Knifehandchop
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Toronto
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, Canada
Canada
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. He started programming electronic beats when he was 18.
Knifehandchop takes from many different influences and styles, and mixes them together into a form of bastard pop. He uses elements from ragga
Ragga
-Origins:Ragga originated in Jamaica during the 1980s, at the same time that electronic dance music's popularity was increasing globally. One of the reasons for ragga's swift propagation is that it is generally easier and less expensive to produce than reggae performed on traditional musical...
, techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
, hardcore
Hardcore techno
Hardcore techno is a type of electronic music typified by the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal industrial-like beats and samples...
, hip-hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
and electro
Electro (music)
Electro is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling...
.
He has released vinyl and CDs on labels such as Tigerbeat6
Tigerbeat6
Tigerbeat6 is a San Francisco and Berlin based independent and electronic record label run by Kid606. The name reflects Kid606's obsession with cats, which also comes to light in the catalogue numbers, all of which start with MEOW, and is also a loose reference to the top-selling teen magazine,...
and Irritant records
Irritant Records
Irritant Records is an independent record label based in North London, started by electronic musician . The label specializes in genres such as breakcore, gabber, and experimental electronic music...
. In 2003 he toured Europe and Japan. The same year he recorded a Peel Session
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
for BBC Radio One and he also recorded a Breezeblock session for the same station.
Discography
- Bling The Noize (Irritant RecordsIrritant RecordsIrritant Records is an independent record label based in North London, started by electronic musician . The label specializes in genres such as breakcore, gabber, and experimental electronic music...
) - Fighting Pig Learns Judo Tricks (Irritant)
- Bounty Killer Killer (Irritant/Dhyana Records)
- Taking The Soul Out Of Music (Irritant)
- Dancemix 2000 (Irritant)
- Respect To All The Haters (Tigerbeat6)
- Hooked on Ebonics (Irritant)
- TKO From Tokyo (Tigerbeat6)
- Rockstopper (Tigerbeat6)
- How I Left You (Tigerbeat6)
- Street Chic (Ad NoiseamAd NoiseamAd Noiseam is an electronic music independent record label that has recently published mostly dubstep. based in Berlin, Germany. Ad Noiseam was founded in April of 2001 by Nicolas Chevreux, who also has done some of the design work for the label's releases....
) - Techno-Gaiden (Tigerbeat6)
- The Triple Threat EP (Tigerbeat6)
- Dirty New York E.P. (Tigerbeat6)