Meltwater - Music

I have always loved music. Despite not having much actual rhythm or musical ability, I have over the years tried making the kind of music I like listening too. It's quite lucky really. I love my music rough, experimental, Lo Fi and full of soul. Technique is nothing, spirit is everything! Just as well, as I am truly not capable of making anything more than that.

Influences over the years have included: The Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, Suicide, The Stooges, King Tubby, Mogwai, MC5, John Cale, Kitchens of Distinction, His Name Is Alive, Chemical Brothers, New Kingdom, Beastie Boys, Ice, Coil, Gaye Bykers On Acid, Loop, Sonic Youth and many more...

Starting at the begining, these are the music making ventures I have been involved in, click on each one to find out more about them. I can't be bothered to go into detail like discographies and the like, but there is some nice art work to look at, and often, you can get a taste by following the links to www.mp3.com and listening to the music I have up there (let them pay for the bandwidth...)

Charlie Brown (1989 - 1992)
Charlie Brown posters

Young, dumb and full of passion. We all learnt together, we developed together and we did some good gigs and made some raw and energetic music. Some record label interest (Rough Trade) briefly then I left to go on to college and Matthew and Lee left to form Jack.

Kung Fu Eddie And The Eggs And Bacon Man (1991)

Posthumously named noise monkeys. Myself and occasional Charlie Brown rhythm guitarist Chris Nurse spent a summer playing with cheap Casio samplers, a drum machine, primitive multi track recording and an experimental wander lust...

Meltwater (1998 - 2002?)
Designs and artwork

A mainly solo project with little skill but plenty of ideas. Later it expanded and we actually had a little bedroom band going for a wee while. Lo Fi punk and post rock experimentation.

DJ Dio Bach (2002 - present)

PC based loops and music in an attempt to fill the void the demise of Meltwater has left. Only one track at present, but there will be more one day... One day.