I'm also a DJ specialising in Funk'n'Soul, Broken Beats, Hip-Hop, Nu-Soul and a bit of RnB. Message me for more info...
Influences
Most black music, all good roots music and loads of other stuff. Major landmarks for me include Oris Jay, Zed Bias, Sticky, J-Sweet, Black Ops, Toasty, Bugz In The Attic, Dexplicit, Toddla T, Zinc, Ray Keith, Peshay, Wiley, DJ Premier, Hi-Tek, Ty, Roots Manuva, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Jam, The Neptunes, Quincy Jones, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Basement Jaxx, Reel People, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Lonnie Smith, Jimmy Smith, Charles Kynard, Lou Donaldson, Ray Davies, Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Elvis, Sly Stone, Roy Wood, Ian Dury, Blur, Madness, The Cure, Sly & Robbie, Burning Spear, Linval Thompson.
Sounds Like
George Clinton producing Chas 'n' Dave's new Garage album.
Or any of the following:
“THE COLONEL” is a bizarre robot weapon invented at the end of World War II – designed to shake the Nazis out of their bunkers with lethal doses of bowel-shattering bass. Set free after the war, he ran amok frightening civilians, and his basslines just got angrier and angrier….
Ok, actually the Colonel is me, Lucian O’Neill, born and raised in Ipswich and living in Sheffield (bassline capital) since 1999. Despite being a musician all my life, and a DJ since about 1997, it wasn’t until mid-2005 that I finally ditched me old 4-track, hooked myself up with proper some music production equipment and began to make nasty-sounding leg-wobbling music.
This stuff feeds off drum’n’bass, UK garage, house and hip-hop, but I’d also hope you can hear some of my other influences in there – a squirt of funk, a dash of cinematic jazz, and a splodge of plain daft English knees-up-muvva-brown silliness. If all you can pick out is wibbly bass and squelchy noises, that’s cool with me, as long as it sounds like you’d wanna dance to it. If you wouldn’t even do that, then we’re a bit stuck aren’t we…
The Colonel has also been working on hip-hop beats for Leeds’ dopest emcee, MC FREE, and is about to finish a broken beat collaboration with the very talented Gizelle Smith.
If you are up for collaborating, or just want to give me some abuse (or praise) about my page or my music, just holla!
Hi, I've been spending a bit of time checking out the pages of anybody
who has posted positive comments about the Mouse Outfit, and linking
them to 5 of the earliest tracks we wrote, which are FREE to download
on soundcloud.
We are an 8 piece hip hop funk band, based in Manchester UK, and we
have recently supported Akil (Jurassic 5), Speech Debelle, Fabio (Radio
1). Feel free to pass them on to friends. Thanks for the support and
don't forget to keep checking back for new tunes! Keepin real hip hop
alive!
Hi Lucian, just got back in. We had a great time performing at the Forum and were really pleased with the response and feedback we got. I'm glad that the evening was so well attended for the cause. Thanks again for asking us to come and play and we would love to come back in the not too distant future. Hopefully we can work on that together. All the best.
Thanks for being our myspace friend. We get spammed all the time on myspace and its getting hard to know who's a fan and who isn't. If you are a fan it would be great to see you at our next gig - see www.jimmyyukka.com. In future the best way to find out about what we are up to is to join our mailing list.
If you have any questions about this or anything you can
hey colonel, cheers for the friendship...fancy doin us a dub step/ heavy bass line remix for a giggle? i'll email u the track/s u want, ur choice, just a thought never done owt like that befor! tah Matu ha
As ever if this is your kind of thing, or indeed even if it is not, please give it a listen: the free and easy quick download is there for your use and abuse! The full track listing is available within my profile blog!
Check out Mindstorm and Glide's newest DrumnBass release on Mindstorm Records "Future Music Sessions Volume 1". It features 4 tracks starting off with Mindstorm offering up some of the old sounds of DnB with "Destiny" and "Sudden Movement" followed by Glide bringing the new and current sound with his tunes "Funkadelicious" and "Apoptosis". Definately a favorite for old and new school fans alike. Hope you enjoy and thanks for the support, cheers!
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