Geoff Serle

He was born in Bristol (England) and played in various little known rock and jazz groups in the seventies before recording his first album in 1979 with renowned jazz bassist Paul Rogers (2).

He formed Research (2) in 1981 as an electro-funk industrial jazz unit who supported the likes of Material and Swans as well as playing at Womad and recording sessions for the BBC. The band recorded three albums (including Social Systems featuring artist 481495).

In the eighties he played in Tranceathon (a systems music big band), a funk outfit called Rhythm Force and Elbow Room, an improvising group with artist 252384.

In 1987 He formed artist 122220 with artist 215685 to explore ambient rhythmic grooves. artist 322860, formed in 1988 with artist 249463, is a more hard-edged, guitar oriented band.

He formed his own label label 32768 in 1993.

Other projects include the short lived Shock Troops with artist 303100 and Pat Thomas, who recorded the still unreleased electronic album Hedonism, and a dance music project Proof.

Other projects include Tek-San, an ambient electronica project Mongrel and a hip-hop collaboration with Billy Bang.