Member Since: 10/6/2005
Band Members: Bolden Earl-Ellington: Producer, Bandleader, Arranger, DJ, Sole Musical Force; Guitars, Samples, Media, Bongos, Beats, Basslines, Horns, Horniness, Hounds, Strings, Klings, Klangs, Keys, FX etc
Influences: Bands/Artists:
1. Prince
2. Basement Jaxx (up to 2006)
3. Parliament
4. Massive Attack
5. The Roots
5.1 Bugz In The Attic
5.2 R.E.M
Producers/Remixers:
1. Lee 'Scratch' Perry
2. Kruder and/or Dorfmeister
3. Rick Rubin
4. Lord Gosh
5. RZA
And:
pretty much everything that's happened in music since about 1920
DJs:
1. Sasha and/or Digweed
2. Norman Jay MBE
3. Healer Selecta
4. Felix B
5. Gilles Peterson
People:
1. Dr Seuss
2. Maurice Sendak
3. James Dean
4. Gene Vincent
5. Quentin Tarantino
Other:
1. The London Borough of Camden
2. My parents' record collection
3. Assorted film & literature
4. Pretending that I'm in a Bret Easton-Ellis parchment, and the resulting Roger Avery film, but without the vomit or suicide
5. Falafel
And:
I believe in Rock and Roll as fervently as I believe that the sun will rise tomorrow, with a religious zeal and a childish optimism that not even Pete Waterman, Joss Stone, or Fearne Cotton could quash.
Sounds Like: Last week:
Imagination:
1. Mozart, as interpreted by hyperactive blind kids
2. Our closest genetic relatives, the pygmy chimpanzees, dropping a piano down a flight of stairs
3. A noncy, middle-class, ethnically ambiguous, slightly androgynous, self-proclaimed genius with a silly haircut pretending to be a Rastafari Soul brother
4.Walt Disney without the fascism
5. Drifting palely through an imaginary 60s
Type of Label: None