Sol Connection
Personal Details
Name:
Daniel Holmes
Age:
27
Location:
The Gong
Producer since:
dabbling since 2000 maybe?...getting more serious in the last 2 years.
Production Company:
Fractal Universe
Affiliation:
EPPR
Profile URL:
http://www.australiens.net/profiles/solconnection/
Musical Influences
Genre
Sunrise and Progressive Afternoon..trying to cross/blur a few boundries at the moment though
Current Top 10
they change every day...but let me just say minilogue - spam is way too cool for school at the moment :)
also..the new tetrameth album rocks :) ... and anything james holden touches.
All Time Top 10
in no particular order
sensphere - disorder
shpongle - behind closed eyelids
hallucinogen - horrorgram
jaia - mai mai
loosid - trancemogrification (cz2k mix)
symbiote - phantasmagoria
son kite - massive
sunrunner - smile of 1000 faces and nuuksio
psykovsky - north or south
vernon - wanderer (sonkite remix)
nathan fake - outhouse ( SO GOOD >_< )
Favourite DJs
Orphea, Franny, Eegor, James Holden, D-Nox, Loopus
Favourite Labels
EPPR, Iboga, Sprout, Tribal Vision, Border Community etc...they all pretty much do good releases from time to time :)
Favourite Artists
sonkite, minilogue, torekka, nystagmus, talpa, aerolink, haltya, sunrunner, ploogle, meltdown, psytrakked, cosm, third drop, hedonix, oryx, reefer decree, james holden, oliver prime, neelix, soul surfer, kasey taylor, chris meehan, dominic plaza, lots of the guys from finland, nathan fake.
Performances
Upcoming Events
24.02.06 [NSW] Regrowth 06 Outdoor Festival (b2b closing set with sunrunner..woo woo)
Alien Doof - New Caledonia (date rescheduled - tba)
Previous Events
fri 18th nov The Martin Fitzgeral File : Declassified
9th - 11th dec Erisian Fields Outdoor Feat Hallucinogen and Antix
20th aug 05: Fractal Forest 2: Full Moon Chapter
24th sept 05: Psychedelic Therapy 2 feat. Gappeq
1st oct 05: The Awakening 3 day festival
15th oct 05: Daydreamer (beach doof woo hoo)
Alien Doof post party - New Caledonia 2005, Cosmic Couriers 7th May 2005 (t-quest), Elixir 2005 (elixir), Liminal Morphology 2005 (fractal universe and nocturnal species), lots of smaller house parties and outdoor parties.
Radio Appearances
been asked to play on cyberwlfs show with dwight [sunrunner] (as thenothing), so maybe soon :)
Highlight of Career
Playing back to back with Sunrunner at Erisian Fields and also had a really awesome night at a Cosmic Couriers once.
Releases
"Spiral Tree" on EPP records compilation the martin fitzgerald file
(buy it here: ...hehe...well, i can only try :)
a progressive track that is a bit of a tribally stompy thing..about a tree...a spiral tree in fact ;)
heres my db entry on saikosounds incase anything new gets released and i havent updated this page :)
Sol Connection
Upcoming Releases
1st Liveset nealry finished woo woo :)
Got about 5 tracks in the works including collaborations with Sunrunner, Meltdown, Third Drop Reflection and Sensum :) samples coming soon. :)
Information
Info
i mainly like to write music for the sunshine but usually just write whatever is in my heart without trying to think about genres or times of day too much...
i am learning classical flute with a really good teacher and hope to soon start incorporating it into a live act
ill put some links to some tracks up soon so you can get an ideas of where im coming from...but basically i like to write wiggly melodic progressive tinged music with influences from a variety of sources and genres outside of psy...but still..mmm psyish :) hehe
Studio Setup
I use a combination of Logic, Cubase, Buzz tracker, Live and Reason because the all do things i like in different ways...main sequencer is Cubase atm, doing layers over the top in logic and creating additional wiggly sounds and tricks in buzz :)
Virus TI for the meaty synth work.
I use a cheapo Roland midi controller keyboard with one lousey data slider (almost constantly set to midi cc01)
now running completely off a desktop replacement toshiba dual core laptop, with presonus friebox frirewire soundcard and mackie HR824 monitors alongside genelec 1029a's