kyma•tweaky: User AndrewFlint

Name: Andrew Flint
Affiliation:
URL: http://www.giveproductions.com, http://www.myspace.com/andreweflint
Country: USA
UnauthorizedBiography: Andrew Flint is the founder of Give Productions — http://www.giveproductions.com — an electronic dance music production crew located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. DJ of modern progressive house, trance, breaks - dance music (retired). Andrew is also a singer, songwriter, student of music, and of life. Entrepeneur, partner / founder of Comitigate — a loss mitigation, financial restructuring and dispute resolution firm — http://www.comitigate.com (aka day job). Andrew Flint was born 1970 and raised in Southern California. He took piano, vocal and live sound engineering lessons. At 15 he ran the main mixing board for The Coasters at the Del Ray restaurant in Fullerton, CA - and met a very complementary Oprah Winfrey. Musically, he was inspired by groups such as Yaz, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Duran Duran, New Order / Joy Division, Howard Jones, etc - intrigued by electronic / synthesized music - but also influenced by heavy metal and alt rock bands such as Metallica, Dramarama, INXS, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Alarm, U2, Tears for Fears, etc. Lead singer in many bands - one of his first high school groups "Abstract Generation" in 1985 - also played in band with Josh Freese on drums, Ian Nickus on Guitar - heavy metal cover band - lots of fun - especially with Josh and Ian's mega talent. Andrew took a gradual semi-retirement from music 1987-1991 after marriage and kids at 17 years old. Divorced and kids going to college now. Performed and organized DJ and event productions from 2000-2005. Founder of Give Productions / www.giveproductions.com. As a DJ he opened for Paul Van Dyk, Junior Sanchez, Nicholas Bennison, Scott Henry, etc. Retired DJ Aug 2005 and returned to singing, producing music, building home studio since then and writing original and remake tracks. For those desiring higher quality mp3's to listen - you can stream / download some tracks / sets here: Flint original and remake productions:

Tribal Light - New tribal dance radio edit track www.giveproductions.com/AndrewFlint-TribalLight.mp3 My remake of The Alarm's - Strength - www.giveproductions.com/Flint-Strength.mp3 Original track dedicated to my son Daniel - miss him so much - www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-Born.mp3 Original track Hold On - www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-HoldOn.mp3 Alison Moyet - Dave Clark = Yaz - which inspired my interest in electronic music back in 1982 - this is my remake of their track Only You - www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-OnlyYou.mp3 ok - now don't laugh - but i wanted to see if i could emulate Motley Crue's Home Sweet Home on my own - www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-HomeSweetHome1.mp3 ok - if you've been to Disney - you'll laugh at this techno interpretation of Small World - www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-SmallWorld-Final.mp3 Here is a track i'm working on - called New World - only the first 2 verses and chorus started - www.giveproductions.com/AndrewFlint-NewWorld-sample.mp3

DJ Sets:

If you can listen while you work - here are my top DJ sets that led to opening for Paul Van Dyk, Junior Sanchez, Nicholas Bennison, Scott Henry, etc. prior to retiring from DJ'ing in Aug 2005:

www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-TheGiftsHEGave1.mp3 www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-TheGiftsHEGave2.mp3 www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-InBetweenDaze.mp3 www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-live-Give2-Feb212003.mp3 www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-live-Give3-Mar222003.mp3 www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-TheEssenseofSynergy.mp3 www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-Yesterdaze.mp3 www.giveproductions.com/files/AndrewFlint-ScionDJContest30minLiveset.mp3

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