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Hugh Campbell

Electro / Trance / Industrial

Johannesburg, South Africa

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Hugh Campbell, working under the aliases Trance Authority and Habitual Noise is an electronic music composer and producer in South Africa.

Hugh's musical career started in 1999 after discovering his natural ability to compose progressive Trance, Hardstyle and Trip-Hop arrangements. Although his music is ever changing, these genres still feature heavily in his work today. Hugh's music is highly regarded and recognized within the Independent music community worldwide and is constantly growing in popularity amongst more diverse audiences.

In 2005, Hugh, claimed the 2nd place award for the MIO Annual remix competition, falling but 1 point behind the overall winner, Vaughan Phillips. The competition features some of the best electronic music producers from all across South Africa in varying skill levels ranging from bedroom producers, to highly recognized major artists.

In 2006, Hugh's work was featured on the popular Sound Republic podcasts, hosted by Derek "the bandit" Richardson - a well known South African Radio and Club DJ.
Hugh's work has been played on several shows since and has been featured on hundreds of podcasts and web radio shows worldwide.

Hugh has compiled 3 albums featuring his work for digital release. The most recent being:
The Comedown machine (2007). Work is underway for a 4th release of "What they want you to hear" under his other alias, Habitual Noise, later in 2007.

Hugh has engaged in several remix and performance collaborations with other independent and emerging artists namely; Christina Berry, Patrick Sweeny, Ryan Vickers, Vaughan Phillips (Syntrax), Nick Easlern, Michelle Freeman, Fady Fyad (Psy Sprit), Alpha FX, Diverje, CDMP and many more.

Hugh also composes and produces music for Independent film and computer / console games.

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4/10/2007 Updates! Jan 24

4/10/2007Updates...visit www.tamusic.co.nrYou may have noticed a few changes on the site, but just in case you haven't, I thought I'd tell you a little more about what's new!Indie Spotlight - This part of my website is designed to showcase other musicians or people involve...


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  • Hugh - Producer, Composer


Discography - see all 3

  • What they want you to hear

    What they want you to hear

  • Singles

    Singles

  • The Comedown Machine

    The Comedown Machine



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Noahh says:

Great style of music and for me you are a great producer!

posted Aug 17


IG - Ivana Gatti / Gianni Maroccolo says:

thanks for the add

posted Aug 15


.RFO - Radio Flash* Online says:

posted Aug 12


Brett Charles says:

That podcasting thing is great. I love your music and actually dropped Tides and Sandcastles in a set I did recently. Are you signed? I would love to see you on my label Inverted Beats. Drop me a line sometime!!

posted Jun 21