Sim Lister

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Sim Lister
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A co-founder of Sheffield-based Chakk and FON Studios; the first professional 24-track recording studio and set up FON Records in Sheffield - which worked with internationally-known record producers including Sly and Robbie, and Richard Burgess. FON's recording clients included Boy George, Pop Will Eat Itself, Yazz, Erasure, Take That, The Spice Girls, 808 State, Lulu, Tom Baker, Moloko and Pulp.

At FON they started working with fledging digital recording techniques, including investment in Apple-based Greengate sampling software. Sim was involved with the build and installation of two early recording studio projects in Sheffield - Human League and Comsat Angels / Axis.

A hightly regarded saxophonist Lister has also worked as a producer and musical director with Factory Records in Brazil, the USA and the UK. Lister also plays and records trumpet and French horn as well as using wide-ranging digital techniques.

Tours and performances as theatre musician included two full seasons at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Sheffield-based Compass Theatre. In the 1980s Sim gave music workshops at the 'Leadmill' arts venue in Sheffield as part of the arts organisation ‘Manifesto’ - one of his students was comedian, Linda Smith.

Lister's sessions have included Boy George, Funky Worm, Cabaret Voltaire, Ashley and Jackson, Subsonic Two and Guy Barker - and TV appearances have included Top of the Pops and the Tube.

As a composer he was jointly commissioned to compose a piece for Phoenix Dance Theatre in Leeds.

Sim Lister's most recent releases are Two Thousand and Six (2005) by Heights of Abraham (a collaboration with Steve Cobby and Jake Harries - and in 2006 Put Me on A Planet by J*S*T*A*R*S (with Steve Cobby).

Nowadays he is also label boss of Twentythree Records, the label of Fila Brazillia and Steel Tiger Records; home to J*S*T*A*R*S and The Cutler.
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Instruments & Performance

Clocks And Babies

(Cass)
Not On Label (Chakk Self-Released) 1982

They Must Be Russians

(LP, Album)
First Floor Records (2) 1983

10 Days In An Elevator

(2 versions)
MCA Records 1986

Code

(12 versions)
Parlophone, EMI Music Group Australasia 1987

Beneath The Dancefloor - Basement Tapes (Chakk 1983-1984)

(12", Ltd, W/Lbl)
Fon Records 1987

The Funky Worm

(2 versions)
Atlantic 1988

Hustle! (To The Music...)

(8 versions)
Fon Records 1988

The Spell! (Get Down With The Genie)

(3 versions)
Fon Records, WEA 1988
  • Brass Construction (Instrumental) and 2 more…

Subsonic 2 - We Go Subsonic / Brass Construction (Remixes) (12", Promo, Smplr)

Unity (4), Columbia 1990

The Martyr Mantras

(8 versions)
Virgin 1990

Solid Gold

(2 versions)
Big Life 1991

England Made Me

(6 versions)
Factory 1991

Humidity

(2 versions)
Pork Recordings 1993

Flamingos - Original Colour (12")

Robs Records 1994
  • Bitten Bugs

Fila Brazillia - Bitten Bugs (12")

Twentythree 1999
  • Sex, Money, Freaks (Kevorkian Dub) and 2 more…

Cabaret Voltaire - Conform To Deform '82 / '90. Archive; (3xCD, Comp + Box)

Virgin, Virgin 2001
  • Out Of The Flesh (Demo)

Various - Beats Working For A Living! [Rare Forgotten Demos 73-84] (CD, Comp)

Record Collector 2005

RetroActivity

(2xCD, Comp)
Warp Records 2011

Reason For Living

(12")
Robs Records Unknown

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Imagination (Who Needs A Better Life)

(2 versions)
MCA Records, MCA Records 1986

Big Hot Blues

(2 versions)
MCA Records 1986

Timebomb

(3 versions)
Fon Records 1986

Cath Carroll - Moves Like You (4 versions)

Factory 1991
  • Moves Like You

Various - Palatine - The Single (2 versions)

Factory 1991
  • Moves Like You

Various - Palatine - The Factory Story / Vol. 4 / 1987-1990 / Selling Out (4 versions)

Factory 1991
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