(taken from the book SKETCHY PIMPS - A HISTORY OF WILD by Marlon Riley)Mad Ron and Crispy Wonga met at a full moon party in Siam (now Thailand) in the early 1960s. They instantly began shaking the foundations of the international folk scene with albums like "Beard Science" and "Hessian Claw" which deconstructed the musical norms of the time and brought a sense of wonder and illusion into the folk scene. The next 20 years were a blur of travelling and learning seeing both the young Pimps learn the ropes on the freak out circuit. They met the straggling beats, played acid badminton with the beatles and shared baths with the small faces. Their music grew into the first incarnation of the signature sketchy pimps sound just as the 1980s began to unleash electro and synth pop on the world. Their first album as a the Pimps, "Vogue Oscillator" went platinum in 12 countries and they began a tour schedule that persists to this day.Fast forward to 2007 and the Sketchy pimps have invented a new style of music which will come to be known as psychedelic trance. Its rash, hyperactive but mystical. The grooves borrow from techno and trance but the space and colour reaches further into music’s heady beginings. The life experience of these wild old rockers shines from every note. Turn on, tune in, sketch out.Releases coming very soon:THE HUND on liquid records comp "Divine inventions" may 2008
TONGUE IN CHEEK on alchemy records comp "Echo" April 2008also mad ron featuring a bit on the Flip Flop album "Floppy drive"
(spoons, abdominizer and chat-room consultancy on most tracks)Ans vs Comm Hippies - electric Hippie (Sketchy Pimps re-hash) watch this space-time...
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