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Futurist Robotica Electronica. Dance based underground original subvert trance. Melancholy and memorable pop chorus's combined with a foreboding, relentless and minimalist bass heavy trance. Prolific and studio savvy, the Chrono Logic explore conceptual album release's, live PA's, multimedia, film scoring and music production/ composition for like minded solo artists both known and unknown. Influences are broad. Underworld (Dubnobass era), Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Eno, Infected Mushroom, Daft Punk, Klaus Schultz, Pet Shop Boys, Kraftwork, My Bloody Valentine, Massive Attack, Goa, Marilyn Manson, the Streets, and Pink Floyd. Conceptual comic strip story based albums. Think Underworld meeting Pink Floyd on a trip into deep dark space and landing at a festival near you with full intent to blow your mind.

1. - Could you tell us a bit about your musical backgrounds?

Slade - I grew up in Kansas in the USA and when 18 moved to Seattle
for Audio Production school. I have always played electronics and
have grown up on German electro and more progressive wierdness that my
father threw my way. I fall by it honestly.

Dean I'm a self taught musician. Left school with zero qualifications aged 14. I play Bass Drums Guitar and Keyboards and programm / engineer. I've always been interested in studio recording /production. I've world toured with The Eurythmics 81/83 as a bass player as well as recording most of the bass on the their albums Touch and Be YourSelf Tonight. World tours with Sinead O Conner circa Nothing Compares To U era as well as studio recordings. Ian Dury (Godlike genius and sadly missed) for tours of Japan and theatre work at the Royal Court Theatre London. Have also worked with Bryan Ferry, Michael Kamen, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, Hugh Masakela, Feargal Sharkey, Tom Petty and Bomb The Bass. Founder member of Curve a critically acclaimed and influencial 90's alternative electronic rock band. I wrote all of the music and co produced 7 albums and numerous eps and B Sides. Toured the world with Curve. Have worked extensively with mixers and producers Alan Moulder, Flood, Tim Simenon, Steve Osbourne, and Ben Grosse. I've always been and continue to be a very studio based electronica driven musician. I started out working on a quarter inch 2 track machine using sound on sound overdub techniques onto 4 track 8 track 16 /24 track analogue recorders/systems and currently use Pro Tools and a Mac computer.

2. - Did you play in any bands/groups in the past?

Slade- I have always done solo works under numerous names and have
had releases under them. I was always much more dance based along
the lines of club and raves rather than venue, festival and release
though. I really enjoy doing what I am doing now with TCL much more
than what I have done in the past. Without the past I wouldn't
appreciate what i've got here though .

Dean See above






3. - What age did you get into the world of electronic production?
Slade- I remember always playing piano and doing full arrangements
for my parents at age 5 or 6, but nothing special. I then remember
receiving my first guitar and cheap keyboard and FX pedal around the
ages of 11 or 12. I then started making as many wierd sounds as I
possibly could.. fucked up alien stuff... I love textures. I really
have been born an electro head thanks to my father.... so its only
what feels right....

Dean Around the age of 14 when I got my hands on my first 2 track recorder. From there it's been an ongoing discovery re all things music and electronic. I've always been very hands on when in the studio. I'm very interested with how things work. I became completely convinced with electronica around the time of working with Eurythmics as they have a very similar approach and attitude to me as I was discovering before working with them. Dave used very old school synths and the first computer driven drum machine I had ever seen. Can't remember what it was but from that moment I just fell in love with the sound feel and scope of the beat machine...from there I went on to discover samplers and sequencers and smpte time code. The first sampler I had could sample for 2 seconds...I made very good use of those 2 seconds.

4. - How did you get into the organic "Underworld" style trance/electronica you currently produce?

Slade- I have always loved Underworlds view on the scene and the
style. I by no means sound too much like them though, or try be too
much like them, but it does not matter who you are or what genre you
may be playing, but you will always kind of follow your inspirations
as a young boy and it will come out in your music. I do like
Underworld....but we are much more trance and funky flare based all in
all and with a more of a contemporary feel.

Dean Underworld made a seminal dance crossover record Dubnobass which still sounds great today. The feeling around that time was unique, people were into new drugs and that reflected and moved through the music. Similar to the way the crazed LSD music of the 60's worked but just bought into the contemporary setting of the 90's. Something about the blending of trance and real instruments along with a vocalist made the record stand out. We do have elements of Underworld as they were a focus for both of us when we started writing, along with Eno and elements of The Pet Shop Boys, Daft Punk and Kraftwerk.






