Al Tourettes, known to his Mum & Dad as Alec Storey, was born in 1983 has been playing drums since he was 9. His father is also a musician, & he started DJ’ing when he was 15, writing music on an Atari 2 years later. He studied Creative Music Technology at Bath Spa University from 2002 – 2005- incidentally the same course as Appleblim, Gatekeeper, Luke’s Anger and Wedge. Alec had his first release in 2006 on Growth Recordings, with subsequent releases on Birmingham’s KracktroniK Records and Sweden’s Input Output Recordings as well as remixes for Lukes Anger’s Bonus Round Records.
In Spring 2008 Al met Appleblim, and became interested in the Dubstep/ Techno crossover. They collaborated on a remix of Hector & Bryants ‘Tension’ for Phonica Records debut vinyl release in Spring 2009. In Autumn 2009 he released ‘Dodgem’ on Apple Pips Recordings and followed it with a storming exclusive mix for Mary Anne Hobbs world renowned BBC Radio 1 show. Al collaborated again with Appleblim on a remix of Planetary Assault System’s ‘X Speaks to X’ for Berlin’s OstGut Ton, the in-house label of the legendary Berghain / Panoramabar club, released in October 2009. He followed this with a mix for Rob Booth’s highly regarded ‘Electronic Explorations’ website in February of last year.
Summer 2010 saw the release of his EP ‘When I rest I Rust/ The Next Meal’ on Bristol imprint ‘if symptoms persist’ to critical acclaim, and a collaboration with Appleblim entitled “lipsmacker/ Mr Swishy’ on Will Saul’s ‘Aus’ Music. The pair also featured alongside Underworld on their latest album ‘Barking’ released in September 2010 with the track ‘Hamburg Hotel’. The track is also due for a limited edition release on Apple Pips in Spring 2011. Other forthcoming releases include an EP for Bloc’s in-house label Baselogic featuring a remix from AI records Datasette, as well as a remix with Appleblim of an Axel Boman track called ‘Esteban Peligro’, for Glass Table records. Both are due for release in early 2011.
Aside from personal projects, Al has recently contributed a special piece of music for Darren Aronovsky’s Oscar Nominated film ‘Black Swan’ starring Natalie Portman.
The last year has had many highlights in terms of live shows and saw Al perform at a number of well respected club’s and events in the UK and europe including Fabric, Nuit Sonores, Bloc Weekend, Shambala festival and Space Ibiza. When playing live, he uses Ableton and several controllers as well as electronic drum pads, drawing from his previous experience as a drummer. Al’s music has been described as “intricate”, “deep”, “driving” and “darkly-tinted” with many influences from Electro-Funk and Techno, to Dubstep and Bass music in general.
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