Si Begg
London-based electronic musician Si (Simon) Begg is one of techno's most chameleonic producers. A restless, often ruthless experimenter with little respect for boundaries, Begg's recorded work toys incessantly with the conventions of ambient, breaks, U.K. garage, and electro (among other styles), the results often deviating so sharply from classification that they're simply lost on the listener. Begg's penchant for bugged-out basslines and his sense of playfulness often get him tagged as "wonky techno," but his mastery of sound design has landed him high-profile work creating scores for films, television, and video games.
Begg was born in Leicester, England in 1972. Weaned from his teens on a range of progressive music -- from prog rock and metal to electro and free jazz -- Begg joined the Cabbage Head collective upon being introduced to Cristian Vogel by a mutual friend. Begg began working as a sound engineer, and started DJ'ing in 1991, the year he moved to London. He began making music in 1993, and released a few experimental cassettes as well as a series of techno 12"s with Vogel under the name Inevitable Technology. The duo also formed the Mosquito label to release dancefloor music with a high quotient of weirdness. Releases as Bigfoot began appearing on Eukatech in 1995, with the moniker expanding to Bigfoot Futures Ltd. the following year. Begg hooked up with Coldcut's Jonathan Moore and Matt Black through London's local music scene. He released his first EP as Cabbageboy, Sausage Doctor, on the pair's Ntone label in 1995, following it up with an additional EP, Planets, the following year. He started releasing futuristic electro-breaks records as Buckfunk 3000, with releases appearing on Moody Boy Tony Thorpe's Crammed Discs subsidiary Language beginning in 1996. Begg also began releasing records under his own name in 1996 -- the downtempo EP Nothing Is True Zen Say appeared on Mille Plateaux-affiliated Chrome, while Opus was issued by techno institute Tresor. Begg started another label, Noodles, in 1997, debuting with the compilation Noodles Part One: The Death of Cool.
The 1998 Buckfunk 3000 LP First Class Ticket to Telos was followed by a Si Begg full-length for Caipirinha, Commuter World. Cabbageboy's Genetically Modified followed on Ntone in 1999. Mosquito and Noodles both remained active, releasing music by Begg as well as artists such as Jamie Lidell, Neil Landstrumm, and Cursor Miner. Begg signed to NovaMute in 2001, releasing The Mission Statement under the name S.I. Futures in 2001, followed by Director's Cut (credited to his own name) in 2003. The singles "Revolution" and "Revelation" were issued by NovaMute, while many other releases appeared on Noodles.
Begg initiated a multi-part series of Jetlag and Tinnitus EPs in 2006, continuing to push the envelope with intense, glitchy, bass-heavy sound constructions. His work was embraced by proponents of the harder side of dubstep and electro-house, and artists such as Bassnectar, Kid606, and Kanji Kinetic remixed Begg's tracks around the turn of the decade. Film soundtracks U.F.O. and We Made Our Own Disaster appeared on Noodles in 2012, while Permission to Explode (a 20-track full-length as well as several related 12" EPs) was released by Addictech in 2013. The ambient album Extreme Environments appeared in 2014, and a series of Refugee Appeal singles was released in December of 2015. These were collected as Music for Refugees in 2016. The same year also saw the release of another experimental ambient album, Extreme Environments, as well as two more soundtracks, Hard Tide and Kicking Off. Shitkatapult released Begg's ambient album Blueprints in 2017.
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51 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Energie Electrique
Électronique - Paru chez Central Processing Unit le 2 juin 2023
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Electro Dataset 1997-2005
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 6 mai 2022
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Peripheral Original Motion Picture Soundtrack : Remixed Volume 1
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 21 août 2020
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Permission to Explode
Électronique - Paru chez Addictech Records le 9 sept. 2013
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Peripheral Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Remixed Volume 3
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 1 mars 2021
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Archiv 4 : Opus Sessions 1996
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 9 déc. 2016
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Music For Refugees
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 9 sept. 2016
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Pre-Emptive Strike
Électronique - Paru chez Addictech Records le 5 déc. 2011
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Peripheral (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 1 mai 2020
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Darkness Of Otherwhere (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 15 nov. 2021
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be present
Musiques du monde - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 25 juil. 2022
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LOL I DON’T CARE or HOW WE SOLD OUR KIDS TO SILICON VALLEY or WELCOME TO THE NARCISSISM ENGINE - B
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 28 févr. 2025
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Archiv 1 Position Chrome Sessions 1996
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 1 janv. 1996
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Kicking Off : Remixes (Original Sountrack)
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 27 juil. 2018
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Extreme Vocal Environments
Ambient - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 24 nov. 2017
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Kicking Off Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 1 juil. 2016
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Extreme Environments
Ambient - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 15 juin 2016
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Hard Tide : Remixes (Original Sound Track)
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 14 avr. 2017
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Hard Tide Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 1 juil. 2016
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Peripheral Original Motion Picture Soundtrack : Remixed Volume 2
Électronique - Paru chez Noodles Recordings le 6 nov. 2020
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Total Control
Électronique - Paru chez Addictech Records le 27 août 2012
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