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eRNEST&AMz:
The two hip-hop/electro heads met at a small record label (Gobatcha) in Paris in 2007 where Ernest St. Laurent was working as the main songwriter and guitarist. He gave Amz, a DJ and multi-instrumentalist from New York, a chance to lay down vocals on some instrumentals he had been saving for the right artist. What came out was a brand new hip-hop sound. Ernest drew on his expert production skills to deliver blazing electro-house beats that combined a wide range of influences, from disco to daft punk, from Blondie to rjd2. Native New Yorker AMZ brought his light-hearted themes, wordplay and bouncy flows to the tracks, with compliments to artists like The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Jurassic 5, The Pharcyde ...etc.
The Artists:
ERNEST SAINT LAURENT is a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Paris, France, with a varied musical pedigree. His career started on Yellow Productions, a small French record label, with the project "We Are One" which he soon followed up with feature appearances on many compilations including Source Material, Trip Do Brasil 2 Kitsune love and Bossa Tres Jazz. In 2001 he started his own record label, FLUID SYSTEM, and released his first single, "Clumsy Lobster", which was named single of the week by the English magazine New Musical Express. A year later his single "In the Sky" hit number one in UK club charts. As a producer Ernest has remixed songs by Femi Kuti, Grace Jones, Angie Stone, The Avalanches, and Zero Seven, among others. Last year Ernest joined The Replicants (www.myspace.com/the frenchreplicants), and small French record label, where he worked as the main songwriter and guitarist.
AMZ is above all a musician. Having played drums, guitar, and turntables in various scenes around the USA, Europe, and Canada, his multi-faceted approach to music has allowed him to play in nearly every kind of musical ensemble you can think of. With a trained sense of rhythm and delivery, AMZ is the young MC from NYC/Paris who is bound to blow up spots on all shores
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