ABOUT ME

CONTACT:
aaron ((at)) konspiracy.co.uk

QUALIFICATIONS:
HND Graphic Design
BDesHons Graphic Design & Multimedia


WORK:
BlackID.com
BlackID was Scotland's leading 'New Media' agency and competed UK and Worldwide for clients. The clientlist included massive brands like MTV, Channel 4, VH1, Homecorp and Burger King. The talent in the agency was amazing and I learned so much from the people I worked with there.

I started off there as a designer but I was amazed by the flash work that co-workers like limmy and hoss were knocking out so I got them to teach me some of the basics - while looking through loads of old cd's to build this portfolio part of the site I actually found some of the tutorial files that limmy had set up for me to learn good ol "tell target" in flash.

As I got better in Flash I got involved in updating the flash sites that already existed, building animations, animated concepts for pitches and building sites.


Greenparka.com
My current workplace www.greenparka.com. When I left BlackID myself and a co-worker from there were asked by Graphic Partners if we wanted to join and help build up a new media division of the company. Previously the company had been outsourcing all the web work to other companies and the designers they had at the time were purely 'print designers'. They wanted to get some designers in that specialised in web work.
I've been there for a good few years now and we've built the company up to one of the best new media companies in Scotland (in my own unbiased opinion of course). We are a small company within a larger mother company. Our clientlist and portfolio speaks for itself in terms of the quality of the work we do and the client services we provide.


OTHER:
Longlunch
A few years back, myself and a few others set up Longlunch. We wanted to start something that brought the Scottish Design Community together in a positive way. We organised seminars and talks in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, bringing huge names in the design industry like The Designers Republic, Mickey Stretton, Nicolas Roope, Airside and Why Not Associates to name but a few.
Late 2004 I hung up my lunchbox as I couldnt dedicate as much time as was needed around the time of each event to organise it as my day job demanded too much attention.


ABOUT THE MUSIC:
The music that is on this site is a collection of tunes ive done over the past few years. Some of it is very laid back triphop kind of stuff with a heavy influence coming from the likes of DJ Shadow and Mr Scruff and other tunes have a bit more dancey edge - but a style of dance music from back in the late 80s/early 90s - in my opinion that's when dance music was at its most pioneering and exciting.

I started playing bass guitar when I was 16, when I was at art college I was in an indie band playing the bass and thats when I took up playing guitar. We all eventually went our seperate ways and I continued making music using Cubase on my PC.
More recently I have started using Ableton Live to make music, it's an amazing program. Instrument-wise on the tunes its a mix of me playing the guitar, bass, roland 303 groovebox, microKorg and a whole host of Korg and Moog style VST synth plugins, drum programming and sampling.

While on the 'sampling' note, i'd like to state that if any labels or artists are not happy with me having sampled their songs and having them available to listen to on this site, get in touch and let me know and i'll take them down. I would like to stress that these songs are not available to download from this site and I have not made any money from any of this music. That goes for the mixes too.

The mixes that are in the Mashed Potato section of the site were a couple of soul&funk mixes that I submitted as an entry to get myself through to the heats of a Vestax dj competition. Although I have a very eclectic taste in music, my main love is with soul and funk.