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Josh Osho

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:18:31 +0000

“A boy in appearance, a man at heart. At 18 don’t let his youth fool you, his songs are bursting with the experience and maturity you would expect to find at the heart of a well seasoned musician. His performances will take you on a rollercoaster of emotions, as your tears turn from those of sadness to joy and mirth. Josh Osho is an undeniably original act and his passion for his first love is expressed in the wholesome honest music he creates in his musical furrow.
Hold on to your hats…”

www.myspace.com/joshuaoshomusic

Sherika Sherard

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:22:59 +0000

“…my nursery rhymes are too deep…”
Prepare to be challenged, enlightened & positively moved as you experience the infectious creativity of Sherika Sherard.
This South Londoner is just 18 but don’t let such youth fool you. Sherika has been writing & performing for over 4 years and has already been crowned “London’s Best Solo Act” by Live & Unsigned.
Her rhymes speak with the authority of a seasoned wordsmith within tunes that are destined to become hugely familiar to anyone with an ear for melody and an emotional core….

http://www.myspace.com/sherikasherard

Tim Lever & Mike Percy

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:48:45 +0000

Mike Percy and Tim Lever’s relationship was formed when they met at school in their home town of Liverpool. Their breakthrough as writers came as members of the internationally successful group Dead or Alive during which time they wrote and produced two albums with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, including “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)”.

The formation of One World Productions marked the beginning of Mike and Tim’s careers as writer/producer/remixers and they scored success with Soul II Soul, Phil Collins, After 7, Alexander O’Neal, Beats International, Kenny Thomas, The Pasadenas, Pauline Henry, Desree, Dannii Minogue, Rozalla, Kim Wilde, Diana Brown and Barrie K Sharpe.

In 1995 they signed to Simon Fuller’s publishing Company 19 Music, at the same time relocating to Sheffield and forming Steelworks Productions in partnership with Eliot Kennedy.

Enjoying an amazingly successful period; they wrote and produced for such acts as Five, SClub 7, Billie Piper, Spice Girls, A1 and Emma Bunton to name but a few.

Latest News:
“Right Round” No.1 on Hot 100
Flo Rida’s adaptation of Tim Lever & Mike Percy’s classic track “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” has moved 58-1 on the latest US Hot 100 chart. It also debuts at No.1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart with sales of 636,000.

The Future Sound Of London

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:33:33 +0000

Brian Dougans and Garry Cobain began their musical partnership and friendship in Manchester, in the mid 1980s whilst the two were studying at Manchester University. Dougans had already been making electronic music for some time when they first began working in various local clubs. In 1988, Brian embarked on a project for the Stakker graphics company. The result was Stakker Humanoid. Garry collaborated with Brian on the accompanying album.

In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases, releasing it through the label Jumpin & Pumpin. Stakker Humanoid re-entered the UK chart in 1992, followed by the breakthrough classic ambient dub track Papua New Guinea, which was also the first release under the Future Sound of London moniker. After releasing the album Accelerator to critical acclaim they signed to Virgin Records. With their new found contract they immediately began to experiment and the result was the Tales Of Ephidrena album, released under the Amorphous Androgynous alias.

Lifeforms followed in 1993. The new work was almost entirely free of percussion and was truly ambient across both discs. It was a top 10 hit in the UK album chart, and is still hailed as one of the greatest ambient electronica albums ever devised. Having pioneered the use of ISDN for music broadcasts to radio stations this year also saw the release of ISDN, it featured live broadcasts FSOL had made to various radio stations worldwide.

In 1996 they released Dead Cities. The new material was a mixture of ambient textures and hard gritty dance music. Promotion for the album culminated in a headline slot at the Essential Festival in Brighton in 1998. Once again utilising ISDN they played the gig from their studio in London.

Around this time Garry became very ill from what was later diagnosed as lead poisoning from the old fillings in his teeth. This illness caused Garry to go on a voyage of self-discovery that took him to India for an extended period where he studied Eastern and Ayurvedic medicine, Yoga and Taoism.

From these travels and research Brian & Garry started to get the feel for a new direction in their music. They both got into the spirit of early psychedelia and leftfield 60’s/70’s rock and saw the potential of forging these new influences with the new technology and production expertise they had acquired. The resultant album, The Isness, released under the Amorphous Androgynous moniker, was a cosmic mix of psychedelia, folk, big band, orchestral, eastern classical and electronic which also had an exotic mix of musical collaborators including Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart/Jeff Buckley), Herbie Flowers (David Bowie, Lou Reed) and revered Indian classical sitarist Baluji Shrivastav.

With the release of Alice In Ultraland they focused the Amorphous Androgynous modus operandi, allowing it to exist and flourish fully on its own terms. Recorded over a three year period and expanding on The Isness’ psychedelic/electronic soundscape, it is a samplerdelic funkoid roktronic cosmic ambient oozescape, merging the sonic with the lyric, the beat with the beat-less, the classic rock with the epic freeform roll. The album careers and morphs through virtually every musical genre as it twists its way from the imaginations of Dougans & Cobain; from the Miles Davis mutoid jazz of The Witch Hunt to the electro funkadelic twist of The Prophet, the calming ambience of Another Fairy Tale Ending to the dark, epic Pink Floydisms of The World Is Full Of Plankton.

