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Richard Norris (musician)

March 20, 2023

Richard Norris was born 23 June 1965 and is a London-based record producer, songwriter, sound engineer, musician, DJ and author. He is best known as a member of electronic dance band The Grid.[1] Richard has also worked as a producer and engineer since the 80s with artists such as: Bryan Ferry, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marc Almond, Joe Strummer and the Pet Shop Boys.[2]

Richard Norris
Birth nameRichard Timothy Norris
Occupation(s)
  • Record producer
  • DJ
  • musician
  • sound engineer
  • author
Years active1979–present
WebsiteOfficial website

Norris began making music as a teenage member of St. Albans punk band Innocent Vicars.[3] Vicars recorded two singles in 1980: "Antimatter" and "Funky Town" for the independent No Brain Records. Norris started working in the music industry as the label manager for the British psychedelic record label Bam Caruso[4][5] before becoming a writer for NME in 1987.

Bands

The Grid

Norris and David Ball collaborated when they formed the electronic dance group The Grid in 1988. The Grid signed to Warner Bros Records/East West Records the same year. The Grid had six Top 40 UK Singles Chart hits between 1990 and 1995[6] including: "Floatation", "Crystal Clear", "Texas Cowboys", "Rollercoaster" and the million-selling "Swamp Thing."[7] "Swamp Thing" reached no.3 in the UK charts and was Top Ten in nine other countries. It was certified a Silver Disc.[8]

The Grid has been in existence from their formation in 1988 until the present day with a 5-year hiatus between 1998-2003. During the break, Norris formed the band The Droyds and under that name mixed tracks for Armand Van Helden[9] and Siobhan Fahey.[10]

The Grid have released five albums (as of 2018).

Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve

Along with British DJ Erol Alkan[11] Norris formed the remix/DJ duo Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve. Under this name Norris and Alkan initially released four remix/re-edit EPs: "Birth", "Spring", "George" and "West", followed by several singles. In 2016 they released their debut album The Soft Bounce which was rated album of the week by The Guardian's music critic Alex Petridis[12][13]

Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve have also have remixed The Chemical Brothers, Tracey Thorn, Badly Drawn Boy, Midlake and Goldfrapp. Their own compilation of other band remixes: Reanimations Volume One,[14] was released in 2009. Norris has also compiled the techno compilation album Flux Trax.[15]

Norris formed the electronic band Circle Sky with DJ Martin Dubka.[16] Circle Sky remixed a number of artists including: Yello,[17] Jagwar Ma, and Imarhan.

The Time & Space Machine

Norris formed a new project in 2009 called The Time and Space Machine.[18] The Time and Space Machine signed to Tirk Records in 2009 and released a 7" single "Children of the Sun," an EP You Are The One, andan album Set Phazer to Stun. A second Time and Space Machine album Taste the Lazer was released in 2012.[19][20]

A The Time and Space Machine remix collection The Way Out Sound From In was released in 2015. This featured remixes of: Warpaint, Jagwar Ma and Temples.[21][22]

The band also collaborated with designer Luke Insect and the street wear label Stussy to create a series of Time and Space Machine Stussy T-shirts.[23]

Collaborations

Joe Strummer

Norris was also a friend of Joe Strummer[12] and the two worked together on the soundtrack for Grosse Pointe Blank. Norris later appeared on The Mescaleros debut album Rock Art and the X-Ray Style[12][24] co-writing and producing tracks: "Sandpaper Blues"[25] and "Yalla Yalla."

Psychic TV

Norris and Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV collaborated to release two fake compilations of acid house songs in 1988—contributing to each under variety of aliases such as: DJ Doktor Megatrip and Mista Luv. The two albums Jack the Tab and Tekno Acid Beat[26][27] were released with the intention to fool people into believing that the genre had already taken off in Britain—thereby encouraging its popularization and acceptance.

Jack the Tab also features Soft Cell’s David Ball and was notable for sampling dialogue from the film The Wild Angels - ‘We Want to be free! We want to do what we want to do!’ - two years before it was used by Primal Scream in their Top 20 hit "Loaded."

