Member Since: 12/16/2005
Band Website: quiolikeoooh.com
Band Members: myself
Influences: InfoQUIO, MC and singer coming out of Berlins buzzing club scene , has finished her second Album with Electronic Producer AGF!She is one of the few fe-MCs in Germany, who drop their rhymes over Drum´n´Bass, Garage and Dubstep, but with "PHIU" she continues to follow her own path already highly acclaimed by the audience and critics for her first album "LIKE OOOH!" in 2005.Quio, started MCing in 1997 as MC LOONEY TUNES.
She performed with Drum' n Bass and HipHop DJs in Berlin Germany and
throughout Europe. In 1998 she met DJ G-SERVE from AUDIOTAXI in WTF
together with DJ CHRISTINE LANG.
They organized parties named ON BASS TRACKS. Until today QUIO is part
of a radio show on Berlin's former Pirate Radio Station TWEN FM, named
Underground Essentials.In 1999 Quio met AGF when they both performed in a club. Various
collaborations followed.
In 2003 they started QUIO. 2004 they released the first 12" on AGF
Producktion, in 2005 the first album "like oooh!" followed and now there is the
"PHIU"-Album-Release in September 2007!On "PHIU", the versatile vocalist shows once again how multi-faceted her styles can be. From the angry rapper to the delicate singer, from the light-hearted MC to the serious speaking artist. Be assured, with QUIOs vibrating mixture of HipHop, Club, Electronica and Pop you will never get bored!She plunges readily in and out of her collected adulthood influences: from Ol Dirty Bastard over the Beastie Boys to Tanya Stevens, Lady Saw and Sovereign, from The Smiths to Phoenix.All these are being minced up, recombined and given the unique electronic flavour of QUIOs producer AGF aka ANTYE GREIE, known for her various solo releases and worldwide performances. Their unusual style, already present on the first Album „LIKE OOOH!“, has now been refined on „PHIU“ – strong beats support raps with high impact and deep basslines bring out the tangent fragility of QUIOs vocal lines.And on „PHIU“ QUIO has also invited some PROMINENT GUESTS
to support her crazy styles:NICOLETTE, Ex-Shut Up And Dance produced „Billie Holiday on Acid“, pays QUIO the honour with her unique way of singing on „So Loud“!EDU K, Baile Funk star from Brasil, has given QUIO a portugese Rap-Lesson on „Minha Rima“!AUDIOTAXI, producer duo consisting of DJ G-SERVE and MOKRY, who have been working with QUIO for over ten years doing radioshows on Berlins pirate station Twen FM, DJing and MCing all over Europe! They have co-written several tracks on "PHIU".LISE, sixteen-year-old voice wonder, with her velvety heartbreaking timbre!AL HACA, bass heavy producer who has worked with the likes of Dancehall Legend Sizzla, infamous producer Stereotyp and The Tape-Rapper RQM!TRICKY DICKY, berlin based producer, Ex-Elektronauten member and founder of Tricky Tunes, has given birth to Quios first dubby Dubtrack!***************************************************
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And :)She likes to explore what is misunderstood and break up what
supposedly makes sense. In misunderstandings she sees both the chance to have
performer and listener create something new, and to put into question
the perception of understanding something the wrong or right way.Quio is against seriousness when it is used as a tool of dominance,
in the way that seriousness gives weight, means truth, means realness. Never
wanting to impose meaning. She writes against preconceptions and
boxing people in, especially women into premade schemes.Quio is a fan of the moment of surprise. She will break unbearable
content into amusing snippets of new sense - or break up nonsense and stitch
together a new unquestionable world of seriousness with its own set of
clichees and idiotic rolemodels.For REAL!
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Record Label: agf producktion www.poemproducer.com
Type of Label: Indie