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UNSUNG HEROES ARE: Dastardly - Producer/Writer, BVs & Founding Member,
Mr Shiver - Producer/Writer & Founding Member,
Norman Anderson - Vocalist (Singer),
Sir Real - Vocalist (MC),
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UNSUNG FAMILY & FRIENDS:
Shawn Lee - Vocalist (Singer)/Drummer/Guitarist/ One Man Band!,
Tad The Peoples Poet - Vocalist (MC),
Dom G - Vocalist (MC),
MC D - UK Stalwart MC,
Man Friday - Vocalist (MC),
Stewie Love - Vocalist (Singer),
Bad Manner - Vocalist (MC).
Influences
********************************* My Dad (R.I.P), All of my family & close friends
*********************************Musical Influences: David Axelrod, Roy Budd, Ian Carr & Nucleus, Gary Mc Farland, Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, Goblin, I Marc IV, The Meters, James Brown, George Clinton, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis, Bobby Byrd, Marva Whitney, Vicki Anderson, Bootsy Collins, The Mohawks, Alan Hawkshaw, Keith Mansfield, Alan Tew, Tony Allen, Idris Muhammed, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Eugene Mc Daniels, Serge Gainsbourg, Rotary Connection, Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield (Who wrote my favourite soul song ever - Right On For The Darkness), The Awakening, Charles Stepney, Ramsey Lewis, Charles Wright, Val Doonican (Yeah right!! - Some people do actually read all of this then??!!.. keep going then), Roy Ayres, Dizzy Gillespie, Gill Scott Heron, Gary Bartz, Lonnie Liston Smith, Kool & The Gang, Nick Ingman, Ron Carter, Harold Alexander, Stevie Wonder, Donald Byrd & The Blackbyrds, Michael Jackson, Jackson 5, Trouble Funk, EU, Macattack, Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers, Phil Flowers & The Flower Shop (First funk 7" I ever bought at the age of 15 & trust me - it was a blinding start!!) & every funky 7" or LP I ever did buy since then - there's a fair few of em'!*********************************
More Contemporary Musical Influences: Cold Cut ("Say Kids" was what really created the spark & started me off on this whole production journey - took me a few years before I took the time to discover how the magic was done 4 myself - but that 12" flipped my fucking wig when I heard it!), Steinski (Lessons 1, 2 & 3 - Love em to death!), Dave Allen, Greg (Girls FM), Roy The Roach, All the Soul II Soul Crew, All the Family Funktion Crew, Norman Jay, Tim Westwood, Kool DJ Red Alert, DJ Cash Money, Grand Master Flash, Melle Mel, Grand Wizard Theodore, Grand Mixer DST, Simon Senior (RIP), Pete Gibson, Dean (Expansions), Out Of The Past Records, Wale Onilere, Femi, Tunji, Daz (Bugz), Mr Dan, Tom Dice, DJ Circuit, Mark Rae, Kev (RIP) & all of the FEVA Crew, DJ Premier & Gangstarr, DJ Aladin, DJ Baboo, Quebert, Spinna, Roc Raider, Showbiz & AG, Scott Farrant, Prime Cuts, Tony Vegas & the rest of The Scratch Perverts Crew & Ex Crew, Big Al Mawdsley, Ed Pitt & Scenario Records, Juice Crew & Marly Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Just Ice, Mc Shan, Stetsasonic, Run DMC, Mantronix, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Whodini, LL Cool J, Original Concept, KRS1 (Best MC that ever lived) & BDP, Kool G Rap, Rakim, DJ Mark The 45 King, Tuff Crew, NWA & Ice Cube, Ultra Magnetic, Jazzy Jeff, EPMD, Main Source (I may be getting old & senile before my time but Live At The BBQ hurt me so much I can still recite all the lyrics - that shit is fucking sick!!!!), Nas, Low Profile, Diamond D, Brand Nubian, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Black Sheep, Special Ed, Lord Finesse, Pete Rock, Notorious BIG, Dilated Peoples, Rza & Wu Tang, Slick Rick, Caveman, Monie Love, She Rockers, Blade, London Posse, Demon Boyz, Hijack, MC Mello, MC Duke, The Roots, J Dilla, L.O.N.S, Busta Rhymes, Organized Konfusion, The Beatnuts, Timbaland, Outkast, Kanye West, Jay Z, The Neptunes, Admiral Bailey, Clement Irie, Beenie Man, Vybz Kartel, T.O.K, Tanto Metro & Devonte, Bob Marley, The Specials, The Beat, Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters... And can I stop now?... Cos there's just sooooo many more you wouldn't even begin to comprehend, I'm getting bored of myself here - & I'm sure u get the idea!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds Like
Everything that we've ever listened to & enjoyed thoroughly enough to stay lodged upstairs conciously or subconciously, then manifest itself in our music somehow... Because in music as in all aspects of ourselves we are almost entirely a product of our experiences & environment... So in the end, who do we sound like?? - Us - who else?!!!!!
