Informed equally by 80's arcade culture and the bleeding edge nanotech scenarios of the near-future, San Francisco's Jeff Taylor is an electro entity that pines for neither a lost past or a utopian tomorrow. Situated at the convergence of experimental electro, nu skool breaks, and dancefloor acid breaks, Jeff's music explores the darker realms of syncopation inhabited by the likes of Carl A. Finlow (aka Voice Stealer, Random Factor) and RAC (of Warp records fame). Even with Art of Noise and Kraftwerk as his bedrock inspirations, Jeff is not looking to relive the drum machine/ synthesizer aesthetic of his breakdancing teenage years, but to update it with the latest digital technology and neoteric aesthetics.
Since releasing with his partners in Ultraviolet Catastrophe one of the very first records to emerge from the Bay Area rave scene, the funky breaks classic "Trip Harder" (included in the Chemical Brothers' Brothers Gonna Work It Out mastermix), Jeff Taylor has been producing underground electronic music for over a decade. He signed on to engineer and co-write the first tracks from the Hardkiss brothers and then helped form the Pacific Collective as an experiment in alternative distribution designed to protect small local labels from shady record distributors. But being much more the artist / computer geek type (he's worked at top music software companies and beta tests high-end audio applications), Taylor decided business wasn't his passion, so he focused his expressive endeavors on music, graphic design, and video.
Around '97, he decided he wanted to fuse music and visual arts into some new medium. To this end, he formed the A/V band ALLOY with his partners Simon Colley and legendary British visual artist Nick Philip, who is now based in San Francisco. Over this time his pre-rave love for electro returned with a vengeance, so he decided to launch into another round of beat and squelch manipulation. Yet feeling alienated by the IDM scene and its sedate, chin-scratching events, Taylor wanted to produce complex tracks that pushed expectations but remained visceral and danceable.
Jeff's recorded material has been growing rapidly as he's been preparing for recent live sets, which he performs on his tricked out franken-Mac laptop. He already has two albums worth of tracks that he's looking to release soon, and ALLOY will have a song on the upcoming edition of the esteemed Big Chill compilation series, compiled by Tom Middleton (aka Global Communication, Jedi Knights).
Since releasing with his partners in Ultraviolet Catastrophe one of the very first records to emerge from the Bay Area rave scene, the funky breaks classic "Trip Harder" (included in the Chemical Brothers' Brothers Gonna Work It Out mastermix), Jeff Taylor has been producing underground electronic music for over a decade. He signed on to engineer and co-write the first tracks from the Hardkiss brothers and then helped form the Pacific Collective as an experiment in alternative distribution designed to protect small local labels from shady record distributors. But being much more the artist / computer geek type (he's worked at top music software companies and beta tests high-end audio applications), Taylor decided business wasn't his passion, so he focused his expressive endeavors on music, graphic design, and video.
Around '97, he decided he wanted to fuse music and visual arts into some new medium. To this end, he formed the A/V band ALLOY with his partners Simon Colley and legendary British visual artist Nick Philip, who is now based in San Francisco. Over this time his pre-rave love for electro returned with a vengeance, so he decided to launch into another round of beat and squelch manipulation. Yet feeling alienated by the IDM scene and its sedate, chin-scratching events, Taylor wanted to produce complex tracks that pushed expectations but remained visceral and danceable.
Jeff's recorded material has been growing rapidly as he's been preparing for recent live sets, which he performs on his tricked out franken-Mac laptop. He already has two albums worth of tracks that he's looking to release soon, and ALLOY will have a song on the upcoming edition of the esteemed Big Chill compilation series, compiled by Tom Middleton (aka Global Communication, Jedi Knights).