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Timothy Allan is a Canadian electronic musician and producer currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past few years Tim has earned a solid reputation in the EDM scene with a multitude of worldwide top 10 Billboard, DMC and ARIA charting releases and remixes, including multiple tracks which have hit that magical number 1. His remix (now the main mix) of The Shrink – Nervous Breakdown was DMC’s 5th biggest club track in the UK for 2010 and voted 2010′s 7th biggest dance track in the UK by Music Week.

His tracks have appeared on many top labels including Toolroom, Baroque, Audio Therapy, Perfecto, KULT, Armada, Loverush Digital, Play Digital, Vandit, System Recordings, Vicious, Virgin, EMI, Sea to Sun, LDU, Beatgeek, Star69, Segment, Oh! Records, and SmashBang! Records. He’s rocked it live at in Australia at Earthcore, Future Music, Parklife and VFest Festivals, and has had tracks appearing on major television shows, feature films, and CD compilation series around the globe.

Under different guises, he has applied his remix skills to artists such as Empire of the Sun, Dave Seaman & Funkagenda, Ash, Dirty South, Matt Darey, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Faker, Carl Kennedy, Nick Murray, Isaac James, Offer Nissim, Asi Givati, Stereo Soldiers, Pitch Dark, Jason Wolf, Neon Stereo and worked with vocals from Luke Steele, Carla Werner, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Tiff Lacey, Molly Bancroft, and Marcie to name a few.

Timothy was also half of the now disbanded Melbourne based Hong Kong Blondes who, since being signed to Vicious Vinyl, hit the ground running with multiple successful ARIA and DMC charting club tracks. The Blondes remix of “Walking on a Dream” by Empire of the Sun saw a #1 charting on the UK charts and over 30 weeks in the Australian top 15 ARIA club charts. The original subsequently won the ARIA award for Single of the Year 2009 with the album of the same name winning Album of the Year 2009. As if that wasn’t enough, Madonna herself hand pick one of the HKB’s first songs to appear on her 2009 compilation CD “EQ Sessions”.

Not one to keep all his secrets under his cap, Timothy has also released several successful video tutorial series on the finer points of dance music production, from creating the initial ideas to mixing down the final project. These production methods are put in to practice every day at The Mixplant, a Melbourne based mixing/mastering facility focused on electronic dance music where Tim is the head engineer.

At the moment Tim is working on a variety of more underground collaborations, remixes and projects… watch this space!