Andy Dixon is a Canadian artist and musician, who gained notoriety as a member of the North Vancouver punk rock band d.b.s.
Beginning in 2003, during the final months of The Red Light Sting, he began to cut up audio recordings he made himself and compose glitch/IDM music under the alias Secret Mommy, though he used The Epidemic for his first solo release.
[1][2] His parents were supportive of their son's musical endeavors, giving him his first guitar at age 9 or 10,[1][2] allowing him as a teenager to go on tours with his band for weeks at a time, and often lending him money so he could keep doing so.
around the age of twelve in 1991 with bandmates Paul Patko (drums), Jesse Gander (vocals), and Dhani Borges (bass),[2] drawing from influences such as Bad Religion and, later, Jawbreaker.
Near the end of d.b.s., Dixon, along with future business partner Zoë Verkuylen and friend Gregory Adams of The Self Esteem Project started toying with songs under the name Hooray for Everything.
Though Dixon, who played guitar for the band, was the leading creative force behind the group, Adams has been quoted as saying in Discorder that when they were together, "the songs write themselves".
This solo debut saw Dixon "combining an indie rock sensibility with vague electronic flashes and jilting experimentation with arrangements".
His first full-length album as Secret Mommy, Babies That Hunt, was released on Orthlorng Musork of San Francisco, a label known for their "laptop musicians" and "electro-punk" artists.
Mammal Class includes samples of Pink, Mary J. Blige, Andrew W.K., Britney Spears, Shania Twain, Justin Timberlake, Arab on Radar, as well as some more unconventional sounds: elephants, frogs, pigs, French educational records, balloons, eating noises.
[9] Andy Dixon is an active member of the Vancouver, British Columbia music and art scenes, with Ache Records his most well-known endeavor.
[10] The most well known releases to date are probably their Death from Above 1979 albums, and the "Divorce Series" split 7-inch records, which feature artists who break away from their typical genres.