Rich File

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Rich File
Also known as	Forme
Genres	Electronic Breakbeat
Occupations	Composer, Music Producer, Recording Engineer, Disc Jockey
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Mo' Wax, Marine Parade
Associated acts	Unkle, We Fell to Earth
Website	- www.richfile.co.uk, - www.richardfile.co.uk

Richard "Rich" File is a composer and music producer, best known for his work with James Lavelle as part of Unkle. He has also released singles under the alias Forme.

Career

File joined Unkle in 1999, having remixed Unreal (from the debut album Psyence Fiction) with added vocals from Ian Brown. For the subsequent Unkle albums Never, Never, Land and War Stories, File is credited with piano, organ, synthesizer, guitar, and vocal parts, as well as co-production.

Working under the Unkle name, File remixed tracks by a number of well-known artists including DJ Shadow, Queens of the Stone Age, Depeche Mode, The Duke Spirit, Garbage, and Placebo. File and Lavelle also released a number of DJ mixes under the name Unklesounds, including Edit Music for a Film: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Reconstruction.

In January 2008 File announced he was leaving Unkle after a decade of collaboration to pursue work with his new band We Fell to Earth alongside Wendy Rae Fowler.^[1]^[2]

We Fell to Earth released their debut album in 2009 and saw tracks feature in US dramas: "The Double" in Gossip Girl and CSI: NY and The Prisoner "Lights Out" In Numb3rs "Careful What You Wish For" in CSI: NY.

In winter of 2010 We Fell to Earth composed and performed the theme song to AMC'S 'The Killing'. The show is based on the Danish television series Forbrydelsen and tells the story of the murder of a young girl in Seattle and the subsequent police investigation.^[3] The show debuted in the U.S. with a 2 hour premiere on Sunday, April 3, 2011 and made its U.K. debut on Channel 4 in May of the same year.

In 2011 Rich produced^[4] Mercury Music Prize nominated band The Invisible's sophomore album which was released in June 2012 to critical acclaim.^[5]^[6]

In January 2012 a new HBO drama called Luck, which is produced by Michael Mann and stars Dustin Hoffman, used a Rich File song he recorded a few years back called 'In Time'.^[7] It featured in some of the shows advertising trailers and end title sequences.^[8]^[9]

References

External links

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Pablo Clements James Lavelle Rich File Tim Goldsworthy Masayuki Kudo Toshio Nakanishi DJ Shadow

Studio albums	Psyence Fiction Never, Never, Land War Stories End Titles... Stories for Film Where Did the Night Fall

Mix albums	Do Androids Dream of Electric Beats? Do Androids Dream of Essential Beats? Where the Wild Things Are WWIII – Unklesounds vs. U.N.K.L.E Original Artform

Compilations	More Stories

Remix albums	Edit Music for a Film: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Reconstruction Self Defence: Never, Never, Land Reconstructed and Bonus Beats End Titles... Redux

Extended plays	The Time Has Come Self Defence E.P. - Never, Never, Land Reconstructed and Bonus Beats Night's Temper EP (A Prelude to War Stories) Where Did the Night Fall Mix EP The Answer Only the Lonely Remix Stories Vol. 1 Remix Stories Vol. 2

Singles	"Berry Meditation" "Ape Shall Never Kill Ape" "Rock On" "Last Orgy 3" "Rabbit in Your Headlights" "Be There" "Narco Tourists" "Eye for an Eye" "In a State" "Reign" "Burn My Shadow" "Hold My Hand" "Restless" "Heavy Drug (Surrender Sounds Mix)" "Natural Selection" "Follow Me Down"

Related articles	Discography Mo' Wax Global Underground

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Alternative names	File, Richard; Forme
Short description	Musician
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