Aim DJ set

When they said the revolution was coming, we’re sure nobody expected it to spawn from Barrow In Furness. Uniquely for a man whose albums have constantly sold and whose fan base has multiplied with every sample and beat, Andy Turner’s back yard has always been his creative stomping ground. Like he says, ‘What I do would be completely different if I lived in the city’.

Over the last 8 years Aim has without doubt established himself as one of the UK's leading underground artists releasing the critically acclaimed 'Cold Water Music', 'Hinterland' and 'Flight 602' albums as well as remixing a whole host of artists including Ian Brown, St Etienne & The Charlatans and DJing all around the world from USA to Australia via Russia.

Over the last 4 years, Aim - the man and his box of tunes - has mutated into not only a live-action multi-musician hydra, playing packed venues and festivals around the world (Shepherds Bush Empire, Manchester Academy, Bristol Carling Academy notable examples), but a record label from which to platform his own material and the cream of everybody else’s. Thus ATIC was born, a curiously appropriate label name for a bedroom-born empire, and Andy Turner ticked another box off his checklist for global domination. ‘I wanted a name for the label that didn't mean anything, I wanted it to be evocative but didn't want it to be clever or something that people could decode so just I made a new word up. It looked pretty good written down and rolled of the tongue nicely so it stuck.’

Back in 2000, when Aim’s debut Cold Water Music dropped from the belly of the Grand Central mothership to rapturous arms and ears alike, few could have expected the Aim phenomenon to have been such an unstoppable force. Fast forward eight years and Andy ‘Aim’ Turner is a man with his fingers tickling every conceivable switch. His second record, Hinterland, achieved the kind of critical mass cult following that most seldom manage to attain, straddling the impossible void between creative independence and inescapability. To say that Aim has become ubiquitous in any self-respecting record collection would only be looking at the truth from one particular angle.

A succession of great live shows including summer 07 festival appearances at Glastonbury, Wireless and Electric Picnic established the 10-piece Aim live band as one of the best live dance acts around, For 2008, however, Aim will be back how it all started with one man and his box of tunes, celebrating the long-awaited re-issues of the classic albums 'Cold Water Music' and 'Hinterland' featuring bonus tracks and continuing to roadtest new Aim tracks fresh out of the studio.

Aside from the DJ shows, Aim is heading back in the studio to start work on the eagerly anticipated new album and well as producing Niko's solo album due in Autumn 08.