Former Coburn member Tim Healey reveals his new solo project

Former Coburn member Tim Healey reveals his new solo project

18 September, 2008 | 12.02PM

• Written by: djbarrios141
• Filed under: Music News: instereo recordings, tim healey

Tim Healey is most well known for his electro-fuelled house music and notorious bootlegs under a number of different aliases, often with his co-producer Pete Martin, under the name Coburn. 

Coburn hit it big in 2005 with their release of ‘We Interrupt This Program’ on Great Stuff Recordings as well as Data Records.

After a run of great singles, remixes and a Coburn album in 2007, Tim’s now back in the studio taking on a new project going head-to-head with a slew of different producers for his ‘Tim Healey vs’ concept.

One of his first releases, ‘Turn Me On’ with fellow producer Richard Kegg is due out on InStereo Recordings September 18th.

Anyone who knows good music will say that the production on ‘Turn Me On is top notch.  But it is quite a different sound than we’re used to hearing from you. How has the current music scene shaped your new productions and how would you describe your sound?

Yep – As a DJ I love to present the most cutting edge sounds to eager dance-floors around the world, so I avidly collect what I perceive to be the best music from most dance genres.

As a producer and music lover, I collect just about anything that is quality. This is reflected in my own productions…

This year, I’d been playing a couple of stylish deep-minimal-techy tunes each DJ set – and they had been going off, so decided that I needed to produce one myself, because there was too much “featureless minimal” stuff out there.

So the aim of the tune was to be deeply hypnotic and then deliver a monster bassline when you least expected it – which is something that never happens in most deep/minimal dance music. I think we hit the jackpot here.

In terms of describing my dance sound, I make and play super-trash ghetto-electro – f*cking good party music, basically.

I feel there are too many DJs and producers stuck in one corridor of sound – but that’s great ‘cos it means people like me can clean up with a more free-style approach.

The world would be very dull if we were all the same…

How do you feel about the house scene at the moment in terms of the quality of musical output?

There has never been more exciting music about – rave, glitch, deep, breaks, funky, remixed, re-sampled it’s all go.

InStereo has been putting out some fabulous tunes this year, and I am proud to be on their imprint.

Tell us a bit about some of the ideas that influenced this ‘Tim Healey vs’ project.

After years of focusing my efforts with the super-talented Pete Martin as Coburn, we had a lot of success.

But I needed to set up on my own, and so I built this studio in my house in Brighton, UK – it has a balcony and views of the ocean.

Once the studio was built, I decided that I wanted to embark on a new project, and one that would involve working with as many different producers as possible – all of whom I had met.

Electro don Dylan Rhymes was the first, then the UK’s leading drum & bass artist TC – it all went really well, so I got the bug, and this year have worked with a shed-load of extremely skilled producers, vocalists and MCs.

What other producers will you be working with on this project and why did you choose them?

Apart from the ones I have mentioned already, there has been Marc Adamo (Product 01), Atomic Hooligan, the legendary Steve Mac, MC Junior Red and a reunion track with Pete from Coburn!

Why did you choose to release this tune under InStereo Recordings?  Will you be working with any other record labels on this new project?

InStereo rocks this year!

I’ve been playing their tunes – DJ Kue’s ‘Don’t Get High’, the Twocker’s remix of ‘Bangin’ on the System’ etc. etc., but alas not even InStereo can keep up with my output, so a few tracks have gone elsewhere…

Big & Dirty and Menu recordings are putting my stuff out too.

What are your plans for the future?  Will you be putting out an album with all this new material?

That’s the aim of the game – to get all the tunes of one long-player… Probably for early next year.

It’s a tough question – but if you had to single out your best gig this year, what would it be?

Without hesitation, it would be playing for Opulent Temple at Burning Man festival, Nevada…

The crew are wicked, the dancefloor is spectacular, and the DJ booth comes with 6 punch-buttons that trigger 6 propane flame-throwers around the dance-floor.

And all off that is set against the backdrop of the most out-there festival in the world.

And diary highlights this autumn?

Well, the Red Bull Formula 1 party should kick-ass in Singapore this month, and in November, I am playing at XXX-perience, the largest open-air party in Brazil with 30,000 expected.

How can we keep up-to-date with Tim Healey, the man and his music?

Try www.myspace.com/djtimhealey – you can audition stuff there way ahead of release, and find out where I will be playing next.

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