Signed
to the super-cool Grand Central Records, Aim is the alias used
by Andy Turner for his melodic hip-hop stylings. He began DJing
in 1989 and an interest in the new beats emanating from the
USA were to have a profound influence on the sounds he would
create.
Norwegian
downtempo duo Royksopp have been added to the bill for
this year’s V2002 festival, taking place in Chelmsford and Staffordshire.
Joining them will be fellow downbeat electronica combo, Lamb.
This
Manchester duo, comprised of vocalist Louise Rhodes and drummer/sampler
Andy Barlow, met in 1993 and formulated a future be-bop sound
that blends lusty jazz overtones with untempered drumbeats.
Their self-titled debut album, a Fontana release, displays Rhodes'
torch song harmonies melodically striking the electronic pulses
of Barlow's sampled drumbeats. While performing live, they are
joined by a string quartet, which gives their music a feathered
quality, much like Portishead or Attica Blues.
Once
Mr Scruff was plain Andy Carthy. And then he wasn't. Sometime
artist, DJ, Peak District wanderer, and Stockport's very own,
Mr Carthy started his musical career a mere six years ago. Formerly
a fine art student part time at Sheffield Uni, Scruff decided
to explore his strange passion both in rounded line drawings
and music. An electro-ska-hip-hop kid and bedroom bod from what
hip hop fellas call time, Carthy started making tapes in 1983
using the very finest in pause button technology. His passion
for hearing music that he couldn't hear out anywhere else led
him into the world of DJing - first of all as a kid with one
deck - then hearing electro albums and being determined to mix.
The result was that by 1994 he was out DJing in clubs.
DJing
on pirate radio stations, playing legendary clubs like Shoom.
They first teamed up on then pirate Kiss, and started their
'Solid Steel' show, following the release of 'Say Kids', which
opened the way for MARRS "Pump Up The Volume". In 1987, Coldcut
defined the term 'remix' on Eric B and Rakim's 'Paid in Full'
cutting and pasting Israeli singer Ofra Haza's vocals in a notorious
reworking which became a worldwide classic. Coldcut's talent
in reformulating and producing were recognized by a 'Producers
Of the Year' award by the BPI in 1990. Their debut album, 'What's
That Noise' went silver.
