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35yd beat experiment

soulful lounge-hop for brain and booty

About Me

It’s soulful but not soul, it’s funky but it isn’t funk. There are improvised solos and lyrical grooves, but it’s certainly not jazz. The beats are fat as you like, but it isn’t hip-hop. It has attitude, intensity and - in places – sheer volume, yet it has nothing to do with rock or punk. It has big melodies and plenty of emotion but you couldn’t call it pop, and it’s way too dancefloor-friendly to be a film soundtrack. So what is it? Progressive soul? Lounge-hop?...
Click on a track or two, have a listen, and you tell us. Everything was recorded on an 8-track recorder in a disused industrial unit in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, and it's all "as live" - what you hear is exactly what you'd hear us play at a gig.
Welcome to a new kind of music.

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Music:

Member Since: 2/23/2006
Band Website: 35yd.com
Band Members: alex - bongos, congas, djembe, percussion, didgeridoo
umaru - words, voice, max factor
orb - pianos, saxophones, theremin, voice 2
simon - drums
splicemaster mainbrace - turntables
ed - bass
Influences: Cinematic Orchestra, Bussetti, Red Snapper, DJ Shadow, Herbaliser, Outkast, Steely Dan, Moloko, early Paul Winter, Pest...
Sounds Like: Elaborate chandeliers, comfy sofas, world music, heart, soul and massive hardass beats.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Star & Shadow gig CANCELLED

Don't nobody go to the Star and Shadow on Saturday expecting to see us play. Simon broke a couple of tendons snowboarding, so he can't drum. And we didn't fancy the MTV unplugged option... ha. As if.D...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Tue, 06 May 2008 02:33:00 PST

Rehearsal room

Aloha.Our rehearsal room's got a spare slot again, if any bands out there need a regular place to rehearse. It's big and dry and inspiring and sounds brilliant - good enough to record in (we have). Th...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:53:00 PST

New mixes and such

Ah, another new track? Well, no, officer, not quite. But we have remixed Bacharach for the album, with some new backing vocals and a certain fatness and clarity that may have been away buying chips th...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:06:00 PST

A new track? Surely not?

Can it be true? Is that a new track, all properly recorded and mixed and all that shit?Aye. Friends, have a listen to Daybreak. First new recording for the forthcoming ALBUM wo yes. Not a hint of thin...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:52:00 PST

Dinnae panic

We haven't died, we're just asleep. You can tell by the drool. We've been writing, writing, writing (rawhide!), actually. Some very tasty new tunes in the offing. Also at some point we'll record somet...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:16:00 PST

Rehearsal room taken...

Hi, folks. The rehearsal room is taken (hello and welcome, gentlemen of the 27th persuasion!) but thanks everyone for asking about it. I'm keeping everyone's details, and I'll give y'all a nod if a sp...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:10:00 PST

Rehearsal space

G'day. Bit of a public service message, this one... Just a wee bloglet to say that if anyone wants a permanent rehearsal space where you can leave your gear set up and make a racket without people com...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:42:00 PST

free downloads for 2007!

Happy new year, y'all. Just cos we're feeling fly, we're going to cut you all in on something special. As a little new year giftie, how would you like 35yds of FREE DOWNLOADS? Yup, that's ri...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:23:00 PST

Rip Jbrown...nevertheless

must be last person on earth to 'show love' nevertheless, heres one to the man who trully made soul his own. and heres to all that make soul their own...   rip jb    ...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:02:00 PST

Jarvis Cocker. What a Co...

What a dude, Jarvis cocker you rock my world. Thought when he got up on stage to take MJ out that he was a dude and now, he's released his own cool album lives in france and has a ace v...
Posted by 35yd beat experiment on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:31:00 PST