Andy Hunter (born 23 April 1974) is a British Christian DJ and electronic dance music artist. Born in Leicester and starting his career in the drum and bass scene of

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during the 1990s, he has continued to release new music, releasing his 14th album in 2019.

Biography

Hunter, professionally known as Andy Hunter °, was born in Leicester, England on 23 April 1974. (Archived website) See bio link. Date used to be listed under about: Timeline on former website. He became involved in music in his early days of adolescence, and later became interested in sound engineering in the 1990s. He worked with

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. In 1992, he joined New Generation Music and Mission as a travelling engineer and moved to

—the scene that was breaking drum and bass. In 1997, Andy formed a band named "Trip" with lead programmer Martin King and several other production partners. In 1999 Trip released an album called ''Cultural Shift''. In the following years, Hunter worked in the studio, producing techno music. In fall of 2002, his work culminated into the album ''

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'', which Hunter released on

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. Early in 2005, Hunter released a six-track album, ''

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''. He gained attention from ''

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'' magazine, which praised his first album, ''Exodus'', and from appearances in video games (including "Black Hawk Down", ''

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'', '' Need For Speed: Underground'', ''

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'', and ''

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''), movies (including ''

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'' trailer and ''

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''. Hunter toured the United States, Japan and Europe with top names in the dance music business, including

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in 2002, and at the

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in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008. He performed at

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's opening night party in

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, France, an international music conference that gathered heads of industry from the music and technology world. In November 2004, Hunter performed at the Digital Entertainment Anywhere launch party in Los Angeles, hosted by

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, and presented his piece "Go" in surround sound. Hunter has been recognized as a Christian DJ, as he has been nominated for the Gospel Music Association Awards, and won a Dove Award for his album ''Life'' in 2006. He also performed a New Year's Eve (2005)/New Year's (2006) block party in

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, Arizona, which was hosted by the Christ's Church of the Valley in Phoenix. In 2006 Hunter signed a new record deal with

, which produced ''Exodus.'' At the end of the 2006 voting for

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's Top 100 List, Andy Hunter° ended up ranked 117. Hunter also won a Dutch dance award from Seven FM in 2006. On 18 March 2008 he released his third album "Colour." The album had 12 tracks, his longest album to date. Hunter did a series of 'video diary' podcasts during the recording of the new album. He gradually revealed some track names and on the final episode, he gave viewers very short audio snippets of each track. Hunter wrote and produced the score of the 2008 film '' Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed'' with Robbie Bronnimann. Hunter completed a remix for Per Lichtman and the Beyond Belief Music Corporation (BBMC) in early June 2009. The "Escalation" remix was released exclusively at indieTorrent on 15 June 2009, with the track being promoted as only available for purchase on that site until 15 July. It was made available on more sites (including

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, Napster and iTunes) in January 2010. On 6 December 2010 Hunter released a new EP titled ''Collide'', which was released as an iTunes exclusive. An artwork contest was held to choose a cover for the new EP. At the beginning of 2012, Hunter released a series of video blogs detailing the progress of his new EP, which was originally slated to be released in May. However, the new EP, ''Glow'' was released on 23 July 2012. Hunter announced that he is going to release a remix album soon. The tracks on the remix album are from his albums ''Glow'' and ''Collide''. Hunter announced also that Robbie Bronniman will remix of his track "Spiral", featuring Beth Bullock. A few others are from Alejandro Cesar, Wicho Lopez and Mark Webb. The result was a collection of remixes that were released as two EPs in 2013: ''Glowing Collision Vol. 1'' and ''2''. In the meantime, Hunter worked on a new project, ''Presence''. This resulted in an app and an album in 2016. The app is a tool designed to inspire people to spend more intentional time with God. It contains the music, video and poetry. Every month Hunter releases a new song and video to the app.

