Bio
Henry Homesweet is Tom Sherlock – a UK-based micro-musician whose work explores the musical potential of outmoded technology, in a bid to stimulate creativity through the technical limitations of obsolete hardware. In 2008, he released Palm Trance, a genre-defining chip-tune album, which consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost innovators in the emerging 8-bit music scene. It has given him the opportunity to take his music to live audiences all over the world, delivering eclectic live sets using Nintendo Game Boys as a substitute for DJ decks, cranking out lo-fi synchronized techno and electro direct from the chip.
In 2012, he released his magnum opus, Enter 5D, challenging the expectations of his huge online fanbase by taking the Henry Homesweet signature sound into previously unexplored psychedelic realms. His second album proved to be a stunning leap forward from the retro-primitivism of his debut, reshaping the possibilities of 8-bit music to create lush, transcendental soundscapes, drawing influences from progressive trance, techno and even post-rock.
Four singles for Bleep Street appeared to herald a new, stripped-down techno direction, culminating in the blissed-out trance anthem Luke’s Atari in 2014. But, after the release of that single, Tom chose to cast aside the Henry Homesweet name, to explore the infinite possibilities of chip music under a bewildering array of aliases, including (but definitely not limited to): 2A0X, TRUTHR, YEON and his collaboration with Je deviens dj en 3 jours – CYMBA.
“His songs are an immense blend between heavy disco harsh with some seriously blood pumping anthems in the mixer, what with Until I Sleep, DanceFloor64 and the massively popular Simple Pleasures (which at the time of writing had over 300,000 listeners on MySpace). Henry can bring chiptunes to the mainstream in the UK” – The NPCs
