Star Belgrade - White Light Explosion
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BIOGRAPHY
Star Belgrade began in 2006 & have been championed by DJs & podcasters all across Europe. BBC’s, Steve Lamacq debuted their first ever demo, Ireland’s top indie DJ, Alison Curtis, described them as “brilliant†and Aligre FM playlisted them for an entire summer, previously unheard of on the influential French radio station.
And all this without having ever released a studio demo - let alone a record!
"It just goes to show you that you don't necessarily have to go into a big, expensive 24 track studio to make something that will grab people's attention... that track is a real grower."
- Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 1
Downloaders have proved no less eager to embrace Star Belgrade's music. Since their emergence on MySpace & on the Irish music website, CPU.ie, their songs have been downloaded by over 50,000 listeners.
This, along with very favourable press reviews, has pushed Star Belgrade's music somewhere into the public's conscience, but according to their frontman, Mike Burrows, that's not what it's really about...
"I started the project to make the kind of music I wanted to hear.. there's absolutely no agenda behind it & I've never released any songs commercially.. - it's music purely for the sake of music. I don't sell CDs or MP3s... all the music's available as free downloads."
He continues to work along with long term collaborators, Paul McDonagh & The Dowling Brothers, as well as on-off pieces with producers such as Gizzy D, Barry T & Jay Sinkie. New recordings will be posted early this year .. "Once I get my laptop fixed", explains Mike... "I dropped the bastarding thing the other day & snapped off a piece of the motherboard... but if you can't wait that long, I'll make you a tape!!"
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