Dom Beken and Ant Adams
Dom Beken and Ant Adams formed their creative partnership, AND PRODUCTIONS, combining careers in pop and rock music production, film and tv scoring. They create music for advertising, corporate clients, remixes and production. Their music has recently run on global TV commercials for Vesicare and Bold.
Recent radio commissions include EMAP and Chrysalis. Other clients include Radioville, Guardian Media, Capital, Scottish Radio Holdings and GWR. www.andmusic.com/
Dom and Ant also form BELKA AND SRELKA, the kanine duo from orbit.They made it back alive, so to celebrate they committed the music they wrote on the journey to a tape back at base. They hitched a few rides with The Orb, Jimmy Caulty and any other nefarious travellers the dynamic duo could find without undue prejudice against weightlessness (Transit Kings all, but that's another forthcoming story.) Any useful influences were fed back to their computer. They went back to our old fashioned instruments. Holed up in a disused projector room where the Ealing Comedies were originally dubbed, Belka and Strelka unashamedly plundered a latent partiality to jazz, dub, hip hop and dance. The loot was infused with the detritus of our current day jobs in scoring. Resulting reminiscences on their previous extra-planetary adventures became "Tales from the Projector Room". Their album is out on Malicious Damage. www.myspace.com/belkaandstrelka/
Dom also forms part of Transit Kings. In the summer of 2001 a plan to put together one of the most interesting combinations of artists in the studio finally came to fruition. They originally met at Gunpoint - the studio built by Guy Pratt and Dom at Londons Townhouse Studios. A life time ignoring mainstream boundaries and changing expectations of music laid down an albums worth of music exciting enough to bring in guests Johnny Marr (The Smiths) and Simon Day (The Fast Show) as a result of just passing the basement door to the studio. Working outside the major label system, session players normally accustomed to working with names such as Basement Jaxx and Moby joined the Transits to help create a sound which finally crosses the boundaries between dance, ambient and rock. On January 1 2004 the Transit Kings followed Basement Jaxx on stage at Tokyo's biggest New Years party to road test the album in front of a 7,000 strong crowd and it became clear this was a project asking to be finished. After several months of re-arrangement Transit Kings again had an audience po-going with delight on the main stage of 2005s Big Chill after testing the water with a low-key EP release Token. Working at Dom's and music studios, Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God at last made it to the mastering suite, www.myspace.com/transitkings/