Bands/Artists:
1. Prince
2. Basement Jaxx (up to 2006)
3. Parliament
4. Massive Attack
5. The Roots
5.1 Bugz In The Attic
5.2 R.E.M
Producers/Remixers:
1. Lee 'Scratch' Perry
2. Kruder and/or Dorfmeister
3. Rick Rubin
4. Lord Gosh
5. RZA
And:
pretty much everything that's happened in music since about 1920
DJs:
1. Sasha and/or Digweed
2. Norman Jay MBE
3. Healer Selecta
4. Felix B
5. Gilles Peterson
People:
1. Dr Seuss
2. Maurice Sendak
3. James Dean
4. Gene Vincent
5. Quentin Tarantino
Other:
1. The London Borough of Camden
2. My parents' record collection
3. Assorted film & literature
4. Pretending that I'm in a Bret Easton-Ellis parchment, and the resulting Roger Avery film, but without the vomit or suicide
5. Falafel
And:
I believe in Rock and Roll as fervently as I believe that the sun will rise tomorrow, with a religious zeal and a childish optimism that not even Pete Waterman, Joss Stone, or Fearne Cotton could quash.
Sounds Like
Last week:
Imagination:
1. Mozart, as interpreted by hyperactive blind kids
2. Our closest genetic relatives, the pygmy chimpanzees, dropping a piano down a flight of stairs
3. A noncy, middle-class, ethnically ambiguous, slightly androgynous, self-proclaimed genius with a silly haircut pretending to be a Rastafari Soul brother
4.Walt Disney without the fascism
5. Drifting palely through an imaginary 60s
>FIRSTLY, PLEASE MESSAGE ME IF YOU LIKE MY STUFF AND WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION - I WILL REPLY. SECONDLY, PLEASE REPLY TO MY MESSAGES IF I TELL YOU THAT I HAVE SERIOUS LOVE FOR YOU. OTHERWISE, I'LL JUST GET DESPONDENT AND SULKY
Strangle Valentino is 19 years old and has been disappointed by the industry twice already, and is now feeling pretty badass. So sign him, or he'll shoot you.
Stragle Valentino's imagination is pretty far reaching, and so are his influences, so he's not really sure how he would describe his style, other than as a total misch-masch of sounds and genres (you name it, and he wants to get it in his tunes).
Charlie Sloth - Guided Tour Of Camden
Strangle Valentino, is in love with music. He doesn't care where it's from, who made it, when they made it or how it was made- he just knows that he has a totally open mind and is always Cratedigging for...well...anything.
He knows full-well where the roots of this music lie...and is aware that the roots of DJing are, essentially, in the Jamaican SoundSystems of old. Hopefully he can bring some youthful enthusiasm into the frame, since all the DJs are getting old (hell, Rampling's retired and isn't Sasha about 40?), taking into account all of the old music that has influenced him, mashing it up, and bringing it kicking and screaming into the 21st Century via his bedroom(s) and the living room of his partner-in-crime, Casanova Chokehold.
They're just a pair of old-skool heads who are, ironically, too young to remember any of the 'scenes' from way back when. But, surely, in this day and age, that really doesn't matter, does it?
'music without prejudice...' - Norman Jay
MY THREE CURRENT MUSICAL OBSESSIONS:
1. Imaginary block party-Jazz
2. James Brown
3. Duke Ellington
if anyone else wants to write my name on any surface with any instrument and take a picture of/scan it, please do and it'll be put up here.
MySpace is (obviously) my primary source for getting music heard, and Strangle Valentino needs as much publicity as Strangle Valentino can possibly get. So, if you like my stuff please tell someone about me - and, when he's rich and famous, he'll buy you a house or something.
'tell your mother and your sister and your sister's friends...' - Justin Warfield
LOWDOWN OF THE TUNES (in descending chronological, and therefore qualitative, order):
Electrolysis Is Overrated 2.0 (February 2007): Some of you may remember this tune's predecessor. Those who do will notice that it's been totally overhauled and turned into a spacey-jazzy-funk fortified electro affair, complete with 'real' bass (albeit 5 looped bars worth) and Hendrix inspired guitar solo-fills. It's a pity that MySpace compresses all its sound into 96 kbps, because it means that this tune now lacks the energy is has in the original mp3. And yes, the title of the tune is now a reference to those geniuses The Roots. Play it loud. Real loud.
