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Beaumont Hannant is a musician, producer and DJ from York, England. His music and contributions extend to ambient techno, IDM, hip hop and indie rock. Hannant has received positive critical reviews and was named one of "The Faces of '94" by music magazine Select.

Hannant became a hip-hop/electro DJ in 1986 after witnessing the 1986 World Mixing Championships. During 1993-1994 he released several solo albums rooted in ambient techno. His music from this period has been described as eclectic, densely-layered, and textured.

Hannant's critically acclaimed Texturology resulted in a top three independent Album Chart placing. Music from the album was in used in a theatre presentation of the seventeenth-century play "The Traitor".

By 1994 Hannant began to diversify his talents. He provided remixes for Autechre, Björk, and Ned's Atomic Dustbin, produced Lida Husik, who provided the vocals to some of his compositions, and managed Shed Seven. Along with his long-term engineer Richard Brown, Hannant started the trip hop duo Outcast, signing to indie label One Little Indian in 1996.

[edit] Discography

• Tastes and Textures, Vol. 1 (1993)
• Basic Data Manipulation (Tastes and Textures, Vol. 2) (1993)
• Tastes and Textures, Vol. 3 (1994)
• Texturology (1994)
• Texturology Vol. 2 (1994)
• Ormeau single (1994)
• Sculptured (1994)
• Bitter Sweet 'recorded under YO3 alias' (1994)
• Notions of Tonality, Vol. 1 (1995)
• Green Blue Fire (1996)
• Notions of Tonality, Vol. 2 (1997)

[edit] References

• AMG allmusic
• Beaumont Hannant interview
• Hyperreal Music Archive