Open ears and eyes since 1980 - DJing since 1993 - Producing since 1997
I started DJing way back in 1993. It was an era soundtracked mainly by tape hiss and rap radio, provided by over-loud earphones and bad speakers. For me these were pre-internet days, where digging for rap records meant even more homework as well as getting dirty and spending more time than necessary in some pretty shady stores. Finding names of records heard on the radio, which were either mumbled or omitted completely, was a long and drawn out process of scouring magazines, guessing at the names and groups and spending a good while hunched over listening decks. But sometimes there was some hard work too.
Well, in 1995 I gave myself the name Buddy Peace (I’ll spare you the previous ones, jeez), and from here on things got more serious. Over the years following I was properly scratching and mixing, making efforts to learn by ear and get some kind of co-ordination going. The first Technics deck came through in 1995 too via my brother, with the next coming through a few years later.
My first beats were made on my little handheld Yamaha sampler, just loops thrown together by ear with a marginal success rate but the seed was planted in there for sure. The need to make my own music was a very natural follow on from DJing, as I know it works for a lot of people, and it all worked so harmoniously. The common factors and the links were so clear, and just making beats and scratching or mixing over them was just perfect. Just losing hours daily to it, it was unbeatable.
I got the first MPC in 2000, when I started to get a bit deeper into it. After hours spent hitting pads and buttons blindly, I managed to get sounds out of it and into it, and began making some little programs here and there. I’d been making mixtapes all the while (They’re still floating around somewhere, I’m sure of it… I can feel them…), and minidiscs too – lots of them… Fiddly little bastards for real but I loved them. Not as much as cassettes but still. Anyway, from here on things got way busier and full on, with more practice and more live shows. Crazy fun.
Over the years that follow from then, I’ve been lucky and fortunate enough to play alongside and make music with Buck 65 (DJing for), Sage Francis, B. Dolan (DJing for), Ceschi, 2econd Class Citizen, Dangermouse, The Notwist, Boom Bip, The Fog, Gang Starr, Roots Manuva, Subtle, Themselves, Hood, Bracken, Prince Po (I DJ’d for him too), Jimmy Edgar, Team Shadetek, Ed DMX, Waxfactor, Clark, Beans, Qbert (got a plane with him and Yoga Frog!), Atmosphere, Fujiya & Miyagi, Warp Records, Lex Records, 2600 Records, Bully Records, Equinox Records, Strange Famous Records (which I am currently signed to) and loads more, and it’s been an absolute trip… There will be more to come, and a bunch more music as well for sure. I’ll be making noise about that as and when for real! There are some hefty projects on the go. 
Highlights:
2004:
DJing three times on the main stage between Guru, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Roots Manuva at Barcelona’s Sonar festival (at ‘Sonar By Night’)
Being invited to produce (Alongside ‘ZILLA’, now known as King Cannibal) the megamix for Warp Records, using their back catalogue, released with the 15 year anniversary DVD. We played several shows thereafter which were amazing to be involved with
2005:
Being invited to produce a megamix of Canada’s Bully Records back catalogue, a hip hop label which was home to Sixtoo, Controller 7 and Maker
DJing before and for Prince Po at Denmark’s Roskilde Festival
2006:
Performing with Get Cape Wear Cape Fly at the BBC Electric Proms shows in London. I performed on turntables and sampler (with effects) throughout the set
2007 and beyond…:
Performing with Get Cape Wear Cape Fly at the Glastonbury festival, in a similar fashion to the Electric Proms show (’07)
Working with Buck 65, from making the megamix for his ‘Situation’ album and playing alongside and producing with him on various releases (’07-present)
Hooking up with Strange Famous Records, the label founded by Sage Francis. I have released music with them, performed on releases and made radio edits for various releases for them, and hopefully will continue to work with them for a long time to come! (’07-present)
The release of my debut solo album ‘Late Model Sedan’, in 2009. It had been in production since 2004 in one way or another, and I finally completed it as an album which was then released digitally on Strange Famous Records (and via all digital outlets) (’09)
The ‘Strange Citizens’ tour, 2010. This was with 2econd Class Citizen, Ceschi and DJ Scientist in Europe. It couldn’t have been better. Lovely people and some amazing music for the whole tour.
