Luke Vibert will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Luke Vibert – Biography
Luke Vibert is a Cornish recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronica. He began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions. Vibert has recorded under several different aliases, most notably Plug and Wagon Christ.
Vibert’s first musical output was in a Beastie Boys-esque group called the Hate Brothers, but he quickly moved into the low-cost environment of solo electronic composition. Although Vibert originally had no intention of ever releasing any of the work, his reputation as a creative young voice in his field has created a demand for his work.
Vibert originally became involved in electronic music through his interest for hip-hop as well as the environment of bedroom experimentalism associated with the swelling late-’80s U.K. dance scene. Luke and a friend, Jeremy Simmonds, released an album through the Rephlex label under the name of Vibert/Simmonds which caught the ear of Caspar Pound’s Rising High music label. As a result of the popularity of the style in the early 90′s, the label commissioned an ambient music album from Vibert, who delivered the well-received Phat Lab Nightmare under the alias Wagon Christ in 1993.
He would go on further over the next few years to produce more music under the Wagon Christ alias, as well as introducing more aliases such as Plug(drum/Drill and Bass), with the 1996 album ‘Drum and Bass for Papa’ which gained critical acclaim.
In late 1999 and 2000 Vibert began touring with BJ Cole to promote their fusion album Stop the Panic. In 2002, Vibert would begin a series of concerts in which he collaborated live with Aphex Twin. Although Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert never released an album together, Aphex Twin used the song name "Analord", from Vibert’s album Lover’s Acid, for a series of EPs. The later releases varied in style as he released albums under various aliases, including Plug, Amen Andrews, Kerrier District and Spac Hand Luke. "Amen Andrews" is a word play on the name of Irish game show host Eamonn Andrews, referring to the fact that each Amen Andrews track uses the Amen break. In 2004, Vibert explored acid disco when he remixed a Black Devil song, which was released on Disco Club (Remix) and released his first album under the alias Kerrier District. In 2006, a collection of vintage Plug drum n bass songs were released on Here It Comes EP.
It was under the alias of Wagon Christ (along with other equally vital monikers like Plug, Vibert & Simmons, and later more simply in his own name) that Vibert helped to redefine the rules of electronic music in the UK in the early to mid ’90s – alongside a bunch of reprehensible mates that included Richard D. James (a.k.a. Aphex Twin), Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), Mike Paradinas (µ-Ziq), Chris Jeffs (Cylob), and the labels Rephlex and Warp," assessed journalist Andrez Bergen in an article that appeared in Japan’s Daily Yomiuri newspaper in 2003.
Together they assimilated such diverse elements as hip hop beats and drum & bass into the more eccentric take on electronica they tweaked, and kick-started a virtual insurrection in sound around the world.
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Luke Vibert will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Haswell, Richard H(enry) 1940-
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series January 1, 2004 HASWELL, Richard H(enry) 1940- PERSONAL: Born January 30, 1940, in Springfield, MO; son of Richard Ellis (a college teacher) and Alice (a homemaker; maiden name, Sherwood) Haswell; married Judith Baker (marriage ended); married Janis Eileen Tedesco (a university teacher), June, 1994; children: (first marriage) Elizabeth Susan, Christine Baker. Ethnicity: “Anglo.” Education: University of Missouri?Columbia, B.A., 1961, Ph.D., 1967; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, M.A., 1962. Hobbies and other interests: Coleoptery.
CAREER: Washington State University, Pullman, WA, professor of English, 1962-96; Texas A & M University?Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, Haas Professor of English, 1996?.
MEMBER: National Council of Teachers of English, Conference on College Composition and Communication (member of executive committee, 1995-98), Phi Beta Kappa.
AWARDS, HONORS: Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1961-62. web site corpus christi tx
WRITINGS:
(Editor, with John Ehrstine) A Baker’s Dozen, Star Publishing (Belmont, CA), 1979, 3rd edition, 1992.
(Editor, with John Ehrstine and Robert Wilkinson) The HBJ Reader, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1987.
Gaining Ground in College Writing: Tales of Development and Interpretation, Southern Methodist University Press (Dallas, TX), 1991.
(Coauthor) Comp Tales: An Introduction to College Composition through Its Stories, Longman (New York, NY), 2000.
(Editor) Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction within a University Writing Program, Ablex Publishing (Norwood, NJ), 2001.
Contributor of more than forty scholarly articles to professional journals. Translator from Spanish and French.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Gendership: Strategizing Gender for the Student of English, with wife, Janis Tedesco Haswell; an assessment of writing; research on interpretation theory and writing.
SIDELIGHTS: Richard H. Haswell once told CA: “There is the world outside us, which we know we have to share with others. And there is the world inside us, which we do not have to share. I believe that the inner world should be shared, and I praise all the forms of expression that serve?music, painting, sculpture, dance, cinema, photography, hobby, gesture, et cetera. Above all, I believe in language. There is no better road between selves. corpuschristitxnow.com corpus christi tx
“Professionally I am committed to helping people in college learn to build and maintain that road. My research and writing, and my preoccupations with evaluation and development, center on ways teachers can help their students communicate their singular inside worlds to others. It doesn’t matter if what’s inside is anger over a personal slight, insight into design problems of an exercise treadmill, or understanding derived from twenty years’ study of Sufi religion. Whatever is inside does not readily come out; it needs encouragement.
“Of course, language can be used to hide from others and to deceive others about one’s inner world. There is no end to the hurt of such language. I do not teach that kind of communication. I unteach it. My writings promote honesty, sincerity, and authenticity in language, whether reading or writing. From such practice I cannot help but believe, though perhaps I am sanguine in doing so, that more good has and always will come than harm.”
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