Friday April 17th @ Mezzanine
With DJs Groove Armada, Rooz
Last year when I spun with Groove Armada @ Mezzanine, it almost sold out!!! 1500 heads jumping up and down going crazy, wow what a great party...now we get to do it again :) This party aint a freakin joke people, buy presale tickets ASAP. Groove Armada packs stadiums across the world, come see them live @ Mezzanine, its a great experience with a great crowd.
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CLICK HERE to watch Music Video: Groove Armada - Superstylin
This UK electronica duo comprises Tom Findlay (b.
Cambridge, England; bass, trumpet, keyboards, sampler) and Andy Cato
(b. Yorkshire, England; trombone, keyboards, bass guitar). Cato, a 6
feet 8 inches tall Yorkshireman, grew up playing in a colliery brass
band and listening to disco music, such as that by Earth, Wind And
Fire, and he also won the UK's Young Jazz Musician Of The Year award.
He was introduced to house music by his cousin, Digs, a member of the
cult house collective DIY. He took up a DJing residency at the
"Spectrum" night in Cambridge before relocating to London to establish
the label, Skinnymalinky. Findlay grew up in Cambridge, listening to
rare funk records before moving to Manchester, promoting club nights,
DJing and playing in some of the city's best funk bands. He then moved
to London, where he continued to DJ and promoted a night with Cato,
"Captain Sensual At The Helm Of The Groove Armada" before they decided
to record their own music under a shortened version of the name.
Groove Armada's music is an unusual blend of influences, spanning
house, big beat, Balearic, disco and funk. It combines traditional
instrumentation and influences with house rhythms and technology, and
features samples of jazz as well as those from diverse artists such as
the Chi-Lites, Platters and A Tribe Called Quest.
Cato and Findlay record all their material at a countryside retreat in
Cumbria, northern England. Their first album, 1998's Northern Star, was
released on the London-based independent label, Tummy Touch in January
1998. The well-received single "At The River", built around a Patti
Page vocal sample from the 50s hit "Old Cape Cod", was also released on
the label. Northern Star was named Best New Artist Album by the UK's
Muzik magazine. The duo was signed to Pepper Records for their second
album, Vertigo. Like its predecessor the album was highly praised
across the music press. A single from the album, "If Everybody Looked
The Same" was released in April 1999 and received much national UK
radio airplay. A re-released "At The River" entered the Top 20 three
months later.
Although by now a staple of fashionable and lazily assembled chillout
compilations, Findlay and Cato forged ahead with their third studio
album, Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub), which featured guest
appearances by disco and funk legend Nile Rodgers, rapper Jeru The
Damaja, and folk singer Richie Havens. The latter also appeared on the
funky Lovebox, alongside rap crew Nappy Roots, dancehall DJ Red Rat,
and R&B vocalist Sunshine Anderson.
In 2005 Tom Findlay set up Tunetribe, a music download store that
offers a fairer deal to artists by giving them up to 80% royalties,
rather than the usual 20% at other online music stores and helps
independent labels by promoting and supporting new and unsigned bands.
Unsigned bands can join for free, and have their music sold on the site.
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