Biography

Alter ego name Ambient Shane real name Shane Piper. Shane grew up in South Devon England and was always fond of records and tapes from a very young age, in those days Shane was mostly listening to dark wave music from the early eighties, bands such as Depeche Mode and Gary Newman which he continues to listen to today. In the late eighties Shane was introduced to bands like Hawkwind, , the KLF and thats where Shane's ambient adventure started. In 1990 Shane moved to Totnes Devon with lots of records and started playing psychedelic chillout at small parties and gatherings on Dartmoor, it was from this time that people started to call him Ambient Shane and it has stuck ever since. Over the years Shane has moved his sound to more complex ambient electronica and really enjoys being sent music by various artists on Myspace which he then mixes and shares with others- see his soundcloud. Shane has played at nights such as Twisted Toadstool, Tribe of Frog and Psyanide. Recently Shane moved to the Glastonbury area and has been featuring on Glastonbury radio.net
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From Jan 2011 shane splashed out and got himself ableton live 8 and APC40 and other bits and bobs and started producing his own music and sounds ,this he calls phase 2 of ambient shane as an artist rather than a DJ playing other peoples music .

In January 2012 shane signed to Cykxincorp Sound Science Series Based in New York for 4x55-65 mins of material with Composer Performer Producer "Ray Buttigieg , the journey has just began

Influences

Mostly ambient from back in the day to now-Mixmaster morris Brian eno-Biosphere-Solar fields" Psychodelic beats "aes dana -Cell-Cold cut -Loop guru-Children of the drone Dr Atmo-Pete Namlook -FAX RECS-Move D-Mick Chillage-Scanner-The 0RB-Thomas Fehlmann-Mat Jarvis-W00B-Funki Porccini-Higher Intelligence Agency-FSOL-Massive attack-Porcupine Tree-Boards of Canada-Sub Surfing-The Cosmic Forces of MU-Susumu Yokota-Optic eye-Megasoft Office-Sounds from the ground-0tt-Single cell orchestra- Gel-sol -em:t 'Rising high records (rip) i listen to so much music and would need more space but you get the idea !!

Band interests- making as much noise with as little as possible !!!!

If you are thinking about booking me for your muzic event ,please email me with all the info Location-Thank you.

ambientshane71@hotmail.com

Ambient evangelist since 1990 -into the 90's and beyond