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Toby Hrycek-Robinson is a British producer, composer, and recording engineer from London, UK.
Toby Hrycek-Robinson | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Toby Robinson |
| Born | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Genres | avant-garde, experimental, Krautrock |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, producer, engineer |
| Years active | 1970 to present |
Biography edit
Hrycek-Robinson began his career in Germany where he spent time as a sound engineer working for Karlheinz Stockhausen and Péter Eötvös in Cologne's Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studios.[1] By the early 1970s he had moved to Dieter Dierks' studio, where he recorded with a number of krautrock bands, including work on CAN’s Landed album in 1975.[2]
During this period he used spare studio time to experiment with visiting musicians, often working under pseudonyms such as "The Mad Twiddler" or "Genius P. Orridge".[3] He also teamed up with Fluxus artist Robin Page, creating the mythological Pyramid label to release the tracks under names such as Cozmic Corridors and Golem.[4] Much of this material was eventually released on the Virgin and Psi-Fi Labels from 1996.[5]
After returning to Britain, he opened Moat Studios in London and worked with a wide range of avant garde and rock musicians including The Monochrome Set, Acid Mothers Temple, Rhys Chatham, Bellowhead, David Sylvian, and Gong.[6] He also engineered a series of recordings with Derek Bailey from the mid-1990s until Bailey’s death in 2015.[7]
Apart from his work with musicians, Hrycek-Robinson has composed the themes and incidental music for television, including a number of audio plays for Big Finish Productions.[8]
Selected discography edit
Hrycek-Robinson served as producer or engineer on the following records:[6]
- 1975: Can – Landed (Mixing)
- 1976: Pell Mell - Rhapsody (Engineer)
- 1998: Derek Bailey – Play Backs (Engineer)
- 1998: Derek Bailey – Tohjinbo (Engineer)
- 1999: Scarlet's Well – Strange Letters (Producer)
- 2000: Union Wireless – All Her Life (Producer)
- 2000: Gong – Zero to Infinity (Engineer)
- 2001: Bows – Cassidy (Producer)
- 2001: Derek Bailey and Shoji Hano - Fish (Engineer)
- 2001: Billy Mahonie – What Becomes Before (Engineer)
- 2001: Derek Bailey – Ore (Engineer)
- 2001: Pat Thomas – Nur: Solo Piano 1999# (Mastering)
- 2002: Scarlet's Well – The Isle of the Blue Flowers (Producer)
- 2002: Derek Bailey & Franz Hautzinger – Derek Bailey / Franz Hautzinger (Engineer)
- 2002: Derek Bailey – Ballads (Engineer)
- 2003: Ivar Grydeland / HISS – Zahir (Engineer)
- 2003: Rebel Powers (Acid Mothers Temple and David Keenan) – Not One Star Will Stand the Night (Engineer)
- 2003: David Sylvian – Blemish (Engineer)
- 2006: Derek Bailey – To Play: The Blemish Sessions (Engineer)
- 2006: Joseph Holbrooke Trio – The Moat Recordings (Engineer)
- 2006: Tender Trap – Language Lessons (Producer)
- 2006: Mothers of Invasion / Makoto Kawabata – Hot Rattlesnakes (Engineer)
- 2006: Tender Trap – 6 Billion People (Producer)
- 2008: Bellowhead – Matachin (Mixing)
- 2014: Gong – I See You (Engineer)
- 2017: Can – The Singles (Mixing)
- 2020: The Monochrome Set – Little Noises 1990-1995 (Composer, Producer)
References edit
- ^ Young , Schmidt (May 2018). CAN - All Gates Open. Faber and Faber. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-571-31149-1.
- ^ "CAN "Landed" Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "Cologne Curiosities: The Unknown Krautrock Underground 1972-1976 album review". Louder Sound. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ Barnes, Mike (December 1996). "Sound Check". The Wire (154): 51.
- ^ Barnes, Mike (March 1998). "Sound Check". The Wire (169): 59.
- ^ a b "Toby Hrycek-Robinson Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "Derek Bailey remembered". The Wire. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "Toby Hrycek-Robinson Contributions". Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 24 January 2023.