My Music
I have a long tradition of messing around with guitars and 4-track tape recorders – my Fostex X-28H was my pride and joy – but at school we’d had an early version of Cubase and so I started dabbling in computer music production… I figure any man has to have at least one or two expensive and time consuming hobbies and this was definitely mine! As the versions of Cubase got better, I graduated from Atari ST to a dedicated PC and latterly a Mac. After a fair bit of ‘woodshedding’, I got to grips with the basics of making beats. Some of them have been released over the years on a variety of labels including Universal Vibes, Jus’ Listen, Blue City Recordings and Sick Trumpet.
You can find my producer profile here at Soundcloud or there are a few to listen to below – both originals and a couple of re-edits/remixes: hope you enjoy!
Roll of the Beast (Tim Scott’s Roll of the Beats Remix) – Clyde [Atjazz Recordings]
I was over the moon to get to remix a track by the brilliant Clyde and had some real fun with this one (even amusing myself with the bad pun in the remix title), as I went back to my more natural broken beat production style. It was released on Atjazz Recordings and to celebrate a recent anniversary, Clyde even made a short video of him talking about it – you can see it below at about 7 minutes in.
“…And person number 3 is Tim Scott and I think the reason we used Tim was that at the time he was a real broken beat fanatic and, yeah, the mix he produced sounds really good to this day!”
Slow Burner – taken from the Season of Change EP [Universal Vibes]
As is so often the way it seems, this started as a bit of a throwaway idea, effectively a DJ tool as I was playing less broken beat and more disco-y house type stuff in my sets. I decided to have a go at my own and this was the result. The thing I’m most proud of about this track is that the legendary DJ and producer (and all-round nice guy, having had the immense pleasure of meeting him a few times) Mr Scruff picked this up and for a while it appeared in quite a few of his DJ sets. One of my proudest production moments!
Here’s one of the Scruff mixes featuring Slow Burner that’s still online (at the time of writing!) – it’s track 21 here and comes in pretty much bang on 1’38″…
Imagine This, Picture That (Tim Scott Remix): Steve Austin [Sick Trumpet]
I was excited at the time to be asked by the guys behind Sick Trumpet, who I were also proud to call mates too as we played the same nights and hung out a fair bit, to remix one of their early tracks from London rapper Steve Austin. I turned out a broken workout that is fairly typical of my style… As whoever wrote Traxsource’s liner notes put it: “Tim Scott’s interpretation is the deepest, the moodiest, the heaviest. Dub influences abound as the Liverpool-based producer adds broken beats and sweeping strings to the mix to create a rework for the heads.”
Trolley – Tim Scott Remix: Filewile [Wankdorf Recordings]
This has the honour of being the first track I was involved with that made it onto vinyl – a bit of a seminal moment for a DJ and producer. It was released as a 12″ promo for the double remix album that the Swiss band put together and I was delighted to get to take part.
You can watch it here on YouTube – or download it on Bandcamp right here. You might even just be able to hit play below… it was very early in my production days and you can hear the very clear influence that broken beat was having on me. This track also has the somewhat more dubious honour of being the only one I’ve ever worked on that features my voice, with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek reference to the track’s title….you can decide whether or not that was a good idea.
I was lucky enough to join the Filewile guys and some of the other remixers at the launch party out in Bern, Switzerland in December 2005, where we had one hell of a night. As a DJ used to the joys of the British club scene’s “rider” of the occasional free beer (if you were lucky), the backstage buffet and cheeseboard was a bit of a shock. As was the lead singer of one of the bands playing at the night getting a tattoo live on stage while performing. They do things differently on the continent.
[Photos below borrowed from trespass.ch]1
