He was a bit of a geek from an early age, with a strong interest in electronics that would stand him in good stead when he became a staff engineer at Sheffield's legendary FON studio complex in the mid-80s, working closely with Mark Brydon (future star of Moloko) on many and varied recording projects. What follows isn't a biography or any kind of well-researched factual account of his career (this is, after all, just a load of amateur dross) but I can tell you that his parents came from Jamaica, he was raised in Sheffield and his earliest musical adventures occurred within the fringes of reggae and punk. He never became a personality that people could latch onto.more of a shadowy enigma, but still his shadow looms large in my mind when I think about the foundational aspects of the kind of music that really appeals to me. Perhaps because, unlike say A Guy Called Gerald, he was very much a backroom boy who's most important work was done behind the scenes, or under aliases. Or me he's one of the key architects that shaped the sound of British underground house and techno music in its developing stages, yet Robert Gordon remains a somewhat neglected figure.
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