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The amazing yet true history of The Beach Boys is well chronicled, and by any standard it’s one of the greatest and most musical stories ever told. From humble roots in southern California, The Beach Boys have become an enduring international sensation. Their famous harmonies and classic songs continue to travel the world bringing “Good Vibrations” everywhere.  

For more than five decades, The Beach Boys -- America’s first pop band to reach the 50-year milestone -- has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer. Founded in Hawthorne, California in 1961, The Beach Boys were originally comprised of the three teenaged Wilson brothers: Brian, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine. In 1962, neighbor David Marks joined the group for their first wave of hits with Capitol Records, leaving in late 1963, and in 1965, Bruce Johnston joined the band when Brian Wilson retired from touring to focus on writing and producing for the group.  

The Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records in July 1962 and released their first album, Surfin’ Safari, that same year. The album spent 37 weeks on the Billboard chart, launching the young group known for its shimmering vocal harmonies and relaxed California style into international stardom. The Wilson/Love collaboration resulted in many huge international chart hits, and the band’s initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include many other themes, helping to make The Beach Boys America’s preeminent band of the 1960s. 

1966’s Pet Sounds, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016, is universally hailed as one of popular music’s most important recordings of all time. More than 100 domestic and international publications and journalists have lauded Pet Sounds as one of the greatest albums ever recorded, and it entered the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame in 1998. Pet Sounds tops MOJO magazine’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” at No. 1, while Rolling Stone ranked Pet Sounds at No. 2 in the magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

Impressively, The Beach Boys continue to hold Billboard / Nielsen SoundScan’s record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles, and they are also the American group with the most Billboard Top 40 chart hits (36). ‘Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys’ has achieved triple-Platinum sales status and ‘The SMiLE Sessions,’ released to worldwide critical acclaim in 2011, won the year’s GRAMMY® Award for Best Historical Album and was heralded as the No. 1 Reissue of the Year by Rolling Stone.

In 2012, The Beach Boys celebrated their 50th Anniversary.  Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and David Marks reunited for The Beach Boys’ 29th studio album, That’s Why God Made The Radio, and an international 50th Anniversary Tour, continuing one of music’s greatest stories.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, The Beach Boys are a beloved American institution that remains iconic around the world.


Thrupence is a music project by Jack Vanzet.
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SITARSONIC is a fusion project of Electronica, Mantra & live Sitar by Paco Rodriguez (FR). 
Paco started learning sitar in 1994 in Varanasi (India), the same year he was initiated to the sacred mantra “Om Namah Shivaya” by his Tantric yoga teacher, and never stopped practicing since. He passed two years in the Himalayas with the Naga Babas of the Das Nami family, and lived 9 years in a Buddhist commune in the French Pyrennees. He first visited Goa in 1993, and has been living there on and off since.

SITARSONIC enjoys a close relationship with the Psychedelic Trance movement. He twice played Ozora Fest (Hungry 2015/2022), and his opening performances at Atman Fest (Portugal 2023), Parvati Stage in Free Earth Fest (Greece 2019) and Harmonic Fest (France 2015) have been hailed as memorable magic experiences. His collaborations with major artists of the scene such as Electric Universe, Dark Elf, Volcano on Mars and Kaya Project have brought the mystic sound of his sitar to dance floors all over the planet.

In 2022 SITARSONIC released his 9th self-produced album “Downloading The Coconuts”, on the French label WP Satellite. It’s an instrumental project of 6 long tracks which explores diverse horizons of Electronica, Ambient, Dub or Chill out, featuring another collaboration with Electric Universe, “Dub Stanza”, previously released on Sacred Technology.

Paco also leads KIrtan sessions and provides Soundscaping with his sitar in retreats and yoga centers in India and Europe.
His side project, the psychedelic band Kundalini Airport became a legend in Goa with their famous Cosmic Jam, and is still very active...20 years now!
 
Performing psychedelic Electronica everywhere from cafés to festivals, SITARSONIC is currently based between Anjuna (Goa, India) and Matala (Crete, Greece).

Main events: Pyramid Fest 2024(Serbia), Blisstronic Fest 2024(Dubai),Bloom in Green Fest 2024(India), Atman Fest 2023(Portugal), Ozora Fest 2022(Hungary), Durassic Fest 2022(France), Eutopia Fest 2022(Greece), Fest Bordeaux Rock 2021(France),Free Earth Fest 2019(Greece), Hill Top Fest 2019(India), Atman Fest 2019(Sri Lanka), Harmonic Fest 2018 France), Freedom of Earth Fest 2017(India), Chill Top Fest 2017(India), Summer Never Ends Fest 2016(Switzerland), 7 Chakras Fest 2015(Italy), Ozora Fest 2015(Hungary).

Discography on Sitarsonic records & co-productions:
2022 "Downloading The Coconuts"(WP Satellite/Sitarsonic Records), 2021 Apsaras Yoga Mix CD, 2020 Dub Stanza/single(Sacred Technology), 2020 Messara, 2019 Live at the Giardini Luzzati (Genova/IT), 2018 Peace of Magic(Best of/Vinyl Rocka Rolla), 2018 Primal Dream (Best of/CD), 2016 Radio Mantra, 2014 Unidos, 2013 Tomorrow Never Comes, 2010 Indus Reverb, 2008 Museland(Compilation/CD), 2006 Sitardust(Compilation/CD), 2005 Aditronix(Best of CD/Artpop Records), 2004 Ethnonicus,
2003 Pharmakon, 2000 Sitarsonic.

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Founded in 1996 by Peter Adarkwah, Barely Breaking Even (BBE Music) started life as a London club night, taking its name from the eponymous Disco record by the Universal Robot Band.

The label grew from the vibrant early 90's club scene with its first release, Stop & Listen compiled by Dr Bob Jones in 1996, opening the door to iconic series' such as All Back To Mine & Late Nite Tales.

A tonne of releases followed, ranging from Disco to Funk, Jazz to House. In the year 2000, the label celebrated Masters at Work's 10th Anniversary with a mighty box set that featured near 80 tracks.

A year later BBE Music spawned the Beat Generation Series of artist albums, notably introducing J Dilla (Welcome 2 Detroit) & a young Will.I.Am's first solo outing, alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff, Madlib & DJ Spinna, all of whom contributed to this seminal set of long players.

A quarter of a century and well over 500 titles later, having worked with Mark Ronson, Roy Ayers, Questlove, Hugh Masekela, DJ Premier, Dimitri from Paris, Joey Negro, Kon, RZA, Laurent Garnier, Black Coffee, DJ Shadow, David Rodigan and John Morales among many others, BBE Music looks to the future, celebrating its rich heritage while continuing to release a bounty of fresh titles.

The label’s most recent projects include an expansive reissue series from pioneering Nigerian label Tabansi, new imprint ‘Batakari’ in association with Boddhi Satva and the critically acclaimed ‘J Jazz’ Japanese Jazz multi-album project, not to mention the recent landmark 500th label release: a brand new version of 'Barely Breaking Even', featuring Leroy Burgess, Patrick Adams and Louie Vega.

In 2021 BBE Music is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark this milestone, the label is offering up some special projects, from the 20th Anniversary edition of J Dilla’s ‘Welcome 2 Detroit’, through David Bowie tribute album ‘Modern Love’, to a special new ‘Worldwide’ compilation from old friend Gilles Peterson. BBE Music will also be looking to the future with more exciting original artist projects, plus merch collaborations events and more...

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