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Beats For Beginners

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Member Since5/17/2005
Band Websitesuburbsrecords.com
Band Members

Mike TV - Main Pirate - Live Sings/Guitar

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Crosby - Live Bass Guitar

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Jay Kellet - Live Drums (standing Up-yeah)

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Influences

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The Doors, T Rex, Michael Caine, The Clash, The drums at the start of Magical Mystery tour. My Mum, my Dad. Bowie doing 'Hereos' in that video, Dogs when they stick their heads out of car windows, Dogtown and Z boys (skateboarding documentary by Stacy Peralta - All about the style). My Nana Vera (92). Autumn time, Most 60's/70's Soul....Rock n roll...Soul, electro ....that bit in Artic Monkeys when he sings " I Fuse ma results in a bang ba ba bango"....

Shocking Blue, Blondie, Ananda Shankar, The Velvet Underground, The Kinks, Doves, Joy Division, New Order, Lou Reed, Pulp, Kasabian, Primal Scream, The Stones, The Smiths, Nirvana, The Strokes, Depeche Mode, John Lennon, Neil Young, cold beers in the sun, David Bowie & Kraftwerk, Elliot Smith, Jack Kerouc - (On the road) George Owell, Blonde Redhead, Sly and the Family Stone, Phoenix, Matt Munroe, Stuart Price/Thin White Duke - Les Rythem Digitales, REM, Radiohead, Shirley Bassey, World Party, Shawn Lee, Stevie Wonder, Madrugada, Gary Numan, Soul Wax DJ boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Beatsie Boyz, Whitey, Interpol, .....

Sounds Like

Pulsating, driving, waveforms, slightly distorted, honest, original, sonics.. x

Record LabelSOUNDS OF THE SUBURBS RECORDS
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Beats For Beginners

Out now on itunes and CD available on Monday 25th - May Full Moon

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Have a free browse on itunes for all the latest and entire Beats For Beginners tracks !

Beats for Beginners - Freaky Girl - EP

The new 2nd Beats album is almost finished, Crosby, Jay & Mike are rehearsing/recording in south Manchester..in between mixing, Mike has been busy DJing with DOVES, Crosby has been pop art painting and Jay has been making electro bedroom music and DJing. The boys will be back live @ Future Sonic Festival Manchester Green Rooms 2009.

* Freaky Girl is now been used on the new NBC version of KATH & KIM comedy

* Beats For Beginners have just set up a Manchester record label SOUNDS OF THE SUBURBS RECORDS with help from friend and fellow promoter BEN GRETTON (son of late great New Order manager and Factory mogul Rob Gretton) visit the new label and the other Manchester acts in our top friends including T.G. Elias, The 1234's, and KID MACHINE.

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http://www.suburbsrecords.com

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PRESS BLURB

Beats For Beginners have been gradually gathering momentum since releasing Don't Fly Into The Sun, riding the success of "Kill All DJs" to spread their sound from the confines of Manchester, England to the rest of the world. Their latest track, "Freaky Girl", builds upon the winning formula of 80s synth, delicate vocals, strong beats, and rough edges that are teeming with hints of psychedelia. Check out the track below and see how many influences you can hear, it's what I like to call a Bowie-Barrett sandwich on rye. Manages to gain the respect and air time of not only local Manchester airwaves plus BBC radio 2/BBC 6 music even without currently been signed and bridge his sound of LCD Soundsystem and The Cure, mixing ’80s & ’60s songwriting sensibility....(Floating in Space blog 12/04/08)

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"Like Lou Reed with synths".....MICK JONES (THE CLASH)

"The album is always on my ipod".....BADLY DRAWN BOY

"Beats are retro and strangley comforting like Smash" ...NME 7/10

Take a bedroom Bowie fan add T rex, bit of primal scream, 80's synth plus drum machine and top it with some psychedelia and you get close to the sound of Beats for beginners(BBC Online)

" Kind of mixing the 60's with the 80's - in a Retro way including best bits of the 70's..(fan)

LASER BEAMS FOR EYES FOOTAGE - (Electro festival HOLLAND 2007)

Click on the itunes link below to hear freaky Girl and have a trawl trough the Beats songs on Apple itunes for free Beats for Beginners - Freaky Girl - EP

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ART WORK BY SUPERDEAD ED (ED SYDER)

FREAKY GIRL CD Single with 2 remixes - 79p all on itunes

Buy 6 track rare LASER BEAMS FOR EYES EP from apple itunes now ! Beats for Beginners..

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LASER BEAMS FOR EYES EP 6 track CD 2007 (out now) £2.99

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1st ALBUM 2004 - Available Amazon & itunes - £7.99 Beats for Beginners..

Beats for beginners debut album DON'T FLY INTO THE SUN on the right (available on itunes/amazon).

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"Was born in Whitby by the sea, shoplifted cassettes from Woolies as a child, moved to Manchester when i was 17. Picked up a guitar and an 80's Korg keyboard, did some demo's about killing dj's, Robots, love and Julie Christie.....Whoooosh got signed by Mint Royale for one Album at Faith And Hope Records. Didnt change the world, but we got to play with Mick Jones, johnny Thunders guitar and lots of gigs and an album 4 singles, (its all on itunes) so now Im making the next record when Im not stuffing Chinese food down my neck and generally wasting my time...It should be out soon ...Mike TV x

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Buy the limited EPs - click below have them mailed to you

BEATS FOR BEGINNERS: Lazer Beams For Eyes EP
BEATS FOR BEGINNERS: Freaky Girl
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All the Beats stuff is available for download on itunes (UK USA Japan Europe Austrailia) Rhapsody, eMusic, MusicNet, Napster, Sony Connect & Amazon & fantastic real life record shop Picadilly Records store on Oldham St in Manchester.

