How
we met
PowerCircle first met when
Graham visited Westside Studios as part of the Namya
Records posse, working on mixes of the Maureen Walsh
album for BMG in 1990. Rich was then house engineer
at Westside Studios. Excited by the idea of producing
music together, Graham and Rich stayed in touch
until forming PowerCircle at Southcroft, aka Sound
Synergy Studios, a private recording studio near
Walton on Thames where Graham was resident house
engineer.
Working
at Southcroft
Thanks to the generosity of
the studio owner, there was plenty of time to develop
the PowerCircle 'sound', with a focus on analogue
synthesis, strong percussion and high production
values. The sound evolved between the two main protagonists,
being driven forward by Graham's polyrhythmic urging
on percussion and bass parts. This energy was tempered
by a melodic and passionately emotional approach
to chord structures and instrumentation. After years
of working on commercial music, Rich brought an
ear for quality hooks, links and sequences designed
to catch attention, combined with a sophisticated
ability to write and create multi-layered vocal
production. Being able to write and produce new
ideas using a 48 channel Amek Mozart desk with full
studio outboard always on hand allowed PowerCircle
to create a very large sound canvas with sophisticated
production effects from scratch. The picture was
completed with the arrival of Louise Burton for
lead vocals, with many vocal and lyrical ideas being
developed in tandem with the musical production.
Southcroft
was a very comfortable family home with beautiful
lawns leading down to a lake and a wooded area beyond
leading down to the river. This was just perfect
inspiration for PowerCircle's 'Garden of Peace'.
Moving
to Swag
When Southcroft's owner relocated
to California, PowerCircle needed to relocate and
used the opportunity to set up a studio above Swag
Records, the Croydon dance specialist vinyl house.
Although more modest in stature and with abustling
urban location, the studio allowed PowerCircle to
develop new tunes ready for mixing at other London
studios and generate a huge amount of activity on
a number of different underground dance styles from
trance to hip hop. It was this space that allowed
the Auranaut to develop a clear musical direction
which is capable of transcending any one genre of
music.
Plans
for PowerCircle Records
From now on, PowerCircle will
bring existing material, remixes and new material
from PowerCircle, the Auranaut, Karma Collective
and a stable of sympathetic artists and producers
to public attention. PowerCircle Records will create
a series of compilations and artist releases in
a range of dance music styles all of which will
be available directly from the PowerCircle Records
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