Amongst many others: Flying Lizards, Vince Clark, The Mad Professor, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Mantronix, Afrika Bambaataa, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, Derrick May, Orbital, 808 State, The Black Dog, Plaid, Kraftwerk, Can, Neu!, Brian Eno, Burt Kaempfert, Ennio Morricone, Esqivel, Tito Puente, Herb Alpert, Atom™, Luke Vibert, Thievery Corporation, Tipsy, library music, dodgy cover versions, fine ales, Rizla+, Salbutamol, old skool and the all healing power of universal love...
Sounds Like
"Lounge-y, jazzy, frothy breaks easy-pop-tronica a la Fantastic Plastic Machine, Sons of Silence, Tipsy and co. only brought bang up to date","Lucky Pierre on happy pills","Quirky, cheeky Tipsy-esque / Lisa Carbon Trio-ish easy-listening and gentle bossa sounds, touched up with a hint of offbeat electronica and acid","A cheesy fusion of the most irritating TV jingles of the last 10 years" or "Latin inspired funky gear along the lines of David Holmes or summat"...apparently.
Biography
London based Manilla are Simon Goodwin and Phil Heard. Phil and Simon met through a friend during the early 90's. They discovered they shared a love of deep electronic music combined with mutual enthusiasms for pure melody and impure space-age-batchelor-pad kitsch. The boys subsequently teamed up to form Manilla in the late 90's. In addition to their shared music background Phil brought a love of dub and hip-hop and Simon a love of krautrock and electro-pop to the heady Manilla mix.
Initially Manilla pursued a jazzy d'n'b / breakbeat sound. Their first demo resulted in them signing to Belgium's seminal R&S label and a subsequent 12" release. The mothballing of R&S led to Manilla retreating to the studio to concentrate on developing their sound. During this period the band were commissioned to produce music for TV and film as well as undertaking a number of remixes.
Manilla enjoy performing live, often with additional 'backing' vocals from Michelle Deignan and also recently Pete Moss on guitar. They have gigged widely in London and played the Huw Stephens programmed Lake Stage at the first Latitude festival in Suffolk in the summer of 2006. The boys can occassionally be found dropping Manilla DJ sets, in venues as diverse as the Big Chill Bar and The Photographers Gallery. Simon Manilla also regularly DJs solo.
Manilla live @ Latitude 2006
Recent releases The 4 Piece EP, Lo Recordings - clear vinyl 7" and digital download Lorenzo on Idea Hoard Uncut compilation, Uncharted Audio - CD and digital download Michelle on Readers Wavs compilation, via the Big Chill - triple CD De La D on Inspired By Delia Derbyshire: Plug Me In compilation, Myuzyk - digital download
Braindrop are hosting Room 2 for Halcyon @ Matter on Friday 21 May. To mark this amazing party we've teamed up with Mixcloud to run a one-off DJ competition.
There is a 1 HOUR SET up for grabs in Matter‘s 500 capacity Room 2. The line-up is banging – featuring Infected Mushroom (live), The McMash Clan and Flux Pavilion. Both arenas are guaranteed to be rammed.
How to enter...
Put together a 30-60 minute mix that represents your style and what you‘d choose to play at Braindrop. It can be ANYTHING at all – dubstep / techno / d‘n‘b / bassline / electro / psytrance / jungle / funky / hardcore / breakcore / dancehall etc etc. Extra points for creative cross-genre mixing!
What have Dizzee Rascal, Hot Chip, Willy Wonka and The Incredible Hulk got in common?
They’re all going to witness the real life legends that are ROXY MUSIC rocking the bells off the main stage at this year’s Bestival! Not only that but Mumford & Sons, Chic feat. Nile Rodgers, Tricky, The Temper Trap, Mylo and Erol Alkan will also be joining the line-up which already includes The xx, LCD Soundsystem, Fever Ray, Gil Scott Heron, Richie Hawtin presents PLASTIKMAN Live, Chase & Status, Simian Mobile Disco, Delphic, Ellie Goulding, Annie Mac presents, Four Tet.…and Rolf Harris!
Why Wonka and Hulk? Well, we’re proud to announce that this year’s fantastical fancy dress theme is ‘FANTASY’ – Bestival 2010: The Year Of The Fantastic!
Let your imaginations run wild on our Fantasy Island in September. Think Wizard of Oz meets Lord Of The Rings with Harry Potter wrestling with Tarzan in the corner of the campsite. The only limit is how far your mind’s eye can see…
"Sweet Relish" the debut single from Savages y Suefo is out now on UrbanWorld Records. The EP includes remixes from Mash & Munkee and Vono Box.
Mat The Alien - REALLY GOOD 10/10 Quincy Jointz - Will definetly rock this one tonight 9/10 Pathaan - Fantastic 4th release, will be showing much love 9/10 Griff - More top-notch eastern beats from the new kings of the global beatfusion gumbo, Urban World. Sounds like the soundtrack to a spy film set in Instanbul. 8/10 iDJ Magazine - 8/10
PLACTICIAN / THE McMASH CLAN / RAIDEN / A1 BASSLINE BROKEN NOTE / HIJACK / THE CORRESPONDENTS / DJ FLOORCLEARER MDS / BRUCE STALLION / AMEN-TAL / MR JOSEPH & MC DEEFA
DEATH DEFYING CHINESE POLE / PYROKINESIS UV CIRCUS ACROBATIC BREAKDANCE DUO / COMEDY STREET PERFORMER FULLY PLAYABLE 16-BIT ARCADE / SECRET DISCO / 80s HOUR
DnB / Bassline / Dubstep / Jungle / Techno / Breakcore / Reggae / House / Gabba / Hip Hop / Psytrance / Rave
Doors: 9pm - 6am Advance tickets: £12 www.ticketweb.co.uk On the door: £10 before 9.30pm/ £14 after Venue: Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London N1 9NL Nearest tube/overground: Kings Cross
Check www.braindrop.co.uk for photos, downloads and info, and join our facebook group here =D
Wooohaaaaa!!! Braindrop is throwing its very first boat party on Saturday 6 June.
The vessel is specially equipped to hold large groups of people (and all the extra bass bins we can squeeze on). Her name is The Dutch Master and she be a mighty fine boat too!
It's going to be ridiculously fun rinse up. However, if you think you can get away with being remotely serious and/or cool at this party - ye be mistaken. The Braindrop Boat Rave is fancy dress: Pirate's from the 80's. Arrgh...better get thinkin what ye gonna wear.
D&B / DUBSTEP / TECHNO / BREAKS / ELECTRO / HARDCORE / HIP HOP / GABBA / BREAKCORE / PSYTRANCE / RAVE... and lots more!
Tickets are £20 and you can get them from TICKETWEB.
just wanted to let you know we are going to be down at Phonica Records in Soho (51 Poland St ) this Thursday evening (7 May) to celebrate the release of our first album.
we are putting a rather good little soundsystem in. Then we'll mix up some lovely drinks to ply you with, and go and play a few songs around 8pm. If the weather is nice the windows of the shop slide out and we'll be playing out to the street
hope to see you down there...if not I'll drink yours! - especially if I am holding a copy of the finished article (fingers crossed - they are meant to be delivered that day...)
