Tortured Soul are a funky house band. They have a very good reputation live, playing with percussion, vintage key and bass guitar, all built around the vocal talents of one Christian Urich. The vocalist is also the drummer and plays continuously throughout live concerts going from one song to another with no break. "We don't stop, because you don't stop".
Ben Westbeech's 'So Good Today' was one of the most highly anticipated releases of 2006. The Bristol based soul kid was classically trained in cello, voice and piano before getting into hip-hop and dance music, and his quirky brand of soul music is deeply refreshing. Snapped up by Gilles Peterson's new label imprint, Brownswood Recordings, 'So Good Today' was voted in the top 5 tunes by listeners on Radio 1's Worldwide show on the strength of airplay alone and 500 copies of a limited edition vinyl release were snapped up in hours.
Nathan Haines (born: 1972) is one of New Zealand
Jean-Claude Thompson and Mark Harbottle met each other in 1990. But it wasn't until 1995 that they bought a Roland W30, that their musical alignment was cemented, and they started working together under the name The Amalgamation Of Soundz (TAOS). Since then they have rightfully earned their place amongst the most respected producers in the London underground scene, and they have deejayed all over the planet.
Were a band from Perth, Australia that released a EP called "Greenwich Mean Time" in 2005.
No Limits are 2 groups. (1) They are a Christian R&B Jazz Group called No Limits. They started with a handful of people from Christian In Action Church in Adiscombe. They started in the late 1990's but have not made anymore then one album then "Here to Stay". They have done a few live performances but they have seemed to of disabandoned in the early 2000's. (2) No Limits is Polish pop/soul group.NO LIMITS was one of the biggest stars of the Polish music scene in the 90's, often aired on TV stations such as MTV, Super Channel or the German Rias TV as the most interesting Polish group.
There are two Simbad >>>>
one is a french dj/producer based in london who also releases as Mowgly, Marathon Men, Twitch, Loose Ensemble or Les Barons... Recently released Soul Fever feat. Steelo, Simbad will be dropping his album featuring singers on Raw Fusion in spring 2007, its all about soul & quality cosmic frequencies... catch him spinnin' around the planet if you can !
The other is an indie-band from Helsinki, Finland.
There are two bands with the name The Apples. The first is an Acid Jazz group from Israel. The other is a girl group from Czech Republic who perform 60's music. The first group began in Israel in 2002 with the core of electronic artists Schoolmaster & Mixmonster and the steadfast rhythm unit of Shai Ran and Yoni Halevy. Here is their myspace profile http://www.myspace.com/theapplesmusic The idea was to lay down a funk foundation laced with live samples and organic effects, with a jazz-based front line of improvising horns.
There are two artists known as Vee. 1) At the youthful age of 18 years, Vee is already amazing people, with her song writing ability, vocal talent and her energetic, individual style of performing.
She is from Perth, Western Australia. 2) Vee also known as Valiant is an abstract producer based in Johannesburg South Africa, he is well noted for his abstract sounds often deploying Bass, Drums then Melody.