Kloq

Music:

Member Since: 3/27/2006
Band Website: kloq.co.uk
Band Members: Oz Morsley - Producer/writerVocal Performances - Douglas McCarthy & Greg C.

KLOQ BIOGRAPHY:

Past, Present and Future
If I cast my mind back to my distant past, shortly after I first became musically aware, I remember hearing those strange sounds that were, at the time, nothing like Id heard before.apart from on Dr Who and Space 1999. They were forcing their way though a barrage of gloss rock, skinhead and punk culture and pop performers with their white suit sleeves rolled up. What were these strange noises and where were they coming from?? My curiosity was sufficiently aroused and I decided to investigate so armed with my paper round money off I went each week to my local record shop to discover what these sounds were and who was making them. I discovered each week new electric gems by artists such as Depeche Mode, Yazoo, OMD, Ultravox, Gary Numan and Kraftwerk. So began my love affair with electronic music..
After a minor musical diversion in my early teens (possibly due to the hormones!) when I was into rock and heavy metal for a while, I was drawn back to electronica by the likes of Cabaret Voltaire, Front Line Assembly and Nitzer Ebb. This was a time for wearing black leather jackets, DM boots and drinking copious amounts of cheap cider, bowling around with my elbows out in a dirty club!!!! I had discovered EBM..ahhhhh! mind you thats not to say I dont do some of that now perhaps not the cheap cider!. I was perfectly content and would likely have remained so if it wasnt for the rumours of organised, rebellious masses gathering to thrust a partying middle finger at the establishment and a friend who came home one day in the late summer of 88 with eyes the size of saucers, telling me he had just spent the last 24 hours in some remote dis-used industrial unit with hundreds of other saucer-eyed personages, dancing together. He played me a belting new beat track called Ibiza by Amnesia. I had discovered Acid House. . .ahhhhh. I spent the weekends of the next few years either in my room messing about with sequencers and keyboards or in a field, club or warehouse exposed to the likes of Joey Beltram, CJ Bolland , Orbital, LFO and some bloke called Liam Howlett. This was how I met my first musical accomplice Bob Glennie (RIP dude).
Having a similar, but not identical, musical background we bounced off each other like kids on cheap lemonade at a birthday party. In the early 90s we started creating warped distorted electro techno together as Empirion and with third DJ band-member Jamie Smart signed to Beggars Banquet/XL Recordings. We thrust upon the world several singles such as Narcotic Influence, an album Advanced Technology and remixed acts such Front 242 (Headhunter 2000), Prodigy (Fireststarter), Hate Department (Release it), Praga Kahn (Luv u Still) and Fluke (Bullet) and toured with the likes of the Prodigy, Front 242 and Moby. The sound was pretty diverse for the time and we would find ourselves having a number one chart position in dance magazine Mixmag and rock/metal magazine Kerrang simultaneously!! (.our mission was accomplished!).
After Empirion I stayed immersed in the techno scene and through my good friend DJ Xavier Morel released the first Kloq tracks on Atomic Reactor and Solstice labels. What you are, Upgrade, Blade, and Kloq Music 2. These tracks were really the transition from Empirion to what the Kloq sound is now.
After producing other artists here and there, Id thought about developing Kloq into an electronic act that incorporated vocals and had recorded a few musings for a Kloq album that were deliberately arranged with that in mind. Id known Doug McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb) since I met him many moons ago through Bob. They were old-skool skateboarding buddies in the early 80s. Doug had performed live with Empirion a few times and also on What you are. It occurred to me that his distinctive vocals would sound perfect with a couple of the tracks, You Never Know and Were Just Physical, so I called him up (of course him being a first class drinking partner was an additional benefit!).
The other tracks needed a different vocal and Greg C had a great sound for Connecting. His taste in music belies his years and with no real electronic influences to speak of, after playing him a choice selection, he zoomed in on exactly where I was coming from. Were currently working on a new track Move Forward which will appear on the album.
Im also finishing a track with Paolo Morena (vocalist with The Morenas a new unsigned British indie rock band whos first album Im currently producing) on a deep downtempo track with lots of emotion. The music is most definitely Kloq but better suited to those times when you want to lay-back and lose yourself. At the same time theres another, quite filmic and almost operatic track with long-time good friend Finnish honey Lucia Holm (Sunscreem) with the dirtiest of undertones which falls into a dark groove electro opera?!
In all the album is fairly experimental and wont be entirely vocal/song-based tracks. Im still in production but theyll be a good few heads-down full-groovers that deliver on the dance-floor and will be infinitely remixable haha ! And there may even be a twisted and mangled electro version of Madonnas Lucky Star
I am really into the idea of mixing it up and wont be deterred from working with vocal artists, whatever their usual style, if I feel the mix of their sound with Kloq music would create something special. And Ive got a fair few on my wish list. . . . . . mmmmm!
Thanks for the support. Welcome to the Kloq Floq!..oz morsley

Current Tracks On the Player
Track 1 You Never Know vocals Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb, Fixmer/ McCarthy)
Track 2 Connecting vocals Greg C (solo artist)
Track 3 Were Just Physical/ So Long Cylon two tracks mixed together vocals on Were Just Physical Douglas McCarthy
Track 4 Ibiza 2006 New version of the new beat classic KLOQ style
Track 4 is a rotation track. New material will be uploaded from time to time. Your comments are always welcomed.

Record Label: Out of Line
Type of Label: Indie