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
Out now on itunes and CD available on Monday 25th - May Full Moon
Have a free browse on itunes for all the latest and entire Beats For Beginners tracks !
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.
http://www.suburbsrecords.com
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)
"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
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 !
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LASER BEAMS FOR EYES EP 6 track CD 2007 (out now) £2.99
1st ALBUM 2004 - Available Amazon & itunes - £7.99 ..
Beats for beginners debut album DON'T FLY INTO THE SUN on the right (available on itunes/amazon).
2007 EP
Album 2004
"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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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.
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 .
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
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.....
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).
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.
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
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