The Texas Chainsaw Mascara (May 2007): A Psychedelic, Grimey Electro-Punk-Funk affair with essence of twisted Northern Soul.
Guitars, Keys and Samples: Strangle Valentino; contains a sample of a News Report (of unknown origin), read by Huntley/Brinkley, about the Charles Whitman shootings. Don't be offended.
Dibaba - All We Need Emergency [Strangle Valentino's 'Neuf Danger' remix]: From the purest of Electro tunes to a Latino-fired, No Wave-Surfin', Camden-crawlin', Brixton-Boogalooing, Sega Mega Driven, Princely Phunk remix...which has a sample of Sartre in the bridge.
Los De Abajo - Resistencia [Strangle Valentino's 'Go-Go Gutierrez' remix] (September 2007): From a low-down Latino-Funk tune to a Portishead-cum-'There's A Riot...' era Family Stone, Jazz-tinged, blissed out Psyche-Funk tune. Hopefully, like the soundtrack to a Michael Mann film that actually had some substance. I've left all the Pianos, Guitars and Vocals from the original intact, but everything else is my doing, so I'm rather proud of it. .
Bass, Keyboards, Samples, Scratching & Programming: Strangle Valentino; Contains a sample lifted from ABC News
Alas! New Yorick (January 2008): Some of you may remember this from 18 months ago, although, now, it's been radically transformed into a hip-hopscotch-hotch-potch of all the sounds I heard when I was in New York in June 2006; Hip-Hop, Funk, Punk, Disco, Electro, Jazz of all sorts; unfamiliar, un-LDN, sirens; loud people, more hiphop, more sirens, and even louder people. I know it's been a long time coming, and it's actually my first SV tune for 8 months, but I hope you all recognise that it's the best four minutes I've ever conjoured.
ahh, well we may be venturing to london soon, we cant really do it until its worth our while though. because its quite a mission. does your band have a myspace? in other news, we are being played on steve lamacq's show on monday. exciting stufff xxd005 p.s. 25 hour? thats looads
cheeky tune darlin, it makes me wanna sit in a big leather chair and smoke a cigar! good to see your up to your old tricks, would be good to see you sometime, been like years mate keep well,x x
Solid track. Thanks for letting me know about it. btw, kiwi radio is now kaputt unless the US laws change in the future. do have a blog though, where i will can stream track (maybe the new remix of yorick?)with a write-up of artist and graphics, etc. if you're interested, just give me an email (message me if you don't still have the kiwibeak address). I'd love to start getting some contemporary artists on the blog---I have just been swamped since the demise of the radio and working on developing kiwibeak.com more (probably well into '08). If you (or your listeners)know any great music/other websites that would be good for the g.public, please send them along so i can put them up on the directory (kiwibeak.com). The blog address (with music/arts category) is: kiwibeak.com/kiwiblogs
let me know when you get that new mix of yorick up -rob
I only just got the internet. I'm living in Denmark Hill, between Peckham and Brixton. My rooms ok, it's very cold. I need to jazz it up! I'm living with lots of international students, I've met about a gazillion Russians, Germans, Swedes, French, Poles etc and one Scot lol. I get given food here so I don't have to cook, but I wasn't feeling last night's beef stew... Though the apple crumble was yum lol It's really nice here, I was expecting it to be rough but it's not!
OOOH ALSO! I'm going to the Ministry of Sound for a freshers thing which is on my bday! Are you going my any chance?
How's all your freshers stuff going? Met many people?
you'll get a free cd (nude debut album "fake credibility" promo version) !!! just put that code to your "about me" section.
stay tuned - stay nude !
send us your postal adress where to send the cd: contact at sabotage-concept.eu and send us your link to your myspace-profile where we can find the banner. keep it there at least until end of september. that's it ! ;-)
