About Hugh Campbell

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Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
With over a decade's worth of experience composing and producing trance and progressive music, Hugh Campbell creates music inspired by multiple genres, styles and cultural influences. Driven by both uplifting and haunting melodies and immersive ambient elements, Hugh's music is as emotive as it is trance-inducing.

Currently, Hugh is signed with South African independent record label, Multitude Music and compiled two releases; “Monolith EP” in 2008 and Hugh’s first artist album, “The Comedown Machine” in 2009.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Eve R1 and Multitude Music

Eve R1 and Multitude Music

It's been a busy few months since my last blog post (April 19, 2008). I have signed up with Multitude music - an independent record label in South Africa. My material will soon be made available on major online distribution websites like iTunes, beatport, Juno and others.

I'll be working closely with fellow Trance producer/composer and multitude manager, Vaughan Phillips in this exciting
endeavor so, you can expect me to up my game considerably in the next few weeks and months.

Two months of hard work, late nights and countless cups of coffee and arguing with an inanimate PC have resulted in the creation of my brand new track, Eve R1.

The track has been on my myspace profile for a week now and some people have asked me what the track title is all about. So here's the story...

A bunch of really smart Korean Robotics guys created a robot inthe form of an attractive woman (known as an Actroid) and called her "EveR-1" - she's pretty awesome and creepy at the same time and i felt she'd make a good track!

My obsession with machines doesn't stop there though, work is underway for more industrial oriented music - look out for it!

That's all for now from me - don't forget to subscribe to my blog to get all the updates as they happen!

Take Care, Hugh

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Monolith - mangled electronic chaos

Thundering kick drums, bizarre glitchy-ness and the return of my creepy electronic vocals! Monolith is my new track falling somewhere in the great messy genre pool of IDM, Industrial, Electro and even tribal (who needs genre's anyway?)



Churning out new tracks is becoming a little hard these days with studies, running my own business and this damn straight jacket that chafes. But lots of work is underway for more projects! One of them being a collaboration track with my mate, Michelle Freeman - a highly talented pianist (she's hot! - *drool*)



Remixes, hell, I never seem to stop doing those but sometimes they yield their rewards. I recently entered the Emendy remix competition (Emendy is a music colledge and store stocking equipment for music and post production). I won the competition and received my prize this week - tutorial DVDs on Audio mastering. So now, hopefully, I can brush up on those skills and your ears will stop bleeding!

That's it for now, Hope you all had a great weekend!

cheers,
Hugh

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Utopian

Hi everyone

I have a brand new track available as a free download! It's called "Utopian"

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For a higher quality download - visit my website at www.tamusic.co.nr

The Track is also available at the following sites:
podsafe music network
soundclick.com
www.mp3unsigned.com
Facebook
Myspace.com
www.reverbnation.com
musicfreedom.com


Comments and crit are really appreciated as always


Take care and enjoy the rest of the week!

Hugh

Two Red Pills and Updates

Hi everyone :)

After many months of some creative inactivity, I have finally got back into the swing of things musically. The first of these projects being my newest project - "Two Red Pills". The track is available on myMyspace Music Profile and my website at www.tamusic.co.nr as a free download.

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Another track "Perpetual" is also near completion. It's a hard-hitting Industrial Techno hybrid and I'm really looking forward to putting this one out there when it's complete!

There are loads of other projects in the pipeline, such as scores and other musical arrangements for a film and console game soundtrack - I'll shed more light on those as soon as things gain more momentum there.

My website has been redesigned and work is underway for a monthly (eventually more frequent) podcast featuring my personal selection of Independent electronic music from across the globe. The tracklists will be exclusively Independent - no big labels, no bullshit, just great indie music ;)

I'm very new to podcasts - so if anyone has advice and a few tips and tricks - they are really appreciated :)

That's all from me for now!

Take care

Hugh

Thursday, January 24, 2008

10 January 2008
A long overdue greeting!

So.. it's a new year (can't quite recall what happened to the last one..) and, of course, with every new year - there should be a shedding of the old to make room for the new! My website has been updated with a new look and feel and the free MP3 downloads are finally available again (the file hosting service I was using has been shut down recently)

New tracks will be available soon as well, so check out the MP3 downloads section frequently!

Hope you all had a great festive season and best wishes for the rest of 2008 - w00t!

Cheers - Hugh