Following this release Brian and Garry set up the digital portal FSOLDigital, which has become the home to a wide array of material. “FSOLDigital is the electronic brain made reality. It gives us the freedom to do whatever we want, when we want. We are at the beginning of something and we are excitied by its possibilities.”

Brian and Garry are currently working on brand new Future Sound Of London material as well as some soundtrack work. They continue to provide their idiosyncratic radio shows to stations across the globe and are looking at new ways to bring the FSOL experience to the live arena.

Latest News:
Amorphous Androgynous Remix Oasis
FSOL, as their Amorphous Androgynous project, have remixed the next Oasis single “Falling Down”. It will be released on March 9th. Noel recently had this to say about it on the Oasis blog:
By the way, there’s gonna be a very special release coming your way soon. Remember that “Amorphous Androgynous” lot I was telling you about? Well, they’ve done a “Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble” mix of “Falling Down”. It’s 22 mins long. I’ll repeat that, TWENTY-TWO MINUTES LONG!! I fully expect 50% of you not to have the attention span to deal with something like that but the rest of you, I hope, will be blown away. It’s a staggering piece of music. Monumental even. All superlatives will apply.

www.futuresoundoflondon.com

Jewels & Stone

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:41:51 +0000

Julian Gingell and Barry Stone first met at PWL Studios whilst working for the producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman. They have been working together as Jewels and Stone since the early 90’s remixing and adding additional production on tracks for artists such as Boyzone, Enrique Iglesias, Atomic Kitten and Sophie Ellis Bextor to name but a few.

In 1999, Jewels and Stone had their first chart success as writers and producers with the top 5 hit I Breathe Again by Adam Rickett. 2001 saw the duo remixing S Club 7’s Don’t Stop Moving which lead to their involvement with 19. Two successful writing collaborations with Cathy Dennis saw Dance, Dance, Dance by S Club 7 featuring on the Sunshine album and the second being the award winning Pop Idol Theme Tune. More recent work has included writing, production and remix work for Rachel Stevens, Dannii Minogue and Sophie Ellis Bextor.

Tim Woodcock

admin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:17:12 +0000

London based with studio. Tim is a complete all round international writer, musician, programmer and producer (vocals his speciality) with songs recorded by artists totalling over 20 million album sales worldwide. Recently Tim has had a track in the Disney film “Race To Witch Mountain” and has been working with Enrique Iglesias and Eliza Doolittle for EMI.

Artist	Title	Format	Chart
Simon Webbe	Coming Around Again	Single	UK #12
	No Worries	Single	UK #4
	Lay Your Hands	Single	UK #4
	After All This Time	Single	UK #16
	Grace	Single	UK #36
Blue	Guilty	Single	UK #2
	Supersexual	Album	UK #1
	Taste It	Album	UK #1
	All Rise (2 Tracks)	Album	UK #1
Delta Goodrem	Innocent Eyes (4 Tracks)	Album	UK #2
Lemar	When A Heart Is Broken	Album	UK #3
Atomic Kitten	Ladies Night (2 Tracks)	Album	UK #5
Toploader	Just Hold On	Single	UK #20
	Following The Sun	Album	UK #3
S Club 7	You	Single	UK #2
Billie Piper	Something Deep Inside	Single	UK #4
Darius	Live Twice	Single	UK #7
James Fox	Hold On To Our Love Tonight	Single	UK #7
Ben Mills	Picture Of You (5 Tracks)	Album	UK #3

Tom Nichols

admin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:33:30 +0000

Tom Nichols is an ASCAP award winning songwriter/producer living in London. His first release ‘Black Coffee’ by All Saints went to No.1 in UK.

He has since had songs recorded by Jessica Simpson, Celine Dion, Kylie, Lindsay Lohan, selling more than 30million records.

He owns Juicymusik, his production and publishing entity, and last year had over 40 confirmed releases including singles by Simon Webbe, Gareth Gates and Stephanie McIntosh.

Cuts include:

Title	Artist	Format	Chart
All Saints	Black Coffee	Single	UK #1
Kylie Minogue	Fever	Album	UK #1
	Burning Up	Album	UK #1
Celine Dion	Have You Ever Been In Love	Album	UK #1
Sugababes	Undignified	Album	UK #1
Stephanie McIntosh	Mistake	Single	Aus #2
Jessica Simpson	Forbidden Fruit	Album	US #2
Lindsay Lohan	To Know Your Name	Album	US #2
Hall & Oates	Do It For Love (3 Tracks)	Album	US #20
Gareth Gates	Angel On My Shoulder	Single	UK #22
	Downtown	Album	UK #1
	Alive	Album	UK #1
Rachel Stevens	Silk	Album	UK #9