Andrea Parker

Andrea Parker, a cellist with classical training and a background as a session singer, crafted incisive darkside electro-techno releases on Mo' Wax, R&S and Sabrettes that highlighted both her precise programming abilities and a growing impulse to weave her instrumental background into electronic forms. Early in the 1990s she started issuing her own recordings, then took up DJing by 1993. In 1994 she joined forces with David Morley, issuing the Angular Art EP on Infonet Records under his name alone and the Too Good to Be Strange EP on R&S under the alias Two Sandwiches Short of a Lunchbox. Morley handled engineering duties on her first solo Mo' Wax outing, the forty-minute Melodious Thunk EP, which arrived in 1996. Her follow-up Mo' Wax EP, Rocking Chair, incorporated the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra amid layers of sampled rhythms and textures. Additional remix work for Depeche Mode, Lamb, the Orb, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Steve Reich preceded sessions for her first proper album, Kiss My ARP. During the same period she assembled a volume for Studio !K7’s DJ Kicks series that appeared in 1998.