5. - Who are musical inspirations of the past and current?

Slade- Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Underworld, Prince, Gary
Numan, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, too
many more to name (those are just some that stand out and they are in
no certain order).

Dean The Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, T. Rex, Captain Beefheart, Mowtown, James Brown, Funkadelic, Talking Heads, Underworld, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Burt Bacharach, Chet Baker, Air, Portishead, Massive Attack, The Streets, Marilyn Manson, Sex Pistols, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Bowie, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim, The Doors, Spiritualized, The Strokes, White Stripes, Beck, Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeahs, Hunter S Thompson and recently I'm enjoying The Noizettes and Bloc Party....

6. - You speak of performing live as Chrono Logic in the near future,
when will this begin and have you got any idea of where and how you
will be playing?

Slade- Right now we are getting things squared out with labels and a
release. Once we have the support and the ideas we want, we are close
to ready to go... we would like to played out all over the map. I
see us as more of a "festival, one outing" kind of group, with some
touring. I am up for anything though . We are currently working
with a film guy from New York, USA (Alexandros) and that is looking to
maybe end up being for our live performance and visual arts concept,
we will see where it all goes as we move on. We are definantly a
conceptual art group.

Dean Touring with the Chrono Logic would simply be one of the best things that could ever happen to me. Given the chance I know we would be visually and sonically second to none. That sounds very arrogant and boastful but I truly believe taking into account us as people and what we are capable of and how we see it working I'm sure anyone who likes electronic music would agree and that's without the drugs...

7. - What about emotion and expression? Do you try to move your
listeners?

Slade-Vocally, not so much at a first glance... but once you get the
idea of what our ideas are about... you understand the feeling that
the person must be going through as he leaves his home for an
intergalactic journey... we paint a picture that is more intergalactic
along lines with the music. We move listeners with tone and melody
along with the words coming second to give you the emotional drive
rather than words leading then music layered behind. We do have a
strong attitude and emotional thread in our music. You can sit and
listen with a whole picture playing in your head, or you can dance the
night away (or both). We leave it all up to the listener... there're
no barriers. It is very cyber, but still, the human qualities are
there enough to be related to by anyone and has a very poppy vibe to
it. I even get a watery eye sometimes when listening to some of the
melody and such depending on what mood I am in...it sometimes hits
home and it feels very strong and moving in some mind frames more than
others. As does all music.

Dean I want to mess with their minds. Physically from the volume and power pulsing and booming out of very intense wide ranging speakers. Visually via intense live performance, One to one as they loose themselves at home with the tribal ambience as well as move people to sing out loud as we take everyone on a galactic trip out past the sun...






8. - What are you currently using in your studio and have you got any
old gems which you still use to this day?

Slade-I have a couple old gems I still use- Mainly my Alesis' - but
morely for live rather than studio. We are mostly software but still
use live bass -I will let Dean tell you about that "gem" of his... it
has been around the block a few times, heh - Alesis Ion, Alesis QS
6.2, Software includes Reason, Pro Tools, Cubase SX3, Ableton Live,
any and all plug-ins we may find suitable, Korg Kaoss, Moog Midi, &
Axiom 49 Midi, Antaras Auto-Tune Rackmount. These are just the
highlights as we have two working studios right now so we can
personally create a basis and then work together in the main one for
the writing and finishing off. It works well like this so we don't
interfere with where our ideas are going. Truthfully... a lot of the
time... the arrangement is the last thing to be laid down. We have a
very different way of approaching how we work.

Dean My Black 70's Music Man Sting Ray Bass.

9. - What are your future plans with Chrono Logic, what can we expect
to hear from you in the future?

Slade-We are in talks with a few labels and we will see where that
goes or what comes of it as it happens towards a release. We have
enough tracks for 4 releases by now but we will probably release a
Robotic Sands-Robotic Skies release on one album with 12-14 track
bases. We were looking for dual release sometime down the line too,
and have recently started touching base with Robotic Galaxies which is
the last to the Robotic trilogy... we will then continue to write for
a different Trilogy in our chronological view after that.

Dean If we have our way it would be a lot of touring, cool mind bending videos/films, albums blow up dolls the works...If we don't have our way then non of that, we'll just have to keep it to ourselves as a secret undiscovered archive of something really f***ing special.