Charlie Malone - Owner and Creative Director of Supernova Sound
Supernova Sound is the audio production company led by Southern California based composer musician, Charlie Malone. Charlie has been making electronic music since 1987 when he got his first synthesizer - a Roland Juno 1. "I've always liked a lot of different kinds of music, but back when I started, my main influences were euro techno pop bands like Depeche Mode, New Order, Erasure and Kraftwerk.".
As time went by, Charlie explored different styles and artistic directions with his music. Teaming up with different collaborators he dabbled in pop, rock, funk and soundtrack scoring. In the late 1980s he formed the band "Paxwo" with his friend Curtis Krone. Paxwo performed around So Cal and released a couple of independent albums.
In the mid 90s Charlie was hired by Tommy Tallirico to create music for the "Demolition Man" videogame that was being developed by Virgin Interactive. The game was released and shortly fell into obscurity due mainly because it was developed for the 3DO console, which was taken off of the market a few months later. Charlie has decided to pursue a different type of career and dropped out of the music business for a few years to become a server support technician.
Around 1998 Charlie started focusing on composing again and created "Electroid". The original idea behind Electroid was to create strictly "Electro" or "West Coast Techno". In 2000, Florida based Tweak Records released the "Electroid EP", a four song floor pounder with an old school flavor. After several performances as "Electroid", Charlie created : supernova sound and took several "commercial jobs" creating different types of music for various companies. More recently, Charlie's focus has been once again directed towards the videogame industry. Here's a rundown of recent activity.
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- In March 2005, Charlie performed live on stage at the G.A.N.G. awards (held at the 2005 Game Developers Conference). He wrote and performed the song "Retrocade", which is track # 13 on the "Electroid : Rebuilt" CD. Charlie wrote about the whole experience here.
- Charlie was asked by Tommy Tallarico to put together an entire album of similar songs, so it could be sold Videogames Live. This became the "Electroid : Rebuilt" CD.
- Charlie recently finished a few songs for Namco that will be in a game set to be released in 2006.Charlie plans to create more music for the videogame industry as well as releasing more music under the Electroid moniker.
