Receiver

There are at least two bands named Receiver. 1) Started out in about 1985 messing with drum machines from lack of ability to play the drums.realizing i could be a bassist with a sequencer aswell i started to get rhythm tracks together and were then played out on the now defunct garry clail sound system for the on u sound label. from here i went on to help garry co write the follow up single to his top 10 hit "human nature ",the record being called "escape " which also got to some charty posistion around the forty's i think. since that i sort of done my own thing,working for bristol entrepreneur fat paul on the swarf finger label releasing a 7'' called "and then you die " under the name "receiver"also remixing bristol band the brilliant corners and also remixing the later formed experimental pop band (homesick)album. just before this i put out a tune called run(you can run but you can't hide ) on marabou records in 1994 on a d+b tip under the name" ratman " Then came cup of tea records and the dreaded london term trip hop, then i produced two 12' of assorted slow beat /dub/jungle workouts also under the name ratman . luckily receiver seemed to fit also into the cup of tea vibe at the time and went on to record an album (chicken milk) and another couple of 12's for the label. i think looking back one of the most enjoyable things for me that came out of all of this was to remix other peoples tunes,which included alpha, mr scruff, smith and mighty, purple penguin, static sound system , the egg, also had the fun of having a track on a play station game once (rollcage) which was weird to play, and done a few small film bits and pieces. bringing this a bit more up to the now- i have been working on various projects including bringing out another receiver album (teddy has stopped breathing )on my own label (hoofboy) including a 12' called leviathan from the same album. recently i have worked with dianne charlemagne of moby and goldie(inner city life )fame and have bought out a limited few white labels of her and other bootleg material for which i don't want to talk about to much on here as last time i put some ideas/mashups/bootlegs on here i got deleted without any explanation.............,i suppose it must of been copyright for a accapella i was trying out.........gutted.Anyway still doin it .....slowly-watch this myspace.... rounding it all up- im doin it for the lovin of it. laterz alan/ratman/receiver 2. Receiver was a Southern California-based power-pop band active from the late 90s through the mid-2000s. Lead by lead vocalist Ken West and also featuring LA/OC scene notables Don Mogill (also a lead singer in The Dons) and journalist John Borack, the band was a mainstay of the Los Angeles International Pop Overthrow scene of the time. They only released one proper full-length album, 2001's "Inspiration Overload," on Not Lame records, but the now out-of-print disc is a minor cult classic amongst fans of the genre. Other than a string of one-off singles released in following years and appearances on compilations and tributes, the band never recorded another disc and all but disbanded when West left Orange County for Wisconsin. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.