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. People who've changed the way I think about music have included Oris Jay, Zed Bias, Sticky, J-Sweet, Black Ops, Toasty, Bugz In The Attic, 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, Sly & Robbie, Burning Spear, Linval Thompson.
Sounds Like
George Clinton producing Chas 'n' Dave's new Garage album
Record Label
Fruit Machine Records
Type of Label
None
The Colonel - Check the new tune BADBWOY STEPPA's Latest Blog Entry
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I’ve done a new mixtape and I’m not afraid to use it...
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Oh Gosh! "BIG TROUBLE" released on Tipping Point Music: OUT TOMORROW
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“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!
The Colonel - Check the new tune BADBWOY STEPPA's Friend Space (Top 32)
The Colonel - Check the new tune BADBWOY STEPPA has 541 friends.
You fucking mega bastard! I've heard you keep it so real they've had to re-define what keeping it real is. Are we going to see you down WOB in the near future?
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Nice 1 bruva, i always give credit where its due! Thanx 4 checkin out my work and thanx 4 the comments. Will check u out from time to time to see whats fresh. Bye4now fellow beatnut
Yeah well let me know when you're coming down fella, come and say hello! I'm there next on Friday 6th June for LOST, should be a big night, check the flyer on my page!
All the best, and keep up the good work with the tunes! :D
Man no worrys, im into dubstep 4 real...herd one of ur tunes on the radio, so i was like shit ima find dis guy n myspace...il spread the choons man...keep um comin ey. safe.
