Solar Quest (artist)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Solar Quest
Background = group_or_band
Alias = Entropica
The Solar Question Mark?
Origin = London, United Kingdom
Genre = Ambient Acid Trance
Years_active = 1993–present
Label = Choci's Chewns, SSR, Entropica (record label)
Associated_acts =
URL = [http://www.solarquest.org/ Official Website]
Current_members = George Saunders
Notable_instruments = Roland TB-303

Solar Quest is a one-man ambient and acid trance music project founded in 1993 by George Saunders and its aim is to combine renewable solar energy with electronic music.

Solar Quest was founded when Saunders got interested in acid house in the beginning of the 1990's. In 1993 and 1994 he had as much as nine releases, of which two were full length albums (the other under alias "Entropica"). The track "Acid Air Raid", released in 1993, is one of the classics of acid techno and next year's dreamy "Orgship" is a significant release in ambient music.

For the annual Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts Solar Quest has often produced a solar energy powered ambient concert tent and a lot of its music has been recorded and mixed in a studio powered by solar energy.

Saunders has had cooperation with e.g. British DJ Choci, under whose record label Choci's Chewns most of Solar Quest's early releases were published. The British singer Kirsty Hawkshaw's vocals can be heard on many of them. A remix collection of Alan Parsons' song "Apollo" is among the more obscure Solar Quest releases.

Discography

Singles/maxis

* "One Nation" (1993)
* "Acid Crumble" (1993)
* "Acid Air Raid" (1993)
* "Acid Brain EP" (1993)
* "Freezone 1 Single - Save The Whale (1994)
* "Kirsty Cried" (Solar Quest vs. Choci) (1994)
* "A + B = C in D^#" (1994)
* "Save the Whale" (Solar Quest / The Arc / Avalon) (1994)
* "Acid Baba" (under alias "The Solar Question Mark?") (1995)
* "Cosmosis" (1995)
* "Into the Machine" (1995)
* "Mesmerised" (Solar Quest / Choci) (1995)
* "Paranoïd Aliens (1996)
* "Space Pirates" (1998)
* "Into the Machine (Remixes)" (2001)

Albums

* "Orgship" (1994)
* "Sonic Bloom Entropica Prolifica" (under alias "Entropica") (1994)
* "Paranoid Aliens" (1996)
* "AcidOphilez" (1998)
* "Orgisms" (2000)
* "Sola Luna" (2008)

Remixes

* Alan Parsons: "Apollo (Remixed by Solar Quest)" (1997)

External links

* [http://www.solarquest.org.uk/ Solar Quest official page]
* [http://www.solarquest.org/ Solar Quest's old home page]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Solar+Quest Solar Quest at Discogs.com]
* [http://mikko.tuomela.net/solarquest/ Solar Quest - The Unofficial Home Page]