Healing

Until last year Fenton was best known for his independent techno record labels Perverter and Advanced. Both have provided the perfect platform for his kind of harsh, twisted soundscapes epitomised by his brutal Confessions Of An English Psychopath single.

However in 2006 Ade Fenton co-produced Gary Numan's Jagged, described by Q Magazine as a 'shudder-fest of consistent quality' , while Mojo enthused, 'it is supremely confident and the innovator of the 1970s never sounds like he's trying to play catch-up.' According to Metal Hammer, 'if 2000's Pure album brought Numan back into focus, then Jagged gives his music fresh shape and vitality.'

After working on Jagged, which came out in spring 2006, Ade Fenton spent the next few months completing his own solo debut Artificial Perfect - a powerful electronic album with elements of Cabaret Voltaire, Nine Inch Nails, Motor, Aphex Twin and Front 242. It's a fluent and cohesively atmospheric collection, opening with the massive, compulsive thrust of The Leather Sea, one of four tracks featuring Gary Numan on vocals. The single Healing is more openly informed by Fenton's career as an underground techno DJ, while Recall and Slide Away are opulent, dynamically-produced songs that show off Numan's alienated but soulful voice to striking effect. Fenton himself fronts the apocalyptic rock of Truth, along with the epic-sounding One Day and manic closer Machine. The album's most introspective moment Everything Changes is one of two songs featuring Helen Tilley on vocals. The other, Burn, seduces with a starkly sensual, Bond-like opening before transforming into a psychotic and half-chanted chorus which is every bit as dark as anything on the album's more overtly heavy tracks.

Ade Fenton remains an in-demand DJ with a schedule that has taken him across the globe, from Europe to North and South America; Malaysia to Australia. He continues to hold his 9 year residency at English techno superclub Atomic Jam and electrify audiences worldwide with his fierce DJ sets that fuse thunderous drums with electro and industrial elements, as exemplified by his recent Live At Maida Vale performance for BBC Radio 1. He is currently adding DJ dates to an Artificial Perfect world tour that will include sets in Brazil, the UK, South Africa, Colombia and Belgium. Fenton begins work on a new Gary Numan album in spring 2007.

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[guywholikesvids]

Me? Child?

Why don't you stop acting like a petulant teenager, and accept that Numan has moved on to other things.

Why are you listening to music you don't like anyway? Different people have different opinions about music. You don't like the new stuff, OK, but that doesn't mean other people shouldn't.

[Jobana]

Yeah he might bea wanna be Trent Reznr, but a lot of people are influenciated byhim, lets just accept that TR is awesome, and this genre is called Industrial so its imposile that TR is going to be the only musician into this genre. In fact this song and music is a good try, its dark, fast, kinda electro, what else? its industrial, totally dferent to Numan`s 70s music, Gary changes contantly thats evolution, so just let Gary do what he likes now, personaly I like both eras of his music.

[huntedhalo]

I think Numan still rocks, even got much better. And like you say Guy, ya can't just live in the past or you'll end up like a miserable old git, lol! Imagine him doing the same stuff as 31 years ago, then people would even moan as well. It's never good is it? And i'm not talking of Numan only, everyone needs to move on and find a place that suits them best.

NUMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!! ;O)

[exosfear512]

This is surprisingly generic, I can see the Reznor influence but something is kinda missing. Its not bad however and its got what NIN what now has lost.

[HoobtheNoob]

@GaryNumanAlbums

nothing wrong with a bit more hybrid NIN Gary numan music, and you can't deny the quality of the album is brilliant,

and i mean, i would agree with Jobana Trent rez is obviously an utter musical/industrial genius and he has made sure to create such original and such varied and stylized music that no one can really copy his style.

Ade takes a lot of inspiration obviously but it's great music and that's what it's about

[realitylicker]

lordarseknobs got a size problem i think.

[machman05]

Hear hear !

[machman05]

Yawn at LordArseHole and his usual anti-numan CRAP !

[LordArsehat]

One of the most sensible and educated comments I've ever read regarding this appalling shit-fest of a track.

[LordArsehat]

Couldn't agree more, a waste of fucking time and energy. What the feck does Fenton know about music and music production? The arrogant prick can't even play the piano. I'm with you re M&S, a better album than Jagged which is a painful fucking amateur mess of an album from an artist who hasn't got a clue how to make music anymore.