Global Trancemission is a one man studio project using a mixture of hardware, software, VSTI's, outboard synthesisers and samplers to create original music in my own style influenced by Ambient, Trance, Techno, Chillout and World fusion.
Global Trancemission is the project of PeterC and is based in the UK.
Global Trancemission (PeterC) also was awarded the 2004 IOMA for Best Electronic Artist and nominated for Best Soundtrack and Best Instrumental Artist.
Based on Besonic since 1999 to Nov 2004 when Besonic ceased to function Global Trancemission was one of the Top 5 English Scouts writing reviews and features on many of the artists that were on that site.
Although Besonic has come back online I am no longer associated with that site as the newer format is not to my liking.
About Peter C:
I have always been interested in music although it was quite late in life before I learned to play an instrument……so where did it all begin?
Well ….like most people…my teens would probably be my most formative years and being born in 1951 made me a 16 year old in 1967. This probably explains my everlasting love of anything psychedelic or experimental. I was heavily influenced by this strange music and I still listen to some of the great tracks from this era whenever I can find the time.
Slightly earlier than this though (64 to 66) there was the British Rhythm and Blues scene. The first Rolling Stones album with its Muddy Waters and blues influences naturally led me to start listening to the original American Blues artists and soon I was listening to Howling Wolf, Otis Rush, Willie Dixon and all of the other greats.
At the same time John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and of course Jimi Hendrix all joined my favourites as British Blues exploded on to the scene.
So…..I expect you might well ask why an Electronic Artist would be so much interested in what is obviously guitar orientated music?
Well………all will be revealed as we track through time.
I can remember the first time I heard the synthesiser and I knew immediately that this was the future. At that time it was used mainly to try to recreate conventional instruments like strings or brass or to create sounds that were somewhat a novelty.
Then bands like Hawkwind appeared and I knew that the synthesiser was really just a huge effects unit that could be capable of taking us on a journey only limited by our imagination.
As we travelled through the early 70’s classic rock was still pretty much guitar orientated but the synth was now expanding the sounds overall in many bands like Genesis, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd and of course Hawkwind and other underground bands like Gong and Here and Now. Prog Rock followed with Yes and ELP and the synth became accepted as a necessary part of that movement.
Then came Tangerine Dream…….a turning point in electronic music !!!!
One night I saw them in concert in a large church in my hometown at about the time they had just released Ricochet. This was about 1975.
That night ….although I was not to know until much later…..the first seeds were sown of my current project. The music from that period was sublime and still stands up to scrutiny today as some of the finest electronic music ever produced.
Sadly the original line up broke up but the best of Tangerine Dream remains in those first albums on Virgin, Phaedra being still my favourite of all.
At this time I had still not taken up an instrument but when Punk hit the scene in the late 70’s it seemed as good a time as any to give it a try.
I started learning the guitar at home with an old cheap electric 6 string and soon I had mastered the 3 chord trick. Once I had the basic rhythms I started on the rock and blues scales. When I learned these it seemed that my Blues roots stood me in good stead. I never learned to play from music but I could pick up pieces from tab.
However I always found it easier to pick out what I wanted by ear.
I never got into copying others lead parts just picking up on the style and improvising it my own way and over the years I slowly developed my own style.
My first band was in the 79/80 era just after Punk with the New Wave as it was then termed. We did several gigs but there were the usual band disputes so I left feeling disillusioned. I tried some auditions and putting another band together but my heart wasn’t really in it.
I carried on playing at home until an old friend of mine whose band had broken up was looking for something to do and I came up with a project.
Using two cassette decks with metal tapes and a mixer we started to make songs by bouncing mixed tracks from deck to deck. Of course the quality was very rough but we could at least lay down Bass, Drums guitar and vocals and some keys.
My friend played rhythm guitar and bass and wrote and sang the songs while I layed down the lead guitar and keyboards and used the synth to get a really basic drum sound. I had just acquired my first synth,a Roland SH09 which gave me some good effects. I also had some guitar pedals and a Copycat echo unit.These were the days before MIDI and portastudio’s appeared.
We made about 2 or 3 albums worth of material based around the kind of psychedelic tracks you might hear on those old Pebbles and Nuggets albums. These were purely done as project for our own entertainment but this is where I first started to learn about recording and producing in a very basic way.
After we ran out of ideas I went back to playing at home and later bought a 4 track Fostex portastudio cassette. Using the synth, bass, guitars and drum machine I played around doing demos but I was not happy so for long periods I stopped playing and just listened to music.
I didn’t realise it but I was actually waiting for the technology to come that would jump start me back into music.
The advent of the first MIDI computers came with Acid House and Rave.
This music excited me but at the same time I was listening to a band called Ozric Tentacles who were using the same technology to re invent Space Rock and Psychedelic music.
I bought an Atari and a basic MIDI keyboard and started to learn how to produce digital music. It was slow in those days and very basic and I later progressed to an early PC with Cubase and a Roland XP10…..which is still used as a controller keyboard.
Trance was beginning to attract my interest , particularly the acid 303, style, and Goa suddenly started to become big. By now I had started to use a bit more cash on my hobby and bought a better PC and started adding more hardware.
Music started to appear on the Web and in 1999 I first used Peoplesound to put tracks online. By the end of that year I was then on Besonic which was rapidly becoming the best European site. Mp3.com was already too big to make any impact on.
It took some time for things to happen on Besonic but I stuck with it slowly making better tracks and expanding into other areas like World and Ambient.
In Jan 2004 I became a Besonic Scout . There were 40,000 artists on that site but only 200 scouts who were allowed to write features and reviews.
This was an excellent move as I rapidly became one of the top 5 English scouts on that site.
I also won an award in 2004 as the IOMA Best Electronic Artist ( International Online Musicians Awards) and was nominated in the final three for Best Soundtrack and Best Instrumental Artist. My name (Global Trancemission) still appears in their Hall of Fame.
In 2004 November the unthinkable happened…….Besonic crashed into oblivion !!!!
I was faced with completely starting again from scratch.
A new site was just starting at this time called Mixposure and many of the former Besonic artists were re starting on this new site.
The original Mixposure has disappeared although a new site bears the name as they have purchased the domain.
I am no longer to be found on there and I no longer use OMD's like Soundclick or Mixposure as I have found that they really only promote artists to other artists which is a rather pointless exercise unless you use it to get feedback, which is usually based upon one for one ratings between artists. These sites are full of inter-site politics with their own charts and ratings which do nothing to help promote your music to the wider world of people who are actually interested primarily in the music itself.
Towards the end of 2005 I decided to concentrate more on Ambient music and that is where my roots came in useful once again.
I completed work on the first CD “Infinite Space” which is released on CD Baby and it is now on digital distribution on all of the major sites including I-Tunes, Amazon and Napster.
The second album which was digital download only was a follow up exploring a darker form of ambient and is called "ASTROMEGATRON". This is also released on CD Baby and it is now on digital distribution on all of the major sites including I-Tunes, Amazon and Napster.
That takes us up to the present day and is a short history of the path to what you find now.