Moog

Moog Music—contemporary makers of the famous Moog synthesisers—constructed a bespoke sound lab for the creation of live synthesised music as an open access, experimental music resource to celebrate the life and work of electronics inventor Dr. Robert Moog in 2015. The Grid were the first band to be invited to play and record in the new studio[28] at the Sound Lab at The Institute of Sound Recording (Surrey University) three years later. The resulting work was a 6-track album called One Way Traffic.[29] The other albums—making up a series of three were: Hieroglyphic Being's The Replicant Dream Sequence and the late Mika Vainio's Lydspor One & Two.[30] The Guardian's music critic described the event as: 'The synth revival; why the Moog is back in vogue' commenting: 'Both Grid members are bona fide synth pioneers.'[31]

Robert Fripp

The Grid collaborated with the King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp on the Grid album 456. The Grid also remixed David Sylvian and Robert Fripp's track "Darshan (1993)"[32] and released the previously unheard Grid/Fripp collaboration "A Cabala Sky" in 2014[33]

Finnur Bjarnasson

Norris collaborated with classically trained Icelandic opera singer Finnur Bjarnasson on a music project called Restoration under the band name The Long Now. It was released on Curved Space Records in 2018 .[34][35][36]

Remixes

Norris has been remixing music since the eighties and has worked with artists including: Soft Cell, Psychic TV, Black Grape, Space, Yello, Shakespears Sister, Armand Van Helden, Lambchop, Joe Strummer, Cornershop, Saint Etienne, Marc Almond and Momus.

Norris remixed former The Verve singer Richard Ashcroft's "Out of my Body"[37] Flamingods "Mixed Blessings"[38] and Mary Epworth's "Me Swimming" in 2017.[39]

Festivals

The Lewes Psychedelic Festival in Lewes, south England was founded by Norris and Chris Tomsett in 2009. The ongoing festival is still curated by Tomsett (as of 2018)--hosting in the past bands such as: The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, Voice of the Seven Thunders, The Sound Carriers and Norris's own The Time & Space Machine.[40][41][42]

Norris regularly DJs at UK festivals including Glastonbury[43][44] and the Green Man Festival[45]

Soundtracks

Norris's bands and songs have appeared in several feature films, television shows and documentaries:[46]

Author

Norris was the official biographer of Paul Oakenfold and the writer of Paul Oakenfold: The Authorized Biography in 2007.[47]

