{{Short description|British dance music disc jockey}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | image = | caption = | name = Technikal | birth_name = Alf Bamford | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} | image_size = | background = | origin = | instrument = | genre = Hard trance, Hard dance (as Technikal), Happy hardcore, UK hardcore (as Technikore)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Technikore Returns To Central Station Records with High-Energy Anthem, 'Love Me Down' {{!}} Beatportal |url=https://www.beatportal.com/articles/631523-technikore-returns-to-central-station-records-with-high-energy-anthem-love-me-down |access-date=2026-02-22 |website=www.beatportal.com |language=en}}</ref> | occupation = disc jockey, record producer | years_active = 2002 - | label = | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''Alf Bamford''', known professionally as '''Technikal''', is a British hard trance and hard dance disc jockey and record producer.
==Biography==
Bamford started becoming known as a "cutting edge" hard dance DJ {{circa|2002}}, when his single "Annihilation" garnered significant airplay on the BBC Radio 1 John Peel show.<ref name="SOS"/> Bamford, as well as being known under the alias Technikal, also releases music under the further alternate name '''Technikore'''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Curtis |first1=Dave |title=compilation of the month |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=83801385&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=January 2012}}</ref>
Technikal reached number 10 in the UK official dance music chart in 2005, with his single "Global Panic/System Shock".<ref name="OCC"/> As Technikore Bamford has performed on BBC Radio 1, including a guest mix for the Kutski show in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hardcore Special! |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011870p |website=BBC |date=28 May 2011 |access-date=21 February 2025 |archive-date=18 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818091322/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011870p |url-status=live }}</ref>
In January 2012 Technikal released the mix album ''Resonate 6 - The Brutal Sound of Hard Trance'' on the Tidy Trax label. It was critically well received in ''Mixmag'' magazine with a 10/10 rating, and was named ''Compilation of the Month''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Curtis |first1=Dave |title=mixed by Technikal Resonate 6 |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=84948619&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=January 2012 }}</ref> Later in September that same year, the Technikal "eclectic" hard dance compilation album ''Soldier of Sound'' was also named as ''Mixmag'' ''Compilation of the Month''.<ref name="SOS">{{cite news |last1=Curtis |first1=Dave |title=Technikal: Soldier Of Sound |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=83759598&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=September 2012 |page=106}}</ref>
As Technikore, along with Andy Farley and Mark Eg, he released the 2012 compilation album ''Harder Louder Faster''. Featuring tracks running at {{Circa|140-175}} BPM, the album was named as a Mixmag ''Compilation of the Month'' for November.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Curtis |first1=Dave |title=Andy Farley, Mark Eg & Technikore: Harder Louder Faster |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=83801385&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=29 March 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=November 2012}}</ref>
As Bamford, he co-wrote the Example song "All the Wrong Places", which peaked at number 13 in the UK singles chart in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=All the Wrong Places (Radio Edit) – Song by Example|url=https://music.apple.com/ua/song/all-the-wrong-places-radio-edit/682526395 |website=Apple Music |access-date=21 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=EXAMPLE songs and albums |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/5854/example/ |website=Official Charts Company |access-date=21 February 2025}}</ref> In September 2016 his single produced with Steve Hill and Yoz, "Keep On Rockin", was named as ''Mixmag'' tune of the month.<ref name="sotm">{{cite web |last1=Whitby |first1=Andy |title=September: 7 hard dance releases you need to hear this month |url=https://mixmag.net/feature/september-2016-7-hard-dance-releases-you-need-to-hear/ |website=Mixmag |access-date=21 February 2025 |date=26 September 2016 |archive-date=15 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115082308/https://mixmag.net/feature/september-2016-7-hard-dance-releases-you-need-to-hear |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2022 a track co-produced with Suae, "Dance With The Groove", was included on the compilation album ''Devotions: Chapter I''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Paredes |first1=Josue |title=Basscon Records Seeks to Enlighten the Scene on ‘Devotions: Chapter I’ |url=https://edmidentity.com/2022/05/06/basscon-records-devotions-chapter-i/ |website=EDM Identity |access-date=22 February 2025 |date=6 May 2022 |archive-date=22 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250222100611/https://edmidentity.com/2022/05/06/basscon-records-devotions-chapter-i/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
As of 2016, Bamford has moved to Australia.<ref name="Oz"/>
==Discography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Technikal singles |- ! Title !! Artist!! Year !! Peak<br>UK singles!! Peak<br>UK dance!!Peak<br>UK Ind |- | "Global Panic/System Shock"<ref name="OCC">{{cite web |title=TECHNIKAL songs and albums |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/14766/technikal/ |website=Official Charts Company |access-date=21 February 2025}}</ref> || Technikal PTS ||2005|| style="text-align:center;"|84||style="text-align:center;"|10||style="text-align:center;"|19 |- | "N20 (Found Some Gas)/Anxious Heart"<ref name="OCC"/> || Technikal ||2006|| || ||style="text-align:center;"|42 |- | "More & More/Bad Girl"<ref name="OCC"/> || Kym Ayers ft. Technikal ||2006|| || ||style="text-align:center;"|30 |- | "Match Point"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Curtis |first1=Dave |title=TUNES hard dance |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=83758767&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=May 2012}}</ref> || Tony Heron & Frank Farrell (Technikal remix) ||2012|| || || |- | "Ideal"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whitby |first1=Andy |title=hard dance music TUNES |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=93626285&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |work=Mixmag |date=January 2014}}</ref> || Technikal ||2014|| || || |- | "Your World"<ref name="Oz">{{cite web |last1=Whitby |first1=Andy |title=Steve Hill & Technikal - - Mixmag |url=https://mixmag.net/read/steve-hill-technikal-/ |website=Mixmag |access-date=21 February 2025 |date=5 February 2016}}</ref> || Technikal ||2016|| || || |- | "Keep On Rockin"<ref name="sotm"/> || Technikal, Steve Hill & Yoz ||2016|| || || |- | "All That It Takes (Draugen Anthem)"<ref name="greatest">{{cite news |last1=Whiby |first1=Andy |title=TUNE OF THE MONTH |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=125622144&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=22 February 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=1 July 2017}}</ref> || Technikore ||2017|| || || |- | "Thank You"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whitby |first1=Andy |title=tunes / hard dance music |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=134363138&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |work=Mixmag |date=December 2018}}</ref> || Technikal, Steve Hill & Francesco ||2018|| || || |- | "Freakz"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whitby |first1=Andy |title=Freakz. |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=131465345&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=25 March 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=August 2018 |page=109}}</ref> || Technikore & Ravine ||2018|| || || |}
==See also== * :Category:Songs written by Technikal
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Discogs artist}} * {{AllMusic}} * [http://www.harderfaster.net/?sid=bf9186f4f769ed823c9b6dd8d38bae07§ion=features&action=showfeature&featureid=10885 Interview with Alf Bamford] on HarderFaster.net
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