Source Direct

Originally the act consisted of two childhood friends, James Baker{{cite news|first1=Ben|last1=Beaumont-Thomas|first2=Lauren|last2=Martin|first3=Gwyn Thomas de Chroustchoff & John|last3=Thorp|accessdate=2019-03-28|title=Clubs picks of the week|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/22/clubs-picks-of-the-week|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 March 2014|issn=0261-3077}} and Phil Aslett.{{cite news|first1=Ben|last1=Beaumont-Thomas|first2=Sammy|last2=Maine|first3=Lauren Martin & John|last3=Thorp|accessdate=2019-03-28|title=Clubs picks of the week|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/12/clubs-picks-of-the-week|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 October 2013|issn=0261-3077}}{{cite web|url=https://gothamcityblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/artist-interview-source-direct/|title=Artist Interview – Source Direct|date=20 July 2014|website=Gothamcityblog.wordpress.com|accessdate=28 March 2019}} Due to differences between the pair, however, it became entirely a solo project of Baker's in 1999, after the release of Exorcise the Demons.{{cite web|url=https://aboveboarddist.co.uk/source-direct-approach-and-identify-nonplus/|title=Source Direct – Approach And Identify (incl. Demdike Stare Remix) – Nonplus|website=Aboveboarddist.co.uk|accessdate=28 March 2019}}

Source Direct's music uses complex and irregular breakbeats, snappy and precise hi-hats, dark atmospheric sampling and abstract song structures.{{cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/15894-source-direct-interview-jim-baker|title=The Quietus – Features – A Quietus Interview – Chasing Perfectionism: An Interview With Source Direct|website=Thequietus.com|date=31 July 2014 |accessdate=28 March 2019}}

Source Direct have released music on a variety of record labels: Metalheadz,{{cite news|first1=Ben|last1=Beaumont-Thomas|first2=David|last2=Pollock|first3=Gwyn Thomas de Chroustchoff & John|last3=Thorp|accessdate=2019-03-28|title=Clubs picks of the week|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/23/clubs-picks-of-the-week|newspaper=The Guardian|date=23 October 2015|issn=0261-3077}} Science (Virgin Records), Good Looking Records, Astralwerks, Basement, Certificate 18, Odysee, Street Beats and the self-owned Source Direct Recordings. They have released singles under the names Intensity, Sounds of Life, Oblivion, Mirage, X-Files and Hokusai.[http://www.factmag.com/2002/10/05/the-essential-source-direct/] {{dead link|date=March 2019}}

Despite not being featured on the officially released soundtrack, Source Direct gained recognition for the track "Call & Response" which was used in the horror movie Blade.{{cite web|accessdate=2019-03-28|title=Lost & Found: Source Direct's paranoid d'n'b thriller Controlled Developments (1997)|url=https://www.factmag.com/2012/08/26/lost-found-source-directs-dnb-thriller-controlled-developments-1997/|date=26 August 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/cornerstone-tracks-of-source-direct-an-industrial-world-run-by-machines |title=The Cornerstone Tracks of Source Direct: "An Industrial World Run By Machines" – fabric blog |website=Fabriclondon.com |date=2015-03-26 |accessdate=2020-05-17}} The track, originally a single, was later included on their EP Controlled Developments, and on their album Exorcise the Demons. Source Direct contributed the track "2097" to the CD soundtrack of the PlayStation game Wipeout 2097, released in 1996.{{cite web|url=https://drumtrip.co.uk/news/whatever-happened-source-direct-part-2-jim-baker-interview/|title=Whatever happened to Source Direct? Part 2 : Jim Baker interview – Old Skool Jungle, Hardcore & Drum and Bass|website=Drumtrip.co.uk|accessdate=28 March 2019}}

Fact included Exorcise the Demons in its "The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s".

• Controlled Developments (1997, Astralwerks) – 6-track EP
• Exorcise the Demons (1999, Virgin Records)

• "Future London/Shimmer" (1994, Odysee)
• "A Made Up Sound/The Cult" (1995, Metalheadz)
• "Approach & Identify/Modem" (1995, Source Direct)
• "Different Groove/Stars" (1995, Odysee)
• "Fabric of Space/Bliss" (1995, Source Direct)
• "Snake Style/Exit 9" (1995, Source Direct)
• "Black Rose/12 Til 4" (1996, Source Direct)
• "Stonekiller/Web of Sin" (1996, Metalheadz)
• "Secret Liaison/Complexities" (1996, Good Looking Records)
• "The Crane/Artificial Barriers" (1996, Source Direct)
• "Call & Response/Computer State" (1997, Virgin)
• "Capital D/Enemy Lines" (1997, Virgin)
• "Two Masks/Black Domina" (1997, Virgin)
• "Concealed Identity" (1998, Virgin)
• "Mind Weaver" (1998, Virgin)
• "Technical Warfare" (1998, Virgin)
• "Snowblind/The Place" (2001, Demonic)
• "Sub One/Escape From Cairo" (2001, Demonic)
• "Yo Bitch!/Pimp Star" (2001, Demonic)

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