Pimmon is the recording name of Australian electronic and ambient musician, record producer and arranger, Paul David Gough. He has released records on labels such as

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, Fällt,

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and Staubgold, and collaborated with

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and

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, among others. Gough started making music in the early 80s, inspired by

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/ref> but never released any of it commercially. That changed when he sent a

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to the Japanese label Meme, who released it in 1999. Since then, Gough has been creating

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-based abstract digital

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s, by manipulating a variety of sound sources on his computer. Gough's first documented output arrived in the very early stages of laptop

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and he has thus been credited as "second only to Fennesz as a laptop artist." He has played live at various festivals around the world, and has toured several countries. Gough lives in

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, where he works as a radio producer at ABC Adelaide. He is also the host of a podcast called 1234 and The Quiet SpaceQuiet Space radio show
/ref> and another program on FBi 94.5 called Paul's Play-Lunch. Gough also performs with guitarist Jeff Burch under the name Mandala Trap.

Selected discography

* (1999) ''Pola-Pola'' (self-released) * (1999) ''Waves and Particles'' (Meme) * (1999) ''Copper Hats'' ( Freedom From) * (2000) ''Kinetica'' ((K-RAA-K)³) * (2000) ''Assembler'' (Fällt) * (2000) ''Afternoon Tea'' with

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(Ritornell) * (2001) ''Electronic Tax Return'' (live EP,

) * (2001) ''Orquesta Del Arrurruz'' (

) * (2001) ''Secret Sleeping Birds'' (Sirr Records) * (2002) ''Grain'' (by Samartzis; Pimmon; Verhagen; Brown) (Dorobo) Pimmon provides track 2: "Slegner Forgets". * (2003) ''Mort Aux Vaches'' (

) * (August 2003) ''Snaps * Crackles * Pops'' (

) * (2005) ''Curse of Evil Clown'' (Meupe) (Meupe6) * (2008) ''Curse You, Evil Clown'' (Meupe) (Meupe10) * (2009) ''Smudge Another Yesterday'' (Preservation) (PRE021) * (2009) ''Sounds of Perth'' (Cromim) * (2009) ''Steered In Smash Ascent'' (Stunned Records) * (2011) ''Lay Down Real Slow'' (Stunned Records) * (2011) ''The Oansome Orbit'' (Room40)

References

External links

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