Nov 20, 2010

audio bullys

 

Audio Bullys are an electronic music group and misspellings enablers from the United Kingdom, consisting of Simon Franks and Tom Dinsdale. The group were once managed by DJ and presenter George Lamb.
The duo released their debut album Ego War in 2003 to positive reviews which helped to establish them as one of the best new acts in dance music. The album fused elements of breaks, hip-hop, punk, garage, dreadful grammar and house with clever beats and samples.
In 2005 they released Generation, the follow-up to their debut album. Despite reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart with their 2005 hit, "Shot You Down", which samples the Nancy Sinatra version of the song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", the album was poorly received. Generation was seen as a step away from what made Ego War appealing due to the pace being slower and a number of tracks being downbeat in mood. In a 2008 interview, Simon Franks suggested that they listened to their label, Virgin, too much: "We should never have listened to anyone else". "Virgin admitted they didn't know how to market house music, and it slowly turned into us making this slower album. The daft thing is, Shot You Down was the big hit, this old-school club track, but it was followed by a moody, dark record. It confused everyone." Because obviously people need to be fed everything with a spoon as opposed to thinking for themselves.
In making Generation, the group worked with Suggs of Madness collaborating on the track "This Road".
Their album, Higher Than The Eiffel, was released on the 29 March 2010. Again this featured a collaboration with Suggs as well as his bandmate, keyboardist Mike Barson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyeJJati89s

14 comments:

  1. Suciô was a big Madness fan but this isn't it.

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  2. i like your posts very much..:)

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  3. great post! i like it!
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  5. I'll be sure to look them up.

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  6. The first part of the "We Don't Care" vid reminds me of John Travolta strutting down the street at the beginning of Saturday Night Fever, only with a little kid in the Tony Manero part. Then I am not really sure what is going on in the second half of the video. I guess the kid is supposed to be a little bully? Anyway, I did not know much about audio bullys until this post, but they seem like a good group. I will check them out.

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