Andy Hunter°

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Andy Hunter°

Background information
Origin	England
Genre(s)	Techno Trance Christian electronic music
Years active	2002 - Present
Label(s)	Nettwerk Sparrow Records

Andy Hunter° is a British DJ and composer of Electronic dance music.

1 Biography
2 Recognition
3 Discography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Andy Hunter, known professionally as Andy Hunter°, was born in Leicester, England in 1974.^[1] He became involved in music in his early days of adolescence, and became interested in sound engineering in the 90s. He began to work with Suede and The Wonder Stuff. In 1992, he joined the New Generation Music and Mission as a traveling engineer and moved to Bristol—the scene that was breaking drum and bass. In 1997, Andy formed a band named "Trip" with lead programmer Martin King and several other production partners.^[2] In 1999 Trip released an album called Cultural Shift.^[3] In the following years, Hunter worked in the studio, producing techno music. In fall of 2002, his work culminated into the album Exodus, which Hunter released on Nettwerk. Early in 2005, Hunter released a six-track album, Life.

He gained attention from Rolling Stone magazine, which praised his first album, Exodus, and from appearances in video games and movies.^{[citation needed]} Hunter toured the United States, Japan and Europe with top names in the dance music business, including DJ Tiesto in 2002, and at the Flevo festival in 2003.^[1] He recently performed at Midem's opening night party in Cannes, France, an international music conference that gathered heads of industry from the music and technology world. In November 2004, Hunter performed at the Digital Entertainment Anywhere launch in Los Angeles, hosted by Bill Gates, to present "Go" in surround sound.

Andy Hunter has been recognized as a Christian DJ, as he has been nominated for the Gospel Music Association Awards, and has won a Dove Award for his album Life.^[4] He also performed a New Year's Eve (2005)/New Year's (2006) block party in Phoenix, Arizona, which was hosted by the Christ's Church of the Valley in Phoenix.

In 2006 Hunter signed a new record deal with Nettwerk, which produced Exodus. At the end of the 2006 voting for DJ Magazine's Top 100 List, Andy Hunter ended up ranked 117. Hunter also won a Dutch dance award from Seven FM in 2006. As of January 12, 2007, Andy has stated on his Web site that he is currently working on a new album to be released in 2008. There will be a total of 12 tracks, the most he's ever done for an album. Andy did a series of 'video diary' podcasts during the recording of the new album.^[5] He gradually revealed some track names and on the final episode, he gave viewers very short audio snippets of each track and also showed the camera the final master copy CD that would be sent to Nettwerk. On October 11th, he wrote on his message board that the new album will have a digital release in November/December on iTunes and the like, a single and remix in February. The full album, which is called "Colour", released on March 18, 2008.^[6]^[7]

Andy Hunter wrote and produced the score of the 2008 film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed with Robbie Bronnimann.^[8]

[edit] Recognition

"Go" and "The Wonders of You" garnered placements in film and television, including uses in The Matrix Reloaded (trailer), Sky High (trailer), National Treasure (trailer), Tomb Raider 2 (trailer), "Ballistic: Ecks VS. Sever", The Italian Job, and ABC’s hit Alias.^[1] His work has also been featured in a handful of video games, including SSX 3, Enter The Matrix, Black Hawk Down, Lumines Mobile, Need for Speed Underground, Burnout Revenge and Forza Motorsport 2.^[9] His music is also featured in the Christian video game Dance Praise. The songs "Come On", "Go", and "Open My Eyes" are included with the game.

In 2007, Microsoft used "Go" in the promotional video for Silverlight as well as in 2005 for promoting their "Plays For Sure" downloads.^[10]

In 2008, the song "Come On" was used in promotional advertisements for the feature film version of Speed Racer.

[edit] Discography

Albums

Cultural Shift -Trip Album with Martin King, Vocals by Tanya Farthing (1999)
Exodus (October 2002)
Life (May 2005)
Colour (March 2008)

Singles

Amazing (12" and 2x12" promo single on Nettwerk) (2002) (including remixes by Deep Dish, Fade and Summit)
Go (12" single on Nettwerk) (2003) (remixes by Satoshi Tommie and Antillas)