Mooli 

Let's imagine Chrissie Hynde or Jane Siberry mixing it with MGMT on a summer holiday in Nassau shall we? Actually, Mooli have gone one step better and recreated that crazy notion with Love Hurts, a snappy little electro-pop lolloper that clocks in at just under the pop-required 3-minutes and successfully pisses all over pretty much anything around this week. 

Mooli is a double-act of Ben Copland and Kristina Smith, they've earwormed their way into Pete Tong's affections and they're 'like that' with the Toolroom Knights crew, which is all quite odd because this sits more with Kitsune Music or some such arty imprint, rather than the pill and powder crew at the local superclub. I like, I like, I like. More please.

Flipside Reviews 2013







Mooli are an electronica band based in kent, England comprising of  singer Kristina Smith and musician/ Producer Ben Copland.

Their sound, described by one reviewer as a cross between Florence and the machine and the Human League, covers a range of Electronic music styles ranging from EDM to synth- pop and chill-out.

To date the band appear on 29 International compilations ranging from Universal Music’s ‘ Street Nation’ to Ministry of sound 
‘ Judgement sundays’, and the chill-out albums  ‘Cafe buddha’ 
‘ Chris coco’s Electracoustic’  and ‘Hotel Buddha’ amongst many others. In addition, the band have had two top 5 club records in the Uk with the tracks ‘ San Francisco rain’ and ‘ Wasted’. 

Live the band have played BBC Studio sessions for Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6, BBC Introducing at Wychwood Festival, Islington o2, Small Nations Festival, and recently headlined the sold out Pizza Express Live as part of Maidstone Fringe Festival. 


Mooli have been making a bit of a name for themselves as remixers- recently, radically reworking singles by UK guitar bands Guillemots and Everything Everything. The band also make an appearance on Universal Music’s TV advertised album ‘ Street nation’  alongside Lady Ga Ga, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Amy winehouse and Akon.


Founder member Ben Copland has written  produced and performed for a range of major International acts including Soul singer Beverley Knight, Liberty X, and  Eternal. He has also written singles for  X factor, Aaron carter, and German Idol runner up Mike Leon, scoring songs on 2 US billboard top 10 albums, one of which went platinum with over 1 million sales. 



Contact: linda@moolimusic.com

All music written and produced by Damian Hart.
Other artists featured in the recording of some tracks include:
Charlene Ellen, Martin T Conway, Bruce Hausenloy, Ryan Nichol, Andrzej Wronkowski, Richard M Pearce and Andrew Donohue.

Equipment Used:
Fender Telecaster Standard 
Epiphone Les Paul Custom 
Squire Stratocaster Affinity 
Takamine EG460SC 
Crafter CE 15 N 
Yamaha APF - 412A 
Yamaha CG 101 
Fender D63 
Peavey Millenium AC BXP Bass (custom EMG-HZ pups)
Roland FA-06
M-Audio Axiom 25 
Waldorf Rocket 
Waldorf Streichfett 
Waldorf 2 Pole
Arturia Minibrute 
Roland TR-8 
Arturia Beatstep
Arturia Keystep 
Korg Monotribe 
Korg Volca Beats 
Korg Volca Bass 
Korg Volca Keys
Eventide Time Factor 
Eventide Mod Factor
Hardwire Supernatural Reverb
TC Electronic Hall Of Fame Reverb
Earthquaker Devices Hoof Fuzz
Source Audio Nemesis Delay
Behringer RV600 Reverb Machine 
Behringer FL600 Flanger Machine 
Electro Harmonics Memory Man 
Electro Harmonics Soul Food
Digitech Grunge 
Boss NS2 
Boss DD6 
Boss DS1
Boss RC-300 Looping Station 
Boss ME-50 Multi Effects 
Boss SL-20 Slicer 
Boss BF-3 Flanger 
Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah 
Electro Harmonix Memory Man with Hazarai
Electro Harmonix Pitchfork
Fender Comp
Fender EQ
MXR Smart Gate
Shure SM58 Mic
TC Helicon Voicetone Synth
 
Mixer:
Behringer XUFX1204
Monitors:
KRK Rokit 5

DAWs:
Adobe Audition
Reaper
Cool Edit Pro
Ableton Live

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