Recently described by BBC Radio Scotlands most eloquent broadcaster Tom Morton as "scots musical legend Harry Macari", one of the founder members of and formerly with Aberdeen psychedelic jazz outfit HotLips, synth player and keyboardist with would be Ellon funking superstars Worser Than Louis, Chris Hance first came up with the name Data Thieves for the band back in the early nineties, when insider dealing at the stock exchange earned the distinctive phrase, and rightly appeared an appropriate misnomer for those involved in sampling and beat cutting in the brave new post second summer of love synth era. Although during the nineties a few demos were released under the name Data Thieves, Chris continued to release work under the name Pumpkinman, Beat Freex, Mandrax Babies, and Gator Swamp Terrorists, as well as playing regular gigs with alt country band Subtle Impact, and Aberlour band Angels Dram. A guest appearance in Infinite TV with Rod Gibbs of Malfunction at Aberdeens East Neuk bar in the mid nineties was an incentive for Chris to be drawn back toward a larger audience than the highland league football social club gig circut:) On leaving the highland croft where he had enjoyed idyllic retreat in the mid nineties for the bright lights of civilization down on the coast, Chris enjoyed success with the Aberdeen band Halcion Daze including television appearances and recordings made at World Sound teaching studio. After a short hiatus, Chris then went on to play several engagements(raves and gigs) under the name Data Thieves, and started releasing work online. Achieving record download numbers for a scots artist Data Thieves went on to be one of the most successful online scots artists at the time, attaining over 53000 downloads in two years on MP3.com. A fairly reasonable total for a scots underground artist. In between ones and zeros, Chris was also drafted in to play synth with alt indie stars The Famous Prostitute which featured Mark Rowson. and later with some recording projects involving top scots female bassist Seana Carroll with duo Riverbend. Chris has also recently released an ambient, chamber and orchestral album, "Aberdeen Ambient Artist - Aspire" Happy Listening © 2023 Chris Hance Music All Rights Reserved.
Data Thieves - Water Chameleon Man
Golden Egg A jam on the synth
Data Thieves Very Deep Groovy tune
Data Thieves I'm Gonna Love You Interesting Love Song
Data Thieves Running Up Rockin vibe
Data Thieves Hate And War And Blood Rock track
Data Thieves Arming The Third World Looking at the military industrial complex
Data Thieves True Belief Short punk rock tune
Data Thieves Satire Day Retro Shock Totally improvised
Data Thieves Minor Fraudster Downtempo jam
Data Thieves Another Dream Funky
Data Thieves Now Is The Time Peace and love
Data Thieves Propaganda Folk jam
Data Thieves Streets Towns Cities World Song about the revolution
Data Thieves Vive Improvisation
Apple Of My Eye A nice traditional folk song
Conspiracy Of Silence
Do You Know What It's Like To Be Hated From the heart
Stress Relieved Replacement A song about the system
Jump Jive IMP edit Organ groove
Bell of St Bastion Improvised piece
Dead Swan lake A Tchaikovsky piece re-interpreted
Greatest Story How could this happen
Gator Swamp Blues
Tax Case Fraud All about a football club
The Government Nondes_c_r_i_p_t punk jam
U Girl Improvised around Bags Groove
How Could You Be A Punk A question
All These Ghosts This can happen to anyone
Drivel On The Radio There's drivel on the radio and everybody knows, the DJ is in the pouch of the record Cojo
Another Nu Jazz Waltz(Macs Tune) Improvised Ambient Piece
Batz Improvised ambient piece
April Showers An improvised ambient piece
Pray For Palestine Ambient synth track
Make Love Not War Short sweet message
Cuban Candle An improvisation of Cuban Blues and The Candle Song
Harry Macari Nu Filofax Psy Folk
Harry Macari Wilting Waltz Lounge piece, with Jim Rankine on sax and Stu Ritchie on drums
Harry Macari Social Comment Funky track with Jim Rankine on sax and Stu Ritchie on drums
Harry Macari Serious Deadly Jazzy instrumental with Stu Ritchie on bass and drums, alternating 7/8 and 4/4 timing
Harry Macari Coffee Nails
Harry Macari Cool Blooze A nice little lounge jam
Harry Macari Harry Macari A song about Harry Macari
Harry Macari Take Me Break Me Some epic improvising
Harry Macari The City I Lived Spontaneous track
Harry Macari Dime Plus Four Jam in 9/8 time
Harry Macari The Shitheep I Left Jammin' the scratch guitar
Data Thieves Foxy Some electronic tune
Road Trip Cabrach Part Two Jam around a sampled and cut drumbeat
Data Thieves Refrain spontaneous piece
Data Thieves Smack Alley Groove We're heading down Smack Alley
A Scots Air Improvised piece around the keyboard
Data Thieves Young Princess Groove round a bass line
Tears Ambient passive instrumental piece
Data Thieves Land That I Love
Data Thieves Aerobix Girls A nice tune from the archives to exercise to.
Data Thieves Art Blaikies Quay An old jazz riff with some house music beats
Data Thieves Hear And Back Again A little electronic instrumental from the vaults with a nice riff and piano solo
Data Thieves Georgie P In recognition of Georgio Moroder
Data Thieves Opium In Havana If only they grew poppies in Cuba
Data Thieves G'G'Day! A little tech track from the archives
Data Thieves 32Deelite Latin electronic track from the DT archives
Data Thieves Cubanapop Inverted bassline from a famous tune
Data Thieves Innashitheep Data Thieves electronic track from the album Fluxus
Data Thieves E Minus Electronic track from the Data Thieves album Fluxus
Data Thieves Love Dove 6/8 track from the album Fluxus
Data Thieves Death Disco Medly Last track from the Data Thieves album Fluxus
Cuban Blooze A nice track put together with a Pentium 3 computer using an early cracked version of Steinberg Cubase and GM sounds
Data Thieves Nu Candle Wax A nice jam on the synth
Data Thieves - Wacky Synth FX Some samples and stuff played live
Data Thieves - Dark'n'Lite House jam step timed programming
6/3/2016 3:59:12 PM Sure i seen the Data thieves somewhere in Aberdeen. I was at college in Aberdeen in the 90,s played bass for a band from Aberdeen. I was always at Cafe Drummonds on a Thursday sometimes Tuesdays if the band was any good. Amazing time because everyone was dumping there vinyl for cds. The record shops were crammed with cheap vinyl. Fopp was my fav
12/30/2015 10:33:01 PM Congrats on your Golden Kayak nomination Chris, good luck from bryon
9/2/2015 1:30:46 PM nice to see you Chris ... hope everything is good man !
8/7/2015 2:26:02 PM hi Chris, Really like your new piece "Bells of St. Bastion," groovy sounds, happenin' vibe, organ, sax, maybe bagpipes lol, atmospheric, and also bubbly...
8/3/2014 12:12:35 PM Nu Candle Wax
11/22/2013 2:16:31 AM Thankyou Chandra, good to see you :)
5/19/2013 3:00:58 PM Welcome back! Great tracks!
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