The Peach Tree

Artist/Band Profile: The Peach Tree is the unsigned, independent artistry of musician/writer/producer Angus Maiden, from Melbourne, Australia. Although he has a history of making music from a broad range of genres, his current focus is electronica. He believes in free information for all, and encourages everyone to download his music for free and distribute it (all work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License).

The Peach Tree began circa 2003 as school friends Angus Maiden and Michael Cooney's concept of a band; a band that would break genre barriers and reach across the music spectrum to touch a whole host of different individuals. The duo began writing songs together after they finished school and practised sporadically, but the dream of being up there on stage delivering their message always seemed faraway. Although both Cooney and Gus had their own songs that they brought to the table and also had songs that they wrote together, they never got around to recording anything together. Meanwhile a fire burned in Gus for their music to be heard, and in the next few years he actively recorded new material that he had written solo, and began to put it up on the net. But Cooney was skeptical of putting stuff out there that was frankly unrefined and amateurish. Gus, not wanting to filter what he felt was good, raw, plaintive material, put up the music he had written and recorded across a range of sites including MP3.com.au, Last.fm, and a host of other sites almost as soon as they occured.

From 2003 to 2006 the two kept their dream that they would form a "proper" band and start delivering their songs to local audiences. They continued to jam and officialy recruited new members, but never fully coalesced into a cohesive entity. Members of the "band" at one point reached 5 members, but as people do, they all led busy lives and slowly but surely, they dispersed. Angus kept at it, though, as his dream of forming a band morphed into

Similar Artists: Infected Mushroom, VNV Nation, Boards of Canada, Electromagnetic Impulses, Pixieguts, Remergence, Metricks, Sensient, Dementio13, 8-Bit Weapon, Astral Projection...

Music Style: I have a histroy of making music from all sorts of different styles: pop, death metal, rock, blues, and basically everything under the sun. My latest album "Psychosis" is all progressive techno; who knows what will be next...

Reviews: Reviews of the album "Psychosis":
-This album is fucking incredible! I'd say more but I don't need to, just download it!
-"Psychosis" is an ace album: epic, almost operatic
-I'm only a few songs into your album Psychosis and I already love it! Fantastic tracks. Interesting mix of sounds and arrangements. Cool vocals.

Influences: A very broad range of musical styles from death metal to pop to techno, and everything in between.

Life!

Partying and people.

Studio / Music Equipment: Propellerhead Reason
Cakewalk Homestudio
Roland VA-5 Synth
Yamaha EG112 Guitar
Roland Cube30 Amp
Yamaha MG12/4 Mixer
A rusty computer

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