New Mind (band)

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New Mind
Origin Cumbria, Great Britain
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Years active1990–2001
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  • Bio-Tek
Website https://sonic-boom.com/mission-control/
MembersJonathan Sharp

New Mind is an electro-industrial band from Cumbria, Great Britain. New Mind is the solo flagship project by Jonathan Sharp, who also records as Bio-Tek and who was also a member of Cyber-Tec Project, Hexedene, and Hyperdex-1-Sect.

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History

New Mind was formed as a solo project of Jonathan Sharp in 1990. Jonathan was a classically-trained musician who was inspired by experimental guitar oriented music in the vein of Swans, as well as early industrial and electronic music including Neu! and Helden. Prior to creating New Mind, Jonathan played guitar and sampler in an experimental band and thought of electronic and industrial musics as being distinct. It was when Jonathan took a suggestion to listen to Skinny Puppy that he had a revelation that led to the creation of New Mind. [1]

The first New Mind demo, Bacteriophage, was recorded on 4-track in 1991. [1] This was followed by the EP Body Politic which was released by the Sadisque, an imprint of the UK-based Vinyl Solution label. New Mind was initially offered an expanded record deal with Sadisque but the deal fell through. Jonathan contributed tracks to several compilations during the following year including releases by Sentrax Records, Dossier, and The Empty Quarter before being signed to Machinery Records in 1993. [2]

The first New Mind album, Fractured, was released by Machinery Records in 1993. This was the only release on Machinery as the label did not find the initial material for the second album, Zero To The Bone, to their liking. [2] Zero To The Bone was eventually released by Fifth Colvmn Records in 1995. [3] [4]

Also in 1995, Jonathan became a founding member of Cyber-Tec Project along with Jean-Luc De Meyer and Ged Denton. Jonathan was unexpectedly replaced in the band by Marc Heal after the release of the band's first album. [2]

After setbacks with both Fifth Colvmn and Cyber-Tec, Jonathan sent initial demos of tracks from Forge to Stefan Herwig at Off Beat. This led to a multi-album deal with Off Beat. [2]

Jonathan considered New Mind to be his main musical project and did not wish to constrain his musical output under that name to any particular genre or style. His affinity for "European" EBM, however, led him to develop a second solo project, Bio-Tek, as an outlet for that particular style. [1] While releasing music as New Mind on Off Beat, Jonathan secured a deal with seminal German record label, Zoth Ommog, to release music as Bio-Tek. [2]

The relationship with Zoth Ommog led to a collaboration between Jonathan and André Schmechta of X Marks the Pedwalk that became Hyperdex-1-Sect. Their album Metachrome was released by Synthetic Symphony in 1997 and featured tracks that Jonathan had originally written for Cyber-Tec Project, reconstructed by André and reformatted with female vocals. [2] Also in 1997, Jonathan formed Hexedene with Katie Helsby and Ian Palmer. [1]

During the 1990s, Jonathan produced many remixes as New Mind for bands such as Aïboforcen, Birmingham 6, Scar Tissue, Inertia, Aghast View, and Attrition. He also recorded many one-off compilation tracks under various names, including: Datura, Gunhed [1] , Lashtal [2] , Nova, Psionic, Tyrophex 14, Vent, and Zodiac.

Discography

As New Mind

As Bio-Tek

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Crawford, Al (December 1996). "Interview: New Mind". Sonic Boom. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sage (1997). "Interview: New Mind". Culture Shock. Genocide Project (01.97): 30–31. ISSN   1093-1651.
  3. ↑ Zero to the Bone at MusicBrainz
  4. ↑ Christian, Chris. "New Mind: Zero To The Bone". Sonic Boom. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
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