Andy Maddocks

Andy Maddocks is an English entrepreneur and musician. He was instrumental in the foundation of Skam Records,¹² a Manchester-based independent electronic label, in the early 1990s.³⁴ He is also a member of the collaborative, electronic music project Gescom together with Darrell Fitton, Russell Haswell, and Rob Hall.¹

Maddocks founded Skam records (naming it as an acronym for Some Knowledge About Music) in 1990 or 1991, though the label did not become especially active until 1994.⁴³ Skam's first twelve-inch single was a self-titled debut from Lego Feet (a predecessor to British electronic music duo Autechre).⁵ The label followed with two 12" EP records from Gescom. ⁴ Skam entered the full-length album market in 1998 with the releases of Soup by Bola, a stage name used by Darrell Fitton⁶⁷ and the album Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada,⁶ the latter being jointly released with Warp Records.

As a solo act, Maddocks performed live on the second day of the first Coachella music festival in October of 1999. ⁸ Other artists affiliated with Skam records also performed that day, including Autechre, Jega and Push Button Objects.⁸