Geoff Serle

I was born in Bristol (England) and played in various little known rock and jazz groups in the seventies before recording my first album in 1979 with renowned jazz bassist Paul Rogers.

I formed Research in 1981 as an electro-funk industrial jazz unit who supported the likes of Material and Swans as well as playing at Womad and recording sessions for the BBC. The band recorded three albums (including Social Systems featuring Django Bates). In the eighties I played in Tranceathon (a systems music big band), a funk outfit called Rhythm Force and Elbow Room, an improvising group with Lyn Dobson (ex Manfred Mann, Soft Machine, John Mayall).

In 1987 I formed Radius with David Cross to explore ambient rhythmic grooves and Civilizations is the fifth album to be released. Sonicphonics, formed in 1988 with B-Shops for the Poor's John Dobie, is a more hard-edged, guitar oriented band which also featured Elliot Sharp on the second album Neo Kamikaze. I formed my own label Systems Collusion in 1993 which released Severe Test, a remix album and Sonicphonics 3rd album Rotator. Other projects include the short lived Shock Troops with Pete McPhail and Pat Thomas, who recorded the still unreleased electronic album Hedonism, and a dance music project Proof.

Current projects include a solo album Sanskrit Tahiti under my Tok-Sin moniker, an ambient electronica project Mongrel and a hip-hop collaboration with Billy Bang.