Empathy is the work of 27 year old electronic producer Stuart Elding based in Boston, UK and currently working on many remix projects including Blind Divine's superb 'Time', Misfilter and Arsov which can now be found over at http://www.soundclick.com/empathicremixes.
The original track 'The Piece' has recently been featured on Episode 18 of MTV's Real World Las Vegas plus several other tracks have been put forward for use many major commercials.
First starting producing music in 1991 using a basic Amiga computer and slowly built up enough money to put a decent studio together. Originally produced 'happy hardcore' dance music but over time have learnt the art of actual music making! As Empathy I currently put out a diverse range of electronica from chillout and ambient to trance and breakbeat. All of Empathy's current output is licensed through Raw42.com who specialise in electronic music for the media and recently licensed the track 'The Piece' to MTV to use on The Real World Las Vegas.
Have no current plans to play live as I can't really perform! I think one day I'd love to, but with the small amount of time I have to devote to music, I always prioritise recording the tunes and thoughts in my mind at that particular time - because soon after they'll be lost....
Strangely some of my biggest influences are from rock - U2, Crowded House & The Foo Fighters, loads of old 80's music like Duran Duran and Simple Minds but I am also an admirerer of modern electronic artists such as Leftfield, The Prodigy, Orbital and Hybrid.
My current studio setup consists of an Apple Mac G4 running Cubase v4 with a few freeware plug-in effects which is my main recording and sequencing tool, for sound sources I currently use a Roland XP-60 (same sound engine as the JV1080), Yamaha CS2x, Akai S2000, EMU XL-1 and an old Korg Poly 800.
Not much else to say really, I'm a deep person but too shallow to let anyone know!