Tom Middleton

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Tom Middleton is a British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ.

A classically trained pianist and cellist, he originally worked with Richard D. James (with whom he shares a birthday), co-producing En-Trance To Exit on the Analogue Bubblebath EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records, followed by his first solo outing "My Splendid idea" under the name Schizophrenia for the same label.

Soon after he teamed up with Mark Pritchard as Reload, going on to record together under host of pseudonyms, the most popular of these was Jedi Knights. The pair also founded their own record label, Evolution (sometimes known as Evolution (Crewekerne) to distance themselves from other record labels with the same name). The label name was changed to Universal Language Productions with a sub label Heard, and finally E3 before winding down operations. This label saw early releases from artists such as Matthew Herbert, as well as Middleton & Pritchard under their various guises. A compilation of early Evolution material was released jointly by Evolution and Warp Records in 1995 as The Theory of Evolution.

Tom and Mark also worked under aliases Chameleon, Link & E621, Global Communication. Global Communication's 1994 ambient album 76:14 was a landmark of the genre, re-released in 2005. Tom's solo projects; Modwheel, Cosmos and AMBA. Cosmos's "Take me with you" was his most successful track to date. His AMBA project is now the focus of his energies; a fresh perspective on the ambient genre fusing classical traditions with electronica. Featuring orchestral, choral and electro acoustic arrangements.