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Kirk Degiorgio, better known as As One, is a British

Great Britain

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techno producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

and DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

. Born in the late 60s in Stepney

Stepney

Stepney is a district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in London's East End that grew out of a medieval village around St Dunstan's church and the 15th century ribbon development of Mile End Road...

, east London, and raised in Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

, he started producing music in the early 90s. He founded the labels A.R.T. Records and Op-Art Records and releases on them as well as B12 Records, R&S Records

R&S Records

R&S Records is an independent record label. Founded in 1984 in Ghent, Belgium, it is now based in London and managed by Andy Whittaker and Dan Foat.R&S represents the initials of Renaat Vandepapeliere and Sabine Maes, the couple that created the label...

, New Electronica, and others. His style is a mixture of Detroit-style techno, mixed with funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

, soul and jazz fusion

Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

As As One

Reflections (1994)
Celestial Soul (1995)
The Art of Prophecy (1997)
Planetary Folklore (1997)
So Far: So Good (2000)
21st Century Soul (2001)
Out of the Darkness (2004)
Elegant Systems (2005)
Planetary Folklore 2 (2006)

Aliases

As One
Blue Binary
Elegy
Esoterik
Family Values
Future/Past
Offworld
The Off World Ensemble

Bands

Super-A-Loof (with Jamie Odell)
Critical Phase (with Dan Keeling)
The Beauty Room (with Jinadu)

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