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Influences
The Captain (Beefheart), Frank, Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa!!! Rare Earth, Flight Of The Conchords, Talkin’ Heads, Lyrics Born, The Mars Volta, Corduroy, The Black Crowes, Breakestra, Beck, The Poets Of Rhythm, Prince, Sly And The Family Stone, Augustus Pablo, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, Babe Ruth, Blues Magoo, Funkadelic, The Free Association, David Holmes, Gilles Peterson, The Rolling Stones, Ben Folds and Ben Folds Five, Dr. John, Paul Weller and The Jam!!! We listen to anything as long as it’s got soul!!! We Love Soul, Funk, old school breaks and Psychedelia!!!
Here's an exciting new and pretty freaky prospect, Disco BizKid; an experimental kinda project that takes influences from all over the bloody place and melds them together into a modern psycho-funk mixture that's extremely likeable and shows great potential. More than it at first seems and definitely more than the Disco BizKid's moniker promises! This is an intriguing, rich and tasty concoction just ripe for the pickin'! What Disco BizKid is doing here isn't actually new but it is bloody interesting. And, the big difference here is that Disco BizKid actually make it work; theirs is like a Commonwealth of genre, a United Nations of styles, a World of sounds - it works and it works very very well!!! Disco BizKid's infectious music initially sounds a little contrived and 'you can't be serious!' in its form. But, as each track unfolds it becomes ever more clear that this is indeed a serious attempt at something modernistic, fresh and boundary-felling. Disco BizKid have taken all the good bits and pieces from pop, rock, funk, jazz, country, rap, hip-hop, electro and just about everything else and they've carefully, yes very carefully, re-written the rule book. The end product, as displayed in just four tracks here, is rather incredible. You'd think that everything would come out sounding a bit samey, bitty, messy - none of it!!! Disco BizKid show that it can be done and made to work very well; 'No Chemicals' is nothing short of superb!!! Four very different tracks, four diverse pieces of work, four commercially viable tracks each capable of being released as a single and each having the potential to do very well. Disco BizKid have stumbled on something very workable here. Actually, I'm doing them a dis-service by using the work 'stumble'; this can't be accidental, this has been beautifully conceived, well thought out and superbly executed - and it's excellent!! What also makes this piece of work a bit special is that I get the impression that the whole thing has been fun to do and that sense of fun comes across in the music; there's a bit of tongue-in-cheek here and there, there's a big chunk of humour and there's an amazing amount of good, old fashioned charm. Added to that there's the great musicianship, the scarily weird initial vision and the exquisite execution. The whole thing comes together as a weirdly exotic an exciting prospect and Disco BizKid could be heading for fame and fortune if they can get this out there. 'No Chemicals' by Disco BizKid is a real gas - excellent work, good fun, exciting and oh so easy to listen to! Great work all round! I love it - think you'll love it too!!!
An interesting, diverse and intriguing 'EP' this which I have no idea how I picked up but am mighty glad I did. Skanking rock, hip-hop blues which at times mixes the cow-bell country and gnarled vocals of Alabama 3 to the late Eighties funk driven indie hip hop of the likes of The Soup Dragons or Neneh Cherry. A Jamiroquai-esque vocal dominates the Freak Power-ed 'So You Think You Can Dance' while the Definition Of Sound/Massive Attack aping, b-boy bashing 'Tin Foil Bling' and the elegantly Balearic vocal of the Soul II Soul styled 'Space 'n' Time' show that there’s plenty of production talent here. Lyrically highly amusing in places as well, there’s a certain dishevelled poise and obtuse humour to Disco BizKid which make them fresh, classic and highly groovesome. Well worth giving a look!!!
James Masters (Top Bloke)!!!
This is the promotional 'EP' from the Disco BizKid 'No Chemicals' for footworkz music available at Seismic Records in Leamington Spa. and from ITunes!!!!!!
