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BIOGRAPHY
Hybrid are a British electronic music group previously based in Swansea, Wales, now based in Worcestershire, comprising Mike Truman and Charlotte James. Beginning in 1995, Mike Truman and previous band member Chris Healings were primarily known as a breakbeat collective, although they overlapped considerably with progressive house and trance. However, the band are now taking a more structured approach to song writing, with the addition of Charlotte James contributing to the writing and vocal process and developing their work in film scores and film music production. Hybrid are considered pioneers of the electronic genre, and have produced four studio albums, all garnering critical acclaim. They are known for their cinematic approach to their production, specifically with the use of orchestral sounds, which is particularly notable on their debut album Wide Angle when they collaborated with the Russian Federal Orchestra.
HISTORY
Hybrid's formative years were spent in a studio, where the group fastidiously learnt their production skills, churning out remixes and honing their dancefloor skills in a handful of singles that caught the ear of DJs including Sasha and John Digweed.
The break came when Trueman got a job working as an engineer in London, where a handful of Hybrid's tracks caught the imagination of Distinct'ive Records. Shunning the conventional approach, Hybrid chose to record their debut album in Moscow with session singer Julee Cruise and the 90-strong Russian Federal Orchestra.
The result was a debut album, 1999's Wide Angle, that blended slick dancefloor sounds with an cinematic, organic feel. The album was popular in the States, where Healings and Trueman were asked to piece together a live act to support Moby on the US leg of his Play tour - an outing that saw Hybrid shift over 100,000 copies of their own album.
The pair are also in demand as remixers - they've tweaked the knobs on tracks for Alanis Morrisette, Radiohead, Moby, and 808 State - some of which have been collected together on 2001's Remix And Additional Production By... collection.
DISCOGRAPHY
Albums:
Wide Angle (1999)
Morning Sci-Fi (2003)
I Choose Noise (2006)
Disappear Here (2010)
Compilations:
(1996) The Remix Collection
(2000) Remix And Additional Production By...
(2001) Remix And Additional Production By... (2CDr)
(2004) Hybrid Present Y4K
(2007) Re_Mixed
(2008) Soundsystem_01
MORE INFO https://www.discogs.com/artist/5513-Hybrid
