-Files. Volume Three |
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| Covert Operations presents:Sci-Files. Volume ThreeASC - Offworld Tides Pt.II | FiresignASC continues the exciting Sci-Files project in fine fashion once again. His old classic, Offworld Tides, g... Posted by ASC on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:51:00 PST |
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Mindspan - The Aeon Expanse LP |
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| Since the label in question (regarding this release) has kind of just vanished on me, I've decided to do it on my own label, Covert Operations. The name of the LP, well you've read this blog tit... Posted by ASC on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:04:00 PST |
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Sci-Files. Volume Two. |
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| Covert Operations presents:Sci-Files. Volume TwoASC - Datura | EarthtonesSince there's no time like the present, we thought we would follow up the much praised 'Sci-Files. Volume One', with more... Posted by ASC on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:53:00 PST |
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Sci-Files. Volume One. |
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| Covert Operations presents:Sci-Files. Volume OneASC - The Rain | AuxiliaryCovert Operations are proud to present a new online only project - Sci-Files. In the current climate of the scene,... Posted by ASC on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:30:00 PST |
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ASC European Tour - April ’08 |
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| I'm planning another European tour for April of this year. I figure this time it should be a lot easier for those of you who expressed interest last time, as this tour won't be right in the midd... Posted by ASC on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:02:00 PST |
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Christmas greetings |
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| It's the obligatory Christmas greeting post!Happy holidays to each and every one of you. Thank you all for your continued support through out this year, and hopefully, 2008 will be even better.H... Posted by ASC on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:31:00 PST |
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Covert Operations Online |
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| V5 Online now. www.cov-ops.co.uk... Posted by ASC on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:30:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Christine Vaccine, Your Host... Aaron Myers, Polar, Covert Operations, Mindspan, Intex Systems, Solar Empire, Vaccine, Haze @ Red Mist, Method One, EHL, Third Rail of The Dark Judgez, Chris J, Mav @ Scientific, biene, ryan.srix, Signal, System, Kytel, Galaxi, Besk one™, Ruxpin, DaNNa X X xx Xx, ekonomix clothing, Future Engineers, T-ZO of The Dark Judgez, Vampire Records, betacut, KyRo, Stray'sBear, Indigo Sync, DYNAMIC, ALTERIA-MOTIVE, Wooleybooley, Gindros Zul Cassius, SVETLUX, Billy B, Red Devil, B.Fuse, Sven Nalis, Kodo, Jynx, Lukács, Mr. MikEY, wendy, AQUASION, Dj Vanilla, HYZEN / NOSURRENDER, Xsist(Phil), Nix, kRoNe, slider & expose, juschka, Masheen, Mellow Sonic, DJ Dezert Rat
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