System 7 (band)

System 7
300x200px System 7 playing the album Phoenix at the London nightclub Heaven, February 2008
Background information
Origin	United Kingdom
Genres	Techno, ambient, progressive house, progressive trance
Years active	1991–present
Labels	A-Wave, Big Life Records, Virgin/EMI Records
Associated acts	Gong
Website	a-wave.com/system7
Members	Steve Hillage Miquette Giraudy

System 7 are a British ambient dance band. Due to the existence of another band called System Seven they were initially billed as 777 in North America. System 7 was the name of the current Macintosh Operating System at the time of the band's formation.

Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, both formerly of Gong, formed System 7 after hearing the likes of the Orb playing Hillage's 1979 ambient record Rainbow Dome Musick. They soon became part of the underground dance scene in London. While Hillage and Giraudy form the core of System 7, it is more of an extended collaborative project with artists such as Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Alex Paterson (of The Orb), and Youth. System 7 makes extensive use of Hillage's electric guitars.

Hillage and Giraudy later launched a spin-off project called Mirror System, and have also worked under the name Groovy Intent.

Discography

Studio albums

• System 7 (1991)
• 777 (1993)
• Point 3 - Fire Album (1994)
• Point 3 - Water Album (1994)
• Power of Seven (1996)
• Golden Section (1997)
• Seventh Wave (2001)
• Encantado (2004)
• Phoenix (2008)
• Up (2011)
• Phoenix Rising (2013) with Rovo
• X-Port (2015)

As Mirror System

• Mirror System (2006)
• Reflector - DJ Mix (2010)
• N-Port (2015)

U.S. albums

As 777

• 777 (1992) U.S. version of the System 7 album
• System 7.3: Fire + Water (1995) U.S. release of the two Point 3 albums

Compilations

• System Express (1996)
• Mysterious Traveller with Derrick May (2002)
• Planet 7 (2006) iTunes-only album

Live albums

• Live Transmissions (2006)

Singles & EPs

• "Sunburst" (1990)
• "Habibi" (1991)
• "Freedom Fighters" (1991)
• "Miracle" (1991)
• "7:7 Expansion" (1992) - #39 on the UK Singles Chart; February 1993
• "Sinbad/Quest" (1993) - #74 on the UK Singles Chart; July 1993
• "Alpha Wave" (1995)
• "Hangar 84" (1996)
• "Interstate" (1996)
• "Rite of Spring" (1997)
• "Ring of fire" (1998)
• "High Planes Drifter" (2001)
• "Planet 7" (2004)
• "Love Mission - Mission Love" • "I Move" • "Teotihuacan" • "Om Rock" (by Groovy Intent) (download-only EP) (2004)
• "Space Bird" (2008)
• "AlphaWave/HPD" (2010)
• "Passion" (2012)

External links

System 7

• System 7 website (official site)
• System 7 at AllMusic
• System 7 discography at Discogs
• System 7 discography at MusicBrainz

Mirror System

• Mirrorsystem official Web site
• Mirror System discography at Discogs