Releases/discography:
Mixes and collaboration projects:
Go Mean!: 2010 : a full length intensive mix I produced for the ‘Monday Jazz’ website, with re-edits and all kinds of exclusives
Sudden Death Blues – Strange Famous Winter Podcast: 2009 : 60min podcast radio show I made for Strange Famous
‘Antler God’ Minimix: 2007 : condensed Wolf Diesel Moutain blend!
Deer Blood Falls: 2007 : source material podcast for Wolf Diesel Mountain
Wolf Diesel Mountain: 2007 : the post rock MPC-based hip hop mix - available on 2600 Recordings
Buck 65 ‘Situation’ Megamix: 2007 : an official Strange Famous-based historical megamix of Buck’s music which I was invited to produce for the release of his ‘Situation’ album
‘Obituary Medicine’ radio show: 2006 : 60min podcast radio show I made for Rhythm Incursions
Carlo & Buddy Peace - ‘Commonwealth Kids’: 2006 : the 50/50 self released mix, complete with Carlo 7”
Non Mathabetical Fiction: 2005 : A megamix for Waxfactor’s ‘Sci-Fu’ album
Good News For People Who Love Banquet: 2005 : indie rock beats for a live show
Dr Rubberfunk Megamix: 2005 : a mix for the release of Dr Rubberfunk’s ‘My Life At 33’ album
Bully Records Megamix 7”: 2005 : official Bully Records megamix 7”, 1000 made
Smalltown Broadcast: 2005 : a mix using some of the material I used in my New York live set, also the first Knowmore.org podcast
A Crew Called Self: 2004 : Boomkat Select mix #7
Watch And Repeat Play: 2004 : An official Warp Records Megamix [w/’ZILLA’], released with the ‘Watch And Repeat Play’ DVD
Dunce Caps On Five Watts: 2004 : A Beans Megamix
Lexorcism: 2003 : A Lex Records Megamix
Good Grief: 2003 : handheld Yamaha sampler & records mix
Mug Of Soda: 2003 : 20 minute mix
Bunk: 2003 : 20 minute mix
San Francisco Southpaw Symphony: 2003 : A Controller 7 Megamix
Hella Connecticut: 2003
Water To Cognac: 2003
Etceterature: 2003 : 20 minute mix
A Friendly Game Of Chess [w/’ZILLA’]: 2002 : our first collaborative mixtape made by post!
Class Half Empty/Class Half Full: 2002 : my first ‘proper’ full length mix
What It Am: straight up mix 2002
An Apple And A Briefcase: 2002 : 20 minute mix
Sketch-Pad-Lock-Down: 2001 : ancient/lost minidisc mix #2
Rooftop Meditation : 2001 : ancient/lost minidisc mix #1
Productions and solo releases:
Backing music for Buck 65’s tour, Winter 2010
(I was invited to produce some remixes and brand new versions of Buck jams for the tour with Holy Fuck - you can hear two of these on his ‘Unhip’ mini-album, but there are about 20 all in all)
Buck 65: ‘Unhip’
(I produced the ‘BCC’ remix and ‘She Kissed The Boy’)
Equinox Records 25th Release Megamix
(box-set cassette/vinyl special to celebrate the 25th release – I produced one side of the cassette which was a 25 minute megamix production constructed from the Equinox back catalogue)
Backing music for Buck 65’s set @ Knitting Factory, USA
(I was invited to produce a 30 minute instrumental backing track constructed from/based on a set list from Buck, December 2008)
‘Dirty Urban Birds’
(8 x 5minute production beat-tape)
‘Late Model Sedan’
(my debut album for Strange Famous Records! 2009)
B. Dolan & Buddy Peace: ‘House Of Bees’ Volume 1
(the B Dolan SFR mixtape, 2009)
‘Holy Chrome’
(10 minute cassette-minded project, SFR free download, 2009)
Sage Francis: ‘Needle’ / ‘Pump’
(I produced ‘Needle’ and did the scratches, and supplied drums and scratches for ‘Pump’ - Reanimator reanimated the rest! These two are on Sage’s ‘Sick Of Wasting’ album, 2009)
‘Septuhseemeeuh’
(a long one I made for the Myuzyk net label comp ‘Twisting The Frame’ Part 1, 2008)
‘Collapse Suite, Autumn 1974’ Part 1 / ‘Collapse Suite, Autumn 1974’ Part 2
(two tracks I submitted for the ‘Inspired By Boards Of Canada’ comp on the Myzuzyk net label, 2008)
‘Burner Kit’ / ‘Cold Train Heater’
(2600 Recordings ‘Home Entertainment’ compilation, 2006)
‘Slow Gang Funeral’
(a track on the ‘Secret Life Of Sound’ label comp ‘Invisible Superstars’, alongside Controller 7, Tenshun and more… 2006)
‘Malt Water (H240oz)’ / ‘Sun Diesel’(Loot Sale Edit)
(SRL compilation, 2004)
Remixes:
2mex: ‘Dead Deer Diary’ (Buddy’s ‘Stoppelhaus’ Remix)
(a submission for the official SFR remix contest)
Felt: ‘Like You’ (Buddy’s ‘Felt Okay’ Remix)
(a remix I made for my own satisfaction and to play out)
Caribou: ‘Sun’ (Buddy’s ‘Plasmic Meatball’ Remix)
(a submission for the official remix contest)
Aupheus: ‘Exoskeleton’ (Buddy’s ‘X-O-X-O’ Remix)
(available as part of a download package for his ‘Excavated’ EP)
Bracken: ‘We Cut The Tapes And Scatter’ (Buddy’s ‘Ultramagnetic Steenbeck’ Remix)
(this appeared on the Bracken remixes album on Anticon, there were 300 made so you may have missed it! I did!)
