Lazonby: "Vicious Circles" and "Wavespeech".

pete lazonby? yeah i have a couple of cds by him. kinda intelligent trance or something. i think he's australian. i'll see if i can find them.

Ah, thanks for the info... I see the other track is called "Sacred Cycles", not "Vicious". I think the LP I saw was titled "Monkey Island", but the Discogs page doesn't mention that. Anyway, what do you think of him? I remember hearing those two tracks in the middle of some early-nineties trance compilations, and thinking, "Whoa, this stuff is really different!".

i remember liking him (fuck, i have two discs eh?) but i wouldn't have heard them for 8 years or something.

what happens to old electronic producers? do they go on to make music for adverts?

I dunno... Though this guy only had two semi-known singles, so I bet he always had some "real" job to make his living. Still, you can do electronic music by yourself, without a studio or a band, so you'd think there'd be less inclination for producers to just stop releasing music. Maybe they just run out of inspiration?

I was actually friends with Pete while he lived in New Orleans. Very nice guy who left London because he was sick of "playing the game". He recently put out a couple other Progressive tracks in order to keep paying the bills. His tracks that appeared on the Sasha and Digweed compilations provided enough money for him to concentrate on making music instead of getting a real job. I've got a ton of stuff he's never released because labels keep telling him he needs a vocalist or it needs to be clubby to get signed. He's super deep into Detroit Techno and i've been priviliged to sit up in his loft and hear him mix gorgeous ambient detroit sounds for hours. He also makes a wonderful "party punch" that really kick starts an evening. Top bloke, as they say in the UK. Seek his album titled "If you cannot resist, why do you exist" on Brainiak.

Yeah, I certainly have search for more of his stuff. Too bad his career didn't kick off the way it would've deserved to... I think "Sacred Cycles" was something near of a hit in the early nineties trance scene (at least it appeared on several compilations), but I guess his tracks were too introvert to really make it big.