Music

Enjoying PTNSHIFT by the Marshes at Sunset

I’m starting to build up material, muscle memory and confidence with PTNSHIFT. I hope it will take me out on the road again. I recorded this jam and the drone footage on a recent trip to Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

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Rebuild EP

This is the second EP I recorded using Scapeshift and released in January 2025. The last track “The Disappointed Optimist” is a cross between a vlog and a sprawling, ambient Orb style piece, assembled from a conversation with my good friend Per Martinsen in Tromsø, Norway.

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Back EP

The Back EP, released in October 2024, marked my return to the world after everything fell apart. I recorded it with various prototypes while I was building Scapeshift, a process that started in a hospital bed after I was recovering from major cancer surgery. The Back EP lives at a crossroads between Electro and Fourth World.

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Experimenting with a Scapeshift prototype by the sea

This is a jam with Scapeshift’s engines before I’d plugged them all into the interface. I shot it on a trip to Tromsø in Norway. It was the place my heart most yearned to go to after I’d got through the hellscape of the previous 12 months. There’s something very special about being out in nature playing with music machines.

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Bardo EP

In 2013 I was offered an amazing opportunity to live-sample an orchestra with my Flow Machine instrument. I wrote the Bardo EP in collaboration with my friend Finn McNicholas and performed it at Village Underground, London with the Heritage Orchestra.

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Crowd-jam

In 2011 I kicked off a series of live streamed “crowd jams” with my Flow Machine. I collaborated with Soundcloud to create a “sound dropbox” where people could drop sound files directly to my launch pad while the stream was live.

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Promo

This is a BBC session I did for Rob Da Bank at their Maida Vale studios while promoting my album Listening Tree in 2009.

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Listening Tree

I wrote Listening Tree over a 3 year period from 2006-2008. I wanted to challenge myself to write and sing songs and decorate them with all the electronic trickery I’d been obsessively rehearsing for the past decade. The album ended up being released by Warp records. It was a true honour to share a label with Aphex Twin, Autechre and Squarepusher.

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Tim Exile’s Nuisance Gabbaret Lounge

This album is a collage of live recordings of improvised shows performed on my Keymasher instrument. I built the instrument in 2003, started touring with it in 2004 and recorded these shows in 2005. I was living in Brighton with two other Planet Mu artists, Shitmat & Chevron and rolling with the Wrong Music crew. It was as punk as anything. This album is a time capsule of its boyish rawness.

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Pro Agonist

This was my first full-length album, written in my transitional period between trying to cut it as a proper Drum & Bass artist and getting into the glitchier “IDM” scene. The opening track is a collab with Subfocus. Fond memories of late nights with Nick debating over when to glitch and when to not.

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Hanzo Steel Cuts EP

I was experimenting with lots of different styles at this time. This EP, coming out on Cristian Vogel’s Mosquito imprint, is split between two techno tracks and a couple of oddball drum & bass tempo numbers. Inseminov is the highlight, a 130bpm wonky techno / house wig-out that doesn’t reality sit still. As if I ever sat still in this era.

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Selected Drum & Bass Works (as ‘Exile’)

Here’s a selection of drum & bass tracks I released variously on Beta (John B’s label), MSX (Moving Shadow sublabel), Frequency (RAM sublabel), Renegade Hardware. I have to give a particular shoutout to John B who mentored me through this whole period, pushed me to develop my production chops and made sure my music got heard by all my heroes such as Fabio Grooverider and John Peel.

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