Years active 2000 to present Role Musician Labels Alex Tronic Records | Members Paul Croan Name Alex Tronic Record label Alex Tronic Records | |
Website Official Alex Tronic Homepage Albums Shifting Sands, Balearica Sessions (feat. Sally Stapleton), Breathe Me In, Electricals EP, Back In the Room - EP Similar Roys Iron DNA, Protonica, Lifeforms, Hi Profile, Egorythmia |
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Alex Tronic is Electronic musician, DJ, producer and label owner Paul Croan, who is based in Leith, Edinburgh, UK. Croan works from his private recording studio also based in Edinburgh which is full of vintage equipment. His latest ep `Brave about it peaked at number 1 in iTunes Lounge charts in August 2017.The single has been heavily rotated on the influential radio station Chill FM` The single which features vocalist Shuna Lovelle, was released in July 2017. This is a follow up to the critically aclaimed CD 'Nature Flow which was presented as Alex Tronic V Leith Bass Team. Nature Flow has received millions of hits on the streaming service Spotify. Alex Tronic debuted on vinyl in with a record entitled Mind Matters/Obsessional, which was released by Peyote Records. According to Is this music? magazine, he has mastered the "rare trick of blending familiarity with innovation" within his unique style of electronica and dance music.
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- Alex tronic panoramic waking dream mix
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- Live performances
- Festival Appearances
- Radio Sessions
- Singles
- Studio albums
- Music industry work
- Recording Studio and Label
- References
Alex Tronic's debut album To Infinity was released on his own eponymous label Alex Tronic Records in 2009. The "Back in the Room EP" release followed in 2010, and Shifting Sands album was released in 2011.
Electricals EP by Alex Tronic (2012) features vocalist Kirsty Brown and also includes remixes by ATR artist Snakestyle. The ideas and recordings for the EP began during Summer 2011, when Croan relocated to Ibiza to DJ and record. The EP was completed in Edinburgh during winter 2011/12.
Alex Tronic and Becki Bardot's Balearica sessions EP features vocals from Sally Stapleton and was also released in 2012.
In March 2014 Alex Tronic introduced a new project for more chilled work called Leith Bass Team which debuts a track Magical Float. This work appears in March 2014 on GOA BEACH VOL. 23 .Here Alex Tronic collaborates with YSE Records on GOA BEACH VOL. 23 a powerful, double CD edition packed with the finest GOA Trance and 12 finest Lounge Music Production‘s
The Double cd is compiled by DJ Bim and Alex Tronic (Alex Tronic Records /UK), Streetdate 25/04/2014
Recent projects include compiling Goa Beach volumes 25/27 for Yellow Sunshine explosion Records with DJ Bim ( Germany) Double CDs one side trance one side chill formats. Available April 2015
In March 2016 Alex Tronic contributed 2 tracks Lubdub and Sunshine Lover ( Slow Groove edit) to Goa Beach Volume 28
(YSE Records) distributed by Edel Kontor.
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Live performances
Alex Tronic's live set-up includes the use of keyboards, samplers, effects, and a laptop. Members of ÅsA, Keser and Metaltech have occasionally performed live alongside Croan as Alex Tronic Band.
Festival Appearances
Radio Sessions
02/10/2012
Singles
Studio albums
Compilation Albums
Music industry work
Croan occasionally speaks at Music Industry seminars and has been involved as an industry expert on panels for PRS for Music. The event "Make it Happen" in Inverness featured a wide and knowledgeable variety of speakers, including Mercury Records A&R David O'Hagan, PRS for Music’s Jules Parker and Stuart Fleming, and solicitor Helen Searle.
He has also been a panelist at the Edinburgh-based Music Industry night Born To be Wide which is held monthly at Electric Circus. Here he spoke alongside Owen Morris, (Oasis, The Verve), John McLaughlin and Francis Macdonald. The seminar entitled "The Producers" was aimed at giving insight into what it takes to be a music producer in an ever-changing industry.
Recording Studio and Label
Croan's own Recording studio Alex Tronic Records Recording studio and Alex Tronic Records label are based at Hillside Crescent in Edinburgh. He relocated temporarily to run the label, record and perform live in Ibiza in summer 2011.