Carl has been writing and recording music since 1986 but his first real record involvement was co writing and producing Moments of Inertia by Circle City on Warp in 1993. After a year or so working with Leeds indie band The Bridewells and culminating in an album with them recorded in Roxy Music's studio, he settled down into writing and producing dance music. In 1994 he and DJ Ralph Lawson set up 2020 Vision Records, producing deep house flavours of their own as Wolf and Flow and under his own solo guise of Random Factor, remixing artists from around the globe including Blaze, Josh Wink, Superman Lovers and Fatboy Slim. His solo work is heavily electro tinted, reflective of the Kraftwerk era but owing as much to the likes of Drexciya, Prince, Depeche Mode and Yello. During the mid 90s he teamed up with SCSI founder Daz Quayle and wrote under the name Scarletron and also as Black Labs with two releases on Thomas Heckmann's Trope Recordings around 1995. Working under the names of Random Factor (2020 Vision) Voice Stealer (Subvert) and more recently Silicon Scally (SCSI, Satamile) he has released music on labels including Warp, Fuel, Playhouse, Paper, Trope, Sony, Klang, Arista, Soma, Pagan and Minifunk. He is also a keen remixer in his own right, having reworked tracks by 2 Lone Swordsman, Luke Slater, Swayzak, Dave Tipper and Alexi Delano. 2002 saw the release of the critically acclaimed Mr. Machine album on SCSI recordings. In 2003 the combined EP's on Device Entertainment Recordings were released as the album Electrilogy+ under his real name, Carl A Finlow. Shortly after this release, he moved to Paris.

March 2004 saw the Random Factor album Convergence with additional remixes by John Tejada, Swayzak, DJT and Fred Everything. This was also the 100th release for the 2020 Vision label, and included touring Europe, USA, Japan and several UK University dates/seminars in partnership with Ableton and M-Audio. 2004 took in 44 live dates all around the world. 2005 provided another album from Silicon Scally, Dark Matter, on Satamile Recordings from New York. 2006 marked a new writing partnership, teaming up with DJulz, resident at the Rex Club in Paris and the duo made a release on Klang Elektronik. July 2006 saw a new deep house 12 on Glasgow's Seventh Sign Recordings under the Carl Finlow moniker. 2006 also provided a new collaboration between the mysterious Scarletron and the legendary Andrea Parker's Touchin Bass label. 2007 brought a new Silicon Scally album Bioroid, released on Satamile Recordings. April 2007 saw the EP 'Digitize' from Random Factor on 2020 Vision and with May came a fresh new Carl Finlow 12" on new label Green Light Recordings. The most recent Random Factor album, Outlaw, was released digital only in 2011. Following on from that and through 2012 the old partnership with 2020 Vision boss Ralph Lawson was rekindled and a new Wolf n Flow remix has been created for Freak 7, a remix for LB - Superstitious Heart was also released and new tracks are once more being created in the studio, including another collaboration with long time friend Chez Damier. 2012 also saw Carl's entire electro back catalog go digital, hosted on Bandcamp and included many previously unreleased tracks. 2013 saw the return to his electro roots with a new release on Electrix for Billy Nasty, featuring remixes by Radioactive Man, Volsoc and Fleck E.S.C. A few remixes were also undertaken in 2013 for the likes of Radioactive Man, Sync 24 and Switchbox, and a classic old track by Voice Stealer was featured on a new DJ Kicks (the 3rd he’s been on) album by Maceo Plex. The year was rounded off with the self released Silicon Scally EP Augment on Bandcamp. Another string to his bow is writing music for broadcast and in collaboration with Deep East Music has had pieces used on radio and tv around the world, including for the BBC, National Geographic and Japanese General & Broadcasting. A new Carl Finlow electro EP is ready for 2014 on Electrix and 2014 also marks 20 years of 2020 Vision with Carl contributing a large collection of reworked/revisited classic 2020 Vision tracks.