Adam Tinley – mostly known to the music lovers as Adamski, has had the status of being a legendary artist for a few decades . Adams took his first steps in musical business during his childhood years, when he formed a kinder-punk band ‘The Stupid Babies’ with his brother. They were noticed and supported probably by one of the most well-known UK radio presenters, John Peel, and were aired on BBC Radio 1. In his teenage years Adam turned his head to electro-punk sounds and played in the band, Diskord Datkord.
At the turn off the 80’s, like most of the open-minded youth, he was charmed and hypnotized by acid-house. That was a time when Adam picked up his most recognizable moniker Adamski, dedicated to UFO enthusiast, George Adamski. Being one of the first artists who started to play electronic music live, which he did by setting up his portable keyboard, helped him to become a serious figure in a quickly developing rave scene. Adamski became a welcomed guest in Ibiza’s super clubs like Pacha and Amnesia and big illegal raves in Britany. In 1990 he released a track ‘Killer’ alongside singer Seal, which became a multiplatinum hit and helped him to gain international fame.
During the 90’s Adamski released many successful tracks and did a lot of exciting collaborations with cult artists and massive pop-stars like Nina Hagen and Elton John. In the 2000s Adam rebranded himself and picked a moniker Adam Sky. Under this name, he released a lot of electroclash music that was in trend at that time, with labels like Turbo Recordings, Kitsune and Exploited. A few years ago he took back his good old moniker Adamski and started to work on a new and unusual musical concept – Future Waltz. The idea of Future Waltz is to give a new breath to old-school musical forms like the waltz. The result of taking a waltz ¾ rhythm structure and combining it with different forms of modern music from house and techno to rap, grime and trip-hop was an album “Revolt”, that was released in 2015.
At the moment, Adamski is still enjoying playing sets that mostly consist of his classic house and techno tunes during big events in the UK and Ibiza and has a brand new artistical alter ego, Sonny Eriksson. Sonny Eriksson is the ultimate psychobilly at the start of the 21st century. His music is psychobilly with elements of punk and strange electronic music.
Finally, All-Andorra had a chance to talk with this charismatic and legendary artist. Adam told us memorable and funny stories about his past, opened the curtains on his future plans and talked about his favorite trips and views on the possibility of coming to perform in Andorra.
Interview: Dmitry Tolkunov
Hi Adam, thank you for finding time to talk with us. It seems that you have many different and interesting projects that you are working on. What are you mostly involved in now?
Like Adamski, I’m a serious and focused DJ spinning old school classics and a lot of my own work often re-edited and mashed up in ways that would be possible in the 80’s and 90’s. And as Sonny Eriksson, I come out of my shell singing and playing a spectacular silver Gretsch guitar psychobilly style and having the best hair, shoes and sunglasses on the planet! It’s kind of schizophrenic, especially when I’m booked to do both performances at the same event.
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