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Tim Healey Greetings and welcome. You've travelled the Quirkstation and one link or other has brought you here. Up close and personal; Name: Tim @ Quirk Age; Aquarius Starsign: Taurus City of residence: London, UK. City of preference: Auckland, NZ. Musical Influences: Where do you start, or finish? Rock, psychedelic anything from then until now peppered with everything from Bulgarian vocal stuff to rap, dub, Japanese pop-music, horror movie sound tracks. Heat over a bunsen burner until all the styles become melted together. Music you're into now: Listening for pleasure at home includes Sofa Surfers, Adrian Sherwood, Primal Scream, Air, Add N to X, Der Dritte Raum, The Delta, Children of Paradise. Other DJs you like? No. DJ personalities don't interest me. Just music. Aspirations: To become a priest. Fuck the Millenium? Yes. Rate Tony Blair's smile out of 10: 2 Favourite tipple: A tie between super healthy ABC juice and a good tequila session. Best gig to date: Violin recital at Slough Arts centre aged 8 Best party ever (that you weren't working at): Pagan aged 21 Techno's all very well but can you play any real instruments then? Yes. The spoons, the accordion and I can yodel in 3 different languages. Live life in the fast lane? No, everybody knows that people who hog the fast lane stop the rest of us getting anywhere. Where do you see yourself going? To the icerink. Outside Quirk Musically 1998 saw a mini Quirk tour touching down around the world, and left me full of inspiration on my return to a pitifully grey London,UK. Mark was off chasing eclipses across Venezuela, leaving yours truly to fend for himself. A special combination of fresh ideas and innercity angst had me installed in John Om's studio at AQUATEC Records, North London, before you could say "Gary Glitter's innocent". Our latest collaboration spawned the monica "Mr.Resistor", with 4 tracks underour belts (including the cheekily dubby 6000 Ohms) it was time to move on. Managed to find time to lend a hand to my little bro's current project, Tengu. He's moving right away from the Trance by numbers that we have come to know and get completely bored by. I'm very impressed - one to watch. Within days the mothership had docked again at PHANTASM Records and work had begun on some new stuff. Do great minds think alike, or what? After the deluge of faster ideas at Aquatec, I was well up for some slower things - which suited Les Mecs de Phantasm, whose new bastard baby label, SOAP DODJA will be presenting leftfield grooves from dirty beakbeats to groovy ambience. 2 unhygenic tunes down the line and whey-hey, time for some fast stuff. Using every spare moment I had before Mark's return, Phantasm's John and I got to work on a hypnotic little number called "Degenerate" and funnily enough, the whole track does just that. What prompted our act name "Filthy Beasts" is imparted to individuals on a need-to-know basis only. Forthcoming Quirk: 1998 sees me back in the studio again with Senor Allen. things are getting more and more technical, and thankfully work keeps coming in. Watch out for new future dance sounds, some experimental rhythmic work-outs and remixes for ASTRALASIA (Magic Eye) and for EDI & CHAKRA (Krembo). Rumours abound as to Der Dritte Raum's availability to remix one of our tunes. Check current gig dates in our current gig guides If you want to E-mail me... |
