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Genre: Hip Hop
Location Lausanne, Waadt, Su
Profile Views: 9228
Last Login: 10/20/2011
Member Since 6/19/2008
Website www.wix.com/press/counteract
Record Label Non signé
Type of Label Unsigned
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« Counteract is acting against blandness to reveal the taste of a boundless hip hop.» Counteract is an English-speaking hip hop band from Switzerland (Lausanne) with multiple and varied influences such as funk music, jazz, electronic and even more widely influenced by modern and traditional music from around the world. Created 2006, the band has since been working on the elaboration of a new album entitled Broca's Area coming out Fall 2010. The band has four members that have shared both common and individual experience on stage for several years in Switzerland and abroad. Members of the band BFG (lead, MC) : Henrik Osterlof, 27, Sweden. Ex-member of Stronger With You, BFG aka Big Friendly Giant has experienced numerous concerts since 2001 here and abroad. English-speaking rapper and singer, from Sweden and born in the Philippines, BFG is one of the two lead voices and lyricist of Counteract. The Squid (lead, MC) : Aliocha Salagnac, 28, Switzerland/Greece The other lyricist of the band, The Squid, is also English-speaking, with mediterranean origins and fam- ily in the U.S. Also ex-member of Stronger With You and the sound system called Bass 4 unity, The Squid has been running on different stages, from hip hop to electronic music, from reggae to drum and bass for several years now. Grand Papa Tra (producer) : Sébastien Fawer, 33, Switzerland His album Rules of Attraction came out (2008) lately. Therefore, the songwriter and beatmaker Grand Papa Tra is also a producer and sound engineer. He has been working with both local and international artists, bringing together original creations from worldwide cultures. DJ Ryf (DJ) : Mathieu Ferry, 27, Switzerland/France Accomplished DJ and Scratcher, with long stage experience, DJ Ryf is currently on Tour with different artists from local and international level. He has been working for numerous albums and mixtapes for several years. Common stage experience with COUNTERACT 2008-2011 Zoo Usine, Cheval Blanc (Genève), Fête de la musique 2010 au FLON, Romandie, Vinyl Club, Théâ- tre 2.21, Standard Cafe, FNAC, Bleu Lézard (Lausanne), SAS (Delémont), Ebullition (Bulle), FriSon (Fribourg), RedBull Contest Extreme (Les Avants), Lynx (Leysin), Radio Paradiso et Downtown Boogie (RSR). Individual stage experience 2007-2011 Montreux Jazz Festival, Cully Jazz Festival, Roadie's Rock Festival Gent (Belgique) Saturnales (Arena de Genève), Nescafe Champs Open (Crans Montana), Electrosanne, Fayabash Summer- fest, Loft Club, D! Club, Cult, Atelier Volant, Amnesia, Fêtes de Lausanne, Vinyl Club, Bleu Lézard, Café Théâtre "Le Bourg", Théâtre de l'Arsenic (Lausanne), Fri-son (Fribourg), MAD Lausanne & Genève, L'Usine/Zoo, HEI (Genève), Bar King (Neuchâtel), Casino de la Rotonde (Bienne)... _______________________________________________________________________ Contact : counteract@grandpapatra.ch Official website and videos: www.wix.com/counteract/press Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/COUNTERACT/211592997145 More videos on : www.dailymotion.com/counteract2011 www.youtube.com/user/counteract2011
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Counteract is defined as to oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary action. Counteract is also a band officially born early 2008 with four members all having past experiences in the environment of music and particularly involved in hip hop. A producer, a DJ and two rappers brought together for an original concept; the will to show a new face of an open-minded, energetic and creative hip hop in a world where this kind can often be filled with all types of connotations. The crew indeed has the firm intention to reveal a new musical aspect offering multiple varieties of sound by mixing their origins. This basis is also built by shifted narrations, light or deep escapades taking along the listener in a different world. These four fellows started to collaborate for this project at the beginning of the year 2006 recording some titles which became the first spark of a shared musical passion.