Music Not Safari The Emperor Machine

• 1 C.C. 04:42
• 2 What You Need 05:48
• 3 House des Lowe 05:20
• 4 Moscow Not Safari 04:20
• 5 Stiff Poly 05:09
• 6 Danse Blanc 04:46
• 7 Function 05:16
• 8 You Two 05:23
• 9 TwoVoice 05:29
• Total Runtime 46:13

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Andy Meecham is a long-time stalwart who remains unconventional and inventive in all he does. He hasvbeen dazzling dancefloors for years as ​The Emperor Machine ​with his synth-heavy, tough edged andvpsyched-out disco beats on ​DFA, Phantasy and ​Skint Records​, and has a musical history dating back to thevUK’s acid house explosion as part of ​Bizarre Inc. and latterly ​Chicken Lips. His grooves are tough and designed for dancing but are always full of space-age cinematic details that make them stand out from the crowd. That is also true when serving up one of his unique live shows; few conjure the sort of soundscapes as ​The Emperor Machine​, and for that reason, he has been a hit at ​Craig Richards’ Houghton festival and is the only live artist to have been invited back twice to the bi-annual ‘Revolting‘ party ​Berghain’s ​infamous Lab.oratory. In the studio, he has collaborated to critical acclaim with the likes of ​Erol Alkan as ​Future Four​, and picked up high profile support along the way from DJ’s including ​Andrew Weatherall, The Black Madonna, Francois K and ​Laurent Garnier, to name just a few. Across his latest full length, he once again runs a gamut of styles with a true sense of studio flair few can match, making ​‘Music Not Safari’ ​a truly unique listening experience.

Opener '​C.C.​' is a colourful synth opus, with skyward chords and disco beats all getting you up on your toes. The shimmering synths continue on '​What You Need​', which has hip swinging claps and perfectly squelchy boogie bass that goes back to the future. Recent single, '​House Des Lowe​' is full of trickery, reverb, and peerless sound designs, with its rubbery bass and elastic grooves all lit up by darting chords and dancing percussive patterns.

Andy Meecham aka The Emperor Machine
Unlike many of his peers during Britain’s rave revolution, Andrew Meecham wasn’t particularly interested in partying. His passion was, and remains, electronic music production.

Meecham started playing around with synthesizers and samplers in his bedroom as a teenager. When he and friend Chris Peat managed to talk themselves into a job at Blue Chip Studios in Stafford in the mid 1980s, it brought them into contact with local DJs and aspiring producers Dean Meredith and Mark Archer. Between them, the quartet was responsible for producing a number of early acid house and UK techno releases, before Meecham and Meredith joined forces as Bizarre Inc, and Archer and Peat formed Altern-8. Both outfits went on to produce some of the most successful and memorable dancefloor anthems of the rave era.

After a bad experience with a major label, Bizarre Inc called it a day in 1996. Meecham began recording solo under the Sir Drew alias, before joining forces with Meredith once more as Chicken Lips. Under the alias, the duo earned a reputation for producing stripped-back, dubbed-out disco influenced by the musical melting pot that was New York in the early 1980s. They scored a number of dancefloor hits, including runaway success story “He Not In.”

Since 2003, the main focus of Meecham’s solo work has been The Emperor Machine, a project born out of his love for vintage sequencers, early modular electronica and obscure library music. To date, there have been four Emperor Machine albums, as well as countless singles on D.C. Recordings, Internasjonal and Southern Fried Records.

DJ History: In 2013, Meecham sat down with DJ History’s Bill Brewster to talk through his career to date, focusing in particular on the rise and fall of Bizarre Inc, Chicken Lips’ unexpected success and his life-long love of synthesizers.

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