remixer and producer tone396 has featured extensively on radio and music television channels around the world. early mixes as ultra396 brought him to the attention of the makers of MTV’s Mash show who commissioned the production of 5 exclusive mixes, two of which achieved daytime playlisting in Europe and Asia as well as becoming two of Germany’s most requested music videos of last year! his mixes have also been aired on UK music TV stations Kiss TV and Q.
half-hour mixes of 396 tunes have been broadcast on XFM, Oui FM in Paris and Juniradio 104.1 FM in Berlin, his material has been heard everywhere from Hong Kong to New Zealand to Czechoslovakia as well as on The UK’s Radio One, London’s XFM, San Francisco’s live105 and LA’s Indie 103.1.
But these days spends more time producing & being one half of Version Big-Fi.
01. Prelude
02. When The Bedshapes
03. Take A look At Me Now Jimmy Dean
04. I Can See The Free World
05. Stay Till September Ends
06. How Did It Feel For You Baby
07. Cream A Cab
08. Coffee Interlude
09. Fire In A Bottle
10. Noh Much Of A Surprise
11. Patti Cries
12. Indie Boot
13. Tone Meets The SFA At The End Of The World
14. A Burning Forest (V2)
Orchestrated by: Tone396
Artists sampled in the making of this album include:
10cc, Cream, Slade, Keane, The Who, The Jam, Tone396, The Ruts, The Cure, Fratellis, Radiohead, Lionrock, Green Day, The Police, Supergrass, Neil Young, The Beatles, Patti Smith, Lionel Bart, David Essex, Alison Hinds, Led Zeppelin, Stereophonics, Kings of Leon, The Automatic, Patrice Rushen, Godley And Creme, Shakespears Sister, Super Furry Animals, Pop Will Eat Itself & Linton Kwesi Johnson … some more than others.
… a few are straight forward mashups others are closer to being remixes whist some are just exercises in “audio manipulation”, but most are a mixture of the three