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IAN BODDY

Progressive Electronic • United Kingdom


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Ian Boddy is a keyboardist, electronic wizard and a key figure of the British space music movement. He has a huge prolific career which covers a large range of electronic music styles. In the early 1980s Ian Boddy began experimenting at an Arts Council funded studio in Newcastle. He is also known for his later collaborative works and performances with the multifacetered ambient pionnier Robert Rich. In 1999 he founded the DiN Records label. His early works feature picturesque-evocative dreamscapes with dense burgeonning synth waves, eerie drones and automatic percussive drives. His musical catalogue provides a few utterly shimmering electronic soundscapes which mentally guide the listener into subconscious / astral odysseys.

Similar artists in the archives : Robert Rich, Robert Schroeder, Tangerine Dream, Tim Blake, Robert Henke

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3.00 | 2 ratings
The Climb
1983
4.00 | 3 ratings
Spirits
1984
3.50 | 2 ratings
Phoenix
1986
3.00 | 3 ratings
Jade
1987
5.00 | 1 ratings
Odyssey
1989
3.67 | 3 ratings
Drive
1991
3.75 | 4 ratings
The Uncertainty Principle
1993
4.50 | 2 ratings
The Deep
1994
2.00 | 1 ratings
Symbiont (with Andy Pickford)
1995
0.00 | 0 ratings
Developing Technologies
1997
3.50 | 2 ratings
Distant Rituals (with Markus Reuter)
1999
3.50 | 2 ratings
Box of Secrets
1999
0.00 | 0 ratings
Waterworlds
2000
3.00 | 2 ratings
Caged (with Chris Carter)
2000
3.00 | 1 ratings
Living Planet
2002
3.40 | 5 ratings
Aurora
2002
0.00 | 0 ratings
The Unexplained
2004
3.00 | 1 ratings
Pure
2004
0.00 | 0 ratings
Ambient Atmospheres
2005
3.00 | 2 ratings
Elemental
2006
0.00 | 0 ratings
Future Tech
2007
0.00 | 0 ratings
The Elements
2008
4.00 | 3 ratings
Slide
2008
4.00 | 2 ratings
Shifting Sands
2009
3.33 | 3 ratings
Dervish
2009
2.50 | 2 ratings
Unwound
2010
0.00 | 0 ratings
Light Drones
2010
0.00 | 0 ratings
Dark Drones
2010
3.00 | 1 ratings
Exit Strategy
2011
0.00 | 0 ratings
Supernatural
2012
3.67 | 3 ratings
Frontiers
2012
3.00 | 2 ratings
Colour Division
2013
3.00 | 2 ratings
Tone Science
2016
3.09 | 3 ratings
As Above So Below
2016
4.00 | 2 ratings
Memento
2017
3.00 | 2 ratings
Stay (with Markus Reuter)
2017
3.94 | 8 ratings
Meridian (Erik Wollo)
2018
2.00 | 1 ratings
Modulations
2020
4.00 | 1 ratings
Axiom
2020
3.00 | 2 ratings
Outland (with Markus Reuter)
2021

IAN BODDY Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

2.00 | 1 ratings
Continuum
1996
4.00 | 1 ratings
Phase 3 (with Ron Boots & Harold van der Heijden)
1997
3.00 | 1 ratings
Shrouded
2000
3.00 | 1 ratings
Triptych (with Markus Reuter & Nigel Mullaney)
2001
3.00 | 1 ratings
Jodrell Bank Concert (with Markus Reuter)
2002
3.00 | 1 ratings
Chiasmata
2004
3.00 | 1 ratings
The Final Question
2007
2.00 | 1 ratings
Three Dreams
2007
3.00 | 2 ratings
The Mechanics of a Thought
2007
3.00 | 1 ratings
Hemispheres (with Bernhard Woestheinrich)
2009
5.00 | 1 ratings
Trinity
2010
2.00 | 1 ratings
After the Rain
2012
4.00 | 2 ratings
Strange Attractors
2012
4.33 | 3 ratings
Liverdelphia
2013
3.50 | 2 ratings
Sepulchre
2013
4.00 | 2 ratings
EC12
2014
3.00 | 1 ratings
Nevermore
2021

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IAN BODDY Boxset & Compilations (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

