This is the home of the shadow man of Brit electro: Brighton singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer christopher rye.

The jukebox below features a random selection from christopher's two forthcoming albums The Flipside of christopher rye, and The Catch in christopher rye (due in August). It also includes tracks such as US Internet hit The Shadow Man, plus Big Sky! Keep Turning and Rainy Night Sunday, both featured by Tom Robinson on BBC6music. Tom described the latter as "a classic" and "a favourite of the show".

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"Joe Meek shall inherit the earth...." (christopher rye)

Home is where the dark is: Brighton, UK-based christopher rye is a singer/songwriter, stage performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, whose work fuses the Byronic with the electronic, retro with electro, and synthpop with space rock, dance beats and wall-of-sound guitars.

• Some of his tracks — including Oberammagau, Reptile, Keep it Dark!, and From the Golden Light — feature Chinese rock band Taikonauts, with whom he collaborates over the Internet. Taikonauts keep their work secret from the Chinese authorities. Click the red 'c-star' logo, right, for more on the band.

christopher's songs are gaining attention across the internet, attracting airplay on BBC6music, where Tom Robinson has been a champion, and other stations — plus interest from movie makers and even US advertising agencies.

This is life-affirming music for outsiders (by choice and inclination). The song Et tu, Babe? is his manifesto.

christopher makes intelligent pop In the esoteric tradition of Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and David Bowie, in places touching on the darker soundscapes of Scott Walker, Trent Reznor, Pink Floyd, early Roxy Music and the Blue Nile.

For many, his work also recalls post-punk, romantic electro, such as Depeche Mode, Tubeway Army, The Cure, Freur, Joy Division, Tuxedomoon and Japan. Some also detect the influence of 90s dance acts, such as Underworld, 808 State, Chemical Brothers and Leftfield, or the sprit of bands such as Placebo and Suede.

christopher himself is secretive, but professes a love for Brian Wilson and the late, great Joe Meek... whose DIY boffin approach to music christopher certainly shares in his home studio.

A polymath and an intuitive musician, christopher writes, plays and sings most of the songs himself, but he has collaborated on some tracks with singers Emily Swift Jones, Martha Evatt, Jill Draper (Basement Jaxx), Julia Fitness and Happy Hardcore dance diva Lisa Abbott.

christopher famously works incredibly quickly, often writing, recording, producing and mastering a track in a day. He has written nearly 400 songs, only a random selection of which appear on here.

christopher's Big Sky! Keep Turning and Rainy Night Sunday have both been played extensively on the 'BBC Introducing' show with Tom Robinson on BBC6music (available online).

In an email Tom described Rainy Night Sunday as "fucking gorgeous" and on air he said "ten out of ten", comparing it with the Blue Nile. He later described it as a "longstanding favourite of this show" and, most recently, as "the classic Rainy Night Sunday".

• As guitarist, christopher has recently joined Brighton band Adhora, led by singer/songwriter Julia Fitness, with whom he will separately be gigging throughout 2010. Stand by for news on joint shows.

Find out why the UK's christopher rye is making waves across a whole range of music sites, especially in the US, and why he has garnered dozens of awards on garageband.com, including several TRACK OF THE WEEK and TRACK OF THE DAY picks.

christopher was a fixture in the top 20 artists on Stereofame.com throughout 2008-09, and remains one of the most popular Electronic artists on that community, which hosts tens of thousands of acts.

In January 2008, christopher's primitive demo The Shadow Man  topped the Electronic chart at Amiestreet.com for one whole month, while the rest of the top 10 in the Electronic chart were all ryeTunes.

Cometh the hour, cometh The Shadow Man...

"The darkest part of the sky is the bluest." (christopher rye).

"Those stolen nights of wonder fall like dust behind us now." (christopher rye)

Welcome to christopherrye.com. Home is where the dark is.

Chris Middleton

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