Biography

Background:
It’s refreshing In today’s climate of fame-seeking want-it-now! fabricated pop to find an artist who values strong concepts, credibility & a depth of music that reveals more with each listen.

With a number of years in the underground arts & music scene & a sneaky 2 year 'Media Music’ course under his belt Rookiecop has been quietly honing his production skills & learning to write in a numer of styles.

Often mixing orchestral elements, triphop, ambient, funk & house music, the sound has been described as filmic, dark, melancholic, warm.

Rookiecop signed to Fusion Room Records in 2009 and has started to become more experimental, taking in more esotoric time signatures and sounds.

Rookiecop also produces, remixes, composes music & sound design for films and sometimes experiments with video.

To date Rookiecop has also signed non exclusive music deals that include Intune Music Library, Pump Audio, Soundtrapper & Soundssnap.

Factoids: he has has 1 Future Music & 2 Computer Music magazine coverdiscs to his name; 2 top tracks on
Pulserated Internet Radio and a showcase at the Cannes Lions 2007 international advertising event. His music has been used in several short films (arthouse, cartoon, documentary) & digital media applications.

Musical Influences:
Massive Attack; DJ Shadow; Sigor Ros; Nightmares On Wax; Leftfield; Ray & Christian, Aim and Grand Central Records; Ninja Tune; Fila Brazilia; Clouddead; Prefuse 73; Avalanches; Zero 7

Testimonials:
"some of the most accomplished and interesting electronic music I have heard in a long time"
collective-zine; 2009
(www.collective-zine.co.uk)

"there's a nice rich sound to this accomplished EP"
godisinthetvzine; 2009
(www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk)

“I went through your website and really loved the quality of the music there. Nice stuff”.
Tasos Frantzolas, Head of Soundsnap; 2008 (www.soundsnap.com)

"This has a very cinematic feel to it.. Lovely! Overall it's an enjoyable demo so well done"
Future Music magazine; 2006; track: “Fluid Thoughts”

"could happily grace any respectable soundtrack"
Computer Music magazine; 2006: track: “From a Skyscraper”


Gigs
Rookiecop currently does not play live. However with the right support and team this could change.

Contact:
Management; record / publishing deals; music for film; collaboration and any other interesting projects:
info@rookiecop.co.uk