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Roni Size and MC Jakes
Roni started on the path of production when he was thrown out of school aged 16, but music had always been a part of his life. Born and raised in Bristol, the sounds of the 70s blues parties and sound-systems happening in the St Pauls area of the city infected Roni's bones.
Having built a name for himself through Full Cycle and other labels, such as Talkin’ Loud, 'Roni Size & Reprazent' took the world by storm in 1997 with their New Forms LP. Winning the Mercury Music Prize boosted their international status and the world awoke to the sound of Roni Size and Full Cycle. Thanks to such modern day classics as ‘Watching Windows’, ‘Heroes’ and ‘Brown Paper Bag’, the album quickly went platinum.
In 1999 with Die, Roni produced the highly acclaimed Breakbeat Era album and later that year released the long awaited second project from Reprazent, 'In the Mode' which included collaborations with hip-hop legend Method Man, Rage Against The Macine's Zac de la Rocha and beat-box master Rahzel.
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Mark Ronson and The Business International
Mark Ronson didn’t mean to make a debut album that reinvented party-friendly hip hop. Nor a follow-up that became one of the defining albums of the second half of the Noughties. He never anticipated that three of the up and coming British singers he produced and wrote with in his scruffy New York studio – Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse and Adele – would become three of the biggest stars in the world. The Brit and three Grammys piled into his little fireplace in his apartment? Still can’t believe those either.
And for sure Ronson didn’t set out to make a third album that featured a kaleidoscope of talents, from Spank Rock to The Drums’ Jonathan Pierce to The View’s Kyle Falconer to Q Tip, Ghostface Killah, a Kaiser Chief, an ex-Pipette, Dave McCabe from The Zutons, Boy George and Simon Le Bon, the touring keyboard player from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and some funky cats from Brooklyn – a collective of talents yoked together by Ronson’s vivid, sparkling songwriting and production talents.
But that’s what he did with 2003’s Here Comes The Fuzz, then 2007’s Version, and now 2010's Record Collection: a 12 song album that will stand as the most exciting, entertaining hip pop album of the year.
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Pendulum DJ Set
The band Pendulum formed during 2002 by three musicians from Western Australia with similar visions and musical backgrounds, Pendulum’s mission has always been to pull together their production resources, ideas and influences from various styles of music, to create a new sound that they felt was missing from dance music. The individual members behind Pendulum have been active in Perth’s live music scene for several years: producer / vocalist / keyboardist Rob Swire and producer / bassist Gareth McGrillen played together in the acclaimed Perth band Xygen, while Paul ‘Elhornet’ Harding had been a veteran of the Perth DJ scene. When not touring as a band, Pendulum deliver with a Dj Set.
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Krafty Kuts and MC Dynamite
Martin Reeves, AKA Krafty Kuts, is without doubt one of the world’s greatest DJs. Lauded in the UK, worshipped in Australia, acclaimed in America, where ever he plays he is guaranteed to cause a commotion with his riotous skills. So far in a glittering career he has gained dance music’s top accolades including Best International DJ at the Australian Dance Music Awards, Breakspoll’s Face of Breaks 2003 and Best Breaks DJ at the M8 Ibiza awards 2006, in only his first year as a resident on the white isle. A stunning haul at Breakspoll 2007 saw him claiming Best Album for his debut long player ‘Freakshow’, Best DJ for a record third consecutive year and to cap it off, the richly deserved Outstanding Contribution to Breakbeat award that acknowledged his long journey to the acme of club culture.
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Hadouken!
Hadouken! return with their hugely-anticipated second album, ‘For The Masses’, the follow-up to 2008’s ‘Music For An Accelerated Culture’, their 100,000 selling debut. ‘For The Masses’ was recorded in Groningen, Holland with gilded Dutch electronic producers Noisia and is released on Hadouken!’s own Surface Noise Recordings. ‘For The Masses’ is a landmark modern dance-rock album that cements Hadouken!’s reputation as Britain’s most forward-thinking and dynamic young band. “We know what our fans want,” says singer James Smith. “They want it hard and they want it fast. I want this record to sound good over a 1000 kilowatt sounds system or on a Nokia phone on the back of a bus. We don’t want to discriminate. We just want to make immediate contact.”
