Timothy Wiles, known by the stage name Überzone, is an electronic musician originally from

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. He has also been known as Q, named after the popular character in the ''James Bond'' series. Wiles is well known for concocting interesting gizmos and gadgets. He made a hobby out of collecting electronic music gear since his early teen years, which inspired his nickname. He has been an avid producer on the

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

and

breakbeat Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that uses drum breaks, often sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as Florida breaks, hip-hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat ...

scenes since the mid-1990s, playing at early

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s. His first show as Überzone was for DJ Sharpe at the Edge in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Wiles has produced many popular 12-inch singles which have appeared on many DJ compilation albums, including ''Botz'', his first EP released on indie dance label City of Angels in 1995, and the ''Space Kadet EP'' the following year in 1996 (containing "Botz", "Moondusted", "The Brain" and others). In 1999, he collaborated with

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from Soul Sonic Force on the electro breaks driven anthem "2 Kool 4 Skool". He has also toured extensively with such acts as

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. His debut album ''Faith in the Future'' was released on Astralwerks in 2001. Two mix CDs followed, 2002's ''The Digital Mix'' (Moonshine) and 2004's ''Uberzone Y4K'' (Distinctive Breaks). Wiles' latest album, ''Ideology'', was released on Nitrus/Equation Records on July 31, 2007. He has also been featured in the documentary ''

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''. Überzone's album ''Ideology'' was met with good reviews; in the September 2007 issue of ''DJ Magazine'', it was rated 4½ stars. BijouBreaks.com said in July 2007: "Clearly pushing the boundaries and quality of electronic music to a whole new level. In a world where much EDM-oriented music is converging to a point where many producers are trying to achieve a similar sound or style, Uberzone has managed to shine and stand apart from the rest, while managing to keep things both superbly fun and definitely danceable."

Instrument list

Access Virus The Access Virus is a virtual analog synthesizer made by the German company Access Music GmbH. It was first produced in 1997 and has since been upgraded frequently, with the company releasing new models about every two years. Early models inclu ...

Korg Prophecy The Korg Prophecy is a monophonic synthesizer released by Korg in 1995. one of the earliest commercial DSP physical/acoustic and analog "virtual" modeling sound synthesizers and Korg's first monophonic synthesizer since the Korg Mono/Poly, Mono/Po ...

* Moog Minimoog * Moog Prodigy * Roland CR-78 *

Roland JP-8000 The Roland JP-8000 is an analog modeling synthesizer released by the Roland Corporation in 1996. Overview The Roland JP-8000 was released in early 1997 as part of the first wave of virtual analog modeling synthesizers (VA synths). Others fro ...

* Roland Juno 106 * Roland Jupiter 6 * Roland Jupiter 8 *

Roland JX-8P Roland JX-8P is a 61-key, velocity- and aftertouch-sensitive, six-note polyphony (instrument), polyphonic, almost entirely analog synthesizer released by Roland Corporation, Roland in 1985. In a time of rising popularity of digital frequency modu ...

* Roland MKS-50 * Roland MKS-70 * Roland SH-101 *

Roland TB-303 The Roland TB-303 Bass Line (also known as the 303) is a bass synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in 1981. Designed to simulate bass guitars, it was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1984. However, cheap second-hand units we ...

* Roland TR-606 *

Roland TR-808 The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983. It was one of the first drum machines to allow users to program rhythms instead of using preset patterns. ...

* Roland TR-909 *

Roland VP-330 The Roland VP-330 is a paraphonic ten-band vocoder and string machine manufactured by Roland Corporation from 1979 to 1980. While there are several string machines and vocoders, a single device combining the two is rare, despite the advantag ...

* Sequential Pro-One * Sequential Six-Track * Waldorf Q

References

External links

Official website

Satisfaction / FUBAR EP at Nitrus Records site

Myspace
{{DEFAULTSORT:Uberzone Astralwerks artists Musicians from Fullerton, California Living people American electronic musicians American DJs Electronic dance music DJs Breakbeat musicians 1972 births