About Clutch Player:
"The Atlantic Connection All Stars" Full length album on BBe records : IN STORES SEPTEMBER 18th (USA) / SEPTEMBER 3rd (ROW) Find 2 Clutch Player's tracks on the compilation "Nu Hip Hop" Retrouvez mon interview-portrait dans le Hors-Série US de Rap Mag cet été For English readers, you can find another interview on CREAM "The Atlantic Connection EP" IN STORES NOW and ON ITUNES !!! Side A 1)The Atlantic Connection (feat. Tableek & Doujah Raze) 2)King of Kings (feat. Sean Price & Sene) 3)Meet me on the dance floor (feat. Shabaam Sahdeeq, Prince Po & Sene) 4)WusGood (feat. Sene) Side B 1)Travel Plans (feat. Wildchild & MED) 2)The World is All Mine (feat. Sabrina Cuie) 3)Problems (feat. Insight) 4)A werewolf in Paris (feat. Splash) All cuts by Dj Suspect To get your copy please check your favorite shop, webshop... or : BBE website FNAC Fat City Records HHv.de Soul Seduction.com Juno Records DiskUnion Club Music Online (Japan) Inbox Records NULOOP Vinyl4u Sounds of the Universe Vinyl Kingz Jet Set Records (Japan) Jazzy Sport Music Shop(Japan) Giraffe Records Inertia SoundTable (Japan) HMV (Japan) For Parisian Hip Hop Fans, The EP is available here / Pour les amateurs de Hip Hop de passage sur Paris, vous pouvez trouver le EP ici: Up Town records : 98 boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris / M° VAVIN ou MONTPARNASSE Sound Records : 6 rue des Prêcheurs, 75001 Paris / M° Châtelet ou Les Halles Urban Music : 22 rue Pierre Lescot, 75001 Paris / M° Châtelet ou Les Halles Betino's Record Shop : 32 rue saint Sébastien, 75011 Paris / M° Saint Sébastien Froissart Music Avenue : 10 rue Paul Bert, 75011 Paris / M° Faidherbe-Chaligny "The Atlantic Connection All Stars" Full length album in stores September 3rd 2007 on BBe records Clutch Player is born may 4th 1978, in Paris, France.At the age of 15, he started a pop/rock band, deeply influenced by Radiohead. Guitar player and singer, he writes more than 50 songs that helped him to build his way to create music. Around that time, he meets hip hop culture with bands like De la Soul, Erik B & Rakim or the first releases of Gangstarr or the Wu-Tang-Clan. Anxious to know more about the origins of this music, he spends his spare time in Jazz, Soul and Funk shops. Concurrently to his law studies at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, he decides to make his music dreams come true and buy an MPC 2000. With this very only device, he starts to create beats for his emcee friends. After graduated (he still working on a law thesis to become doctor of public law), Clutch P undertook the elaboration of its first solo LP called “The Atlantic Connection All Stars†forthcoming on BBe records, home of Hip Hop legends such as J Dilla, Pete Rock, Dj Jazzy Jeff, Dj Spinna, Marc Mac or Dj Vadim. Owe to new possibilities of internet, he meets and becomes friends with some hip hop legends like Prince Po, Sean Price Wildchild or Insight. Always looking for the melting of his pop/rock background and his love for classic hip hop Clutch Player’s ambition is to be a music explorer and to break hip hop borders. Nouveau venu sur la scène Hip Hop, le voyage de Clutch Player dans la musique remonte à son plus jeune âge, avec la composition de chansons imprégnées de l’influence de groupes tels que Radiohead. Utilisant cet héritage pop/rock comme la colonne vertébrale de sa musique, il bascule dans la culture hip hop avec la découverte de collectifs comme le Wu-Tang ou la Boot Camp, ou encore Gangstarr. Désireux de réussir le mélange des genres, il décide de se procurer une MPC 2000, pierre angulaire du beat-making. Clutch Player met alors en pratique ses compétences en créant des beats pour ses amis et des emcees, formant à l’occasion divers groupes. Tout en perfectionnant son art du beat-making, il s’appuie sur internet pour exposer sa musique et parvient à retenir l’attention d’artistes légendaires dans l’histoire du Hip Hop tels que Prince Po, Sean Price, Insight, Shabaam Sahdeeq ou Wildchild et MED. Tout naturellement, c’est avec eux qu’il collabore pour la production de son premier album solo intitulé « The Atlantic Connection All Stars ». Sa façon de construire sa musique s’inspire de la volonté de réunir ses premiers amours, les groupes pop/rock, la soul et le jazz, avec sa fascination pour le style d’artistes hip hop allant de J Dilla, Jazzy Jeff, à Madlib et DJ Premier. Avec cet objectif en tête, le temps était venu pour Clutch Player d’ouvrir les portes le menant vers une nouvelle aventure musicale, d’explorer des horizons inédits afin de briser les barrières entre les genres et apporter son concours à la construction d’un hip hop moderne.
BEATS FOR SALE: YOU NEED A BEAT FOR YOUR PROJECT? LEAVE ME A MESSAGE AND WE WILL TALK BUSINESS. PEACE!!! Jazzy Jeff is Back!!! The return of the magnificent EP!!! NEW J DILLA'S EP!!! IN STORES NOW!!! NEW JAZZY JEFF RELEASE "HIP HOP FOREVER III" http://www.hiphopforeverIII.com/"The Return of the Magnificent" Coming Soon!!! NEW PRINCE PO's LP "Pretty Black" IN STORES NOW!!!!! NEW SHABAAM SAHDEEQ's ALBUM "Lord of War" AVAILABLE ON http://www.myspace.com/thorotrackz Please spread the word about the most valuable poet on the MIC : Dasan Ahanu!!! Album in stores soon! Also check out the new band of my man Beush!
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