References

  1. ^ Gray, Marcus (1 November 2004). The Clash: Return Of The Last Gang In Town. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-634-08240-5. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Richard Norris | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. ^ "The Innocent Vicars". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Cherry red Records: Bam Caruso". Cherryred.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Bam-Caruso Records". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  6. ^ "GRID | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  7. ^ "swamp thing | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Imgur". Imgur.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Armand Van Helden - Into Your Eyes (Remixes)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Bitter Pill". Amazon.co.uk. 2 December 2002. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  11. ^ Corner, Lena (8 March 2009). "How We Met: Richard Norris & Erol Alkan". The Independent. UK. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  12. ^ a b c Petridis, Alexis (30 June 2016). "Beyond the Wizards Sleeve: The Soft Bounce review – 60s psychedelia goes acid house". Theguardian.com.
  13. ^ "Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - The Soft Bounce". Discogs.com.
  14. ^ "Beyond The Wizards Sleeve". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Various - Flux Trax". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Circle Sky". Prsformusic.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  17. ^ "Yello - Limbo (The Remixes)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  18. ^ "The Time & Space Machine | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  19. ^ "The Quietus | Reviews | The Time And Space Machine". The Quietus. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  20. ^ "The Time And Space Machine - Taste The Lazer". Clashmusic.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  21. ^ "THE TIME AND SPACE MACHINE presents 'THE WAY OUT SOUND FROM IN' - ample play records". SoundCloud.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  22. ^ "The Time And Space Machine* - The Way Out Sound From In". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  23. ^ "Stüssy News and Updates". Stussy.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  24. ^ "Rock Art and the X-Ray Style - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  25. ^ "Discogs - Tracks Beta". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  26. ^ "Various - Jack The Tab / Tekno Acid Beat". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  27. ^ "Jack the Tab/Tekno Acid Beat - Psychic TV | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  28. ^ "Moog Recordings Library launches with a series of limited edition live session releases - The Wire". Thewire.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  29. ^ "The Grid 'One Way Traffic (Blue TB7 Series)'". Cargorecordsdirect.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  30. ^ "Moog Music". Moogmusic.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  31. ^ Boxer, Steve (8 July 2015). "The synth revival: why the Moog is back in vogue". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  32. ^ "Darshan (Translucent Remix by The Grid)". 16 February 2015.
  33. ^ "Premiere: The Grid & Robert Fripp - A Cabala Sky". Clashmusic.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  34. ^ "Search for CD, LPs, coloured LPs". Roughtrade.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  35. ^ "Approved: The Long Now | Complete Music Update". Completemusicupdate.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  36. ^ "Richard Norris". Theambientzone.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  37. ^ "Out Of My Body (Remixes)". Open.spotify.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  38. ^ "The Quietus | News | LISTEN: Flamingods Remixed By Richard Norris". The Quietus. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  39. ^ "The Quietus | News | LISTEN: Richard Norris Remixes Mary Epworth". The Quietus. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  40. ^ "The Quietus | Features | Three Songs No Flash | An Invitation To The Dance: Lewes Psychedelic Festival". The Quietus. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  41. ^ "Richard Norris of Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve - "It's people wanting to go on a trip"". 19 January 2017.
  42. ^ "Lewes Psychedelic Festival: "The ethos is to create something joyous"". Theargus.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  43. ^ "Glastonbury 2009: Guardian Lounge lineup to feature Little Boots and the Maccabees". Theguardian.com. 29 May 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  44. ^ "The Unfairground". Efestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  45. ^ "Far Out After Dark line-up revealed for Green Man Festival". Efestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  46. ^ "Richard Norris". IMDb.com. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  47. ^ Norris, Richard. Paul Oakenfold: The Authorised Biography. Amazon.co.uk. ISBN 9780593058954.

