Duncan Forbes

GBUnited Kingdom
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Biografia

Duncan Forbes works across club music, electronica and film scoring, with a career that began in the early-1990s live electronic scene and continues through his 49North imprint. Alongside Charlie May in Spooky, he signed to Guerilla in 1992 and took the music of Gargantuan into venues and festivals with a live synthesizer-and-drum-machine setup. Renaissance, Roskilde and the Midi Circus tour were part of that history. The duo's more experimental Found Sound also had a film companion by Grant Gee, which Radiohead used at shows on the OK Computer tour. Collaboration has remained central to Forbes's work. He produced and co-wrote with Sasha, including work on Invol2ver, while his partnership with Lol Hammond encompasses film soundtracks and the electronica albums Days Without End and Who Will Stop the Robots? His own 49North releases, begun in 2020, include Return of the Strobelight Kid, while work with Mr. G joins electro-funk, club grooves and beatless versions across projects such as Cosmic One. More recent partnerships open different spaces around those dancefloor foundations. Awake in the Dreamtime, made with violinist Jonathan Hill, brings live strings and piano into an electronic setting. In 2026, Forbes joined Adam Freeland for Transhuman, a three-track Marine Parade release built around broken rhythms, dub and spacious arrangements.

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