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About Me

MattBlack Music (aka Matthew Lamb). Just starting out in the home recording thing & trying to get ideas to form coherent wholes. Also playing in various live bands. The H Gang a house funk house band based at the Ocean Rooms in Gorlseton. The Phat Band, a Jazz quintet playing a variety of different jazz styles from early Dixieland right up to more contemporary Jazz such as Herbie Hancock & Weather Report.
Find out about the track(s) in the Blogs that are named after them.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/11/2007
Band Members: Band Members
MattBlack Music, just Matt - Drums, Piano / keys & saxes. I'm also here on MP3 Unsigned.
The H Gang
Paul - Drums
Ron - Bass
Charlotte - Lead Vocals
Kerin - Backing Vocals
Sonny - Guitar
Sam - Guitar
Dom - Keys
Rich - Trumpet
Ben - Alto Sax
Matt - Tenor & Baritone Saxes
The Phat Band
Mike - Drums
Alex - Bass
Florian - Piano
Molly Alto sax & Flute
Matt Tenor & Baritone Saxes
Influences: Influences
Anything can influence you but if you are wanting a more specific list then here's some sort of idea.
Stevie Wonder
The Roots
TerraFolk
Tower Of Power
Weather Report
Christian McBride Band
Katie Melua
Miles Davis
Pink Floyd
Rage Against The Machine
The Clash
Dream Theater
Cream
The Kinks
The Prodigy
Van Morrison
Jurassic 5
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Paul Desmond
Ron Blake
Madness
the Fred Hollis one
Stanley Clarke
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Sounds Like: Sounds Like
An amalgamation of many different styles. At least it will when I've got the stuff together to record it.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Broken Promises

Put simply, Broken Promises is a little poke a the war in Iraq. The speech is one that George Bush made preparing people for the war in Iraq, the full thing is 27 minutes long, this is one part of it,...
Posted by MattBlackMusic on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:43:00 PST

Drum & Bazzil

Wow, it's been a while. Drum & Bazzil is a drum & bass espue track with vaguely Latin flavoured riffs. Made in Reason with a little bit of editing in Cubase SX3. Thanks for reading & liste...
Posted by MattBlackMusic on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:12:00 PST

I Need You (no really I do)

Ok, this doesn't sound like a mish-mash of Jazz Hip-hop & funk, but there's a reason for that, I didn't write it. It was written by some mates at college (Jo & Adam) & I'm mixing it for an...
Posted by MattBlackMusic on Wed, 30 May 2007 07:37:00 PST

The Music Will Come

The reason it isn't here yet is simply because I don't have what I need yet. I have the whoop ass computer that is required to make music. I also have an immense soundcard. Now all I need is some soft...
Posted by MattBlackMusic on Sat, 12 May 2007 06:02:00 PST