External links

  • Richard Norris Official website
  • Richard Norris interview Official website

March 20, 2023
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Richard Norris was born 23 June 1965 and is a London based record producer songwriter sound engineer musician DJ and author He is best known as a member of electronic dance band The Grid 1 Richard has also worked as a producer and engineer since the 80s with artists such as Bryan Ferry Genesis Breyer P Orridge Marc Almond Joe Strummer and the Pet Shop Boys 2 Richard NorrisBirth nameRichard Timothy NorrisOccupation s Record producerDJmusiciansound engineerauthorYears active1979 presentWebsiteOfficial website Norris began making music as a teenage member of St Albans punk band Innocent Vicars 3 Vicars recorded two singles in 1980 Antimatter and Funky Town for the independent No Brain Records Norris started working in the music industry as the label manager for the British psychedelic record label Bam Caruso 4 5 before becoming a writer for NME in 1987 Contents 1 Bands 1 1 The Grid 1 2 Beyond The Wizard s Sleeve 1 3 The Time amp Space Machine 2 Collaborations 2 1 Joe Strummer 2 2 Psychic TV 2 3 Moog 2 4 Robert Fripp 2 5 Finnur Bjarnasson 3 Remixes 4 Festivals 5 Soundtracks 6 Author 7 References 8 External linksBands EditThe Grid Edit Norris and David Ball collaborated when they formed the electronic dance group The Grid in 1988 The Grid signed to Warner Bros Records East West Records the same year The Grid had six Top 40 UK Singles Chart hits between 1990 and 1995 6 including Floatation Crystal Clear Texas Cowboys Rollercoaster and the million selling Swamp Thing 7 Swamp Thing reached no 3 in the UK charts and was Top Ten in nine other countries It was certified a Silver Disc 8 The Grid has been in existence from their formation in 1988 until the present day with a 5 year hiatus between 1998 2003 During the break Norris formed the band The Droyds and under that name mixed tracks for Armand Van Helden 9 and Siobhan Fahey 10 The Grid have released five albums as of 2018 Beyond The Wizard s Sleeve Edit Along with British DJ Erol Alkan 11 Norris formed the remix DJ duo Beyond the Wizard s Sleeve Under this name Norris and Alkan initially released four remix re edit EPs Birth Spring George and West followed by several singles In 2016 they released their debut album The Soft Bounce which was rated album of the week by The Guardian s music critic Alex Petridis 12 13 Beyond the Wizard s Sleeve have also have remixed The Chemical Brothers Tracey Thorn Badly Drawn Boy Midlake and Goldfrapp Their own compilation of other band remixes Reanimations Volume One 14 was released in 2009 Norris has also compiled the techno compilation album Flux Trax 15 Norris formed the electronic band Circle Sky with DJ Martin Dubka 16 Circle Sky remixed a number of artists including Yello 17 Jagwar Ma and Imarhan The Time amp Space Machine Edit Norris formed a new project in 2009 called The Time and Space Machine 18 The Time and Space Machine signed to Tirk Records in 2009 and released a 7 single Children of the Sun an EP You Are The One andan album Set Phazer to Stun A second Time and Space Machine album Taste the Lazer was released in 2012 19 20 A The Time and Space Machine remix collection The Way Out Sound From In was released in 2015 This featured remixes of Warpaint Jagwar Ma and Temples 21 22 The band also collaborated with designer Luke Insect and the street wear label Stussy to create a series of Time and Space Machine Stussy T shirts 23 Collaborations EditJoe Strummer Edit Norris was also a friend of Joe Strummer 12 and the two worked together on the soundtrack for Grosse Pointe Blank Norris later appeared on The Mescaleros debut album Rock Art and the X Ray Style 12 24 co writing and producing tracks Sandpaper Blues 25 and Yalla Yalla Psychic TV Edit Norris and Genesis P Orridge of Psychic TV collaborated to release two fake compilations of acid house songs in 1988 contributing to each under variety of aliases such as DJ Doktor Megatrip and Mista Luv The two albums Jack the Tab and Tekno Acid Beat 26 27 were released with the intention to fool people into believing that the genre had already taken off in Britain thereby encouraging its popularization and acceptance Jack the Tab also features Soft Cell s David Ball and was notable for sampling dialogue from the film The Wild Angels We Want to be free We want to do what we want to do two years before it was used by Primal Scream in their Top 20 hit Loaded Moog Edit Moog Music contemporary makers of the famous Moog synthesisers constructed a bespoke sound lab for the creation of live synthesised music as an open access experimental music resource to celebrate the life and work of electronics inventor Dr Robert Moog in 2015 The Grid were the first band to be invited to play and record in the new studio 28 at the Sound Lab at The Institute of Sound Recording Surrey University three years later The resulting work was a 6 track album called One Way Traffic 29 The other albums making up a series of three were Hieroglyphic Being s The Replicant Dream Sequence and the late Mika Vainio s Lydspor One amp Two 30 The Guardian s music critic described the event as The synth revival why the Moog is back in vogue commenting Both Grid members are bona fide synth pioneers 31 Robert Fripp Edit The Grid collaborated with the King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp on the Grid album 456 The Grid also remixed David Sylvian and Robert Fripp s track Darshan 1993 32 and released the previously unheard Grid Fripp collaboration A Cabala Sky in 2014 33 Finnur Bjarnasson Edit Norris collaborated with classically trained Icelandic opera singer Finnur Bjarnasson on a music project called Restoration under the band name The Long Now It was released on Curved Space Records in 2018 34 35 36 Remixes EditNorris has been remixing music since