Career
Near the beginning of his career, he worked with Andrew Weatherall on remixes of Meat Beat Manifesto, remixed for Saint Etienne, U2 and others He was still a teen when working on the first few albums by Thrash was with for less than 5 years, from around 1990 to the end of 1995. He appeared on the Orb albums and the many remixes they did during this period, including the album FFWD, a collaboration with Robert Fripp that is credited to Fripp, Thomas Fehlmann, Weston, and Alex Paterson.
He also worked with Fortran 5 on their first album Blues.
In 1990 and 1991, Weston performed remix work for many electronic popular groups including Depeche Mode, Miranda Sex Garden, and Bananarama under the name Thrash. In 1991 while working as a studio engineer, Kris Weston was invited by Alex Paterson to join him in live performances as Weston"s technical abilities allowed to craft panoramic sounds portraying aspects of space travel, especially the launch of Apollo 11 in their album "s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld.
Paterson and Weston wrote their next single, "Blue Room". Assisting with the recording was bassist Jah Wobble, keyboardist Miquette Giraudy, and guitarist Steve Hillage.
This led to Weston and Paterson appearing on Top of the Pops where they played a game of chess in space suits with "Blue Room" playing in the background.
Weston brought his technical and creative expertise to the Eno-influenced ambience on U.F.Orb. Weston and Paterson, along with Robert Fripp and Thomas Fehlmann worked on the FFWD. Soon after the release of FFWD in August 1994, Weston suddenly quit to pursue his own projects. Paterson claimed that Weston"s departure was due to Weston"s desire to have more control over "s projects.
However, in an interview with i-Doctorate, Weston reportedly attributed the split to Paterson, saying that Paterson "never did 50% of the work."
In the early 2000s, Weston produced and remixed for Japanese music artist and singer Coppé.
In 2003, Thrash formed Justablip Records, an Open Source/Creative Commons license style music label. Weston had been currently crowd funding new material briefly via Kickstarter and then via until April, 2015.
The material is now being released on his website.