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| Kurtis
Mantronik (Eye
Industries / UK)
Few artists have had the same impact
on contemporary pop music as Kurtis
Mantronik. Starting in the mid 80s,
Kurtis wrote and produced a string
of hip hop based tracks that would
forever change the style and substance
of hip hop, electro, R'n'B, dance
and rock.
By the late 1980s Kurtis Mantronik
had signed to Capitol Records, where
he produced a series of chart-topping
singles like Gotta Have Your Love
(recently covered by Liberty X) and
the aforementioned King Of The Beats.
Fast-forward to 2001 when Kurtis decided
the world of house music needed some
funk. With that, two tracks were instantly
snapped up by Ink/Distinctive Records
under the guise of HARRY’S AFRO
HUT, another track signed to leading
house label Defected under the name
of THE GRAND KIDS, and a Mantronik
compilation called That’s My
Beat released by Soul Jazz Records
in 2002.
Last year Kurtis also released a record
on Eye Industries under the moniker
of CHAMONIX entitled 77 Strings which
was later snapped up for mass distribution
by Norman Cooks label Southern Fried
Records.
In an industry known for it’s
fickle nature where stars fade as
soon as they arrive, Kurtis is proving
himself to be not only a survivor,
but also an artist with incredible
musical resources, diversity and depth,
and he has just issued his latest
edict to the faithful: dance!
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| DJ
Vadim (Ninja Tune / UK)
Hardest working man in show business?
Trooper? Tireless? However you want
to put it, be sure of one thing, when
DJ Vadim first heard the phrase "Don
t sleep" he obviously took it
literally.
Over the last decade few people can
have put so much time and energy into
the culture they love. Founder of
Jazz Fudge in early 1995, A&R,
producer, DJ, promoter, record collector,
radio presenter, occasional painter,
writer, and in-house producer/dj and
cohort of Latin Grammy nominees, Spanish
hip hop super group 7 Notas 7 Colorez,
Vadim has certainly been keeping himself
busy. And that s before we even mention
his DJing itself which has seen him
perform in virtually every country
in Europe(east and west), all over
North America, Australia, New Zealand.
Japan, Israel, Turkey, South America
and South East Asia in just the last
year. He has also performed with the
likes of DJ Krush, Company Flow, The
Roots, Pharcyde, Public Enemy, Beat
Junkies, Dilated Peoples, Kraftwerk,
Ed Rush, Morcheeba and Paul Weller
as well as at events like Glastonbury
and the Moscow Street Ball festival
(to over 40,000 people!). To describe
the man as an internationalist almost
seems to sell him short.
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