Biography
Scorbie was born Aaron James Hannum on September 6th 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio, US & brought up in Chicago where he lived until September 2006 when he moved to the UK to live in Manchester with his English born wife Abby & their 4 children, Cath, Chris & twins Gary & Aiden.
A self confessed Numanoid since hearing 'Cars' in 1979, Scorbie's music is highly influenced by Gary Numan but also by his other 'heros' of music including Tom Ellard (Severed Heads), Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, John Foxx, Ultravox & Fad Gadget to name a few.
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Scorbie's first album was 'Smooth Tango' & it was released in 1991followed by 'Expensive Dune Drinks' (1992)
'Googolopolis' was released on a minor in '94 which was playlisted in clubs in London, San Fransisco, Sydney and Moscow of all places. It was instrumental and in the same genre as Orbital. It was rated as one the top five 'intelligent techno' albums alongside Orbital's Brown album in Russia.
Scorbie has since gone on to release a further 8 the latest in April 2010. This album is called 'Dust' & has already been rated as his best album yet.
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Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.