Monkey!!!

100th Monkey is Andy Guthrie, who has co-produced Banco de Gaia, Children of the Bong, Medicine Drum & Matsuri Productions to name a few.

Andy began his career as a keyboard player touring with Jackdaw With Crowbar & Bhangra singer Johnny Zee in the mid 1980s.

 

He worked at Island Records with reggae producer Paul 'Groucho' Smykle in 1988 before co-founding Banco de Gaia with Toby Marks & co-producing Banco's Mercury-nominated debut album Maya as well as Last Train to Lhasa. As a dance music producer during the 90s he worked with Medicine Drum, Prana, Eat Static, Tristan, Manmademan, & others as well as releasing solo work under the monikers 100th Monkey as well as Funkopath.

Writing in the Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, Colin Larkin sez:
     "characterised by varied textures and grooves, and the most detailed, original production."

During the last 20 years he has worked as a composer & arranger for media, film, theatre, in teaching, as a choral conductor & arranger, as a freelance producer including recent work with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Deutsche Grammophon. He has an MA in composition, continues to release music as 100th Monkey, still works with a range of artists in the classical / electronic music fields.

The name 100th Monkey comes from research conducted in the mid-sixties by four Japanese primatologists into the eating habits of monkeys across several separate Pacific islands. The researchers found that a concept or skill learned by a few could spread almost overnight to the rest of the species across long distances provided a critical number of individuals was reached. This was later picked up on by Lyall Watson who gave the concept the name "the hundredth monkey phenomenon". The point being that a new skill or concept can be accepted into the gene stream, affecting evolution provided enough individuals acquire it. So proving that whatever we think or learn affects the collective unconsciousness... probably. 

 

100th Monkey - Space Dubs & Other Miscellany, Disco Gecko DSCGCKDIG065, 2019.
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Hoffman Dub
Backwater Dub (Purple Pineapple mix)
Eclipse Dub featuring Miranda Matthews
Moonchild featuring Angèle
Until the Dawn
The Inuit Snow Song featuring Leq [Inuit singing] (Icescape Secret Beats remix)
Schumacher Levy No. 9
Oculus
Empyrean
Up & At It
Marakch

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