Bongos, Bleeps & Baselines

A 2 track single () — released April 3rd 2006 on NINJA TUNE

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Since they started properly working together some 6 years ago, Chris Vogado and Neil Combstock aka zero dB have been concocting a provocative, innovative and addictive brew of hard jazz, electro, latin, hip hop and house, laced throughout with their now signature dirty, heavy basslines. After releasing their early records on Vogado's own Fluid Ounce label, zero dB are now signed to Ninja Tune. The main starting point on 'Bongos, Bleeps and Basslines? is jazz, but they dip into a multitude of different influences and work with talented musicians and vocalists to create a track. 'Bongos, Bleeps & Basslines? eschews the usual 'nice' factor inherent in all things proto-jazzy, taking the music's rhythmic drive and harnessing it to earth-rumbling bass noises and enough squelching and bleeping to fill a large aerodrome with monged out ravers. 'Know What I'm Sayin'' starts from a similar place, but heads in a slower, more hip hop-influenced direction, verbals being beautifully delivered by Pase Rock, sometime member of Five Deez and now regular Spank Rock collaborator. The result is hard-edged and exhilarating, a tune which is destined never to end up on the Starbucks stereo. Not least because it would blow up the woofers.'
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