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ERNEST DRAKE

About Me


Hey there; welcome! Lay back in your favourite easy chair with a cup of shut the fuck up. Get undressed and listen to some pretty sexy and revolting music. Music that sounds like something is happening here and now, music with spirit and punch - here is Ernest Drake!
Ernest Drake may be the nightmare of stereotyped thinking: too punk to be a just another club-act, too electro to be a rockband, too much content to ignore, too danceable to think.
Just at the very beginning of this year – when twila.too and Ernest met for the first time it became clear that Ernest Drake would no longer be a one-man-stand.
The contrast between the direct aggression of Ernests vocals and Twila's aloof yet erotic singing matched just great.
Their music is straight in-your-face as well as subtile. Provoking and danceable - live as well as on record.
DJ Phoney started Ernest Drake in 2006 to be able to find a way to express his anger about a lack of rebellion in this so-called post new economy society.
One demo and an EP saw the light of day before he met twila.too and Ernest Drake became a team-up.
Before blasting the speakers with Ernest Drake, twila.too was bombed in the electronic scene of Cologne since 2001. In the past, she worked with Bob Humid, Air Liquide, Decomposed Subsonic and others.
DJ Phoney is probably best known for deep underground Hip Hop-, Roots Reggae- and Funk-tunes as well as more than 300 DJ-sets. He worked with International Criminal, EmCee Lynx, D3Z’s, Eduardo, Son of Nun, Mr. Kato and others.
Together they are Ernest Drake!
New tracks have been recorded and some more will be done soon. "Protest & Survive" as well as "Nomme Folie" are two of those - mixed and mastered by Bob Humid at Fat Of Excellence-studio. A vinyl 12" is planned for release in may on Soulplex Recordings/Drake Records and you can order a new 5 track-CD-demo for EUR 5,00 if you send us a mail here.
Ernest Drake can be booked for live-gigs and DJ-sets.
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Recordings:
- 'Demo' MC (Phoney Tapes, 2005)
- 'Rotten Commie Radical EP' 7" (Phoney Tapes, 2006)
- new 5 tracks demo CD (Phoney Tapes, 2008)
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Videos:

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/2/2007
Band Website: (this one)
Band Members: twila.too - vocals, songwriting, instr
Ernest Drake - vocals, songwriting, instr, production
Influences: George Orwell, Leo Trotzki, Throbbing Gristle, Alec Empire, Kurt Tucholsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Max Roach, John Heartfield, Alex Callinicos, Aristoteles, Test Dept, John Steinbeck, Urban Waste, Victor Serge, Bruce Lee, MC 5, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, James Connolly, High On Fire, Käthe Kollwitz, U.N.K.L.E., Hal Draper, Cabaret Voltaire, Clara Zetkin, The Redskins, V. I. Lenin, Leftfield, Anna Seghers, John Steinbeck, Aphex Twin, Oscar Wilde, Heinrich Mann, Alistair Hulett, EC8OR, Bertold Brecht, Maxim Gorki, Entombed, Allen Ginsberg, Duncan Hallas, John Coltrane, Charles Bukowski, Melvin Van Peebles, Karl Liebknecht, Woody Guthrie, Charlie Parker, Tony Cliff and more
Sounds Like: revolt
Record Label: Drake Records / soulplexrecordings.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

French SONY-Workers Take Manager As Hostage!

"There's no classes, no struggle and no reason for it anymore." - A regular opinion if you come up with words like working class and strike nowadays.Now how ya call this then?Close to Bordeaux in fran...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:04:00 GMT

Fascists trying to reserve the term 'hardcore' as a brand name

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Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:12:00 GMT

about the big fake with unemployment figures

I wanna have a word or two about what the bourgeoise parliament and the media whine about all day though most of us know it’s just a figleaf  the unemployment figures and how they in- or decrea...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:55:00 GMT