AdamW
Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 197 Location: Chester, UK
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 18:26 Post subject: Telfords Warehouse, Chester - Thursday 28th July 2005 |
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A blatant plug / spam, but anyone in the locale should be interested - he really is spectacularly good
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The most talented DJ, sound sculptor and music aficionado it has ever been my pleasure to work with, the world-renowned, Soundhog, is making a guest appearance at Telfords Warehouse in Chester this Thursday night.
Soundhog initially came to prominence surfing the wave of interest that emanated from the mash-up phenomenon of the early noughties. However, unlike the legion of chancers who descended on that scene – clutching bog standard acapella b-sides and a pirated copy of Fruity Loops – Soundhog was only getting attention for something that he had been experimenting with since he was a kid in the 80’s, working with cassette decks [hence his pseudonym] and a finely-poised pause button.
Anyone who heard his radical melding of Mogwai and the Beatles’ Day in the Life [A Day in Tracy’s Life] will bear testimony to the man’s peerless production standards, technique and great taste.
Because of this encyclopaedic knowledge and far-ranging love of music, Soundhog’s mash-ups, bootlegs, whatever you want to call them, elevated his work above the morass. His reputation on ‘the scene’ ranked with that of Richard ‘X’, Freelance Hellraiser and that band from Belgium whose timely collating of the phenomenon brought it to a wider, and more fickle, audience, but also sounded its death knell.
However, Soundhog had already demonstrated skills above and beyond his peers with a skilful bootleg of Kylie Minogue’s anodyne, ‘Slow’. He stripped away the bog-standard backing track and played his own, on Fender Rhodes, giving the track a sexual funk sadly lacking on the original. It garnered airplay all over Europe and America, but his work’s popularity soon attracted the attention of the BPI who, stupidly, threatened legal action if he didn’t take his downloads off his website – neglecting the fact that a great deal of people, myself included, went out and bought a clutch of records that we would never have gone anywhere near if Soundhog hadn’t shown us the light.
So, Soundhog found himself, to all intents and purposes, cut off from his audience. Fortunately, he had the skill and ability to get himself a record deal with London-based Corsair Records. A critically lauded 12†and CD single of original material appeared, Curdler, in the autumn of 2004.
Since then Soundhog has busied himself doing mixes for XFM, Virgin / Liquid, BBC Radio Wales and DJ’ing in some of Europe’s most discerning clubs [Razzmatazz, Barcelona; Mokka Cukka, Budapest; Mascotte, Zurich] – but his DJ’ing dates are rare, and well-chosen, these days: which is why we should all be getting very excited at the prospect of his appearance at Telfords Warehouse, this Thursday [28th July 2005] night.
Admission is FREE, the bar is open until 12:30am, dancing is optional, appreciation of Soundhog’s musical taste and DJ’ing skill, however, is inevitable.
See you there.
http://www.soundhog.org.uk _________________ The Musical Mystery Tour,
every Sunday night 10pm - 1am, BBC Radio Wales
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