Mini Version

1988 - Started playing the drums

1990 - First gig

1992 - Started my first proper band. An 80's metal outfit called Vena Cava

1995 - Went to Brunel Uni to study music. Started playing in big bands, show bands & small piece jazz bands

1997 - Joined The Skangers and thus met most of what is now the Adverse Camber crew. Started listening to Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and all things Warp & Rephlex related.

2001 - Started a bendy acid duo with Rory (Randomoidz) called Boep. That year was also when Adverse Camber came to life and we did our first party at Medussa in Brixton that December.

2003 - Boep somehow manage to blag our way onto the bill for the Kraked Squat Party alongside Hellfish, Donna Summer, dDamage, Kid 606, The Bug, Chevron, Shitmat, Con Brio, the Adaadat cew and many more. This show was a major turning point for me Boep, Adverse Camber and many more. It turns out that Mike, Tizz and Steve from Kraked were very good friends of a lot of mates of Adverse Camnber anyway but we jusy never realised. Suddenly there was this gigantic force of people on the underground electronica scene suddenly thrown in the mix togther. If it wasn't for that party I may never of met Miike Teknoist who is about to release my first pice of wax and Adverse Camber as a collective may never of met Jay Chevron and Henry Shitmat and the wonderful relationship between us and Wrong Music nmay never of happened...then again, it might of but just at a different party! But hey, I'm keeping it romantic maaaan.

2004 - Adverse Camber unleash The Night Of Awesome Power. Featuring The DJ Producer, Doormouse, DJ Scud, Shitmat, Chevron, The Teknoist, Dolphin, Parasite, Ablecain, Anonymous, Stunt Rock, Joe ET, El Kano, Uberdog and me as Barry Von WeedHousen. This was also the year I got my first decent DJ booking as Barry Von WeedHousen outside of London. It was at Oblivion in Leicester and I was playing alongside The DJ Producer, Dolphin, The Teknoist, Matt Green and loads more. I have very fond memories of this night and it ws one of my most enjoyable DJ sets. Which you can download off my audio page if you fancy a listen ;)

2005 - Adverse Camber follow up The Night Of Awesome Power with The Knights Of Awesome Power. Featuring Bogdan Raczynski, Scorn, Panacea, Enduser, Dolphin, The Teknoist, Ely Muff, Simon Underground, Noize Creator, $peedranch, Bin Ray, Uberdog, Kutchi, El Kano and me under my current name of Scheme Boy.

2006 - Got my first peice of wax just about to be released. Its gonna be a double pack on Ninja Columbo records with me, The Teknoist, Dolphin & Bryan Fury all contributing two tracks each. Should be a beast!

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!!!Extended Version!!!

Ok, so what do I write here then? What do you wanna know? What got me here? My life story? My influences? The people I rate? How rad my friends are? Do I look at the bog roll after I wipe? Why I think peas are evil? I guess I could spout on for pages and pages if we get to detailed about it. Maybe its best if I just stick to music. Where I came from and what got me here...

Well, I started learning to play the drums when I was 10 upon the fine advice from my older bass playing brother. I guess he thought it would be cool for us to jam togther. He was right. Did my first non school orchestra gig when I was 12. That involved me, my bro and a mate of ours who (for reasons I cannot divulge) shall be known as Big Boy, performing at a school recital. We did a cover of Wipe Out and Fire & Water by Free, with extended drum solo at the end. I fucking loved it and have had the live bug ever since.

Throughout my school years I played in all the orchestras and big bands I could as well as various iffy rock bands in my parents garage. At 14 I started a band called Vena Cava. I have nothing but the fondest of memories of this band. We fucking rocked! we won regional battle of the bands competitions and then came third in the finals. Not bad for a bunch of spotty teenages playing Iron Maiden style tunes!

At 17 I moved from my home town (which shall remain nameless cos of the shame it brings on me) and moved down to London with my bro to start a music course at Brunel Uni. Around this time my love of metal started to wain and the jazz and funk took over. At uni I played in various big bands like I had at school but also started doing show bands for the luvvies productions as well as doing small piece jazz gigs with my bro and some of the tutors from uni. My final gig on the "scene" as it were was a residency at the Harvey Nicholls restaurant in Knightsbridge. Although to date they were the best paid gigs I've ever had, they were also the worst in terms of crowd response. We started the first few with some nice dinner jazz and bit of light be-bop but after putting up with looks of disgust from all the poncy rich fuckers we stopped caring and just went freeform! Playing Charlie Parker tunes at 220bpm, my bro doing ridiculous bass solos for ten minutes at a time, the got proper fucked off at that point. After a few more of these shows we obviously got fired. My bro went on to become quite a heavyweight on the UK jazz scene. I however started to discover to wonderful world of electronic music...

