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The Grinds

About Me

The Grinds were formed in early July 2006 when they took a night stroll downtown during a cigarette break from their production sessions after suffering from serious headphone fatigue... Having listened to a great deal of ambient, electronica, and dance music records for years they decided to crush, grind and blend diverse musical elements and infuse an eclectic selection of flavors to their productions from their own ethnic musical background and beyond... Intermixed musical gestures, beats and melodies are all fused together to spark unique tunes with a strong passion for sensual voyages where only mind and soul can travel...The duet find inspiration in rare traditional instruments and songs, as well as in stimulating synthetic sounds and textures, and in life itself as a whole, where a particular mood or feel can spark off the creation of a new work of art almost instantaneously; at any time, any place... The Grinds met at the University of Westminster in 2005, where both studied the craft of audio production and slowly started producing music together.Their debut album "Under The Chillin’ Sun" was conceived and realized during the early summer of 2006, and it's inspired by the motive to express the creators' feelings through their culture, experiences and inner need to produce "global" music; a music that knows no frontiers... Up to this date, the pair are close to the final stages of the album production and are planning to release "Under the Chillin’ Sun" very soon… Its promotion has just got started!

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Member Since: 10/2/2006
Band Website: www.thegrinds.com
Band Members: Dimitris Makridis & Tushar Manek...and of course our songs would never be the same without the support and contribution of our chilled friends Antonis Tsoukatos, Rohit Pradhan, Matthaios and Konstantinos Tsahourides, Kelsey Collins, DJ Vicious-Vee, Matthew Houghton, Christos Sidiropoulos and Katie Collins.
Influences: In alphabetical order... AiM, Air, The Album Leaf, Al-Pha-X, Aphex Twin, Basement Jaxx, Bjork, Bliss, Boards of Canada, John Cage, Cantoma, Chemical Brothers, Chicane, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Ross Dally, Dead Can Dance, Deep Forest, Enigma, Brian Eno, Future Sound of London, Peter Gabriel, Goldfrapp, Groove Armada, Manos Hatzidakis, Ibizarre, Chris Isaak, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kinobe, Kitaro, KLF, Leftfield, Lemongrass, Lemon Jelly, Levitation, Loop Guru, Massive Attack, David Miles, Robert Miles, Moby, Nightmares on Wax, Nitin Sawhney, DJ Shadow, Ravi Shankar, Viju Shah, Nacho Sotomayor, The Orb, William Orbit, José Padilla, Pink Floyd, AR Rahman, Erik Satie, Pierre Schaeffer, Sigur Ros, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Telefon Tel Aviv, Mikis Theodorakis, Thievery Corporation, U2, Underworld, Stavros Xarhakos, Yannis Xenakis, Zero 7...
Sounds Like: The Grinds
Record Label: negotiating

My Blog

Our 1st interview published on the Internet

We are more than happy to announce the posting of our 1st interview on the website of Phase Radio 87.7 FM in Lamia, Greece.We would like to take the opportunity and thank the producers of Phase Radio ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:37:00 GMT

The Grinds plays on radio for the autumn & winter season!

We would like to thank Echoes Net Radio & Radio Schizoid for their continuous support on playing our tracks.A selection of our tracks will be on air throughout the autumn season in random order and ti...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:16:00 GMT

"Escapade" on air at Radio Schizoid from Bombay, India

We can't hide our excitement as our track "Escapade" has recently joined the playlists from Radio Schizoid based in Bombay, India!You can listen to the track on the Chillout stream of this fresh, dedi...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:15:00 GMT

More airplays from The Grinds at Echoes Net Radio!

We are pleased to announce that our music started getting airplays at Echoes Net Radio from Tuesday 10th of June with our intro track "From Dusk Till Dawn" and from Tuesday 24th our track "Summer Bree...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:29:00 GMT