The Auranaut is a musician and producer who grew up in the leafy market town of Andover in Hampshire. When he discovered that music was his calling, Graham moved to London to attend the UK’s first enginnering course at The School of Audio Engineerring.
After a number of sound engineering jobs in London and San Francisco, Graham started to produce bands and successfully writing & collaborating with other songwriters securing various publishing and recording deals with both independent and major record labels.
During this period of his career Graham met Richard Sullivan, a sound engineer and producer working at Westside Studios and started to collaborate on what would become PowerCircle. At this time Graham was the resident engineer at a recording facility at Burhill Park, near Walton on Thames. With thanks to the support of the studio owner, Ayman Sawaf, Graham and Richard were able to collaborate on PowerCircle productions.
PowerCircle were signed first to M&G Records and then Deep Distraxion, part of the Edel Records Group, recording and mixing at Burhill Park and Metropolis, London.
As PowerCircle become known in the industry they also started producing for other artists. The most creative period peaking around 1994 resulting in a release called “A little Love”. It was the accapella vocal from this tune that was combined with Chicane’s "Offshore" to become "Offshore 97". Subsequently this charted in the UK top twenty and was included on more than 15 dance compilations of the year, including Ministry of Sound Annual 3, and becoming PowerCircle’s highest profile success.
To this present day what had started as remix explorations in trance and ambient genres for PowerCircle became the central focus for Graham, and ‘Auranaut’ was born.
Auranaut has had a number of releases and has been involved extensively with collaborations and remixes for Excession Records (Sasha’s label), and Barracuda Records, managed by Spencer Baldwin. Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Tiësto and Perry O’Neill are amongst some of the notable DJs who have been early champions of Auranaut releases.
The Auranaut’s seminal “People want to be needed” was included on Paul Oakenfold’s Grammy-nominated “Creamfields” release of 2004 and is due to be featured on a new Tiesto compilation in 2012.
The Auranaut continues to develop his unique and distinctive audiophile quality music in the areas of new trance, chill out and, more recently, genre-busting electronic punk. This is a recent departure and the new sound can be heard for the first time on the forthcoming album “Butterfly Mornings” scheduled for release in April 2012 where Auranaut returns to the core of his musical influences.