Otis Stacks est né d'une collaboration entre le producteur Danois Michael Munch aka Just Mike, et Elias Wallace, auteur compositeur chanteur de Pasadena, en Californie.C'est lors d'une tournée dans les Alpes françaises avec leur autre projet commun : Dafuniks, que les deux compères écrivent leur première chanson, "Fashion Drunk" premier extrait et single de cet EP à paraître.

Ce premier essai, les conforte dans leur aventure commune et leur collaboration unique prend forme.Le projet OTIS STACKS a désormais pris vie et les amène à écrire et composer lorsqu'ils se retrouvent en France pour la tournée des Dafuniks.Entre Nice, Montpellier, et Paris l'Ep se construit et se peaufine à distance entre les Etats Unis et le Danemark.Leur musique analogique se nourrit d'une base synthétique avec de larges nuances empruntées à la culture hip-hop dans laquelle tous deux ont grandi.

Le tissu musical construit par Just Mike est brodé d'une collection de sons de synthétiseurs analogiques vintage qu'il collectionne depuis plus d'une décennie.Avec eux il expérimente de nouveaux sons, construit, déconstruit, jusqu'à produire un son soul clairsemé, épuré, et novateur.Une dentelle musicale qui permet ensuite à la voix puissante et sensuelle d'Elias de se poser au fil de mélodies accrocheuses et aux textes profonds abordant les notions de perte, de douleur, de nostalgie, mais aussi un regard abrupt sur la nature humaine parfois vide de sens.

C'est en 2016 qu'ils rejoignent le label hexagonal Underdog Records (Dafuniks, Flox, Fanga, Tribeqa, John Milk, D-Bangerz, Sweatshop...) ainsi que le producteur de spectacles CARTEL ( Chinese Man, Deluxe) séduit par la qualité de leur live session enregistrée chez Findspire.

Otis Stacks un projet soul, aux sonorités vintage, et aux arrangements contemporains, porté par une écriture émotionnelle et réfléchie qui ne vous laissera pas indifférent.

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After two years of blowing up French, European and American stages, Smokey Joe & The Kid present their first release LP “Nasty Tricks” on French record label Banzaï Lab. A dangerously efficient mix of hip hop, electro and old Swing, that even 2Pac and Al Capone couldn’t say no to…
In this project, Smokey Joe (Bordeaux’s main musical mafia head) and The Kid aka “Senbeï,” (cheeky Parisian master of Turntablism), transport us back in time gangsters run streets of 1930’s Chicago. After a 1st EP released in June 2012 and of which 2 tracks had been on Beatport HipHop Top 100 for several months, the duet comes back in March 2013 to confirm that try with their 1st LP “Nasty Tricks”.
Great collaborations enhance that first opus: Puppetmastaz, R-Wan (Java), Lateef the Truthspeaker, Nomadic Massive, Youthstar (Chinese Man), Random Recipe, Sugaray...
With the help of their accomplices, these two gangsters mix Hip Hop and Electro with the groove and melodies of early 20th century Swing. Percussion solos played with scratches, beats and melodies banged out on the MPC, everything is performed live, there’s no doubt that Smokey Joe & The Kid know how to make a dancefloor go wild!!
Kidnapped, we retrieve consciousness in the middle of a crazy Block Party for a timeless Jam Session where urban poetry melts into the decadent energy of old speakeasies.
Smokey Joe & The Kid’s music spreads like cigar smoke, so if you hear “Nasty Tricks” on your neighbor’s stereo, it’s just a matter of time before the duet knocks at your door… “Nasty Tour” to start in March 2013!

The New Soul of Rock'n'roll

Gentilly, France.

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New album : https://song.link/Namaskar
"Exode" : https://youtu.be/48BA1uod3do
"Nakshathram" : https://youtu.be/NN-UIzko_M4
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At the close of 2012, DENGUE FEVER, a band widely recognized for its trademark blend of 60’s Cambodian pop and psychedelic rock, proudly announced the launch of its homegrown label, TUK TUK Records. The band’s newly established independence marks yet another chapter in the continual evolution of a group unlike many in the Los Angeles music scene. 

Currently in the studio recording tracks for their next release, DENGUE FEVER launched TUK TUK to release their back catalog, potential solo music from its band members, and previously released but long out-of-print music related to each band member. Their first two releases included their long out-of-print eponymous debut (2003) and its critically acclaimed sophomore follow-up, Escape from Dragon House (2005). Amazon.com named Dragon House the #1 int’l release for 2005, and Mojo magazine named it in their Top 10 World Music releases of 2006. Each album has been expanded into digital deluxe editions with rare and unreleased bonus tracks from the band’s archives. 

Eminent musicians from around the world took notice of the band’s rise over their first half-decade. In 2008, Real World Records Founder and musician, Peter Gabriel, licensed their third release, Venus on Earth, for the world and noted, "They're California-based but have taken '60's Cambodian pop as their main source of inspiration and it's done with style. Its spirited, impassioned." More kudos came from Metallica’s Kirk Hammett who handpicked the band’s song “One Thousand Tears of A Tarantula” from Dragon House for his Rolling Stone magazine ‘Best Music Of The Decade’ ballot - as the second best song of the entire decade. International touring transpired quickly after the release of Venus including an inspired two-song set on the BBC’s Later with Jools Holland show (2009) followed by on-air praise from Ray Davies of the Kinks. Davies likened them to “….a cross between Led Zeppelin and Blondie. And I should know, I toured with both of them.” 

DENGUE FEVER’s latest release, Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group), was released in April 2011. Their latest record moved the needle yet again with the band performing live for the first time ever, in France, Mexico and Brazil. Today, only two continents (Africa and Antarctica) have yet to host a DENGUE FEVER performance.

Mass media exposure arrived in many forms for DENGUE FEVER and not just on the world stage. Tracks from their catalog have appeared in films such as City of Ghosts, Jim Jarmusch’s, Broken Flowers and The Hangover 2. Television series’ such as Showtime’s, Weeds, HBO’s hit series True Blood (who named an entire episode after one of their songs) and featured the band’s music and CBS’ series CSI: Las Vegas combined with numerous independent documentaries to feature the bands music. 

Always press darlings, band profiles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Mojo, Uncut, Magnet, Wired, Spin, NPR’s “Fresh Air” Radio Australia, KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” and World Café Live all profiled the band’s unique sound. In 2013, with new music being recorded, a back catalog that is beefed up with bonus tracks and tour dates being confirmed, the time is truly ripe for at least another 10 years of breaking down more musical barriers.

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