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Timothy Allan is a Canadian electronic musician and producer currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past few years Tim has earned a solid reputation in the EDM scene with a multitude of worldwide top 10 Billboard, DMC and ARIA charting releases and remixes, including multiple tracks which have hit that magical number 1. His remix (now the main mix) of The Shrink – Nervous Breakdown was DMC’s 5th biggest club track in the UK for 2010 and voted 2010′s 7th biggest dance track in the UK by Music Week.

His tracks have appeared on many top labels including Toolroom, Baroque, Audio Therapy, Perfecto, KULT, Armada, Loverush Digital, Play Digital, Vandit, System Recordings, Vicious, Virgin, EMI, Sea to Sun, LDU, Beatgeek, Star69, Segment, Oh! Records, and SmashBang! Records. He’s rocked it live at in Australia at Earthcore, Future Music, Parklife and VFest Festivals, and has had tracks appearing on major television shows, feature films, and CD compilation series around the globe.

Under different guises, he has applied his remix skills to artists such as Empire of the Sun, Dave Seaman & Funkagenda, Ash, Dirty South, Matt Darey, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Faker, Carl Kennedy, Nick Murray, Isaac James, Offer Nissim, Asi Givati, Stereo Soldiers, Pitch Dark, Jason Wolf, Neon Stereo and worked with vocals from Luke Steele, Carla Werner, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Tiff Lacey, Molly Bancroft, and Marcie to name a few.

Timothy was also half of the now disbanded Melbourne based Hong Kong Blondes who, since being signed to Vicious Vinyl, hit the ground running with multiple successful ARIA and DMC charting club tracks. The Blondes remix of “Walking on a Dream” by Empire of the Sun saw a #1 charting on the UK charts and over 30 weeks in the Australian top 15 ARIA club charts. The original subsequently won the ARIA award for Single of the Year 2009 with the album of the same name winning Album of the Year 2009. As if that wasn’t enough, Madonna herself hand pick one of the HKB’s first songs to appear on her 2009 compilation CD “EQ Sessions”.

Not one to keep all his secrets under his cap, Timothy has also released several successful video tutorial series on the finer points of dance music production, from creating the initial ideas to mixing down the final project. These production methods are put in to practice every day at The Mixplant, a Melbourne based mixing/mastering facility focused on electronic dance music where Tim is the head engineer.

Good morning, good lunchy and good afternoon, Mr Timothy Allan.

What first sparked your creative juices in the world of DJ'ing and production?

Being a computer geek in the days before internets! Make weird beeps and other noisy stuff was a ton of fun on old computers and tracker programs.

How did it feel when Madonna herself picked one of Hong Kong Blondes tracks for her compilation?

Massive actually. I first found out by getting a call saying that someone had just seen our name in Woman's Day or some mag like that. The mag had done a review of the Madonna compilation and our names were in it, then crazed emails from the label followed as well as lots of high fiving.

What has been your best experience playing at an Australian festival?

Actually being asked to play at the festivals! I played at Parklife and a couple Future Music gigs, none recently though, got to step up my game!

What sort of response do you receive from your video tutorials?

Tons of response actually… and every single one has been good. I get about an email a day or so from somebody somewhere who says they got something out of them, and that they really enjoy them. I've just released Mixing Electronic Music through Groove3, and the support from that has been awesome so far.

Tell us about Mixplant and how you play your role within the company as head engineer

Ahh the Mixplant! It's a company I started about a year ago as a way for aspiring EDM musicians/DJ's etc to get some polish on their tracks without having to practice for 5-10 years. I do mixdowns, mastering and offer 1 on 1 tutorials on anything related to dance music. It's been picking up as word gets out that it's the real deal. There are a lot of 'online' people doing similar stuff, however they basically just run your track through a pirated copy of Ozone and charge you 60 bucks.

What was your reaction to having your track Juicy Double end up on the first ADJF Mixtape Competition album?

It was really cool being picked to be on there, especially as a few of my fellow production chums also got on as well. Sort of an internet based local dance music producer man club. I merely mention that I'm on an ADJF mixture to random women and they throw themselves at me now.

What looms on the horizon? Give us the exclusive!

Well, there's a couple of collaborations in the works with some very busy people which should hopefully materialize soon. The big scoop is that Matt Darey just asked me to do a remix for him which I just agreed to last night actually.

And for the lulz, are you still rocking a mad beard?

Nah, that was an homage to my Canadian brothers last winter. I've since shorn the beard and am now back to the occasional 5 o'clock shadow!

Cheers Tim!

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