General Midi (DJ)

General Midi (born Paul Crossman) is an English breakbeat DJ. In an undated online interview, Crossman named Al Watson as a writing partner and engineer, who also works with him in the duo Starecase. He now works as a teacher in Lampton School in London.[1][2]

For the synthesizer specification, see General MIDI.
General Midi
Background information
Birth namePaul Crossman
OriginLondon, England
GenresBreakbeat
LabelsTCR, DJ Hyper
Associated actsStarecase
Websitegeneralmidi.co.uk
Members
  • Paul Crossman
  • Al Watson
Past members
  • Al Jones

General Midi has released several singles on breaks labels including TCR and DJ Hyper. He released his debut album titled Midi Style on Distinct'ive Records in October 2005, and a follow-up, Operation Overdrive in 2009.

General Midi provided an hour-long guest mix and accompanying interview for Annie Nightingale's late night breaks show during the promotion of Operation Overdrive in 2009. During the interview, Annie and General Midi discussed the use of non-sampled specifically recorded vocals used throughout Operation Overdrive (this being a rare feature in breakbeat music at the time).[3]

General Midi has received considerable play on Pandora Radio, where he is noted as having 31K listeners and 16 albums.[4]

References
  1. "The Selekta - Selekta.com". March 18, 2007. Archived from the original on March 18, 2007. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. "BBC Radio 1 - Annie Nightingale presents... - Episode guide". BBC. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. "General Midi - Pandora". Pandora. Retrieved 23 Aug 2020.
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