Recyclone
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Recyclone is the avante-guard hip hop/industrial alter-ego of Halifax musician and photographer Jon Hutt. Hutt grew up in and around the community of Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, and contributed to east coast underground supergroup The Motes. The Motes, which included J. LaPointe (North of America), Daniel MacDonald, and Craig Thibault were the foundation of a regionally influential independent record label called Ant Records (releasing material by Sixtoo, DJ Moves, Wizurd and various side projects from The Motes).
Early sample-based industrial releases under the name Dr. Jonhut (Dementia 5) provoked super-producer Sixtoo to take Hutt into his studio (then known as the Mexican Vampire) to record a more hip hop-influenced album entitled 'Dead World.' Some say that Sixtoo never produced hip hop quite the same afterwards. Recyclone recorded his follow up ('Corroding the Celluar Engine') with Halifax DJ/producer/engineer Graematter (Buck 65, The Goods). The two albums were re-released in 2004 by Saskatoon-based label Clothes Horse Records, and have been hailed as the only successful cross between hip hop and death metal.
Hutt reunited with ex-Motes member J. LaPointe in 2002 to record the Halifax classic 'Numbers' for Perilunar records. 'Numbers' featured guest appearances from controversial Halifax emcee Knowself and one of Canada's top DJs, Skratch Bastid, on turntables. Winnipeg emcee Pip Skid was also present at the 'Numbers' sessions, but the recorded tracks were held back until the Clothes Horse re-release of his first two albums.
Recyclone will release another album in 2006 on Clothes Horse Records and is working on new material for his fifth album with upcoming producer/engineer/musician Andrew Gordon (Second Front, EMC, The Medium Mood). Hutt, LaPointe and Macdonald reformed in 2002 as space nerd rock group Instruments, and released a four-song EP, 'Nominal,' in 2005.