Sleep: ‘Talk About It’ (Buddy Peace Remix)
(remix contest material)
Sil-X: ‘Sil-X’ (Buddy’s ‘Tech Noir’ Remix)
(this is on his remix EP on the ‘Myuzyk’ net label)
Catriona Irving: ‘Waiting For The Blue Line’ (Buddy Peace Remix)
(kinda unreleased but I wanna mention Cat because she rules)
Prolyphic & Reanimator: ‘Artist Goes Pop’ (Buddy Peace Remix)
(I co-won this remix contest with Cubbie Bear)
Subtle: ‘The Mercury Craze’ (Buddy’s ‘Artery Knot’ Remix)
(I won the remix contest with this one – good fun!)
Sage Francis : ‘Threewrite’ (Buddy’s ‘Three Lefts Make A Right’ Remix)
(one of the first Strange Famous-based interactions from me – this is from 2004)
Dave House: ‘Weeknights And Weekends’ (Buddy Peace Remix)
(old style but Dave’s the absolute homie – this was great to be involved with)
Appearances & guest productions:
Buck 65: ‘Dirtbike’ trilogy : download only
(I co-produced the first intro and several tracks on all three with Buck, and produced the 2nd and 3rd intros from scratch. The tracks I was involved on include ‘Coast Is Clear’, ‘Not I’, ‘Lucifer’, ‘Bury The Sound’ (feat. Sage Francis), ‘Highway 101’ and ‘Home Sweet Home’. I also dropped some scratches on various tracks throughout. All together these 3 are just amazing Buck music. I couldn’t recommend it more)
Buck 65: Various tracks in 2010 : download / 3x7”
(these include scratch sections and additional production on new release tracks such as ‘Gee Whiz’, ‘The Niceness’, ‘Zombie Delight’ and ‘Lights Out’)
Speed Dial 7: ‘Short Rich Apocalypse’ : download / LP
(I provided cuts on ‘Back Porch Blues’ and ‘Short Rich Apocalypse’)
B. Dolan: ‘Fallen House, Sunken City’ : album
(I supplied the scratches for the track ‘Mr Buddy Buddy’)
Sage Francis, B Dolan & Sleep: ‘Sea Legs’ : download / CD
(a Strange Famous posse cut produced by m’man Aupheus - I dropped the scratch section at the end)
El Chavo: ‘Selectah’ (featuring Poesh Wonder) : 7”
(I supplied scratches for this one, a 7” on Jakarta Records – Barcelona rprsnt!)
Debilorithmicos: ‘Dimarts / Dijous’ : 12”
(I added scratches to this one – the ‘Won’t Stop’ track, featuring Omniscient - a Barcelona jammie)
Jazz-T: ‘All City Kings’ : album
(I was invited aboard the album posse-scratch-cut ‘All City Kings’ which was crazy! Some sickos on there for real – Jazz-T and Boot Records are amazing)
Dr Rubberfunk: ‘Watch The Tables Turn’ : 12”
(I have some scratches on the end there, party style fun cuts at that)
Yellotone: ‘Tar File Junction’ : LP
(I added scratches to ‘Crunk’ and ‘Cool Blue Albion’ – love Yellotone!)
