It has been nine years since the award-winning duo released their last album, Rude Mechanicals, and 17 years since their ground-shifting debut, Futureproof. What followed on from that 1999 debut album, would develop into an illustrious career for Pitch Black releasing four studio albums, four remix albums and performing shows all over the world.
The pioneering pair have been living in different countries since 2011, and working on their seperate projects alongside their collaboration as Pitch Black. Both are renowned individually as solo artists and producers, Free has recently collaborated with Moana & the Tribe, Nga Tae and has created many new audio works for Aotearoa’s finest choreographers, while Hodgson has been producing and remixing under his solo electronica guise, Misled Convoy, and creating multi media works in London.
Over the years, aside from rousing dance floor punters, generating rave reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the world, from the Burning Man heartland in America, to the clubs and festivals of the UK, Europe, Japan, and Australia. They have allured favour among many DJs (both radio and club) including John Peel (Radio One/BBC), Nemone’s Electric Ladyland (Radio 6), Nick Luscombe (Xfm), Greg Roberts (Dreadzone) and Pete Lawrence (Big Chill). Their music has been used in fashion shows, computer games, TV shows such as True Blood and CSI plus many films, including the Oscar nominated Whale Rider.
As individuals, they have very different approaches to music which can be summed up as: Free, manic groove-merchant of the pair, wants to do it for the crowd, while Mike, the dark dub-meister and experimental sound artist wants to do it to the crowd.
