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 demise 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
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...)
Big Bad Love at 93 Feet East July 10th Doors: 7pm £6.50
This is our first 93 Feat East gig and we’re happy to be gracing this illustrious stage so look out for special door price offers a few days before the gig… Or you can buy in advance here: http://www. wegottickets. com/event/32336
'Scuse us for hijacking your comments box, but just thought you might like to know about the new Soundbites Vol.2 compilation coming soon from the Cookshop collective. If you're partial to cinematic/downtempo/hip hop/electronica this will undoubtedly float your boat...
Likewise chaps! Very nice to meet you both :-) and thanks for the CD, loving the sounds on there, will come back atcha with some proper feedback soon...
The first of a monthly gig night at the Buffalo Bar hosted by Big City Redneck... You coming? Should be rather swellegant!
Buffalo Bar 259 Upper Street Nr. tube: Highbury and Islington 21st February £6/£5 concessions Doors: 8.30pm – 1am
The Chap http://www.myspace.com/thechap “Like Underworld if they’d decided to be a lo-fi rock and roll combo instead of a stadium-selling dance act. Stunning, it’s ridiculous, but in a great way.” Vice Mag
The Guillotines http://www.myspace.com/headswillrockandroll “Snarling spunk-punkers The Guillotines come across like Gallows meeting the Rat Pack, with a flame-haired Lauren Bacall wielding a bass, outside a Brighton S&M shop psyching themselves up to buy leather gimp masks. Wanton sax appeal, voodoo rock'n'roll magnetism and growling dirty lounge” NME
Creepy Morons http://www.myspace.com/thecreepymorons “The thunderous blues crunch of The Creepy Morons first materialised in 2005 having risen from the ashes of Hot Tradition and The Beatings. I know its rubbish when I merely regurgitate information from a myspace, but when a band describes its influences as ‘Women, Drinking and Death’, and their sound as ‘Drunken monkeys assembling an Ikea butchers block’, I’d be daft not to.” Jon Hillcock, XFM
DJ: Dirty Omar http://www.myspace.com/dirtyomar
Interviews with all these bands available at www.bigcityredneck.co.uk
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