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1) Collaboration between Julio Bashmore and Hyetal on the Night Slugs label. 2) Velour was a danish popband (1994-2008) making independent popmusic with catchy melodies & challenging arrangements influenced by west coast pop and indie music . They released 2 albums : Get in Room (2003) and Undress your alibis (2008) - both with excellent reviews - but threw the towel in august 2008. see more on www.velournet.dk

Read more about Velour on Last.fm.

The boy with the dot in his name and the dubby background, started to play records in
the early 90s far in the darkest reaches of the ruff'n'tuff Harz mountains, in former East Germany. This little country bumpkin practiced dilingently every night by candlelight at his aunt's farm.
1994. Phon.o cites the hay in the barn, the dirt in the fields and the sheep form calling him from beyond the hills as strong early influences of his deep and dirty style. In these times he got his first turntables and used every free hour to practise in his hidden secret cottage.

Romare has spent the last year collecting samples and working on a concept: that a new form of music can emerge by investigating the relationship between different musical cultures through sampling. Samples of songs, speeches, interviews, field recordings and films were carefully chosen and rearranged to explore the connection between African and African-American music. Rhythms from West Africa are integrated with voices from Harlem, conversations about race and identity between writers and ethnomusicologists are constructed, speeches from activists are conjoined with the voices of prisoners.