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Scratch Perverts
The Scratch Perverts have garnered widespread acclaim. The team won the first DMC Team championships in 1999, claiming it again in the 'Perverted Allies' alias (a fusion of the Perverts and the Allies DJ crews). Additionally Prime Cuts claimed 2 consecutive ITF World Scratching titles, first beating A-Trak in Hawaii in 1999 and then defending the title in Los Angels the following year. Plus One won the Vestax battle in 2000, not begetting his returning the DMC World crown to the UK after a hiatus of 10 years. Their technical contributions include the 'feedback' technique and the Euro scratch amongst others. They have now retired indefinitely from competition and gone on to regular live DJing, touring around the world. They have also gone on to producing their own music, describing hip hop as being "a celebration of all kinds of music just by its very nature".
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The Nextmen and MC Wrec
Unless you have fallen lifeless somewhere thru the cracks you’ve more than likely witnessed Cambridge come Londoners The Nextmen, also known as Brad Baloo and Dom Search, at one of their many sweaty styled-out club sets, festival-stopping performances or heard their incendiary mixtapes on the neighbourhood ghetto blaster.
This eclectic production duo have carved another shiny gem from London’s lovely low-end underbelly with a mix of electronic music styles in the form of their fourth studio LP ‘Join The Dots’ due to hit the streets in August. In typical Nextmen fashion the game has been sonically upped to dizzying heights as ‘Join The Dots’ progressed like a paint by numbers prayer of affection through all the genres and styles that are loved by the pair and their fans alike. The album was born from their explosive and eclectic DJ sets, which have been the focus of global critical acclaim over the last 12 years.
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New Young Pony Club
Forget everything you thought you knew about New Young Pony Club, because on their second album it's all changed. If 2007's critically acclaimed, Mercury Music Prize nominated 'Fantastic Playroom' was the culmination of the hybrid disco sound they pioneered, 'The Optimist' heralds the beginning of a brave new future for the band. From the moment the band released their debut 7" in 2005, their unique blending of dark disco, pop punk and anthemic new wave found itself swept up in the cult of 'New Rave'. Despite the fact NYPC quickly became one of the key figures in the movement, something was amiss.
"We realised that actually we're outsiders," admits singer Ty Bulmer. "'Disco Punk' came to this country from the fringes of New York and it felt like an outsiders scene. We were so passionate about it, but soon it became glossy and banal. We stepped back and thought 'We don't want to be part of this world'. So the creative nucleus of Ty and Andy Spence moved away from the flashing lights of LDN and instead looked inside themselves to locate their next step.
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I Blame Coco
Coco is about to drop one of the finest long-playing debuts of 2010, The Constant. Having worked on the record singularly since the age of 15, slaving over those mega lyrics and the shape of the sound, she scrapped it all in the autumn of last year and re-wrote it to her own, exact specifications. Decamped to Sweden to work with one of the two major producers of The Constant, she changed the base contours of the groove from ska and reggae and found something new, more monolithic, ethereal and robust.
She had started thinking about the planet-straddling 80s pop-rock of early Duran Duran and Psychedelic Furs; that unique amalgam of intimate words and epic sounds that have been spruced-up and modernised by one of her contemporary favourites, The Killers (‘Brandon is awkward and angular. That’s sexy to me’). To a girl born in 1991, these 80s sounds were both alien and transgressive. The thought of that kind of music humming from the generic programming of popular radio excited her. Her producer Klas, notable for his sonic involvement with Robyn – another very singular pop star – agreed. Within two months they had fashioned a fresh mission statement for I Blame Coco. The sound of the interior life of a complex woman of 19 lost in another musical stratosphere. Bold and bright, personal and direct.
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Jaguar Skills
With the likes of Mark Ronson, Lupe Fiasco, Trevor Nelson and Chris Moyles unable to get enough of the original ninja - Mr Jaguar Skills - the rise (and rise) of this ground-breaking artist has been well documented. Honing his craft and love of music for the last 15 years Jag has remained true to his school and kept a mysterious edge to his character; with details of his real name, age and home town etc left largely unconfirmed…
The first documented reports of the whereabouts of Jaguar Skills come from the rarely released scriptures of a secret mountain based Ninja camp in Japan. It is here that Jaguar Skills completed many years of intense training in the art of Ninja DJing.
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MNDR
America, get ready for pop music’s newest sensation: Amanda Warner aka MNDR. A project dreamed up by Warner and producer/collaborator Peter Wade, the debut four-song EP, entitled E.P.E. is up on iTunes now. It's an amazing introduction to an artist whose name we’re pretty sure you’ll be hearing all year long, if you haven’t already.
