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Tony Buck

Australian drummer

Berlin

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Biography

Tony Buck (born 1962) is an Australian drummer and percussionist. He graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (now Sydney Conservatorium of Music), becoming involved in the Australian jazz scene. Buck played in Great White Noise with Michael Sheridan and Sandy Evans during 1983, then Women and Children First with Sandy Evans. He is a founding member of The Necks with Chris Abrahams and Lloyd Swanton since 1987. He is leader of Peril, who he formed in Japan with Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki, and astroPeril. He also formed the short lived L'Beato in the early 1990s, an industrial-oriented outfit reminiscent of Tackhead, which released one EP "The Piston Song". In the early 1990s, Buck moved from Australia to Amsterdam and later moved to Berlin.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

286 releases · 72 albums · active 1983–2026

  • Performance · 485
  • Other credits · 140
  • Engineering · 41
  • Production · 18
  • Mastering · 8

Studios: Megaphon Studios · EMI Studios 301 · 301 Studios, Sydney · Forbes Street Studios

Frequent collaborators

  • The Necks
  • Spill (6)
  • Regenorchester XII
  • Das B
  • Heaven And
  • Fennesz
  • Underworld
  • Machinefabriek

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