Audio and visual electronic artist Machine Boy to
release his first ep of 2010 ‘People’
in March.
Dean Cook’s alter ego Machine Boy is set to
release a new ep ‘People’ its a 5 track
EP to be released through The Shotgun Charlie
Label in March.
Described as ‘humanist techno pop’, the
track 'People' explores favoured themes of
discordant human behaviour.
The tracks from the EP were created in Logic
running on a Macbook with synths from Novation
XStation 25 and an Alesis Micron, using a text
reader to provide the trademark Machine Boy
halting vocals.
Machine Boy is known by his fans as the
‘humanitarian machine,’ mixing up
thought provoking lyrics with a background of
synth sounds that leans towards the avant garde.
With the creation of Machine Boy, Dean Cook makes
his social comments using a robot’s eye view
on humans.
With the ‘People’ track he questions
his assumptions - “I like the word
‘maybe’ because it gives it a
questionable vibe. Who knows if I’m right in
my assumptions?”.
Described as a true 360 self-sufficient artist
with multi-faceted areas of the Machine Boy
franchise offering animation, art, live gigs and
merchandise, Cook finds himself welcomed into
various artistic disciplines within the animation
and graffiti art world.
Championed by the late John Peel, Machine Boy now
has support from Gill Mills & the iCast team,
Radio 1 & BBC Radio Wales DJ Huw Stevens, BBC
Radio 1's Tom Robinson, BBC6 Music and Steve
Lamacq BBC Radio 1 “In New Music We
trust”.
A signing with Red Robot Records in 2009 resulted
in numerous remixes for other artists including;
K.Katt and Shesus Sanchez, Warp Records artist
Lex Loofah, Universal Records band GoJah Moon
Rockah and dance act Forte.
Machine Boy has enjoyed various showings of his
animated films on MTV plus music placements on
MTV and MTV 2 ‘120 Minutes’ with
various tracks, including previous singles
‘Action Figures’ and ‘Building a
Better Boy’, and a number of placements in
MTV shows 'Real World' & 'Road Rules'.
Currently, Birmingham based Machine Boy is
working on a live set to launch later this year.
