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russky
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Sugarush Beat Company
here is a new band with alot of Soul!
They are Jaz Rogers, Rahsaan 'RAH!' Patterson & Ida Corr,were on Jools last fri and have been recently colaborated. they can be put in the same style as Outkast, Black Eyed Peas & Gnarls Barkley.
watch this video and you will be hooked, L.O.V.E oozes soul & motown! 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VbUdBXBk3A
check out bbc.co.uk/later for more information and interviews - i also have the audio from the programme in very high quality. 
there website and myspace also have a player which you can get the code for.
- http://www.myspace.com/sugarushbeatcompany
- http://www.sugarushbeatcompany.com/
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deesh
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 16:03 |
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I know Rahsaan and have followed his solo career for years!
Great to see them getting some love 
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russky
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 19:05 |
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yeh he has a very unique voice - great song.
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russky
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Taken from this Sunday's "The Sunday Times Culture Newspaper"
SugaRush Beat Company: they can take you higher
Meet the new Sly and the Family Stone - SugaRush Beat Company are that good
The notion of an international soul supergroup may conjure up images of spoilt playboys with more air miles than sense. Far removed from such self-conscious fabulousness, step forward three experienced Alist musicians with the nous to make SugaRush Beat Company the most exciting soul-rock alchemists since Sly and the Family Stone.
Based respectively in Copenhagen, Los Angeles and Richmond, Surrey, this improbable Danish-American-Australian agglomeration has influences that are almost as widespread as their addresses. They served early notice of their singular ability to parlay church backgrounds into a killer modern gospel track on an iTunes single of the week late last year, Oh Lord (Take Me Back). Their album, due in the summer, fills in all the colours of that outline, mixing old-school testifying and sensuous soul with psychedelic guitar. The sound is a restorative plink-plink-fizz that should make the likes of OutKast, Gnarls Barkley and even Prince examine their laurels.
The vocal spearheads of the project are Ida Corr, the Danish singer on Fedde Le Grand's huge club hit Let Me Think About It, and Rahsaan Patterson, who makes R&B albums for the excellent British label Dome. The sonic glue is dispensed by the Aussie producer-turned-Surrey resident Jaz Rogers, whose recent credits include sessions for what may, in her own sweet time, become the next album by Lauryn Hill.
SugaRush Beat Company have heard the artistic comparisons, but there's no sense of competitiveness in their laid-back demeanour. Unless that's the jet lag kicking in. "They're all amazing artists, I love them all," Corr says, smiling sweetly. "It's all the same [musical] information," Patterson adds. "It's not like one group or person woke up and said, ‘Let me create this.' Depending on when you're resonating, you pick up pieces. Before Prince, there was Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix." I'm sure it's only tiredness that makes him forget to namecheck a certain godfather, too.
On stage, SBC's music does the talking, and it's persuasive. The recent gig I saw at the Soho Revue Bar prompted both this broadsheet debut and a booking on Later ... with Jools Holland. Aired two weeks ago, that similarly fuel-injected performance was their worldwide television debut.
The origins of SugaRush date to 2005, when Patterson was touring the third of his four solo albums in Australia. Displaying the busman's-holiday tendencies of the true muso, he used up a day off by booking a studio. Rogers happened to be his producer-engineer du jour, and the classically trained musician had an itch to scratch.
"I knew there was more inside me than I'd been able to do as a producer in Australia," he says. "The market's quite limited there. You have to focus on a certain area." Now was his chance. "Rahsaan walked in, I played him some stuff I thought would be appropriate, and he said, ‘What else do you have?'" It was an early indication of the matter-of-fact, only-if-it's-fun attitude that characterises this unusual group.
"We never really sat down, because we weren't in the same country, and we weren't previously friends, so it's not like we had this great dialogue," Rogers goes on. "There was no forcing, because neither of us knew the other enough to say, ‘Come on, man.'" Adds Patterson: "But we knew, based on those first two songs we did, that they were magical, they had a presence." Rogers looks at him and recalls: "When we left, I can still see the look in his eyes. It was like, ‘I think I'll be seeing you again.'"
They weren't wrong. After more intercontinental writing sessions ("He came to America and hunted me down," Patterson laughs), Rogers chanced on Streetdiva, a 2005 album by Corr, who was by now established in her native Denmark.
"I remember putting the CD on and thinking, ‘That's so perfect.' I heard the gravel in her voice. Then I opened it up," he says, laughing at the discovery that Corr was easy on the eye as well as the ear. "No, honey," he adds, for the benefit of his wife and mother of their two young children, "I wasn't meaning it like that."
The triumvirate was formed and, after much courting, a deal was signed with Sony BMG, which is launching the band in the UK ahead of anywhere else.
True spontaneity is a rare thing on a corporate roster, but SBC clearly feel the benefit of their individual extracurricular endeavours. "That's the strength of how it came about, that we all have other things," Rogers says. "We grab our influences from all the other things we're doing and put it into this." Corr is similarly sanguine about potential diary clashes, even if Let Me Think About It (a No 2 hit here last October) has just risen to the top of Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart in America - and that as an import-only release there until last week. "I think I've got the best of both worlds," she says. "I can do as much solo stuff as I want, then I have the pleasure of being in this group. I love doing this - the music isamazing. If people know it's me, that's fine, and if they don't, it's cool. You can be diverse, and my albums are like that as well."
"I was looking forward to this point, partly to see if I would be able to manage," says Patterson, who has been making records of his own since 1997. "It's been our job for so long, it's just now we're in a group situation. It all depends on the artist you are. I go with my gut feeling, and that's what led me to this project."
As for the notion of launching such a cosmopolitan collective from a leafy town on the Thames, Rogers says: "England's a great place for music at the moment. You speak to American producers, and they say, ‘Oh man, I wish I was living there.' Here, they're taking a risky approach, rather than, ‘Let's be safe now.'"
SugaRush Beat Company's limited-edition single Gunshots & Candyfloss is released on March 24 on RCA, with a self-titled album to follow in the summer; the band play Bush Hall, W12, on April 28
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russky
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 16:34 |
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wahey! ive won 2 tickets for Tues 29th!! at Bush Hall.
boo! i can't go 
anyone fancy going??????
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russky
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 19:54 |
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don't know if anyone wants the tickets to see them in London or i will have to tell Sony to offer them to someone else?
anyway here is the new video for L.O.V.E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i6JZNI5GEk
single released - 23rd June
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