Andrea Parker is an electronic musician and DJ. She makes amazingly beautiful and wickedly haunting, yet warm electro music. She will immerse you into environments where you'll never want to leave.

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"Before I write a song I've always got complete vision of what I want," surmises ANDREA PARKER when quizzed on her musical philosophy. "And I am not going to stop until I get it." Which explains a lot. Why, for instance, her debut album Kiss My Arp has been almost four years in the making. And, indeed, why it's likely to long outlive most of its competition. Trying to pin down Andrea's music, however, is not so easy. "Whenever I release a record it seems to get reviewed in a different section to the last," she laughs. "But I've always tried to keep a common flavor with it. People might think my music sounds dark - I've had people come up and call me DJ Satan when I'm DJing - but I think I'm more concerned with getting a certain depth to it. This is definitely a deep album rather than a dark one."

Certainly Andrea's musical past is a widely varied one. Her early explorations with Inky Blacknuss and Two Sandwiches Short Of A Lunchbox (a collaboration with David Morley) were at the cutting edge of experimental leftfield electronica. Even then, she was also showcasing her vocal skills, guesting on releases like Koh Toa's jawdroppingly serene "Sundown" single (Infonet). Once safely snapped up by Mo'Wax the plot thickened even further. First came the juicy electro workout "Melodious Thunk", which found its way into eminent record boxes on both sides of the Atlantic. Then there was "Rocking Chair", an emotionally charged, tear-stained ballad spectacularly orchestrated by Will Malone - whose strings have graced everything from horror soundtracks to Massive Attack's "Unfinished Symphony". It crossed over, winning her a new legion of fans unaware of her techno background. So, just for good measure, she followed it with the crunchy hooligan beats of "Ballbreaker". Confused? You won't be when you hear Kiss My Arp.

This is where Andrea paints the bigger picture, drawing on her experience as an experimental DJ at clubs like Lost and the legendary defunct Megatripolis, her love of hard dancefloor techno and her ear for a classic song, in equal amounts. Which might well be down to growing up in Yalding, Kent, initially divorced by geography from the club scene. "I spent a lot of time listening to ethereal stuff like This Mortal Coil and Cowboy Junkies when I was smaller," she remembers, "it wasn't until my big sister passed her driving test and we'd drive up to hip hop jams in London that I really discovered the funk."

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