ERNEST DRAKE

Bio:

Hey there; welcome! Lay back in your favourite easy chair with a cup of shut the fuck up. Get undressed and listen to some pretty sexy and revolting music. Music that sounds like something is happening here and now, music with spirit and punch - here is Ernest Drake!

Ernest Drake may be the nightmare of stereotyped thinking: too punk to be a just another club-act, too electro to be a rockband, too much content to ignore, too danceable to think.

Last year – when twila.too and Ernest met for the first time - it became clear that Ernest Drake would no longer be a one-man-stand.
The contrast between the direct aggression of Ernests vocals and Twila's aloof yet erotic singing matched just great.

Their music is straight in-your-face as well as subtile. Provoking and danceable - live as well as on record.

DJ Phoney started Ernest Drake in 2006 to be able to find a way to express his anger about a lack of rebellion in this so-called post new economy society.
One demo and a limited 7"EP saw the light of day before he met twila.too and Ernest Drake became a team-up.

Before blasting the speakers with Ernest Drake, twila.too was bombed in the electronic scene of Cologne since 2001. In the past, she worked with Bob Humid, Air Liquide, Decomposed Subsonic and others.

DJ Phoney is probably best known for deep underground Hip Hop-, Roots Reggae- and Funk-tunes as well as more than 350 DJ-sets. He worked with International Criminal, EmCee Lynx, D3Z’s, Eduardo, Son of Nun, Mr. Kato and others.

Together they are Ernest Drake!

New tracks have been recorded at 3 studios which have been mastered by Bob Humid at Fat Of Excellence-studio.
The vinyl 12" is gonna be out by aug 1st on Drake Records (in cooperation with Soulplex Recordings).

Ernest Drake can be booked for live-gigs as well as DJ-sets.

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Recordings:
- 'Demo' MC (Phoney Tapes, 2005)
- 'Rotten Commie Radical EP' 7" (Phoney Tapes, 2006)
- 5 track demo CD (Phoney Tapes, 2008)
- 'Guilty Of Thoughtcrime' 12" MLP (Drake Records/Soulplex Recordings, 2010)

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Videos:

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Member Since:

February 02, 2007

Members:

twila.too - vocals, songwriting, instr
Ernest Drake - vocals, songwriting, instr, production

Influences:

George Orwell, Leo Trotzki, Throbbing Gristle, Alec Empire, Kurt Tucholsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Max Roach, John Heartfield, Alex Callinicos, Aristoteles, Test Dept, John Steinbeck, Urban Waste, Victor Serge, Bruce Lee, MC 5, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, James Connolly, High On Fire, Käthe Kollwitz, U.N.K.L.E., Hal Draper, Cabaret Voltaire, Clara Zetkin, The Redskins, V. I. Lenin, Leftfield, Anna Seghers, John Steinbeck, Aphex Twin, Oscar Wilde, Heinrich Mann, Alistair Hulett, EC8OR, Bertold Brecht, Maxim Gorki, Entombed, Allen Ginsberg, Duncan Hallas, John Coltrane, Charles Bukowski, Melvin Van Peebles, Karl Liebknecht, Woody Guthrie, Charlie Parker, Tony Cliff and more

Sounds Like:

revolt

Record Label:

Drake Records / soulplexrecordings.com