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Kosheen and Brian Cross @ Global DJ Broadcast (Jan-31-2005)
The Global DJ Broadcast
For Monday: 01-31-05
This week's lineup: (6am GMT)
1:00 am - 2:00 am - Markus Schulz
2:00 am - 3:00 am – Markus Schulz
3:00 am - 4:00 am – Kosheen (Decoder & Substance)
4:00 am - 5:00 am – Brian Cross
NOW ON LINE: www.globaldjbroadcast.com, coming soon www.Markusschulz.com
Official Live simulcasts on the following Internet web sites: www.etn.fm, www.dancenationradio.com, www.party107.com and
www.party931.com
Be sure to log on to the Global DJ Broadcast chatroom during the show! #GDJB. We'd love to hear what you think of the latest
sets as well as what is on your mind. Go to www.globaldjbroadcast.com and click on the "live chat" button to join us!
Markus Schulz starts off the Broadcast! Markus hits the road again this week, but sent us a massive two-hour set! This
week he’s back at his residency in Amsterdam at “Famous @ Panama” www.famousnight.nl. Then he is back in the studio to
finish up his new mix cd to be released in March. Be sure to tune in for this latest 2-hour mix form our man, Markus!
Kosheen returns to the Broadcast! Once in a while, a band comes along that doesn't just ignore the rulebook, but rewrites it.
Since forming in the late 90's, Kosheen have proved that success doesn't have to come on someone else's terms. Fusing the
plaintive, potent vocals of singer Sian Evans with the darkly intimate electronica of Darren Decoder and Markee Substance,
Kosheen create songs where the sounds tell the story as much as the lyrics while the boundaries of genres are blurred and
challenged. In 2003, individuality remains their calling card with their second stunning album, 'Kokopelli'. It takes the fearless,
emotive blueprint of the band's debut, 'Resist', and couples it with Sian's more confident song writing, a heavier rock influence and
the experience of playing live around the world. It is a natural progression, but a huge leap forward; confirmation that Kosheen
are currently one of the UK's most exciting, experimental bands.
The foundations of this revolution were laid years earlier when music changed the lives of all three-band members. Darren
Decoder - aka Darren Beale - played and wrote music for years in various punk bands at school in Weston-Super-Mare, always
recording their efforts and so developing a simultaneous interest in the production side. When he went to university in 1989,
though, he realized something was missing.
Together, Darren and former Glaswegian indie kid Markee Substance created the seminal Ruffneck Ting club nights around Bristol
and the South West. Raised on The Smiths, Echo and The Bunneymen and, later, Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, Markee
became instrumental in the burgeoning drum n' bass scene.
The pair soon got to know Sian Evans. Brought up in a small town in South Wales, Sian had left home at 16 and moved to Cardiff
to escape, living in squats and friends houses while working several jobs at once and traveling to parties and festivals all over the
country. At the height of the rave scene, in 1991, she gave birth to her son, Yves, and was forced to reassess her priorities. For
the next four years, Sian and her son split their time between environmental protests like Newbury and working at summer
festivals. It was all she needed to give her a taste for living outdoors and so in 1996, Sian moved into a tepee on a traveler’s site
in the Brechfa forest for nine months.
As a trio, the band learned they could combine their respective loves of rock, hip-hop, jazz, drum n' bass and folk and still create
songs with a heart.
The world agreed they were something special. Kosheen's compelling, anthemic track 'Hide U' reached number 6 in the UK, while
'Catch' hit number 15 and 'Hungry' reached number 13. The accompanying album, 'Resist', went on to reach number 8 in the UK
and made the top 30 in Australia, The Netherlands, Belgium and Greece. It has since sold half a million copies worldwide.
Ignoring the accepted protocol that dictates 'dance' acts don't play live, Kosheen then set off on tour. With their debut album
'Resist' this equated to an impressive 141 shows in 33 countries to an audience of over several million.
For now, though, Kosheen are ready to hit that motorway again and bring their new studio sound to the live stage, the place
where they have truly proved they are a band without limits.
"I feel like we're a band that's different to anything else out there," Markee states determinedly. "We can stand up and do a tune
like any other rock band. But we can also go to a club and smash it up there as well. We want to be able to do that in all areas.
It's just being greedy really!"
www.kosheen.com
Brian Cross makes his debut on the Broadcast! At the young age of 24, Brian Cross is an accomplished Spanish DJ
who has been recently nominated in three categories at the Spanish DJ awards. Brian is a resident for the Amnesia Ibiza Trance
World Tour and is also a resident at the Armada nights @ Amnesia Ibiza with DJ’s like Armin van Buuren, Markus Schulz and
MIKE. Just this past summer, Brian amazed audiences at such festivals as Ministry of Sound for 25,000+ people with PvD, Marco
V along with the weekly tour dates for Amnesia in clubs all around the UK, Spain, Korea, Israel, Sweden and America.
Brian is also a successful upcoming producer having remixed tracks like Armin van Buuren’s “Burned With Desire,” Smith &
Pledger’s “Forever” and has recently finished a collaboration with Pulser. He also has a new single to be released in February
2005 called “Brian Cross vs. ORGAN.”
www.djbriancross.com
Next week…Antidote, Airwave and Max Graham!
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Last edited by TigerClaw on Jan-27-2005 at 22:14
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