Introducing

Introducing_

Take the idea of the "world's first completely sampled album" (Guinness Book of Records) and turn it around by playing the whole thing live.



It's hard to imagine that it's now over a decade since DJ Shadow released his classic debut album 'Endtroducing' – an album that inspired a generation of DJs and musicians alike, and which still sounds as fresh today as it did back in 1996.

'Endtroducing' was a unique piece of work, partly because it made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the 'First Completely Sampled Album', but also because of the intricacy with which, using an Akai MPC60 sampler and an early Pro-Tools set-up, DJ Shadow created completely original-sounding compositions. So, despite being made entirely of samples, it's not an album that could be, or ever has been, played live by a DJ, not even the man himself... until now.

Matt Derbyshire
"I just randomly discovered one day that there was this guy on the internet who'd taken the time to locate each and every sample that was used on the album, and you could go to this site and download the whole lot. Amazing. Being a bit of a music geek myself, [in his spare time Matt designs music hardware for Novation] I thought 'hang on a minute, I'll see if I can start recreating one of the tracks on my computer'.

"I think it was the drums that first got me thinking. There are some absolutely mental bits of drum-programming, and I just started thinking, 'I wonder what that would sound like with a real drummer'. I'm also lucky enough to be old mates with a guy called Mike Reed who's probably one of the few drummers in the world that could even attempt such a thing."

Matt started painstakingly recreating the whole album on his computer, whilst Mike charted out all those mental drum breaks that define the sound of the album. "Mike's such a perfectionist", Matt continues, "he even plays all the delay effects that Shadow puts on the drums on some tracks, rather than putting the drums through an Effects unit".

So with a scratch DJ, an actor (and a vocal FX box), a bassist, a Chinese hip hop Keyboard virtuoso, and a sax and flute player, alongside Matt on keyboards and guitar and Mike on drums, the band was formed.

"It's been a mammoth task, obviously, but we're all just really excited to be able to do something so unique and deliver the first ever live performance of one of our favourite records. It'll be a shame not to be able to be in the audience!"

COMMENTS

Great concept, great band, great music! Shawn Lee

sounds awesome (Ricky from Belleruche)

SOUNDS AMAZING MAN...SUPERB MUSICIANSHIP (Shisha Sound System)

Highlight of Festinho for me (Alex, from The Beaufort Scale)

absolutely fookin fantastic (Peepshow Paddy, Disco Shed)

LISTEN

Listen to recordings from their rehearsal for Festinho:
myspace.com/introducinglive

WATCH

Watch video of their performance at Festinho:
Organ Donor
Mutual Slump
Untitled / Stem

introduce yourself:

www.myspace.com/introducinglive

Contact

For booking enquiries, please contact:
paddy@thepeepshow.co.uk
aidan@thepeepshow.co.uk