STUART BRIDGES
Label: Kult Records
Artists Genre: Dance
Artists Genre: Dance
Stuart Bridges resides in the UK 14 miles from
liverpool in a small town called skelmersdale has been
writing music for nearly 15 yrs, he started at a young
age playing keyboards and writing and recording his
own music using analogue track recorders, he self
taught bass, guitar and drums and spent his time
recording rock, funk, jazz, ambient music. He played
in several bands and played the local festivals,
playing bass guitar and was well known as one of the
best bassists . Stuart then switched the bass for
synths samplers and drum machines and quit his other
bands and began working in a trio to develop an
ambient electronica band, which was very successful
and popular, in the local area. Covering most genres
of dance, he shut himself away to develop his skills
and producing and remixing. In 2002 he re-mixed a few
tracks for Washington’s award winning electronica
outfit Arthur Loves Plastic under the name the
Underdog and three of his remixes were accepted for
their remix albums. In late 2003 he sent a demo of his
work to the legendary KULT Records in New York City.
And that'’s where it all began!
Q&A
What is your musical background?
my musical background started with playing
keyboards/piano at 12 years old, then at 15 I self
taught myself bass guitar, I saved all my cash and
bought a multitrack recorder and began writing pieces
of music and recreating favorite tracks in my own
particular way, at 16 I was in my first band and at 18
I was in my second band and I started to gig around
the local area, I jumped from band to band and at one
point I was in 3 bands at once I then changed from
playing bass to keyboards/drum machines/sampler in a
unique original electronic 3 piece band bordering on
the feel of dance music, in which we created very
original tracks and were very successful in and around
our local area, when I left that band I started to
write dance tracks alone.
What are your influences? (Favored artists/dj/s
etc)
my favorite artists I'd say would have to be apex
twin, kraftwerk, dave clark, miss kitten and the
hacker, lady tron, nin, chemical brothers, underworld,
fat boy slim, the prodigy, new order, radiohead, pink
floyd
Why did you switch to dance music?
I switched to dance music because when I first heard
dance music, it pushed the boundaries of music to
point of heavy experimental and psychedelia, it used
sounds of every form and it leaves the doors wide open
to more, which appealed to me a lot, I find I can be
more experimental writing music and because I've tried
most genres of music I found that dance music was what
I felt fitted best to me and was the most enjoyable to
write, I was always more of an instrumentalist than a
songwriter and instrumentals are more acceptable in
dance music, plus the whole electronic feel sound
appealed to me the most.
Why do you produce dance music?
I produce dance music because music is everything to
me, its what I do best and its what I enjoy doing the
most, its my life and writing music is my thing, its
what I’ve been doing every single day for a very
long time, it stretches my mind and I’ve put all my
effort and thought into it, if one person says to me
they love the track, its worth the time and effort
working it just for that, there’s nothing better than
the buzz you get when your writing a track and its
really working, nodding your head away to it at 3am
going 'yeah! yeah!'
Where do you wish to go from here?
I want to develop my own particular genre, my sound,
I've got the elements in my head and I know how I want
it to sound, its just the sounds I want to hear, its
what I like, not trying to fit into fads or fashions,
I want it to be timeless, classic, original stuff, not
how anybody else wants it to sound, but me and
hopefully that sound will appeal to others and stand
the test of time.
I'm also very hungry to do remixes, I like to turn a
track on its head and really transform it.
What is your favorite peace of gear and why
My favorite piece of gear has to be the vocoder I’ve
always been fascinated in the sounds it makes from a
very early age, it was so ahead of its time when it
was developed and to me its timeless, I love the
sounds it makes, I tend to overuse it but, its what I
like to hear and it is just an amazing piece of
equipment that you can be very experimental with and I
spend a lot of time just messing around with it,
trying to get the best out of it.
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