Songwriter / session vocalist / guitar & banjo player.

Blur as we know it was born in 1989 when the band signed to Food/EMI. Debut album Leisure (1991) announced the arrival of a band with pop suss warped by an art-punk eccentricity. Yet Blur had more in them: namely, a revolution in the sound of English popular music. Second album Modern Life Is Rubbish reintroduced the idea that English rock music could be cool, and by the time their third album Parklife emerged in 1994, the rest of the UK had caught up. 

The Great Escape (1995) refined the sound palette of Britpop, but Blur were already moving on. 1997's Blur was an about-face - scuffed and noisy and un-English. Follow-up 13 was an even a more radical adventure in sound as William Orbit refereed a truce between organic punkpop and new-fangled technology.

Seventh album Think Tank (2003) was Blur’s first as a three piece after the temporary departure of founding guitarist Graham Coxon, featuring an eclectic variety of rhythms and textures and glorious melodies. 

In 2009 Blur reconvened as a four-piece to play a series of UK shows including two sold out dates at Hyde Park and a historic Sunday night appearance at Glastonbury. A film about Blur, No Distance Left To Run, was released in 2010.

From the start, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The Academy Award® and BAFTA-nominated band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made and reconstruct it from a molecular level. What began as a solo project for founder Ryan Lott expanded in 2014, thanks to a kinship with Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia too strong to ignore. The trio strengthened their chemistry and honed their collective intuition while creating, releasing, and touring six recordings, including Brighter Wounds (2018) and triple album Tomorrows (2021). The result is a carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites that largely eschews genre and structural conventions. And yet, the band remains audibly indebted to iconoclastic artists in soul, hip-hop, and experimental improvisation who themselves carved new paths forward. 

Distilling these varied influences, Son Lux searches for equilibrium of raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions. Son Lux scored A24’s Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once for which they were nominated for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA. The full score album features new collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, Randy Newman, and Moses Sumney, among others.

THEN WHAT
new single out now

THIN WALLS
new album 30.03.15

tourdates & pre-orders:
http://balthazarband.be

Management:
sam@verdigrismanagement.com

BOOKINGS: 
ed@freetradeagency.co.uk

North America, South America, Canada 
averymctaggart@gmail.com

DJ BOOKINGS:
UK, Europe, Asia
ali@warmagency.com

US & LATAM
bowen@paradigmagency.com
Press:

nikki@orienteer.us

Aociz, Dj Hertz & Mr Viktor
3 x DMC World Team Champion 2013/2014/2015

Since they started meeting at several scratch battles all over Europe, the three DJ's from 9 O'clock never stopped working and improving their skills.  In 2013, Aociz, Dj Hertz et Mr Viktor decided to confront the harsh realities of the official competitions. They decided to compete in the DMC world championships, a reference for all DJs. 
As a result, 9 O'clock won the French championship and soon after, the world title, following the footsteps of well-known French formations such as C2C and Birdy Nam Nam. 
Success didn't erase their passion though... and the guys decided to compete again in the London World DMC finals (in 2014 and 2015) which enabled them to collect 3 consecutive titles.

They decided not to stop there, driven by an irresistible will to push back their own boundaries. Remixes, videos then came out and opened a new chapter of the band's carreer, now ready to explode and reveal its true potential. 
After months spent in studio producing music, 9 O'clock will now release their new EP, "Escape", and prove that the power of attraction of their music largely surpasses the microcosm of turntables.

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