#TONY ROCKLIFF CYBERTOWN TV#

He is one of the primary conceptual designers of Cybertown, a hugely successful multimedia web community (1.5 billion hits a year and a membership in excess of a million) This very successful online web community appeared in numerous national and international magazines and TV shows all over the world. In 1994 he expanded his activities to include full-scale Internet production and, utilizing his multimedia background, co-developed revolutionary processes that enable Internet graphics to load up to twice as fast as normal. In 1993 he became a multimedia producer and formed MultiMedia Magic, a company that created interactive advertising of many kinds including music business interactive press kits for the likes of Sony and Dokken that contained an unusually high amount of multimedia information on a single floppy disk. He used the studio to create and produce a Euro-band called 'Photograph' that created a huge buzz at 1985 MIDEM, attracting the interest of CBS and many other record companies.

#TONY ROCKLIFF CYBERTOWN PROFESSIONAL#

At his time, becoming very interested in computers and their potential for music recording, in 1983, with the birth of MIDI, he opened one of the first professional MIDI recording studios and started teaching MIDI classes and writing articles on MIDI. In mid 1982 he expanded his production activities and opened a 24 track recording studio, Classic Sound Studios, that featured a large computer-synthesizer setup. Over the years he's had several hits both as a producer and writer.ĭuring 1980 he was the Technical Consultant and Chief Engineer for a studio built specifically to film and record Videodiscs which he worked on for 14 months and was involved in helping pioneer new live-to-film audio-visual recording techniques. As a writer, he's had publishing deals with Intune, Dick James Music (Beatles publisher), Red Bus, De Walden Music, Birth, Casanova and Creative Music (K-Tel). In the late sixties he started producing records and as a producer and artist he has recorded for Decca, Youngblood, AIR (George Martin's company), Red Bus, Hansa, Mowest (UK Motown), Bus Stop, Magnet, S.O.S., LBL, Breaker and Trend Records. He was also the first person to create and use a bass and drum loop on a released record. Another involved an ingenious way of doing 30 track recording on an 8 track tape recorder. In his early days as a recording engineer, he helped develop new processes and one of them, automatic double tracking, became a standard in the industry. He also worked on projects with Apple Corps (the Beatles company).

In 1968 he became a recording engineer in a London studio, first on staff and then as an independent.Īs a recording engineer he worked with many successful artists including Cat Stevens, Billy Ocean, Uriah Heep, Alan Parsons (who was his assistant on a project at Abbey Road) Elton John's Band, Pat Travers, Regina Bell, Stacey Keach, David Carradine and many others.

There is no obligation.īorn in Liverpool, England, Tony started playing guitar in bands and recording in his teens.

If you are a serious musician and committed to a successful career, read Tony's bio and then let us know if you might be interested in an interview with him to determine the best course of action to take for your music career.

#TONY ROCKLIFF CYBERTOWN FULL#

Together with Tony my company, Heartbeat Productions, provides full service record production and talent development. Over the years he has had many releases and several hits. I work with and represent successful record producer from England, Tony Rockliff, who is now living and working in the US, right here in Tampa Bay.

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