Andy Votel

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Andy Votel
Born
Andrew Shallcross

(1975-11-04) 4 November 1975 (age 48)
Marple Bridge, Stockport, England
Andy Votel's voice
Recorded 2013

Andrew "Andy Votel" Shallcross (born 4 November 1975 in Marple Bridge, Stockport, England)[1][2][3] is an English musician, DJ, record producer, graphic designer and co-founder of Twisted Nerve Records and the reissue label Finders Keepers Records.

As musician

Violators of the English Language

Votel began making music in the late 1980s as the youngest member of the group Violators of the English Language (from which the VOTEL stage name is derived).

rap song with a young DJ Semtex as a backing dancer.[5]
Violators of the English Language failed to gain label interest as a group but Fat City released the Violators of the English Language instrumental tracks as VOTEL in 1996.

Solo career

In 2000 Votel signed to

XL Records. He recorded two albums for the label, Styles of the Unexpected (2000)[6] and All Ten Fingers (2002). These albums featured original Can singer Malcolm Mooney, Guy Garvey, Gramme, and Jane Weaver
. Votel's music is often released under a pseudonym. His aliases include Applehead, Anworth Kirk, Tandy Love, Xian Orphic, Slant Azymuth, Neotantrik, and Tony Deval.

As DJ

Having built a reputation through Violators of the English Language, Votel began mixing

Belle And Sebastian, Edan, Bob Stanley, and Gruff Rhys
. Votel has presented shows for
BBC 6 Music.[9]

As record producer and remixer

Votel has produced extensively for

Tim Burgess, Broadcast, and Elbow, among others. Votel also creates mix compilation CDs, including the Music To Watch Girls Cry series,[10] Vertigo Mixed, a compilation of rare tracks from the Vertigo Records catalogue,[11] Brazilika, rare Brazilian tracks[12] and Hungaraton, rare Hungarian music.[13]

As record label founder

Twisted Nerve

In 1997 Votel met Badly Drawn Boy and the pair founded the label Twisted Nerve, initially to release music by Badly Drawn Boy and Dave Tyack. The label then expanded, releasing the earliest recordings of many other artists including Doves, Elbow, PlanningToRock, and Alfie.

Finders Keepers

In 1999 Votel, along with Doug Shipton and Dom Thomas, founded the reissue label Finders Keepers. The debut release was a reissue of the then-obscure L'enfant Assassin Des Mouches by

Selda Bagcan,[14] Bruno Spoerri and Jean-Pierre Massiera.[15]

Other labels

Votel co-runs Bird records with Jane Weaver and co-runs Pre-Cert Home Entertainment with Demdike Stare and Boomkat.

As graphic designer

Votel is a graphic designer[10] and has created over 150 record sleeves. Notable artists to use his graphic design work include Gilles Peterson, Badly Drawn Boy, David Holmes, and Cate Le Bon. He has also designed campaigns for Adidas, Stüssy, Levi, and Adam Et Rope. He was also the in-house designer for Fat City. Votel teaches part-time at Stockport Design College.

Personal life

Votel is married to musician Jane Weaver.

Other activity

Votel has been the

Meltdown Festival. He also curated 2013's Festival Number 6 at Portmeirion.[18]

Votel writes about outsider music for websites such as Red Bull Music Academy.

Discography

Singles

Albums

Compilations

  • Music To Watch Girls Cry (2003)
  • Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word (2005)
  • Vertigo Mixed (2005)
  • Songs in the Key of Death (2005)
  • Songs of Insolence (2005)
  • Welsh Rare Beat (2005)
  • Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word (2006)
  • One Nation Under a Grave (2007)
  • Vintage Voltage (2010)

References

  1. ^ Andy Votel [@AndyVotel] (4 November 2016). "Woke up to the most amazing birthday gift from the lovely @JanelWeaver - The Eames House Bird. Love! ❤️" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "Andrew Shallcross". Companies House. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006". Findmypast.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Andy Votel: Questions of Doom | Bad Vibes". Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-21. Bad Vibes Website, 2014
  5. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | Yo! MRS Askew (1991)". Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  6. ^ Hubbard, Michael (2000). "Andy Votel – Styles of the Unexpected [review]". Musicomh.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2005.
  7. ^ "Andy Votel". Manchester Digital Music Archive. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  8. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Free Wales Harmony: When Pop Went Welsh". BBC. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  9. ^ "BBC Radio 6 Music - Freak Zone Playlist, Andy Votel and the music of French eroticism". BBC. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  10. ^ a b "BBC - Home". BBC Homepage. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  11. ^ Record Collector Magazine, December 2005
  12. ^ "Album: Various Artists, Andy Votel Presents Brazilika (Far Out)". The Independent. 11 May 2008. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  13. ^ Dennis, Jon (31 July 2008). "Jon Dennis talks to DJ Andy Votel about hungarian funk rock from the communist era". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  14. ^ "CD: Selda, Selda". The Guardian. 15 October 2006. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  15. ^ Thompson, Ben (15 March 2009). "Pop review: Midnight Massiera by Jean-Pierre Massiera". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Histoire De Melody Nelson & L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches". The Independent. 24 October 2006. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  17. ^ "The Quietus | Features | In Their Own Words | Radical Abstraction: Andy Votel On Andrzej Korzynski". The Quietus. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  18. ^ Armstrong, Rebecca (15 September 2013). "Festival No 6 review: The music was overpowering – and so was the Welsh weather". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

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