The Higher Intelligence Agency

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HIA was formed by bobby bird in may '92, at the same time as he & fellow oscillate club collaboraters started running their legendary experimental electronic music nights in birmingham.Improvising live tracks between records,the early hia evolved out of sight in a live setting. Soon afterwards the beyond record label started up in birmingham, and the first track to be released,"ketamine entity", appeared on the genre naming album 'ambient dub volume one'

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Released a single "speedlearn",some more tracks on compilations, and in december a well received debut album "colourform". additional writting input came from other members of the oscillate collective :steve savale,dave wheels,steff pierljewski,fosit.The higher intelligence agency now began taking their sonic experimentation out live across the country.

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Seeing in the new year performing at the brixton academy megadog, they went on to play at the love parade in berlin, the tripping on sunshine festival in copenhagen,and the oscillate - triple X in a 2,000 capacity gas holder in amsterdam, both playing and dj'ing at this event ,which was co organised by oscillate, along side orbital, autechre, pentatonik and sun electric. Released an EP "reform" and were commissioned to write a half hour piece of music as an installation for the mysterious,musee' lilim,in carcassonne ,south of france.
picture one picture two from Carcassonne

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Began with remixes for biosphere (novelty waves), & pressure of speech (mothmath). In june played at glastonbury festival, and in september released a second album 'freefloater'.
In october,a live collaboration between hia & biosphere took place on the top of a mountain in tromso,norway. The music ,sponsored by the norwiegan arts board,was based around samples taken from the sounds of the mountain cable cars.

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Recorded an album in collaboration with deep space network. Remixes for obconic freeform & space time continuum .'Polar sequences' - biosphere / hia album released in august.

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Deep space network meets higher intellignce agency' album released on source feb - hia/pete namlook album S.H.A.D.O. released in june

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a second collaboation between biosphere & hia took place at the 'birmingham frequences'live event in october.

98 Headphone, a new label was set up by bobby bird through the help of fax,mainly to release his own material & collaborations with other people.His first release on this label ,'nothing' under the name of system error ,was released in dec

99 S.H.A.D.O. 2 second collaboration album with pete namlook

2000 Birmingham Frequencies HIA/Biosphere relasesd on headphone