LONDON ELECTRICITY + MC WREC
HOSPITAL RECORDS UK
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LONDON ELECTRICITY
London Electricity has become a byword for groundbreaking ‘fast soul music’, ramming venues, destroying drum & bass crowds, leaving huge smiles from the Big Chill to Glastonbury and beyond, LONDON ELEKTRICITY LIVE has always been ‘out of this world’.
Flip the script again in 2007. Tony LE is back behind the decks with sets from London to Japan to Malaysia, Australia, California, Eastern Europe an onwards. Tony also keeps it cutting edge as always by bringing you the groundbreaking Hospital Podcast. This regular show, available through iTunes, is smashing up the bandwith as people subscribe from Canada to Cape Town. Keep locked on as London Elektricity pushes things forward!
The LE saga began way back in ‘96, and up until 2002 LE was a double-act. Tony Colman and Chris Goss made their mark in 98 with the epic Song In The Key Of Knife, and subsequent critically acclaimed debut album Pull The Plug. In 2002 Tony took on the project solo, as Chris concentrated on taking the NHS empire to the next level.
With the release of Billion $ Gravy in 2003, phone calls from Fabio and Radio One requested a live session from Maida Vale - and lo’, LONDON ELEKTRICITY LIVE was born.
For 2 years between ‘Gravy’ and 2005’s album Power Ballads Tony and the Band have played over 150 gigs reaching a quarter of a million people with their Live Drum & Bass spectacular. With the release of Live at The Scala in 2006, the live band bowed out in style.
The past couple of years have seen Tony become the people’s choice for their dnb news and upfront music as host of the multi award winning Hospital Podcast. Raking up outrageous bandwidth bills following millions of downloads the Hospital Podcast has a massive cult following, with its happily controversial host intrinsic to its success.
In September 2008 Syncopated City was released, the 4th studio album and another masterpiece from the man like L.E.
Keep your ears locked to the podcast and your browsers fixed to londonelektricity.com for what comes next…
http://www.hospitalrecords.com/artists/londonelektricity
MC WREC
http://www.myspace.com/mcwrec
Jon Bailey aka MC Wrec is regarded as one of Britains most exciting artists and music entrepreneurs. Known as one of the hardest workers on the circuit, this versatile young grafter shot to fame in recent years after becoming the front man to the multi award winning live act London Elektricity and his work with accliamed eclectic acts The Nextmen, Stanton Warriors and Timo Maas.
The Surrey born vocalist who spent time growing up in Berlin, London, Southampton and Brighton, discovered his love for music at a very young age. Listing Michael Jackson, Cypress Hill, Nirvana, Alex Reece, LSK and Roots Manuva as influences, he first graced the mic in 1995 at a warehouse party in South Croydon and came up through the traditional ranks of Londons sound-system and pirate radio culture. He earnt his stripes chatting over early breakbeats, jungle, house, garage, hip hop and reggae music, before relocating to Southampton in 1998, where he gained a marketing degree, promoted shows, founded the Distortion Crew and his former hip hop group The Pickpockets and became Addict Clothing’s Music PR manager.
It was during this time, Wrec began cutting his teeth working and touring with the likes of DJ Red, Rodney P and DJ First Rate, spreading his wings both nationally and internationally on the mic. From 2003 - Dec 2005 (when the band stopped touring), Wrec fronted the mighty London Elektricity live band, recording two live LP’s and DVD’s, featuring on the 2005 studio album, rocking shows from Auckland to Istanbul and picking up BBC 1Xtra and Knowledge Magazine awards with the band for ‘Best live Act’.
Now Brighton based, Wrec is resident MC to prestigious records labels Hospital Records and Critical Recordings, plus infamous nights including Fabric Live, Matter @ O2, Hospitality and Friends & Family in London plus further residencies in Shanghai, Bristol, Berlin and Brighton. Now a regular live host and collaborator to top dance acts The Nextmen & Stanton Warriors he’s toured across Europe, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Middle East, Brazil, Japan and China - working and touring with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Cypress Hill, Basement Jaxx, Soul II Soul, Manu Chao, The Prodigy, Calvin Harris, Cassius, ICE T, Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, The Streets and DJ Yoda to name only a few.
Superb performances at the likes of Glastonbury, Good Vibrations (Australia), Jade Jaggers Jezabel @ Pacha Ibiza, Big Chill, Shepherds Bush Empire, Brixton Academy and The Reading Festival, have secured his place as one of the world’s most entertaining and in-demand MCs.
Indeed Jam Music called Wrec ‘The UK’s finest multi genre MC’, and this in all honestly still doesn’t do his CV enough justice. This is after all an MC who has over time hosted sets for the likes of Skream, Don Letts, Afrika Bambaataa, Paul Oakenfold, Goldie, Roni Size and DJ EZ to name only a few. He also worked with the legendary German techno producer Timo Mass on a select number of live dates in 2007, including hosting a marathon 6 hour set at The End.
With releases on labels including Hospital, Fat City and Mums The Word plus countless mixtape appearances, he featured on London Elektricity ‘Power Ballads’ LP (2005) and Martin Brews single ‘Drop The Beat’ (2005). He also released his debut solo track ‘The Great British Moan’ on Mums The Word Records, proving to be a big hit online with over 65,000 listens on his myspace page, not to mention rotation on Radio 1, 1xtra and Kiss FM.
In addition to the above, he also runs a couple of companies with business partner Marc Sheinman. Firstly Mums The Word Management, looking after The Nextmen (Universal), Zarif (RCA/Sony), Part Time Heroes (Wah Wah), plus New Zealand’s number 1 best-selling dance act Shapeshifter.
To work alongside the management company Jon and Marc also launched their own label in 2006 Mums The Word Records Ltd. The labels debut release in Oct 2006 was Part Time Heroes ‘Realise EP’ which gained global critical accailm, and other releases on the label include Wrec’s very own ‘Great British Moan’ single, Shapeshifter’s ‘Soulstice’ album and remixes from the likes of D-Bridge, The Upbeats, Nu:Tone and The Nextmen.
Wrec ran all of Addict Clothings worldwide music press, product placement, endorsements from 2001-2007, and regularly worked with the likes of DJ Cash Money, Fat Freddys Drop, James Zabiela and more. Indeed Jon was invited to host the Adicolor Collection press conference for Adidas in Berlin live on MTV, interviewing style, illustration and design icons including Cey Adams of Def Jam Records, Raymond Choy of Toy2R, Vice Magazine and Italian label Emilio Pucci.
He’s also been invited to lecture on the music industry in Bulgaria, Germany, Slovenia, at various UK University’s and recently hosted the MTV Media Awards after-party in London and the MTV party at The Cannes Film Festival 2006.
Difficult to pigeonhole, exciting to listen to, and with fingers in several tasty pies… you cant knock his drive or take his eyes off the prize.
‘The UK’s finest multi genre MC” Jam Music, Sydney Australia
“A rare example of how it possible to find fame in more than one musical genre, MC Wrec has been representing hip hop and drum and bass in equal measures for the last decade, with the list of artists he’s appeared alongside reading like a who’s who of underground music. This is one Wrec - that does not get nervous” Knowledge Magazine
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