Albums by Mick Harris
ALBUMWe Can Elude ControlKarl O'Connor, Mick Harris, Radovan Scasascia & Roger Semsroth
ALBUMHednod Sessions IIMick Harris
ALBUMHednod SessionsMick Harris
ALBUMPropertiesQuoit & Mick Harris
ALBUMMesmeric Enabling DeviceJohn Everall, Mick Harris & Nigel Ayers
ALBUMMurder Ballads (Drift)Mick Harris & Martyn Bates
ALBUMMurder Ballads (Passages)Martyn Bates & Mick Harris
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Mick Harris Essentials
This savagely innovative drummer traded extreme metal for punishing electronica.
Artist Biography
Closely allied with post-industrial dub terrorists such as Bill Laswell, Techno Animal, James Plotkin, Robert Musso, and Anton Fier, Birmingham-based artist Mick Harris is something of a study in extremes. A drummer with noted death metal outfit Napalm Death through the group's late-'80s and early-'90s heyday, Harris began experimenting with monochrome ambient and dub styles toward the tail end of his association with that group. Releasing material through Earache as Scorn (his ambient dub aegis) and through Sentrax as Lull, in addition to other sporadic projects, his genre-spanning activities have done much to jar the minds, expectations, and record collections of audiences previously kept aggressively opposed. Scorn and Lull, along with John Zorn's experimental jazz-dubcore outfit Pain Killer, have remained Harris' primary ongoing projects, although one-off collaborations with the likes of James Plotkin, Nicholas Bullen, Bill Laswell, and Martyn Bates are common. Harris formed Scorn in 1991 in collaboration with bassist Nick Bullen, incorporating elements of ambient, industrial, dub, rock, and hip-hop. The group (though pared back to just Harris following Evanescence) has released a number of increasingly well-received full-length recordings, including the remix LP Ellipsis, which features outbound reworkings by the likes of Coil, Autechre, Laswell, and Germ. Harris' solo work as Lull focuses on darker, more "isolationist" ambient soundscapes, some of which have been reissued domestically by Laswell's now-defunct Subharmonic imprint. ~ Sean Cooper
Hometown
Birmingham, England
Genre
Electronic