|name birth_place background birth_date genre image article_title birth_name
simon heartfield cheshire , england non_performing_personnel 20 october 1962 electronic music simon_heartfield . jpg simon heartfield
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simon heartfield

simon heartfield -lrb- born 1962 in nantwich , cheshire -rrb- is a dj , musician and record producer .
heartfield is widely regarded as a leading exponent of electronic music both in his hometown -lrb- portsmouth , uk -rrb- and beyond .
his tracks , live performances and dj sets incorporate elements of house , breakbeat , electro and techno amongst many other sounds .
the founding member of portsmouth band twelve 88 cartel , heartfield has gone on to release much other material including the internationally distributed permanent way which is also available in ringtone form .
twelve 88 cartel produced a number of releases between 1986 and 1991 on the bite back !
label , home to the producer of their first ep jim shaw of cranes .
in 1994 , heartfield joined john peel session favourites the psylons as bass player and released one album on thunderbird records .
from 1996 to date , heartfield has concentrated on dj work and solo composition , as well as on material with fellow psylons members keith wyatt and jack packer in live electronic act seatman separator .
dj sets have been in established techno clubs such as the asylum -lrb- soho -rrb- , technosis -lrb- at mass , brixton -rrb- , geushky , phase 2 , vurt and club 414 -lrb- brixton , london -rrb- alongside artists such as luke slater , aubrey , umek , alex paterson , billy nasty , dirty bass , justin swales and jason swales .
collaborations with fellow techno producers dave saunders and barney pratt under the name surefoot have found favour with carl cox amongst others .
in 2005 , heartfield co-produced a remix of bonemachine 's single another day over with sigue sigue sputnik .
as well as his commercially released material on hackpen records , heartfield distributes many of his own eps and has contributed extensively to the netlabel under your nose recordings .
in the last year heartfield has worked with london 's mixtape records and in deep recordings with whom he has produced commercially distributed digital and vinyl releases .
2009 has seen the completion of a 20 minute audio-visual piece , `` permanent way redux '' which was performed as part of the 1000 plateaus new digital media project and a rework of the cover version of the kinks `` see my friends '' by brian poole of renaldo and the loaf the last live performance was a 30 minute audio visual piece `` in the lodge '' which featured animation from award-winning us artist justin curfman .
2010 saw the release of the 14 track album venom and eternity .
