Metamatic Forums Socialising Introduce Yourself Hello From Gary Hunter

Hi Everyone

I'm Gary Hunter I'm from Manchester and making and listening to electronic music has been a passion of mine for almost 30 years. I write and record electronic music and also on a side project I record my own dance/trance tunes.

My influences include, John Foxx, Gary numan, Depeche Mode & Kraftwerk.

I have recorded a full album of Kraftwerk covers and also recorded a couple of Gary numan tracks and done electronic versions of 2 Joy Division tracks.

My current project is recording an album of my own material which is heavily influenced by John's "Metamatic" album. If you love that then you will enjoy my stuff.

You will find my cover versions and new tracks I have recorded on the web sites below. Drop by and have a listen and let me know what you think.

My Official Myspace page

My Web Page On iCompositions

Welcome Gary,

Your new Foxxy inspired tracks are excellent.

Check out Gary's work, it's fab

Cheers,

Ian

Cheers Ian it is great to be part of this community and get to know some new people and of course one or two whom I already know.

Gary

Hi there Gary - Welcome to The Forum...

Rob

Hi Rob,

Hope you are well and really pleased to be on here.

Gary

Hello Gary,

Great to see you on here - welcome to the forum!
I've been enjoying your songs on iCompositions for a while now.
Our music shares the same influences and it's always a pleasure to met the likeminded – and this is the place to do so!

Hi Alex

Nice to see you on here to ..... I've been visiting this site for years and never realised there was a forum!

Hi Gary and welcome to The Forum!

Garry

Welcome from a new member myself.

Blue P

Hi Gary - welcome to the forum.

Thanks to those of you who have welcomed me. In my introduction I should have stated that the tracks I have done influenced by John's music are songs called "A Face I Knew" and "The Glimmer Man". These are 2 songs that will probably be more of interest to people here on this forum. The links for those songs are below. The track "The Glimmer Man" has been re-worked by Ian Price (Future Daze) who is also new to this forum.

Gary Hunter - The Glimmer Man (Reworked By Future Daze)

Gary Hunter - A Face I Knew

Hi Gary, A warm welcome from me too.

Hi there Gary, welcome to the forum. And yes, that face sounds familiar to me!

Hello you.

Hi Gavin, Mr Ilektrik and Lody Herst!

Hi Gary!

I'm somewhat new here too..

Its a fantastic place to be!

Hi Gary, welcome to the forum.

Just been listening to some of your tracks, some very nice work there by yourself and Ian too.

Hi there Radium Girl & to you Newvox and thanks for your kind words about my music and of course taking the trouble to drop by and listen to some of my stuff, it is appreciated.

Welcome to the forum Gary!

All the best

H

BLOODY HELL GARY.............. I never expected your stuff to be so good! I really do think 'The Glimmer Man' could be passed off as a Foxx bootleg to the casual fan. Congrats to you and Futuredaze, excellent stuff. Can I look forward to this being commercially available in the future?

Hi Monkey Jive

First off hi and secondly thanks for your great comments, it is appreciated.

I am currently working on an album which is totally influenced by John's "Metamatic" album and have recorded 5 tracks and am working on a sixth. So far "The Glimmer Man" has been posted on my web pages and also "A Face I Knew (Link below for that track) the other tracks will be posted in due course for people to listen to. When the CD is complete I will make it available on my site.

Gary Hunter - A Face I Knew

On my iCompositions page you will find 2 Joy Division cover versions which are getting rave reviews off people, whether it is your cup of tea or not I don't know but you might like them.

When the new stuff is posted I will post a message in the forums here.

Gary

Greetings from New York!

Hi Maryann from Manchester in the UK, hope you are well.

Hi Gary. That is good news. I prefer your 'Foxx' stuff to the covers ( the originals can not be bettered IMO) or the ambient type stuff which I do not like at all.......whom ever the artist is!!! Good luck with the album and keep us posted.

Regards

Alan ( Monkey Jive )

Gary has done some fantastic covers, but I must agree I prefer the original tracks "in the style" of John Foxx and others. Also, for the Robo Cast electronic podcasts I do, I cannot include cover versions so another great reason to create original tracks. I can play them on the Robo Cast shows

I'm looking to create a special John Foxx inspired show if I can pull all the tracks together and also get agreement from Rob and Steve to include a John Foxx track on the show. I know loads of artists who have JF influenced tracks and I've received some already.

Ian

Foxx's TPOE album was the album that got me interested in making my own electronic music, but it took a few years for me to get round to doing so.

While John's music is a big influence, I don't think much of my music "sounds" like John - which is a good thing I guess because in copying somebody else's style, you don't develop your own. That said, I'm not sure exactly what it is that connects my music to his, especially since my stuff is instrumental (there's the Jarre influence). I've done some stuff that would fall into the Cathedral Oceans sort of style, but I guess it's the atmosphere and concept in albums such as TPOE and Metamatic that inspire me, rather than the actual sounds.

Hi Alex

Hope you are well mate. Is n't amazing how inspirational John's "Metamatic" album has proved to be. A cracking album and in my all time top 50 without a doubt. Ian's mentioned you have sent some stuff for the next Robo Cast show which is excellent news.

Gary

Hi Gary,

Yes, I'm proud to be a part of Ian's podcasts! Metamatic certainly opened my eyes and ears. I've got a virtual Arp and virtual Moog which I do dabble with - sounds from them have been used in a lot of my stuff, but it wasn't until my Metropolis album that I finally stripped the music right back on 2 or 3 of the songs and used that more minimal, Metamatic-like approach.

Metamatic would definately be in my all time top 10 or 20 - certainly the 50!!

Actually it would make sense to link to the songs I mentioned:
Towering Glass
Waking
Concrete Monsters
Not my best pieces at all, but experimental in that I wanted to make more of the analogue sounds.

I keep forgetting about iCompositions - haven't been on it in absolutely ages (mainly due to my recent lack of musical output).

Hi Alex

Just been listening to the tracks you mentioned. I do like the sounds you have used and there is a john foxx influence in the music. Of the three I thought "Towering Glass" was best, quite a chilled out piece.

I use virtual Arp, Moog and the Pro53 by Native Instruments which is superb for analog stuff.

I have posted comments and rated the tracks for you.

Gary

Aw, cheers Gary!

I am reading your discussion with envy. I can play tunes on a hollow biro by banging it against my teeth. I have never composed my own music but if I did am confident it would be abstract, avant-garde, highly original, and .......I almost forgot, totally rubbish. Just have to keep checking out all your stuff. Oh well, every cloud

Monkey Jive I will have 2 new "Foxx" inspired tracks ready for the end of the week which I will post on iCompositions. I will let you know when they are online.