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Torpedo Boyz
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Out of 5 votes - Similar Artists: Fatboy Slim, Baldwin Brothers
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- Location: Germany
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Club/Dance
Editor's review
It's impossible to be into music these days and not be impossibly jaded. There are two types of people, then, that would enjoy this album, which sounds like a bad Groove Armada or Fat Boy Slim attempt at Italo disco: those who are in no way bitter about the sonic state of things, and those who have embraced the cheesy stuff as an ironic display of humor (we call them hipsters). If you're either one, throw on some Torpedo Boyz and go nuts.
Biography
The TORPEDO BOYZ ask: "Are You Talking To Me?" Kentastic and Rollin Hand, DJs and producers from Berlin/Tokyo and Paris want to have a straight answer.
Stop wasting your time with meaningless club music and try to remember what music is all about. The TORPEDO BOYZ stand for fat beats, funky breaks and groovy basslines.
While other producers can’t do without samples it seems almost unbelievable that the TORPEDO BOYZ are actually playing all of their instruments. Yes, it’s all hand-made, folks!
TORPEDO BOYZ’ first 12” “Gimme A Bassline!” an infectious, dirty & phat mother of a groove, scored a no. 5 position in the German Club Charts (DCC) while hitting top DJ playlist around the globe in 2004. The same year Kentastic played his first US gigs with Ursula 1000 and “Are You Talking To Me?” followed into the DCC Top 20.
Bobby Hebb, known as composer and lyricist of the mega hit „Sunny“ lend his almost 70-year-old voice to the Boyz for the album track „Trust, Integrity & Pure Love“ while Fort Knox Five, top cool & en vogue producers from Washington DC remixed “Are You Talking To Me ???” to an incredible dancefloor action effect.
The list of guest musicians with ODD (Japan), Returner (Cuba), Serge Kool (France), Gil de Gil (Brasil) - just to name a few - can’t be more colorful and reflect the boundary-breaking versatility of the TORPEDO BOYZ.
With their funky as hell remix for The Killergroove Formula’s underground breaks stomper “Keep On Burnin’” the TORPEDO BOYZ have proven that they could also handle other peoples material with no problems at all.
Their album track “Any Trash Professor Abacus?” has been featured on a “Cheerios – Smiles All Around”-cereal tv ad in the UK, Australia and Finland. Not to mention sports fashion maker PUMA putting “Gimme A Bassline!” underneath their new MTV summer fashion trailer.
In Italy “Are You Talking To Me???” is currently being featured on a tv ad for “English24” and the popular Italian tv show “Le Iene” features even a couple of TORPEDO BOYZ tracks!
The word even reached Australia where “Are You Talking…” is rotating on various stations including Triple J.
The last TORPEDO BOYZ single “Start Being Nicer” was still rotating in European radio stations when Skeewiff (UK) put their hands on their version of Are You Talking To Me???“ spreading the Torpedo fever further around the globe.
Live tours with the TORPEDO BOYZ live band followed in October and November taking the boyz as far as East Russia!
Kentastic and Rollin Hand are now working on the second album which is due for May 2007. “Japaneeze Boyz” the first track from the album will be released on 12” in January. It will feature first class remixes by Smoove (UK) and Cubismo Grafico (Japan)!