the eighties and has worked with artists including Soft Cell Psychic TV Black Grape Space Yello Shakespears Sister Armand Van Helden Lambchop Joe Strummer Cornershop Saint Etienne Marc Almond and Momus Norris remixed former The Verve singer Richard Ashcroft s Out of my Body 37 Flamingods Mixed Blessings 38 and Mary Epworth s Me Swimming in 2017 39 Festivals EditThe Lewes Psychedelic Festival in Lewes south England was founded by Norris and Chris Tomsett in 2009 The ongoing festival is still curated by Tomsett as of 2018 hosting in the past bands such as The Notorious Hi Fi Killers Voice of the Seven Thunders The Sound Carriers and Norris s own The Time amp Space Machine 40 41 42 Norris regularly DJs at UK festivals including Glastonbury 43 44 and the Green Man Festival 45 Soundtracks EditNorris s bands and songs have appeared in several feature films television shows and documentaries 46 Grosse Point Blank song War Cry Pecker song Swamp Thing Let s Rock Again song Yalla Yalla My Mad Fat Diary England s Irie Everybody Street Viva Joe Strummer personal appearance Author EditNorris was the official biographer of Paul Oakenfold and the writer of Paul Oakenfold The Authorized Biography in 2007 47 References Edit Gray Marcus 1 November 2004 The Clash Return Of The Last Gang In Town Hal Leonard Corporation p 471 ISBN 978 0 634 08240 5 Retrieved 10 May 2011 Richard Norris Credits AllMusic Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Innocent Vicars Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Cherry red Records Bam Caruso Cherryred co uk Retrieved 18 May 2020 Bam Caruso Records Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 GRID full Official Chart History Official Charts Company Officialcharts com Retrieved 18 May 2020 swamp thing full Official Chart History Official Charts Company Officialcharts com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Imgur Imgur com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Armand Van Helden Into Your Eyes Remixes Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Bitter Pill Amazon co uk 2 December 2002 Retrieved 18 May 2020 Corner Lena 8 March 2009 How We Met Richard Norris amp Erol Alkan The Independent UK Retrieved 14 November 2018 a b c Petridis Alexis 30 June 2016 Beyond the Wizards Sleeve The Soft Bounce review 60s psychedelia goes acid house Theguardian com Beyond The Wizards Sleeve The Soft Bounce Discogs com Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Various Flux Trax Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Circle Sky Prsformusic com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Yello Limbo The Remixes Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Time amp Space Machine Biography amp History AllMusic Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Quietus Reviews The Time And Space Machine The Quietus Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Time And Space Machine Taste The Lazer Clashmusic com Retrieved 18 May 2020 THE TIME AND SPACE MACHINE presents THE WAY OUT SOUND FROM IN ample play records SoundCloud com Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Time And Space Machine The Way Out Sound From In Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Stussy News and Updates Stussy com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Rock Art and the X Ray Style Joe Strummer amp the Mescaleros Credits AllMusic AllMusic Retrieved 18 May 2020 Discogs Tracks Beta Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Various Jack The Tab Tekno Acid Beat Discogs com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Jack the Tab Tekno Acid Beat Psychic TV Songs Reviews Credits AllMusic AllMusic Retrieved 18 May 2020 Moog Recordings Library launches with a series of limited edition live session releases The Wire Thewire co uk Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Grid One Way Traffic Blue TB7 Series Cargorecordsdirect co uk Retrieved 18 May 2020 Moog Music Moogmusic com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Boxer Steve 8 July 2015 The synth revival why the Moog is back in vogue Theguardian com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Darshan Translucent Remix by The Grid 16 February 2015 Premiere The Grid amp Robert Fripp A Cabala Sky Clashmusic com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Search for CD LPs coloured LPs Roughtrade com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Approved The Long Now Complete Music Update Completemusicupdate com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Richard Norris Theambientzone co uk Retrieved 18 May 2020 Out Of My Body Remixes Open spotify com Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Quietus News LISTEN Flamingods Remixed By Richard Norris The Quietus Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Quietus News LISTEN Richard Norris Remixes Mary Epworth The Quietus Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Quietus Features Three Songs No Flash An Invitation To The Dance Lewes Psychedelic Festival The Quietus Retrieved 18 May 2020 Richard Norris of Beyond the Wizard s Sleeve It s people wanting to go on a trip 19 January 2017 Lewes Psychedelic Festival The ethos is to create something joyous Theargus co uk Retrieved 18 May 2020 Glastonbury 2009 Guardian Lounge lineup to feature Little Boots and the Maccabees Theguardian com 29 May 2009 Retrieved 18 May 2020 The Unfairground Efestivals co uk Retrieved 18 May 2020 Far Out After Dark line up revealed for Green Man Festival Efestivals co uk Retrieved 18 May 2020 Richard Norris IMDb com Retrieved 18 May 2020 Norris Richard Paul Oakenfold The Authorised Biography Amazon co uk ISBN 9780593058954 External links EditRichard Norris Official website Richard Norris interview Official website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Richard Norris musician amp oldid 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