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olivortex





Jun 17 2009 12:20 PM

Hello Beats for Beginners and hello Manchester.

Passing by to say new sounds have arrived on my page, for you to chill out or to nod your head.

Thank you for the sound.

Have a peaceful day.

O.
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Jun 18 2009 2:32 PM


Magic Arm Debut Album,



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Jul 2 2009 9:17 PM

MUCH LOVE FROM PHILLY!
Valzzzz





Jun 17 2009 3:08 PM

is the new album on iTunes yet? I was all excited and going to buy it today but it doesn't seem to be on there..?

x
Marc Rémillard - FEELING FRESH EP OUT





Jun 13 2009 7:03 AM

Hello there!

New in my player:
The Noizy Kidz - Temple 0.1 (Marc Rémillard Remix)
Marc Rémillard - I Love Dinozorz (Original Mix)

Come and enjoy!
ErroR 404





Jun 10 2009 3:40 PM

ERROR 404

How are you bro'? I didn't see you on my page recently?

You know: " You're Welcome"!

See ya!!
radio timperley





Jun 12 2009 12:15 AM

hello beats for beginners,...

my new weekly 1 hour "radio timperley" show starts
this sunday 14th june at 7pm uk time (2pm nyc etc)
on - www.manchesterradioonline.com



thank you for being mymyspace ace radio friend,...
and i'll try and keep you up-to-date with my fantastic
semi-proffessional radio show-biz-ness career .

best regards
frank sidebottom



p.s. if you want to be on it !!! see the "latest news" on www.franksworld.co.uk
      or my latest blog on  www.myspace.com/franksidebottom <b
The Goodwin Brothers





Jun 11 2009 4:53 PM

Thanks mate, glad you like the tracks!
Treading Gravity





Jun 3 2009 5:45 AM

Come check out our new tunes when you have a sec! ;)
M





May 30 2009 1:49 PM

I like the north - have a good one.
AZAXX





May 27 2009 12:22 PM

THANKS

A bientôt mon ami

Xav


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Decade Media





May 19 2009 11:37 PM

Yo! Thanks for the comment, We Like your stuff! Keep on doing what ya doing! and Drop In!

The Hours





May 19 2009 3:31 PM

People of Manchester – we’re playing the delightful, Moho Live on Thursday 21st May. Their will be jugglers, taxidermy, colouring in, advanced sock puppetry…In fairness probably just music – but we may pull a few shapes! So get down! X
Zoon van snooK





May 15 2009 1:05 PM

Thank you for the request, particularly liking ‘Kill all DJs’ at the moment.
I have an hour long mix for the inimitable Solid Steel Radio show (Ninja Tune) on Friday May 15th, featuring such Gems as Minotaur Shock, Nathan Fake, Clark, Boards of Canada and much more.....

Come and join us...................

http://www.ninjatune.net/solidsteel/

Zoon van snooK hour long mix Friday May 15th

The Fujiya & Miyagi single 'Sore Thumb' which features my remix of their album track 'Dishwasher' is out NOW on Full Time Hobby Records (Tunng, The Accidental).

http://www.7digital.com/artists/fujiya-miyagi/sore-thumb/

Take Care
Kid Machine





May 13 2009 10:44 PM

Kid Machine debut EP available now to purchase on iTunes, click here for 3 great original tracks + Justin Faust remix!

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=312524565&id=312524398&s=143444

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CHRIS SIEVEY & THE FRESHIES





May 13 2009 8:11 AM

HIYA BEATS FOR BEGINNERS --- COOL PAGE !!! --- AND IF YOU WANT TO SEE MY GIRLFRIEND'S PANTIES !!! THEN SEE MY LATEST BLOG !!! --- CHRIS XX
Constanze





May 12 2009 2:54 PM

like a bird on a wire
Allien





Apr 14 2009 6:20 AM

Hi,
I recently got a job at a radio station and would love if you were able to send me your music to play on the air over the Boulder, Denver, Castle Rock and Ft. Collins area here in Colorado.


I currently host two shows. One is on Saturday night, called SubHarmony, in which I am able to play all sorts of electronic robot computer music of all techno genres that I love and one show on Mondays, called Allen, for all the other types of music genres. With both shows I am able to play all music from all over the planet from all musical genres. If you can send me a cd, then all the other dj's here at Radio 1190 can access your music for their radio shows also.


Mail cd to:

Allen Miller
SubHarmony
Radio 1190
Campus Box 207
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80309


Also, if you tour around our area, we can help promote if you contact our Promotions Director, Traffic Director and/or our Street Team Volunteer Coordinator.

We can also set up an on air interview too if you have time.


http://www.radio1190.org/contact.html

I am contacting you because I love your music and would like to see it played to our audience.
Thank you for your time and thank you for making great music:)
Cheers mate,
Allen

P.S.

You can listen to us anywhere in the world by visiting www.radio1190.org
Sounds Of The Suburbs Records





May 11 2009 10:43 AM

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ErroR 404





May 10 2009 10:43 AM

Error 404!

Welcome in da house!

Check the fresh new remix on our space!
Dangerous Pets





Apr 17 2009 4:56 PM

NEW DANGEROUS PETS CD:
FRANCE





May 5 2009 2:06 PM

France thanks you.
Treading Gravity





May 4 2009 9:40 PM

Hey, guys! Stopped in to hear your tunes. I'm definitely going to buy your album! You're captivating!--Keila
CONSTANT FRICTION





Apr 27 2009 10:05 PM

This weekend it's PitFest time, get your tickets now! check our blog for details...

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Luna





Apr 27 2009 7:53 AM

Thank you, cool music and freaky girl.
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