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Simon Heartfield (born 1962 in Nantwich, Cheshire) is a DJ, musician and record producer.

Simon Heartfield is widely regarded as a leading exponent of electronic music both in his hometown (Portsmouth, UK) and beyond. His tracks, live performances and DJ sets incorporate elements of house, breakbeat, electro and techno amongst many other sounds.

The founding member of Portsmouth band Twelve 88 Cartel, Heartfield has gone on to release a slew of material including the internationally distributed Permanent Way which is also available in ringtone form.

Twelve 88 Cartel produced a number of releases between 1986 and 1991 on the Bite Back! label, home to the producer of their first EP Jim Shaw of Cranes. In 1994, Heartfield joined John Peel Session favourites the Psylons as bass player and released one album on Thunderbird Records.

From 1996 to date, Heartfield has concentrated on DJ work and solo composition, as well as on material with fellow Psylons members Keith Wyatt and Jack Packer in live electronic act Seatman Separator. DJ sets have been in established techno clubs such as The Asylum (Soho), Technosis (at Mass, Brixton), Geushky, Phase 2, Vurt and Club 414 (Brixton, London) alongside artists such as Luke Slater, Aubrey, Umek, Alex Paterson, Billy Nasty, Dirty Bass, Justin Swales and Jason Swales.

Collaborations with fellow Techno producers Dave Saunders and Barney Pratt under the name Surefoot have found favour with Carl Cox amongst others. In 2005, Heartfield co-produced a remix of Bonemachine’s single Another Day Over with Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

As well as his commerically released material on Hackpen Records, Heartfield distributes many of his own EPs and has contributed extensively to ever expanding netlabel Under Your Nose Recordings.

DISCOGRAPHY
Releases with Twelve 88 Cartel
 * Sweating Furore EP – (Bite Back!) 1987
 * Maxim mini album – (Bite Back!) 1988
 * Evidence mini album – (Bite Back!) 1990
 * Tension Crush EP - (Bite Back!) 1991

With the Psylons


 * Gimp album – (Thunderbird) 1996

With Seatman Separator


 * Claw album (SBH) 2001
 * The Music of…album (SBH) 2002
 * Basic Electronic Principlesalbum (SBH) 2003
 * Auto Suggestion album( SBH) 2004
 * Navigationalbum (SBH) 2005

Solo


 * Permanent Way album (Hackpen) 2005