James Duncan (Musician)

James Duncan (born November 12 1968) is a Canadian born musician and house music producer. He has recorded under his own name and has appeared on a number of recordings in diverse genres such as free jazz, indie and post-punk as a musician.

He has released solo 12" house records on Dancetracks, Chair Recordings, London's Real Soon and his own imprint, Le Systeme Records.

As a musician, he was most active as a member of NYC experimental free jazz/noise collective IZITITIZ (members of No Neck Blues Band, TEST, Enos Slaughter). He has recorded and performed with the acclaimed dance music duo Metro Area and also Morgan Geist, both on Environ Records. He appeared on The Rapture's dancefloor "hit" House of Jealous Lovers 12", released on DFA Records in 2001 and has also toured and recorded with Brooklyn based band The Silent League (ex-Mercury Rev/Stars Like Fleas/The Arcade Fire/Beruit).

In his native Toronto, during the early 90s, he played and performed with his own ensembles Skewver and Free Music Ensemble, along with playing in Dave Clark's Woodchoppers Association and GUH (Do Make Say Think/Broken Social Scene). He released and produced Toronto native Mantler's (Tomlab) first CD "Doin It All" in 2000, also on Le Systeme.

Currently he plays trumpet with Aarktica and guitar in Glenn Branca's 100 Guitar Orchestra and lives in Toronto, On, Canada.

References

* [http://www.fakejazz.com/reviews/2003/izititiz.shtml Izititiz Lucky Bird Review - Fake Jazz]
* [http://www.soundatone.com/detail.php?id=29&s=24&np=5 Izititiz "With Our With Jazz] at [http://www.soundatone.com/Sound@One Sound@One]
* [http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/izititiz.html Izititiz] at Forced Exposure
* [http://www.aarktica.net/ Aarktica] Official site
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/James+Duncan James Duncan] on Discogs
* [http://wc10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:abfyxq80ldke Mantler "Doin It All" Review] at Allmusic