Biography
Beatrice Dillon works from London as an experimental techno producer, DJ, and composer, drawing from electro-acoustic traditions, avant-garde jazz, dub, and minimalism. She moves with equal ease between back-to-back DJ appearances alongside figures such as Kassem Mosse and Ben UFO and the creation of site-specific commissions. Throughout the 2010s she issued a series of abstract, wide-ranging DJ mixes, solo tracks, and joint recordings before unveiling her first full-length solo statement, Workaround, on PAN in 2020.
Late in 2011 she began performing as a DJ; by the next year she was appearing in concert with Claire Hooper and Karen Gwyer. In 2013 she joined engineer and musician Rupert Clervaux, drummer Charles Hayward, Eben Bull, and Spring Heel Jack’s John Coxon and Ashley Wales to produce the piece Disarm for artist Pedro Reyes at London’s Lisson Gallery. The score was realized exclusively on instruments fashioned from decommissioned firearms, and the gallery issued the recording on vinyl. Around the same period Dillon supplied a mix to the Blowing Up the Workshop podcast series and compiled Folkways II, an anthology of African music released by the Trilogy Tapes.
Her earliest solo recording of original material arrived in 2014 as the cassette Blues Dances on Where to Now? Shortly afterward the Vinyl Factory issued the one-sided 12" Sequence 1, again made with Clervaux. Beginning in January 2015 she hosted a monthly program on the London-based online station NTS while continuing to play live concerts and DJ sets across the U.K. and Europe, sharing bills with Demdike Stare, Elysia Crampton, Heatsick, and others. In 2015 Where to Now? released her debut solo 12" single Face A/B; the same year saw the appearance of Studies I-XVII for Samplers and Percussion, another Clervaux collaboration that drew widespread critical notice. The following year brought a joint mixtape with Ben UFO on the Dutch label Wichelroede, Dillon and Clervaux’s Two Changes on Paralaxe Editions, and a split 12" with Gwyer on Alien Jams.
Hessle Audio put out the 12" single Inkjet/Fluo, recorded with Call Super, in 2017. After contributing to albums by cellist Lucy Railton and the improv collective Lifted and supplying mixes to Rvng Intl., FACT, and Resident Advisor, Dillon returned in 2020 with her first solo album. Workaround, issued by PAN, consisted of polyrhythmic studies fixed at 150 beats per minute and featured Laurel Halo, Railton, tabla player Kuljit Bhamra, and pedal steel guitarist Jonny Lam. The record earned uniform praise and was chosen by The Wire as the best album of the year.
Late in 2011 she began performing as a DJ; by the next year she was appearing in concert with Claire Hooper and Karen Gwyer. In 2013 she joined engineer and musician Rupert Clervaux, drummer Charles Hayward, Eben Bull, and Spring Heel Jack’s John Coxon and Ashley Wales to produce the piece Disarm for artist Pedro Reyes at London’s Lisson Gallery. The score was realized exclusively on instruments fashioned from decommissioned firearms, and the gallery issued the recording on vinyl. Around the same period Dillon supplied a mix to the Blowing Up the Workshop podcast series and compiled Folkways II, an anthology of African music released by the Trilogy Tapes.
Her earliest solo recording of original material arrived in 2014 as the cassette Blues Dances on Where to Now? Shortly afterward the Vinyl Factory issued the one-sided 12" Sequence 1, again made with Clervaux. Beginning in January 2015 she hosted a monthly program on the London-based online station NTS while continuing to play live concerts and DJ sets across the U.K. and Europe, sharing bills with Demdike Stare, Elysia Crampton, Heatsick, and others. In 2015 Where to Now? released her debut solo 12" single Face A/B; the same year saw the appearance of Studies I-XVII for Samplers and Percussion, another Clervaux collaboration that drew widespread critical notice. The following year brought a joint mixtape with Ben UFO on the Dutch label Wichelroede, Dillon and Clervaux’s Two Changes on Paralaxe Editions, and a split 12" with Gwyer on Alien Jams.
Hessle Audio put out the 12" single Inkjet/Fluo, recorded with Call Super, in 2017. After contributing to albums by cellist Lucy Railton and the improv collective Lifted and supplying mixes to Rvng Intl., FACT, and Resident Advisor, Dillon returned in 2020 with her first solo album. Workaround, issued by PAN, consisted of polyrhythmic studies fixed at 150 beats per minute and featured Laurel Halo, Railton, tabla player Kuljit Bhamra, and pedal steel guitarist Jonny Lam. The record earned uniform praise and was chosen by The Wire as the best album of the year.
Albums
Singles