Before I come onto the electronic side of things, I should do a little chapter on what in retrospect is probably the most important in my musical life, with reagrds to what got me where I am now anyhow and also what ultimately led to the birth of Adverse Camber. That my friends was a little episode in my life called The Skangers. After uni finished I was dossing at mates houses in London with no money for months. One cold November morning I awoke on a mates sofa to find myself covered in snow (we had no window in the longue). I was fully dressed, wearing two coats, in a sleeping bag and still shivering to death. It was then that I decided that I had had enough. London 1, Ash 0. It was time to go home for some good ole mum love! I threw my possesions into a bin liner and bunked the train back to shitsville.

A month or so of being back at my folks place, I get a call from my old bass player (not my bro but my mate whose house I was in with the snow. I havent mentioned the period of that band as it is a most embarrassing blip on my musical career). Anyway Chris (the bass player) calls me up and says "I gotta a new band for us to join, I'm coming up to see you with this dude called Charlie. He's the singer in band." Chris and Charlie turn up to my folks house completely wrecked and we proceed to chat into the small hours about all things rock and electronic...oh and a small matter of nearly throwing my little sisters boyfriend through a window, but thats a different story altogether. Did I say earlier that this chapter was little? Sorry about that, I maybe some time yet!

The upshot of that drunken evening was the formation of The Skangers, a very confused bunch people trying to blend metal, ska and electronica. Although we had some trivial success (an indepandant ep release, a gig at the Glastonbury festival, a nationwide tour with [Spunge] and an award from Krusher), we were ultimately defeated in our quest for something truly original and genre crossing by our own confusion and lack of musical focus. So, why am I dedicating some much time rambling on about it? The answer is simple. Although the band itself was nothing more than silly gigs and extensive rehearsing, the people that it brought togther make it one of the most important things thats has ever happened to me. You may know some of the members of The Skangers. We consisted of Chris on bass followed by Taz a few years in, Charlie on vocals (you may know him as Vect), Rory (Randomoidz) on guitar, Paul (Magimix) on synth & Olly (Puggle Jackson/Pixel Juice) on the computer. It also introduced me to Cara (Kutchi), Lindford (Kutchi/DJ Spazmo), Charlie T (Dropout), Simon (Johnny Southside), Anna & Ameet (El Kano). All of whom have been responsible for the birth of Adverse Camber and such treats as our Acid Longue nights at Ginglik, the Wreckage compilation and of course The Night & Knights of Awesome Power events. See, I made my point in the end!!

Adverse Camber is as much the baby of the aforementioned rabble as it is mine. Its a collective of all sorts of artists, visual & audio as well as us dipping into being promoters and a small label. If you are not familiar with their work or indeed that of Adverse Camber then I urge you to check it out, find them on the net, come to the shows and fucking have some.

Ultimately the upshot of meeting all these peeps led me into a much wider world of electronic music with the young Rory force feeding me Squarepusher's Big Loada on a regular basis and Paul laying Aphex Ambient Works 1 on me.

As The Skangers got more and more confused by wanting to make it more and more electronic we decided to call it a day and focus on writing purely electronic music on our own. After much badgering from the others I bought a G3 Powerbook and started writing bendy acid tunes with Rory. We became Boep and did our first gig at the first ever Adverse Camber party in Dec 2001. Aside from Boep, I started DJing under the name of Barry Von WeedHousen and Rory became Randomoidz. Charlie, Lindford & Cara became Kutchi and did a couple of releases on Eddie Bovaflux's label Struktur. The scene was set. Adverse Camber was born. We had unique live electronic artists, some amazing visual artists, photographers and awesome DJs in Magimix & El Kano.

I decided to ditch the WeedHousen name after a while for a variety of reasons, but mainly cos of the blank stares I got when I told people what my name was. It seems it was just too silly and too much of a mouthful for peole to get their heads around. I took up the name Scheme Boy cos it was what Rory used to always call me when he found me huddled over my laptop in the dark of my bedroom. You'll have to ask him why.

Boep was and still is about stupid acid lines, comical breaks and sonic lunacy, but under Scheme Boy I am getting more of my love of melody and harmony out of my system and a little more of my darker side as well. Like a true Gemini, I'm a two faced bastard :]

I dont really know what more to say at this stage. I'm sure you've all had enough (thats if you've even made it this far down the page). I haven't listed every band I've been in, I haven't listed every show I've done and I haven't listed all the people I have worked with over the years, simply cos I cant be arsed and it probably isnt that interesting. I can say though that as either part of Boep or just as Scheme Boy, I have had the pleasure of being on some very fine line ups and played alongside some truly talented artists. Of that I am very humbled and very chuffed. I have my first vinyl release on its way through Ninja Columbo records and 2006 would seem like the time for me to stand up and be counted.

Cheers for reading this far. Check out the tunes on the audio page and by all means send me some feedback on either my tunes or the Boep tunes. I'm a long way from mastering my art, but when I do, I'll probably give up!

Ash x