Rizla Invisible Players

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Member Since: 05/04/2007
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Gruff Rhys is a Welsh musician and songwriter, performing solo and with several bands, including the Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He most recently formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with DJ Boom Bip, their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008 Mercury prize.Gruff continues to play with Super Furry Animals. Pete Fowler, an Invisible Player in 2007 still designs all the artwork for the Super Furry Animals.Prior to SFA's formation, Gruff played in a number of bands, including rums with the Creation Records-signed Emily, and Ffa Coffi Pawb. But his first musical venture occurred at the age of five, when he wrote a song about a train driver contemplating death. It was called Dwin Mynd Yn Hen (I'm Getting Old).

Jazzie B, is a DJ, music producer, and entrepreneur. Soul II Soul was one of the most innovative dance/R&B outfits of the late '80s, creating a seductive, deep R&B that borrowed from Philly soul, disco, reggae, and '80s hip-hop. Originally featuring Jazzie B., producer/arranger Nellee Hooper, and instrumentalist Philip "Daddae" Harvey, the musical collective came together in the late '80s.The group won two Grammy awards and have a massive back catalogue of releases and are currently celebrating 20 years of Soul II Soul.He has remixed and produced for a long list of artists, including James Brown, Public Enemy, Isaac Hayes and Destiny’s Child.Jazzie has been recognised for his contribution to music with various accolades including a 2002 listing in the Business category of the 100 Great Black Britons list, an OBE in 2008 for services to music, and the first Inspiration award at the Ivor Novello Awards in 2008, for being "a pioneer" and "the man who gave black British music a soul of its own

David Shrigley was born in 1968, in Macclesfield, England. He studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1988 to 1991. His work encompasses drawing, sculpture, photography, animation and music. Recent exhibitions include Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; BQ, Cologne; Anton Kern Gallery New York; Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; Bergen Konsthall, Norway.His drawings have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Esquire (Japan), Donna (Italy), Arena (UK), The Guardian (UK), Le Monde (France) Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), New York Times (US). He has produced animated pop promos for Blur and Bonnie Prince Billy and has produced album artwork for artists such as Deerhoof and Malcolm Middleton. In 2006 he produced a spoken word album Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others and in 2007 released a compilation album Worried Noodles featuring 39 artists invited to create songs based on his lyrics originally published in a book of the same name.The project included contributions from David Byrne and Franz Ferdinand amongst others. Shrigley is the author of numerous books of drawings details of which can be found at redstonepress.co.uk He now lives and works in Glasgow and is represented by the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. More information can be found at davidshrigley.com His latest publication 'Red Book' is available from Redstone Press in September 2009.

Jon Carter's rise to prominence was triggered, like so many of his generation, by the Acid House revolution of 88-89 when the warehouse parties that happened nationwide suddenly made music so much more accessible than ever before.The breakthrough came in 1994 with a dub coloured 4/4 track 'The Dollar', Jon's first disc outing on the then still embryonic Wall Of Sound label. A subsequent move to Heavenly was marked by the release of 'Blow The Whole Joint Up' under the name Monkey Mafia, one of the defining tunes of the era and still a club favourite five years later.Alongside Norman Cook, the Chemical Brothers and Andy Weatherall, Jon was one of the original residents at the then mind-blowing and now legendary Heavenly Social.Remix wise, Jon has worked with some of music's biggest names, from right across the musical spectrum; U2, Manic Street Preachers and the Prodigy (with whom Jon toured as a DJ) 808 State and Felix Da Housecat.Internationally, it's probably now easier to list the countries Jon hasn't played but undoubted highlights have been a millennium eve gig on Sydney's Bondai Beach and Jon's participation in Brazil's largest carnival in Salvador.His new project ‘Roosevelt High’ has started blowing up parties such as infamous ‘Block at the Lock’ held at The Lock Tavern in Camden, London.

21-year-old Mica Levi is the unassuming five foot one figure leading the future-pop frontier. Over the past year Micachu, as she's become known, has released an avidly received mixtape that moulded concrete grime and ruff-neck hip hop to avant-electronics, composed a Nuevo-classical epic for the London Philharmonic Orchestra as part of a project curated by Marc Anthony Turnage, and formed a band, Micachu andThe Shapes.Mica’s steadily risen as one of the UK’s most talked-about acts, born in Guildford and raised in Watford, Mica Levi couldn’t have had much more of a musical upbringing being the daughter of a record collector and a professional Cellist, she was playing a violin when she was barely old enough to hold one.Her creative armistice lasted to her early teens when she discovered the school’s music tech suites. Delving deep into the murky world of samplers and sequencers Mica began honing her craft.Hooking up with one of Britain’s most acclaimed and experienced electronic artistes, Matthew Herbert, who shared a very similar creative direction in music production, she has gone from strength to strength. Her debut album “Jewellery’ was released on Rough Trade Records in March this year.
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