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
"Good, 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, Primal Scream, 80's synths 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 - including best bits of the 70's......(fan blog)
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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)
http://www.suburbsrecords.com
Born in Whitby by the sea, shoplifted cassettes from Woolies as a child, moved to Manchester when i was 17. 2nd album currently been made, can often be found swanning around Manchester like a French duke eating too much Chinese food.
I have mostly begged, borrowed and stolen recording time in mates studio's, and my own home computer to make this new album HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE MACHINES which will be out on itunes early 2010. James Doviak (Johnny Marr/Cribbs) helped me record & Produce most of it, big thanks James.
All beats for beginners stuff that is out is on itunes (just type beats for beginners in itunes search bar) anything elese is about to be released, have a browse on itunes the first 30 seconds are free, and if it floats your boat buy a track. My first record is called Don't Fly IntoThe Sun (2004 Faith & Hope Records) but my most popular stuff is an EP called Laser Beams For Eyes... Playing live with me I have the fantastic Crosby on bass guitar & Jay on drums, I'm your worst nightmare "A Bowie fan with sampler" . Ta mike x
Click on the itunes link below to hear freaky Girl and have a trawl trough the Beats songs on Apple itunes for free
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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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
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"Freaky Girl" by Beats For Beginners on my radio show, The British Breakfast on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, Virginia USA and streamed live on www.wrir.org this Saturday between 9-11AMEST which is 2-4PMUKTIME.
Legends Of Flight
live at Night & Day Café, 26 Oldham Street, Northern
Quarter, Manchester M1 1JN. Thursday 1st October 2009.
£5 entry (£4 with flyer). Doors open at 7:45pm.
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