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Find all my music on Spotify:
http://sptfy.com/kidnap

For all enquires: sophia@tinysaturnmusic.com

Kidnap is an artist whose music overflows with emotion - rich and powerfully evocative.

Recording in London, Kidnap (real name Matthew Relton) likens his process to that of a sculptor, starting with a block of sound and chopping away until a shape emerges. As such, each song exists ornately carved with a handcrafted subtly.

Still just 33, Relton is already something of an industry veteran. Releasing his first single in 2012 kicked off an eight-year stretch of global touring that came to a grinding halt when the pandemic put the world on pause.

2024 marks a new chapter for Kidnap, with his next body of work on the horizon. Set against the backdrop of a changing world and the arrival of a baby daughter, Relton offers a bittersweet reflection on the passing of time. ‘It’s about looking back on the last 12 years — the touring and the friends and the sleeplessness,” says Relton, “and realising that in order to embrace the life I have now, I need to let it all go.’ The music shimmers with nostalgia. Signature sad melodies dance deftly around commanding synth lines, altogether sounding like an artist with a new found sense of purpose.

Funky B began her career in 2000, in Cape Town, where she lived at the time and after touching a vinyl for the first time ever, held her first residency just 1 week after learning to mix.  The club was called "Long Beach" on Long street and soon after she was playing all over Cape Town with numerous residencies held and gigging at events such as Gatecrasher and Tidy Trax.  
The bug had bitten and four years later she moved to Durban where she continued to pursue her dream.  Funky B has played at all the top clubs in Durban such as Origin and 330 and has played alongside international dj's such as Judge Jules, Pleasurekraft and Sebastien leger to name a few.  
She has played at all the major local festivals and events such as Fun in the sun, H2O, Aquafest, Rock the beach and Vodacom Durban July.  In 2007 she was hired to DJ on the cricket  field at the first ever T20 Cricket world cup which was broadcast to 55 million people globally.
The opportunity to play overseas came in 2004 when she was hired for "The Library", an upmarket club at the "Trans asia hotel" in Sri Lanka.  The tour was cancelled after 1 week of gigging, tv interviews and magazine articles when the country was hit by the boxing day Tsunami which devastated it and sent her back home, luckily unscathed. 
Funky B had a musical upbringing with everyone in her family playing an instrument and as a child, many a night was spent with her parents friends playing alongside their band practices with keyboards, drums, harmonica or anything that made a beat. Rock music was not her calling at all and so of course with her DJ background and love for EDM she is now working on some of her own music.
Radio broadcasting is also another passion of hers and Funky B has now also started on Red Cap radio as a DJ host.  Red Cap radio has a listenership of 4.7 million, making it the third largest radio station in South Africa.
Funky B ranks on official DJ list, where DJ’s around the world are ranked: http://thedjlist.com/djs/FUNKY_B RANKING in the top 100 in SA.
You can catch Funky B at her current residency, Origin, every Saturday and on Friday’s she guest's at all the top clubs in the country so for updates on gigs join her dj page on facebook.  www.facebook.com/pages/funky-B/104939568426 and www.facebook.com/djfunkyb
Funky B's signature music style is Melbourne, minimal, elektro and Dirty Dutch and she also plays tech house and other styles depending on the venue and dancefloor.  To listen to her mixes check out the soundcloud page on: www.soundcloud.com/djfunkyb-1
Bookings: bfunky@webmail.co.za OR bridget.nel33@gmail.com

Hailing from provincial Italy, world class DJ & producer Benny Benassi is a name needing little introduction but always deserving of wide admiration and acclaim.  Indulging in a career spanning fifteen plus years, Benassi is renown as a humble, authentic and charming character who has grown from club DJ to festival king to multi-million selling record producer taking success in his stride. Trademarking his unique infusion of house and electro with his global smash “Satisfaction” Benny has continued to create music which is a clear evolution of this signature sound but never deviating too far. 

There is no better place to start delving into the rich history of the Benassi career than with his international blockbuster, “Satisfaction” and its game-changing music video became his launch pad into stardom. Created with his cousin and producer, Alle Benassi, and inspired by the car horns outside an open street facing window, this single catapulted into the charts with a #1 in France, #2 in the UK and Germany. Followed by his debut album Hypnotica, which reached top 20 across nearly all parts of Europe within the first month of release. 

The next few years for Benny were a culmination of successes, whether it be the major festivals he went on the play (Coachella, EDC, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland to name a few) or his next artist album, Rock N Rave in 2008. The same year he won a Grammy Award for his ground breaking remix of Public Enemy “Bring The Noise” further catapulting the Benassi name into stardom. 

In 2011, Benny teamed up with a star-studded album cast for his album Electroman which featured T-Pain, Kelis, Jean-Baptsiste and Apl.de.ap amongst others and most famously Gary Go with his chart-topping single “Cinema”.  The Skrillex remix of “Cinema” not only went Gold in the US and platinum in Australia and Canada but won the Benassi’s another Grammy whilst holding firm in the iTunes top 10 dance chart for over 6 months. 

Still on this exceptional career high, Benny Benassi combined talents with Chris Brown to create one of the biggest cross-over dance records of its time with “Beautiful People”. The following years have been a measure of incredible world tours and releases, most notably his record “Dance The Pain Away” with John Legend, which premiered live on stage at Coachella with John himself. 

2016 saw Benny released his first album in five years Danceaholic, an unexpected, stunning cocktail of already released tracks, two unreleased reworks of older singles and brand new songs, led by the hit summer anthem “Paradise”, once again with Chris Brown. “Paradise” stayed in the Top 50 UK charts for 10 weeks and boasts more than 65 million video views and close to 47 million Spotify streams. 

In recent years, Benny's main releases include “Everybody Needs A Kiss” featured US duo Sofi Tukker racking up over 10 millions streams online and was featured as the sound of gay pride for Musica.ly, "Lonely Nights" featuring Lil Yachty, interspersed with two great house-oriented tracks, "Inside" with Chris Nasty, performing well in clubs and on streaming platforms and "Everybody Hates Monday Mornings" with his own production outfit, BB Team, and featuring the eccentric and charismatic YouTuber, Canguro English.

Beyond his own productions he brought his sound to a wider musical audience with a flurry of high-profile remixes with the likes of Bob Marley & The Wailers, Giorgio Moroder, Madonna, Sean Paul and the Rolling Stones, to name but a few; whilst maintaining a weekly radio show on the US heavy-weight iHeart Radio broadcasting to a staggering quarter of a billion listeners monthly.

Hot Natured are made up Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, Luca C and Ali Love. All four are acclaimed producers, DJs and musicians in their own right but their coming together as one has the potential to take things to another level completely.

‘WORK’ out now:
https://www.cybr.at/work

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