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Yellotone
12+ albums
electronicambientelectronicatechnoExperimental Rock
about
Simon Harding has recorded as Yellotone since 1998, when he began to distribute tapes, then CDs, to friends and acquaintances. The second of the full-length CDs, ‘In Flight Owl’ (2000), attracted the attention of the London-based electronica label Ai records, for whom Yellotone made several compilation appearances and a split 7-inch. Harding released his first EP, ‘Geen Mayo’, in 2003, amongst whose fans was John Peel, who played ‘But Side Sits’ on his radio show. Yellotone then went to work on his debut LP, Tar File Junction. Following this, in September 2003 he wrote and recorded about 30 tunes in a 2 month period, 14 of which were released as ‘Live At The Potters Wheel’ - a friends-only Christmas Cdr whose 50 commercially available copies sold out in 3 hours online. Tar file junction was released in September 2004, receiving great reviews and airplay on Radio 1 and XFM in the UK, as well as college airplay in the US. Yellotone followed this up with an EP, ‘Yellotone Plays Rush Goalie’. Partly composed on a trip to Japan, Rush Goalie for the first time began to incorporate the ’tone’s indie rock influences in a more direct way. This was released to friends and washerwomen alone. The rest of 2004 saw Yellotone complete his first documentary soundtrack work for the director Kate Taunton – ‘Dancing lessons with God’ - and play several gigs around the UK including Glasgow, Dublin and The Dedbeat Festival where, accompanied by a couple of a dancers and a guest appearance fro
