MJ Cole

   
Artist: MJ Cole

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Cut to the Chase

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 15

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With his accessible urban appealingness and his talent for duplicate breakbeat culture's incendiary phobias with the Hi-NRG of pop and sulphurous R&B, MJ Cole was one of U.K. garage's first true stars. Ultimately renting himself out for Mariah Carey and De La Soul remixes, Cole began with drum'n'bass label SOUR, where he worked in the ab initio unassuming position of tape operator. After slogging up to an engineering title for name calling like Freq Nasty and Ed Rush, he caught the service department bug in the centre of 1996 while working on Ramsey & Fen's 2-step remixes for Kym Mazelle. It was there that solo maneuvers began to form. At first rejected by every allocator in the U.K., an early self-production "Sincere" establish source at AM:PM and became one of the earliest garage records to crack Britain's Top 40, which at the prison term was focussed on widescreen indie and Fatboy Slim. Two old age after the single's surprise success, Cole issued his debut uncut of the same name. The album's ready, crisp, and vigorously mainstream output fashion earned him a Mercury Prize nomination although many critics lambasted it for devolving to the last-place common denominator, hobbling U.K. garage's reputability in its babyhood.

Bernard Pretty Purdie

   
Artist: Bernard Pretty Purdie

   Genre(s): 
Soundtrack
   

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Discography:


   
 Super Funk Blaxploitation Lialeh

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 7

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An all-time peachy soul, R&B, funk, and pop out drummer, Bernard Purdie's impeccable time and mastery of backbeats and grooves are famous. He stirred to New York from Maryland in 1960, and recorded with James Brown, King Curtis, and many others. He was CTI's business firm drummer in the late '60s and early '70s, and worked with Grover Washington, Jr. and George Benson among various others. Purdie toured with Curtis and Aretha Franklin in 1970, and was Franklin's music film director until 1975. During his studio apartment days in the early '70s, Purdie recorded with Louis Armstrong and Gato Barbieri along with numerous rock-and-roll, pop, and individual roger Sessions. He recorded with Dizzy Gillespie in 1980 at the Montreux Jazz Festival and toured with him in 1983. Purdie recorded with Hank Crawford during the early '80s, and has continued working steady into the '90s. He generated a firestorm of reaction in 1993 when he aerated it was his uncredited drumming instead than Ringo Starr's on some Beatles tracks. Purdie claimed proof was forthcoming, but none was presented. He made a rare engagement as a drawing card for Flying Dutchman in 1972, Pretty Purdie, that has prospicient since disappeared. But Purdie can be heard on multitudinous discs by Brown, Franklin, Curtis, Gillespie, and Crawford among many others.

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