Tim Exile
Current release: 'Listening Tree' on Warp (06/04/2009)
2008:
The man who never sits down has found a seat. Those who know Tim's work to date might know his high-intensity improvised live sets, his precision adrenaline electronics or his earlier drum and bass and techno releases. After recently signing with Warp records, his prism has shifted in a plane unknown along a vector untold to a bold and shining orientation. Listen and you'll hear the sound of flight to heart and hearth, distant voices of the unity of man and universe and the spectral saturation of waves of creation crashing on the shore of destruction. Unbutton your future and come and see the other side.
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Exile - "Pro Agonist" (Planet Mu CD) - WIRE REVIEW 2005 ::
review by Keith Moliné
Tim Exile first had his mind blown apart by the blinding thrill of broken beats at the tender age of 12. Now twice that age, this electro-polymath has produced a fantastic debut album of mental drum 'n' bass acrobatics that frankly blows all other Planet Mu releases, including even those by label boss and splatterbeat pioneer Mike Paradinas, clean out of the water. There is not a second of this record that is not flat-out astonishing. Exile's command of his software is absolute, allowing him to cram each track to bursting point with wild technicolor trickery. Sure, the music's empty. Sure, it's all flash and no substance. But sometimes what's required is vulgar sensationalism, pure and simple. Listening to Pro Agonist is like going to the circus and discovering to your delight that it's all trapeze, highwire and human cannonball acts. There are no clowns or horses under Exile's Big Top. Best track: the irresistibly twisted drill 'n' easy of "Mushroom Santa".
Tim Exile full Biog 2006 ::
To notch up releases on such a wide variety of labels such Moving Shadow, Beta, Renegade Hardware, Mosquito and Planet-Mu is no mean feat. Tim?s genre-transcending versatility has allowed him to study an MA in electroacoustic composition, going on to win prizes in international composition competitions, while contemporaneously rustling up the kind of twisted drum & bass that has wiped the floor with punters and savvy journalists alike. His last single on Frequency ?King Shredda/Spanner In The WorX? acquired two 5-star Single of the Month ratings in DJ and Knowledge magazines.
In true Exile style, Tim's excellent musical craftsmanship goes well beyond his composition. Dissatisfied for many years with the severely limited performance possibilities of the turntables, and in spite of his deftness as a DJ, Tim eschewed the steel mammaries in order to pursue his performance nirvana: the solution that would allow him to do what his frustrated motor neurones most dearly wanted. Tim thus donned his programmer hat and tucked his designer's feather into the rim.
After a couple of years of intensive and scrupulous development he emerged blinking, clutching his mysterious silver box. The synergetic force created on stage by this human-machine duo is formidable. His unrivaled combination of skills has led on to DSP and patch programming work for music software companies such as Native Instruments. This man exists not only at the cutting edge of music production, but also the very machines used to make it.
Not content with merely unleashing his own ideas upon the unsuspecting world, Tim has also collaborated with a variety of artists in an attempt at getting his finger into every musical pie. The Fake duo, a partnership with songwriter Jonny Lattimer, obtained Breezeblock Bomb on Mary Anne Hobbs' Radio One show and a half hour showcase of their sumptuous blend of jazz and funk followed.
Eager to increase his dancefloor mastery, Tim has also collaborated with DJ and MC Temper D (Renegade Hardware, G2) to create the kind of addictive, pounding, relentless drum & bass that is the stuff of parents? nightmares and punters? dreams. Current projects include a collaboration with Ram?s latest hotshot Subfocus and a track with Evol Intent.
Tim's latest accolade is winning a prestigious competition run by the V&A museum in London, creating a site-specific composition for the temporary exhibition "Shhh!" In the coming months, Tim has an exciting schedule. There's a stinking pile of releases set to hit the shops in the next few months on labels ranging from Cristian Vogel?s experimental techno imprint Mosquito, US edit jungle hellraisers Evol Intent, Exile's long-time home Beta Recordings, Ram offshoot Frequency and out-there stalwart Mu-Ziq's label Planet-Mu. There are numerous live dates coming up in the UK, ranging from out-and-out drum & bass nights to experimental improvised noise gigs.