Recognition

"Go" and "The Wonders of You" garnered placements in film and television, including uses in ''

'' (trailer), '' Sky High'' (trailer), ''

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'' (trailer), '' Tomb Raider 2'' (trailer), '' Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever'', ''

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'', ''

'', and

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’s hit ''

''. His work has also been featured in a handful of video games, including ''

'', ''

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'', ''

'', '' Black Hawk Down'', '' Lumines Mobile'', ''

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'', ''

'' and ''

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''. His music is also featured in the

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'' Dance Praise''. The songs "Come On", "Go", and "Open My Eyes" are included with the game. In 2007,

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used "Go" in the promotional video for

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as well as in 2005 for promoting their "Plays For Sure" downloads. In 2008, the song "Come On" was used in promotional advertisements for the feature film version of ''

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''. The songs "Go" and "Translucent" were used in the Dutch sport program ''Studio Sport'' in the Champions League year view.

Discography

Albums

* ''Spiritualisation'' (Hydro Album) (1996) * ''Aborigination'' (Hydro Album) (1998) * ''Cultural Shift'' – trip album with Martin King, vocals by Tanya Farthing (1999) * ''

'' (2002) * ''Life'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2008) * '' Collide'' (2010) * '' Glow'' (2012) * ''Glowing Collision'' (2013) * ''Glowing Collision v2'' (2013) * ''Presence'' (2016) * ''Presence, Vol. 2'' (2017) * ''Presence, Vol. 3'' (2018) * ''Presence, Vol. 4'' (2019)

Singles

* "Amazing" (12" and 2x12" promo single on Nettwerk) (2002) (including remixes by Deep Dish, Fade and Summit) * "Go" (12" single on Nettwerk) (2003) (remixes by Satoshi Tommiie and Antillas) * "To Live To Love" (Single on EMI) (2006) (Remixes by

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and Andy himself) * "Stars" (Single / EP) (2008)(Including remixes by

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, The Camel Rider and Phonat) * "On Automatic / Stars (Camp America Remix)" (2010) By donating money for Andy walk the

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* "Raining Sunshine (Club Mix)" (2011) * "Hold On" (2011) * "Spiral (Club Edit)" (2012) * "Morphed (Taken from the Presence Project)" (2014) By donating money for Compassion. Andy Hunter is doing the marathon for them. * "Harmony" (2014) (Featuring Beth Bullock) * "R.U.N." (2017) (Featuring Kubiks and Beth Bullock)

Remixes

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- "Testify to Love (New Birth Remix)" *

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- "Cut (Andy Hunter° Remix)" * Coco O'Connor - "Hard Time to Shine (Andy Hunter° Remix)" * Per Lichtman featuring Kathlin Rivers - "Escalation (Andy Hunter° Remix)" * Andy Hunter - "Collide (Mark Webb Remix)" was given away because Andy's Facebook page has 12000 likes * Andy Hunter - "Amazing(Tydi Remix)" *

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- "I'm Alive (Andy Hunter° Remix)" * Thousand Foot Krutch - "War of Change (Andy Hunter° Remix)" * Thousand Foot Krutch - "I Get Wicked (Andy Hunter° Trip Remix)" * Andy Hunter - "Together (Acoustic Remix)" * Har Megiddo - "Hallelujah (Andy Hunter° Remix)" * Har Megiddo - "Breakthrough" (Andy Hunter° Remix" * Thousand Foot Krutch - "Down (Andy Hunter° Remix)" *

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- "I Am A Mountain" (Andy Hunter° Remix)

Unreleased

* ''Come On'' (Andy Hunter's Progressive Mix) * ''Amazing'' (

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's Unreleased Mix) * ''Radiate'' (Andy Hunter's Oldskool Mix) * ''Out Of Control'' (JHT3 Wacko Mix) * ''Smile'' (Type 41 Club Mix) * ''Lifelight'' (Dulac & Dubois Remix) * Malacates Trebol Shop - ''Outro'' (Andy Hunter Remix) * ''Lifelight'' (Sugar Jesus Remix) * ''Collide'' (Alejandro Cesar Remix) (probably not finished yet) * ''Harmony'' (Recharge Remix) * ''Harmony'' (Matt Luxx Remix) Note: there were several remixes for "Harmony" because there was a remix contest.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, Andy 1974 births 20th-century English musicians 21st-century English composers People from Leicester Ableton Live users Club DJs English DJs English male composers English electronic musicians English record producers English techno musicians English trance musicians Living people British performers of Christian music Performers of Christian electronic dance music 20th-century British male musicians 21st-century British male musicians