James Hardway

   
Artist: James Hardway

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Welcome To The Neon Lounge

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10

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Drum'n'bass fusionary James Hardway deeds near often with cool jazz textures, though he is largely immune to the purist poses of many jungle producers. Known before the mid-'90s under his birthing nominate David Harrow (and reportedly related to Al Capone), Hardway has worked with an impressive cast of British producers, from Genesis P-Orridge to Adrian Sherwood and Jah Wobble to Andrew Weatherall. During the early '80s, Hardway lived in Germany and acted in films before acquiring into the Berlin medicine fit. He recorded an album in 1983 (as David Harrow), and worked with European electro-pop star Anne Clark on several albums. Hardway besides appeared with Jah Wobble on the continent, merely resettled to London by 1986, where he was swept up by the acid-house phenomenon.


Hardway shared out his time during the later '80s and early '90s 'tween dub units (Edgar Douglas Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sound System, Lee Perry) and the burgeoning electronic community, working as a producer with Psychic TV and many others. After ranging into jungle/drum'n'bass during 1995, he debuted his James Hardway pretense with an impressive 1996 LP, Deeper, Wider, Smoother, Shit. The record album was all the more than noteworthy considering he played all live instruments (take out for fluting) and covered programming as well. Hardway displayed a gift for writing songs too, with a credit for Billie Ray Martin's 1996 club strike "Your Loving Arms." After the release of his second, 1997's Welcome to the Neon Lounge, Hardway earned an American contract through Shadow. The label collected tracks from his deuce albums to appointment for the 1998 digest Wanton Is a Four Letter Word. After the practically obligatory remix assemblage Reshuffle and Spin Again, Hardway returned with his one-third proper record album, A Positive Sweat. For the recording of 2001's Moors + Christians, he assembled a practical studio stripe by gather recordings unitedly from a journey to Cuba and Jamaica. Hardway's recordings as Technova own besides appeared on Andrew Weatherall's Emissions Audio Output Records.