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Colin Edwin
Melbourne, Australia
Colin Edwin is credited on 235 releases across 98 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1993–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
235
Pressings credited
98
Albums
4
Decades active
280
In collections
Biography
Colin Edwin Balch is an Australian musician, specialising in fretted and fretless bass guitar, double bass and guimbri. Edwin was the bass player in British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree from 1993 to 2011. He is now a member of Ex-Wise Heads, a long-running collaboration with multi instrumentalist Geoff Leigh which mixes ethnic, ambient, and post-modern influences. He is also a member of metal-influenced project Random Noise Generator, and the bands Metallic Taste of Blood and progressive metal act O.R.k., as well as participating in numerous collaborations and releasing solo work.
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Credited work
235 releases · 98 albums · active 1993–2026
- Performance · 654
- Other credits · 32
- Engineering · 2
- Production · 1
Studios: No Man's Land (3) · The Doghouse Studio · Foel Studio · Cedar Arts Centre
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Fear Of A Blank Planet
2007

In Absentia
2002

Deadwing
2005

The Incident
2009

Up The Downstair
1993

Lightbulb Sun
2000

Stupid Dream
1999

Signify
1996

The Sky Moves Sideways
1995

Nil Recurring
2007

Recordings
2001

Los Angeles 30th July 2003
2020

Octane Twisted
2012

Anesthetize
2010

Schoolyard Ghosts
2008

Closure / Continuation.Live. Amsterdam 07/11/22
2023

Warm Winter
2011

Coma Divine (Recorded Live In Rome)
1997

Coma:Coda (Rome 1997)
2020

Arriving Somewhere...
2006

Lost Songs: Volume One
2001

Pure Narcotic
2020

Late Night Laments
2020

Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
2014
Frequent collaborators
- Porcupine Tree
- No-Man
- Gaudi
- O.R.k.
- Tim Bowness
- UPF
- Ex-Wise Heads
- IEM
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