SOFA SURFERS
Sofa Surfers is an Austrian band which plays a mixture of rock and electronic music floating between trip-hop, dub and dirty groove. They have also composed film scores.
Sofa Surfers are: Wolfgang Frisch, Markus Kienzl, Michael Holzgruber,
Wolfgang Schloegl, Mani Obeya & Timo Novotny (visuals/covers/videos)
THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA
The Cinematic Orchestra is a British jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe. The band is signed to Ninja Tune independent record label. In addition to Swinscoe, the band includes PC (former DJ Food member Patrick Carpenter) on turntables, Luke Flowers (drums), Tom Chant (Saxophone), Nick Ramm (piano), Stuart McCallum (guitar) and Phil France (double bass). Former members include Jamie Coleman (trumpet), T. Daniel Howard (drums), Federico Ughi (drums) and Alex James (piano). The most recent addition to the band is Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum.
Swinscoe and Carpenter (PC) have also recorded together under the band name Neptune.
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from the album: Every Day (NinjaTune2002)
Albums
* Motion (1999)
* Remixes 1998-2000 (2000)
* Every Day (2002)
* Man with a Movie Camera (2003)
* Ma Fleur (2007)
* Past, Present & Future - Classics, Instrumentals & Exclusives (2007)
* Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2008)
* Les Ailes Pourpres : Le Mystère Des Flamants (2008)
* Late Night Tales : The Cinematic Orchestra (2010)
FAT FREDDY'S DROP
Fat Freddy’s Drop is a seven-piece band from Wellington, New Zealand, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by musicians from other bands in Wellington, Fat Freddy’s Drop gradually became its members' sole focus. Band members continued playing with their other respective groups—The Black Seeds, TrinityRoots, Bongmaster, and others—for much of their 11-year career. Fat Freddy’s Drop are known for their improvised live performances; songs on their studio albums are versions refined over years of playing them live in New Zealand, and on tour abroad.
The group gained international recognition in 2003 after their single "Midnight Marauders" was re-distributed by record labels and DJs in Germany.
The group has toured Europe nearly every year since then.
The first studio album by Fat Freddy’s Drop, Based on a True Story, was the first independently-distributed album to reach first place in New Zealand record sales directly after release in 2005, and is the highest-selling album by a national artist in the country's history. Based on a True Story won Best Album at the New Zealand Music Awards the same year, and remained on the top 40 New Zealand sales chart for over two years, establishing them as one of the most successful contemporary bands in the island nation.
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Starting his DJing in 1986 Regal began playing in clubs in 1990, including the Mud Club in London and various wharehouse parties.
He started producing Hip Hop with partner DJ Touche in 1989 and began The Wiseguys officially in 1994, with their first release - "The Real Vibes" – for Blackmarket records. Signed to Wall of Sound later that year, over the next couple of years they released 3 more singles and the acclaimed debut LP "Executive Suite" in 1996.
After touring Australia in early 1997, Regal left The Wiseguys to form 'Bronx Dogs' with London DJ partner, Richard Sen. Between 1996 & '98, Paul & Richard ran 2 monthly nights in London, "The Fun Gallery" at The Clinic in Soho and "Disgracelands" in North London, mixing up Hip Hop, Funk, Disco, House and Drum'n'Bass to a pretty riotous crowd. During this time they began their collaborations in the studio, deciding on something new.
Bronx Dogs released The classic B-Boy anthem, "Tribute To Jazzy Jay" in Dec'97 and went on to release 2 more club classics - "212(The Weya Funk)" / "Mixed Blood (Mambo roc')". They also released 2 albums, "Three Legged Funk" in 2000 (Heavenly Records) and "Enviro" 2001 (Marble Bar Records).
from the album: Regal "Loop Dreams" (2007) (LP/CD/Download / UNIQ125-1/-2)
STEREO MC'S
Stereo MCs are an English alternative hip hop/acid jazz group, which formed in Clapham, London in 1985.
They are best known worldwide for their 1992 transatlantic Top 20 hit single, "Connected". The book Guinness Rockopedia described them as "the big boys of British rap".
Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949) is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1970s and early 1980s work as a spoken word performer and his collaborative soul works with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. The music of these albums, most notably Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". On his influence, Allmusic wrote "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists".
