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Ian Boddy is one of the most important and influential virtuosos in the e-music community. He has been recording electronica since 1987 and has had two major labels for his releases. He founded Something Else Records as a vanity label strictly for his own music. He released at least 15 CDs on that label and became closely associated with Ron Boots and Kees Aerts as a "friend" of Groove Unlimited. They feature his music on their website and he has performed many concerts with them, one of which was recorded and released as a Groove CD, Phase Three.
In 1999, Boddy founded the DiN Records label. He bills them as "purveyors of fine contemporary electronica." He is the label's stud performer, but there are other artists in the discography.
Boddy made his initial impact as a pure Berlin school synthesist. He developed variations on that theme and began infusing his analog soundscapes with ambient atmospheres. He continues to embrace the Berlin school but his music can no longer be easily labeled as such. Boddy has stretched his wings and spread his influence to include to include ambient atmospheres and minimalism in his repertoire.
While it is always difficult to rate and rank music, Outpost, his collaboration with Robert Rich, is one of his finest CDs to date
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Ian Boddy is a British electronic musician and composer. In the early 1980s Boddy began experimenting at an Arts Council funded studio in Newcastle. This period resulted in 3 cassette releases on the Mirage label, which showcased Boddy's work with analogue synthesis and tape manipulation. "Images" (1980), "Elements of Chance" (1981) and "Jade". In 1983 boddy's first LP, The Climb, was released, followed by two more LPs, Spirits (1984) and Phoenix (1986). In 1989 Boddy released his first CD, Odyssey, on the Surreal To Real label, followed by Drive (1991). Following these releases, Boddy founded the Something Else Records label, releasing another 4 albums, "The Uncertainty Principle" (1993), "The Deep" (1994), "Continuum" (1996), "Rare Elements" (1997) and reissuing his first 3 LPs and one of his early cassettes, "Jade"(1992). On Something Else Records he also released 3 collaborations, "Symbiont" (1995) with Andy Pickford, "Phase 3" (1997) with Ron Boots and "Octane" (1998) with Mark Shreeve under the name of ARC. A cassette-only release of live recordings between 1980 and 1989 was also available for a short period. In 1999 he founded the DiN Records label.
More recent recordings have included:
"Box of Secrets" DiN1 (1999),"Distant Rituals" DiN2 (1999) with Markus Reuter,"Autonomic" DiN4 (1999) with Nigel Mullaney as Dub Atomica,"Caged" DiN5 (2000) with Chris Carter,"Radio Sputnik" DiN7 (2000) with Mark Shreeve as ARC,"Shrouded" Space For Music Records (2000) Live recording for Philadelphia,"Triptych" DiN9 (2001) with Markus Reuter and Nigel Mullaney,"Outpost" DiN11 (2002) with Robert Rich,"Aurora" DiN12 (2002),"Blaze" DiN15 (2003) with Mark Shreeve as ARC,"Chiasmata" DiN16 (2004),"Pure" DiN17 (2004) with Markus Reuter,"Moire" DiN18 (2005) with Bernhard Wostheinrich,"Arcturus" DiN19 (2005) with Mark Shreeve as ARC,"Jodrell Bank Concert" Space For Music Records (2002) with Markus Reuter. Live recording from 1999,"Lithosphere" DiN21 (2005) with Robert Rich,"Elemental" DiN25 (2006),"Fracture" Din26 (2007) with Mark Shreeve as ARC,"React" DiN29 (2008) with Robert Rich,"Slide" DiN31 (2008),"Dervish" DiN33 (2009) with Markus Reuter.Frontiers DIN39 (2012) with Erik WølloCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist}} template (see the help page).