***************************************************************************************After many years of finding themselves dj'ing at the same parties and clubs UNSUNG HEROES founding members: Bradley (Dastardly) & B (Mr Shiver), have been producing hip hop & soul together since the mid 90's when Brad asked B to join him in re-mixing a track he was releasing with Dan Carey (for those who don't know - an incredible musician/producer with a No 1 under his belt - he's listed in my friends below but still hasn't sorted himself out a group profile!). They released their debut LP "Unleashed" a few years ago featuring artists such as J Live, L Fudge, Godfather Don, Rob O, TY, and The Scratch Perverts but to name a few. They also produced for TY on his debut LP Awkward & produced & arranged the entire critically acclaimed LP Home Cookin for Tony Allen (Of Africa 70 fame) featuring Damon Albarn & TY.
Since then they left their previous label to embark on putting together a group, as opposed to merely working with guest vocalists. They felt strongly about creating a tight little musical family from friends & homegrown talent that they knew; working with people that weren't necessarily highly established artists in their own right. Now to their minds, with the line up & family listed on this site, they do exactly what it says on the tin, they are: Unsung Heroes!
With this new family, UNSUNG's 2nd LP is in the final stages of completion & is therefore now imminent. They have kept their sound firmly based in their Hip Hop roots, whilst also exploring song writing to the extent they always wanted to, without the constraints of a label's agenda. This new unsigned material stretches across a few different genres, encompassing, as well as Hip Hop, elements of Soul/R&B, Dancehall & Grime. As well as delivering straight up club bangers, they often purposefully stray from conventional lyric writing in this album. Instead in true old school hip hop style, it often features story based lyrics, with vocalists playing the part of different characters Unsung Heroes have made up on their cinematic journey; which is both psychedelic & toungue in cheek in equal measures. If that's all a bit of a mouthful though, one thing is for sure: Unsung remain as funky as your grandma's false teeth whatever they do... Watch this space!
just imported the tapes you mother fuckas make me sick!!! you done it again. real top fucking characters. record labels got to embarrased for not dealing with the unsung heroes!!!!
yo your camera man came through..was he using a wide angle lense?
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Peace, Prose (Steady and Efeks).
Hey you funky folks, just a reminder about 'Soul cure' this Saturday 5th May @ the 'Bar', Hanway St, off Oxford St... 3mins walk from Tott court Rd tube, next door to the s/h record shop and the Spainish Tapas bar.
I'll be DJing alongside Cool hands Chaz and Disco Stu playing some of the most nasty, heaviest, filthy and damm right deep, furious funk and rare groove soul known to humankind EVER!!!!!
Doors open around 10.30/11.00pm (or pub kicking out time)... and goes on till your all knacked!
£ 3/4 on entry and well worth it.
So come on up for the get down an get your monthly dose of superbadness..... This event happens every first Saturday of the month, so put it in your diary.
Hope to see you there. Much love and happiness... S.M.P aka Toby Funk x ; )
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