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Real time hand motion
12+ albums
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Real Time Hand Motion is a the name for the production collaboration and live performance group of Carson Carr and Christian Thomas. "RTHM" was originally the brainchild of Carson Carr aka “Busy.” In 1997, Carr had been writing and performing alongside 4 other drummers playing beats on buckets for tips on street corners under the name “Street Beats.” During this year he had the idea to incorporate their show into a live, electronic act. Three years later, after an insurance settlement was received by one of the six members of Real Time Hand Motion (appropriately named for six drummers simultaneously playing different elements of House and Drum & Bass music on drum pads, triggering samplers and synths) they invested $12,000 to purchase the gear they needed to make it happen. A year later, during the fall of 2001, Carr attended a drum and bass party in the rural college town of Murfreesboro, TN. During the party, he meet Christian Thomas aka “Crux” who was attending the university there and they quickly found themselves listening to each other’s tracks in the parking lot. During that conversation, they both realized that they shared quite a bit in common as they both had graduated from the same high school and performed at many of the same marching drum competitions, missing each other by chance. Carson then shared with Christian the idea of what he had been doing with RTHM and invited him to join. “It started as a group of guys who were really good at drums, but not djing