Matt Cutler, better known as Lone, is a British
electronic musician from
Nottingham
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, England.
Biography
Cutler adopted the Lone alias after the dissolution of his previous band, the electronic duo Kids in Tracksuits, in which Cutler performed with Andy Hemsley. His debut release as Lone came in 2007 with ''Everything is Changing Colour'' CD-R,
followed by another full-length album ''
Lemurian'' in 2008 on the Dealmaker label. ''Ecstasy & Friends'' appeared on the
Werk Discs label in 2009. While these releases combined abstract hip-hop beats with electronic textures,
[ Cutler moved towards a more dance-orientated sound with ''Emerald Fantasy Tracks'' (2010)]Madlib
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. He also says that fellow British musician Keaver and Brause (stylized Keaver & Brause) and Bibio
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have had an effect on the way he makes his music.1991
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'', for her second single "Liquorice
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". Banks also used his song "Koran Angel" as an interlude on her mixtape ''Fantasea'' and "Aquamarine" for her track "Count Contessa" from her second upcoming album. Cutler produced the songs "Miss Amor" and "Miss Camaraderie" for her debut studio album '' Broke with Expensive Taste'', "Airglow Fires" is sampled on her Christmas EP '' Icy Colors Change'', and "Re-Schooling" is sampled for her song "Playhouse".
British rock band Coldplay
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used a remix of their song "Midnight
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...
" featuring elements of Lone's song "Blue Moon Tree" from ''Ambivert Tools Vol. 4'' on their Music of the Spheres World Tour.
Discography
Albums
*''Everything Is Changing Colour'' (2007, vu-us)
*'' Lemurian'' (2008, Dealmaker Records, 2015, Magic Wire Recordings/R&S Records)
*''Ecstasy & Friends'' (2009, Werk Discs)
*''Sing a New Sapling into Existence'' as Kona Triangle (2009, Porter Records)
*''Emerald Fantasy Tracks'' (2010, Magic Wire Recordings)
*'' Galaxy Garden'' (2012, R&S Records)
*''Reality Testing
Reality testing is the psychotherapeutic function by which the objective or real world and one's relationship to it are reflected on and evaluated by the observer. This process of distinguishing the internal world of thoughts and feelings from the ...
'' (2014, R&S Records)
*'' Levitate'' (2016, R&S Records)
*'' DJ-Kicks: Lone'' (mix) (2017, !K7 Music)
*''My Laptops (2001 - 2006)'' (2018, Magicwire)
*''Greenhills Road Archive Traks Volume One'' (2020, Ancient Astronauts)
*''Greenhills Road Archive Traks Volume Two'' (2020, Ancient Astronauts)
*''Greenhills Road Archive Traks Volume Three'' (2020, Ancient Astronauts)
*''The Light Year Wave Tape'' (2020, Ancient Astronauts)
*''MCR/LDN 20122016'' (2020, Ancient Astronauts)
*''Always Inside Your Head'' (2021, Greco-Roman)
Singles and EPs
*''Cluster Dreams'' (2009)
*''Joyreel/Sunset Teens'' (2009)
*''Pineapple Crush/Angel Brain'' (2010)
*''Once in a While/Raptured'' (2010)
*''Echolocations'' (2011)
*''All Those Weird Things'' (2011)
*''Cobra (Part of IOTDXI Compilation Album)'' (2011)'
*''Outlander'' (2011)
References
External links
Lone
on Andrew Meza's BTS Radio
Lone
on Discogs
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English electronic musicians
Living people
Musicians from Nottinghamshire
Year of birth missing (living people)