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Ban Ban Ton Ton Blog says: "Mixing the resulting sometimes asymmetric building blocks with clank, glitch, and digital fizz, to reconstruct something fresh. Music that references their Acid Jazz origins, yet has all its beats broken in a 21st century way. While digging at the emptiness and selfishness
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as "born out of a mature union of individuals who understand themselves fully as artists and have complete awareness of where they want to take their music A Man Called Adam are a great talent currently displaying an acute sense of creativity unhampered by the constraints of genre."
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in 1991. Following the release of several singles from the LP ("I Want To Know", "The Chrono Psionic Interface" and "Bread, Love And Dreams"), AMCA left Big Life to set up their own label, Other Records.
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Reflecting their interest in avant-garde and art music, Rodgers and Jones recording and creating installation works as Discrete Machines, released an album and two EPs between 2011 and 2015.
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intoning 'I put a seashell to my ear' to the sound of waves lapping the shore, meant the track would ever be associated with sun-drenched beaches and the term 'Balearic House' came into use.
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with club promoter Charlie Chester, and a couple of hundred British ravers on the first organised clubbing holiday of its kind. The vocal sample, of
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for Heavenly Records, a selection of works from notable British artists and labels such as Faze Action and Reel Houze.
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Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones, and are regarded as pivotal in the development of the electronic music genres
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of modern life, they are effectively a healing mantra. Embodying positivity and hope."
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In March 2019, A Man Called Adam bounced back into the scene with their album
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Mat Clark, the track features choral pads and strings coupled with bouncing
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Rodgers is also an in demand DJ playing at clubs and festivals worldwide.
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A Man Called Adam : Love Forgotten – Oddities & Rarities, Pt. 2
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Through the mid-1990s, AMCA released several singles and contributed to
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A Man Called Adam: Love Forgotten – Oddities & Rarities, Pt. 1
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Rodgers has since earned a master's degree and PhD from the
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magazine described them as "Britain’s unsung pop heroes."
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Journey to the afterlife: The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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Around the same time, Paul Daley left the band to join
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