4.00 | 1 ratings
Rare Elements
1997
4.00 | 1 ratings
Pearl
2010
3.00 | 1 ratings
Spectroscopic 1979-1982
2013
2.00 | 1 ratings
Other Rooms (with Sid Smith & Jane Molloy)
2013

IAN BODDY Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo (CD, EP/LP, MC, Digital Media Download)

3.00 | 2 ratings
Moiré (with Bernhard Woestheinrich)
2005

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 Meridian (Erik Wollo) by BODDY, IAN album cover Studio Album, 2018
3.94 | 8 ratings

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Meridian (Erik Wollo)
Ian Boddy Progressive Electronic

Review by WFV

4 stars This is a dense album of contemporary electro/new age that wears repeated listenings well. This release differs from the pair's previous outing Frontiers primarily in the slower, murkier arrangements and far more deliberate delivery. While Frontiers provided the soundscape for slogging through the Everglades on a sunny day, Meridian is more of a night record, like the mist that follows a day of melted snow on a cold night. This is trudging across the tundra music. Sonic layers are revealed like a peeled onion to the patient listener. I'm somewhat new to the contemporary scene here but as time has gone on this one has risen to the top of my stack, and really is effective in hitting what I perceive they are aiming for. Not for the average prog listener of course but those inclined should find a lot to like.
 As Above So Below by BODDY, IAN album cover Studio Album, 2016
3.09 | 3 ratings

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As Above So Below
Ian Boddy Progressive Electronic

Review by admireArt
Prog Reviewer

3 stars Ian Boddy's "As Above So Below"(2016), witholds a true to life symphonic like nature, blended with quiet well balanced Berlin/Bay area school's electronics. An otherwise unexpected route even in his own discography and a great challenge considering the field he has decided on playing on yet focused on his own electronic musical language.

Probably one of his few highly friendly works up to date. This of course does not mean one for the masses, but a very good treat for those late bloomer Berlin/Bay area and progressive electronics enthusiasts who are used to the sound of electronic and acoustic instruments sharing the same space.

A quiet passionate, romantic and dramatic/nostalgic air surrounds the atmospheres along the way his usual Berlin/Bay area school's oriented compositions.

Now as for the always abstract task of rating, I myself found some close encounters with some foreign sounds, yet not to the point of falling into the trap of piracy.

The kind of album which deserves the attention of young prog-electronic or to be followers (for them 4 stars), unfortunately I am way off that crowd.

***3.5 PA stars.

 Slide by BODDY, IAN album cover Studio Album, 2008
4.00 | 3 ratings

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Slide
Ian Boddy Progressive Electronic

Review by admireArt
Prog Reviewer

4 stars Quiet unappreciated, even though he is a late-pioneer (1980) of the sub-genre, maybe because he is not associated with big "names", besides Robert Rich ("React" 2008, "Lithosphere" 2005) and Markus Reuter ("Dervish" 2009), who also are kind of Progressive electronic, "obscure" artists.

So, directly to where it matters, "Slide" is Electronic/Psychedelic/Space Rock, without vocalist, plus splashes of "electric/slide guitar", some artificial drums here and there and simple good electronics.

His songwriting approach is enhanced by "contrasts" between robotic structures as a background to more "animal/human" elements. He never abuses the construction of "sequencer riffs", which by the way of personal experience, have almost by rule "shelf life". His songwriting also never sticks to the same kind of patterns, not even in the same song, because of the same, these changes refresh the air of the musical environment, constantly with a "new" and different "structures" or melody. Therefore, "pulse riffs" have a constant but brief appearance everytime the show up, which makes them surprising, not imposing, due to the fact that they are just parts of the whole, not the full structure.

The part I like the most of these "Slide" songs, is that each has inside "miniature" songs, and each song a different "personality". This makes the full experience totally dynamic, even though there is "Ambiental", "Psychedelic" , "Spacy", "Rock/Trance" and "Electronic" transitions, they move so fast, that it simply makes each "mini" structure unique, both as individual songs and as a part of a song of a whole album of songs. The song that is not as good as the rest (IMO), is certainly "Yesterday's Memories" too "eightish" and boring for my likes. The rest is worth getting. ****4 PA stars.

Thanks to Philippe Blache for the artist addition.

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