biography.
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Call me Bristol - I'm a songwriter.
I run this space myself, so feel free to write me whenever you want to. Even if it can take some time, I'll try to answer.
I'm a musician, singer, mc and producer located in Hamburg, Germany.
Most of my tunes are recorded on my lap top, a fujitsu siemens windows shit thing. Nuff said.
I'm, working the whole thing - instruments, samples, whatever involved in the production of my song.
If it's indispensable for you to pigeonhole me somewhere, you might just try by comparing me to my idols
Mike Skinner (The Streets), Jamie T., Tricky and Massive Attack. I think they
are the ones I try to be similar to, even if I seem to be far away from that. However, I listen to their
records and think, it's the most important music for me ever made. I love the UK, love Bristol (but never
been there), love Trip Hop, Electronica, Breakbeats, Grime and Rap.
Leaving Bristol is how I call me and the formation all around me when it gets to live performances
or featuring other singers. I am unsigned and not really proud of it, but I never sent any of my material
to a label. Well, maybe I should. There actually are some labels, I'm really interested in, such as
Pacemaker Recordings, Fatcat, Ed Banger Records, Brown Punk, Tru
Thoughts and Morr Music, but I don't know the ropes with labels, so there probably are tons of
cool labels that would like my music. I hope. Maybe none. I fear. Oh yes, by the way, if you've got or
know a label that would sign me, just let me know! :) My favorite would have been The Beats, but
unfortunately it's dead.
I've been sent a few inquiries lately, so I'm some kind of sitting on the fence these days. I made an
album of my own, called "an approach to style" which I played on some concerts last summer to
become a little more known. I'm also made an extended play called "second class hero". It'll be
sent to some labels, too. I live in Hamburg now to study for the bar and of course go on making music.
Mabye I'll tour the UK in 2008.
So, if you still think, Leaving Bristol is not that much of a talent, I like to mention that I'd
love to do remixes, mash-ups, features and speaking in audiobooks or radio plays of any kind, 'cause I'm
really enamoured of this stuff. So, if you want me to, let it be known. I'm also willing to make themes
for movies or tv and radio shows. Background music, elevator music, video game music, noise effects - I
love all that stuff and I'm ready to do this. Any weird project you could image - I'm doing it, mate. I
wrote a song inspired by an aquarelle of Emil Nolde for the Kunsthalle museum in Emden, Germany, for
example. It's similar to what Basement Jaxx did with Karel Appel's art for Tate, London. Oh yeah, I'm also
puttin on some foreign music as a dj.
Oh yeah, and check out all the other communities I have signed up to, too! There are loads!
On a note, Leaving Bristol exists since september '06, but I exist even longer. :) Since October,
22nd '86.
What more can I say? Well, I'm running a large project, going by the name Leaving Bristol artist
collective (LBAC), which aim is to support talented unsigned artist to become known in public,
especially here on myspace. All the bands and artists support each other whereever they can. Some people
might say, it's cheesy idealism, I guess, we at Leaving Bristol think it's great"
