Josh Abrahams

Josh Abrahams is the owner, manager, in house writer/producer/engineer, and all-round smartypants here at Fishtank. He is obsessed with vintage recording gear; it's his fault the equipment list is so long. He is always up for a cup of tea and a chat about the possibility of bringing your next project to Fishtank.

Here is are some of his acheivement highlights to date:

 

1991- formed FSOM with Davide Carbone & Steve Robbins

1996- FSOM's first album ‘Chapter One' won an ARIA award for best dance release, Josh signed as a solo artist to Carl Cox's label Worldwide Ultimatum, with the global release of his first album, ‘Satyricon’

1996- 'Satyricon' named one of the top 20 records of the year in UK’s Muzik magazine1996- co-produced with Baz Luhrmann the #1 UK pop smash "Everybody's free to wear sunscreen", along with several other songs on Luhrmann's album ‘Something for Everybody’

1998- produced several songs for Gerling’s album ‘Headcleaner’

1999- Josh's 2nd solo album ‘Sweet Distorted Holiday’ received six ARIA award nominations, and won two - best dance release and best independent release

1999 - Josh's song ‘Addicted to Bass’ achieved platinum sales in Australia

1999 - 2001- Co-produced the soundtrack for the film ‘Moulin Rouge’, taking on role of Musical Director for the last 8 months of post production

2001- Produced Amiel's Gold selling album ‘Audio Out’, which contained the platinum selling single ‘Lovesong’

2001- signed to Sony UK and released the album ‘Stuck in a groove’ under the moniker of Puretone. In England, 'Addicted to Bass' spent two months in the UK top 10, peaking at #2 and reached #1 in the USA Billboard Dance Chart

2002- wrote the additional music and produced songs on the soundtrack for the Australian film ‘One Perfect Day’, won an IF award for these efforts in 2004

2003- remixed a number of Australian artists, including Icehouse and John Farnham

2003- wrote and performed all the music for the new Ang Lee feature film ‘One Last Ride’

2004- played piano and Music Directed for The Soubrettes Cabaret Tingel Tangel in the Edingurgh Fringe Festival

2005- wrote and produced the music for several tv commercials, including the ‘Go For It Girl’ campaign for Portmans clothing, the Bailey’s “Melt” campaign, and the worldwide LG technology campaign

2006- ran the late night slot in the first Spiegeltent to arrive in the USA, at Bard University in upstate New York 

2007- commenced work with theatrical director/producer Michael Gracey on the musical ‘Fast Love’

2007 – 2008- co-wrote and co-produced 7 tracks for the Kaz James album ‘If They Knew’

2008- Music Directed ‘Desir’, a theatrical production in the New York City Spiegeltent

2009- teamed up with Davide Carbone to form the music production house Samplify, together with Carl Cox  they co-wrote and co-produced Carl's forthcoming album

2010- wrote and produced the music for the internation Tourism Australia campaign

 

 
 

Davide Carbone

In 1990 Davide formed FSOM, one of Australia's longest running electronic acts. Within two years Davide and FSOM had received contracts from Jeff Mills, Frank De Wulf and Carl Cox.
A number five placing in the Mix Mag Dance charts, rave reviews, support performances for Tricky, Prodigy, Carl Cox, Jeff Mills and Bjork, and a 1996 ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Award) helped propel Davide onto the international stage.
Apart from a string of releases for several of the major Australian record labels, Davide has also  produced several popular scores for T.V, film, computer games and theatre. His recent clients have included Discovery Channel, London Weekend Television, Clemenger and CyberStep.
In 1995 Davide began directing his DJ'ing and production towards the realm of D&B and played alongside Roni Size, Ed Rush & Optical, Grooverider, Kenny Ken & Doc Scott. The following year Davide released Australia's first D&B tune on a major record label (Warner Music), and went on to remix several hit songs for charting Australian acts.
During the nineties Davide retained his association with Australian radio by presenting weekly shows on stations such as 3RRR FM and KISS 90FM, most recently a weekly ninety minute D&B session on prime time KISS FM.
In 1999 Davide performed a three hour set at one of the world biggest music festivals, Roskilde in Denmark. From this point Davide relocated himself to the UK.Since then he has released over fifteen tracks on labels including BS1 Records, 31 Records, Defunked, React Music, Industry Recordings and Trouble On Vinyl. In this time he has received excellent reviews and features in magazines including Mix Mag, DJ, Jockey Slut, Knowledge, Muzik and IDJ. Davide has also had several chart successes and support from several of the biggest dj's and radio stations in the Europe.