Amanda Warner and Peter Wade were introduced to each other one year ago, when she arrived in New York from Oakland, CA. Their fruitful collaborations are a result of two storied careers. Born and raised on a farm in Fargo, North Dakota, Amanda has used MNDR as an “alter-ego” artist nickname in various scenes across the US, having toured with and opened for groups including Yacht, The Shins, and Deerhoof. A self professed gear head, Amanda started programming beats as a teenager and her impressive skills recently landed her an offer from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ to design their touring keyboard rig for It’s Blitz. She says it best: “I love gear, synths, drum machines and music software the way people love puppies.” Surprisingly, throughout Amanda’s career she was always known or hired as a bass player or live techno dj/producer and only now is being recognized as a singer, and a wildly talented one at that.
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Diagram of the Heart
Diagram Of The Heart are masters of epic-sounding, glorious pop music. The London-based duo understand how it feels when you’re punching the air or punching the walls. Anthony Gorry (keyboards/vocals/ production) and Kye Sones (vocals) appreciate the idea that loss can inspire the biggest songwriting gains. Diagram Of The Heart know that old-fashioned emotion can be telegraphed via cutting-edge tunes. They know you can plumb the emotional depths and scale the euphoric heights - and that you can do all this whilst knocking about in the cupboard-sized home studio in east London where they made Vital Signs, the richest, most intriguing pop album due for release early 2011.
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Rose Dougall
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Pocket Lips
Since Pocket Lips dropped their EP last September to a Sold Out crowd at the Lock Tavern in Camden Town, the band have been working non-stop. With their music being played on the Jay Leno Show across America to Label meetings in New York. Finally finishing 2009 with a short sell out tour of Europe!
2010 is expected to be even bigger and better with new material currently being finished and major festival dates to be announced and a tour later in the year.
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Pippa Marias
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Starsmith Dj Set
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Bedouin Soundclash
Bedouin Soundclash has emerged in the past two years as a young group refusing to be classified, while blurring the lines of reggae and rock. Jay Malinowski's soulful wail and rasp rests on Eon Sinclair's deep dubbing bass while Pat Pengelly drives a heavy rhythm, blazing their own path in the musical landscape. The three-piece group was conceived three years ago at university. "At the time we were making music that reflected the music we grew up on, and that we were exposed to …punk, reggae, dancehall, world, dub, jungle, two-step, everything… We wanted to try to make something that was ours and was our experience, and that has continued to push us, to incorporate the music we love in a new way."
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Skindred
Skindred has been active since 1998, and so far they have published several albums and made soundtracks for some amazing movies and our favorite game, Need for Speed. Their music precedes them wherever they go they gained recognition by other musicians, labels and the world, making them at the top of their career still moving forward. They placed a considerable amount of talent and hard work in their last album released last year, 2009, titled ”Shark Bites and Dog Fights”. They are currently preparing for a new tour that will start on Jul 16 2010 at the Gurten Festival in Bern. Their new single, “You can’t stop it”, is rocking the chart lists and the way things are going we will be seeing a lot of Skindred in the future.
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Fenix TX
Formerly known as Riverfenix, the band came together on the north side of Houston, TX in the balmy southern autumn of 1995. In search of a life bigger and better than a job at the local Gunspoint Mall, and being -- quite frankly -- bored out of their minds, the original three members decided to avoid the path that so many of their ghetto neighbors had followed. Leaving a life on the stoop behind, they picked up instruments and started a band. The droves of girls that followed were just a perk.
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Loose Canon Playaz
Loose Canon Playaz (LCP) is a unique, high-energy rap group that birthed from its member’s involvement in the action sports industry. Group leader Jon McMurray aka McFee is a former professional stuntman/freeskier that has since created an entire movement based on his crew, the Loose Canon Playaz, which mixes high energy beats with ear-grabbing raps and hooks. LCP emcees Eazy Mac, D-Khon, St. Lewyy, and HottNucks complete the group, together forming a talented team of artists that each add their own flavor. The group’s edge comes from a fearless attitude of unmasking societies truths, cracking over the top jokes, & passionately speaking for the underdogs and dreamers of the world.
Originally based in Calgary, Canada, the Loose Canon Playaz were started in 2002 and since have grown to a well known name in the Canadian hip hop scene. Currently the Loose Canon Playaz are on a promotional tour of Europe for their new album ‘Should’a Worn A Rubber’.
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