Biography
Dominic Woosey, the British producer focused on techno and ambient sounds, guided multiple endeavors one of which operated as Neutron 9000. Across three albums issued from The Green House Effect in 1990 through Lady Burning Sky in 1994 plus scattered singles and EPs, the project shifted away from ambient house and bleep techno toward the more introspective reaches of early trance. Additional output under Woosey’s own name, two further albums as Mysteries of Science, and assorted compilation appearances also emerged during the same period.
Profile Records carried Woosey’s initial Neutron 9000 material in 1990, pairing the expansive ambient-techno album The Green House Effect with the dancefloor-leaning 9000 AD EP. He supplied every cut on the Subsonic Bleeps compilation using separate aliases. Remix credits during these years included Talk Talk, Test Dept., and Effective Force. The second Neutron 9000 album, Walrus, surfaced in 1991 with greater vocal emphasis than its predecessor, incorporating co-production by Aaron Greenwood and Matthew Denny together with a Kevin Shields guitar part that drew a riff from My Bloody Valentine’s “Soon” into the track “In Heaven”. A harder, trance-oriented single titled Back with a Vengeance followed from the project.
Exploration of the developing genre continued when Neutron 9000 joined Mysteries of Science—another Woosey alias—for the 1992 Tranceplant EP on Berlin’s MFS label. An ambient album under Woosey’s own name, Straylight, appeared on Recycle or Die. He wrote or co-wrote nearly all selections across the six volumes of the United Frequencies of Trance series released between 1992 and 1993. Further Neutron 9000 remixes addressed Sven Väth, M-Age, and Buck Tick before the third album, Lady Burning Sky, arrived on Rising High in 1994.
Two Mysteries of Science albums later surfaced on Instinct Ambient, yet Woosey stepped away from music around 1995. Turbo reissued Lady Burning Sky in 2021; the label’s founder, Canadian DJ and producer Tiga, had first met Woosey during an early European clubbing journey. A Daniel Avery remix of the title track accompanied the reissue.
Profile Records carried Woosey’s initial Neutron 9000 material in 1990, pairing the expansive ambient-techno album The Green House Effect with the dancefloor-leaning 9000 AD EP. He supplied every cut on the Subsonic Bleeps compilation using separate aliases. Remix credits during these years included Talk Talk, Test Dept., and Effective Force. The second Neutron 9000 album, Walrus, surfaced in 1991 with greater vocal emphasis than its predecessor, incorporating co-production by Aaron Greenwood and Matthew Denny together with a Kevin Shields guitar part that drew a riff from My Bloody Valentine’s “Soon” into the track “In Heaven”. A harder, trance-oriented single titled Back with a Vengeance followed from the project.
Exploration of the developing genre continued when Neutron 9000 joined Mysteries of Science—another Woosey alias—for the 1992 Tranceplant EP on Berlin’s MFS label. An ambient album under Woosey’s own name, Straylight, appeared on Recycle or Die. He wrote or co-wrote nearly all selections across the six volumes of the United Frequencies of Trance series released between 1992 and 1993. Further Neutron 9000 remixes addressed Sven Väth, M-Age, and Buck Tick before the third album, Lady Burning Sky, arrived on Rising High in 1994.
Two Mysteries of Science albums later surfaced on Instinct Ambient, yet Woosey stepped away from music around 1995. Turbo reissued Lady Burning Sky in 2021; the label’s founder, Canadian DJ and producer Tiga, had first met Woosey during an early European clubbing journey. A Daniel Avery remix of the title track accompanied the reissue.
Albums
Singles
