'Chieftain' is Adam Regan & Steve Cobby

DJ Adam Regan played all over the world with the Different Drummer Soundsystem. Leftfoot - his Birmingham club with Richard Whittingham - recreates the European club mood.... a haven for fans of leftfield, soulful music, with guests inc. Keb Darge, Jazzanova, Fabio and Carl Craig. Voted "Best Clubnight" - [house, hip-hop, disco, jazz, funk, soul, reggae, drum&bass, techno, afrobeat & latin] - on Gilles Peterson`s BBC Worldwide Radio Show. Artists Lee Scratch Perry, Roots Manuva, Dego, Mr Scruff, Rainer Truby, Daddy G (Massive Attack), King Britt & Norman Jay all featured.

Steve Cobby is a musician, composer, producer, and occasional DJ -  As well as being half of Chieftain, Cobby is also half of The Cutler (with Dave Brennand), fifty percent of Fila Brazillia (with David McSherry), fifty percent of Hey, Rube! (with Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire), fifty percent of J*S*T*A*R*S (with Sim Lister), one third of Heights of Abraham (with Sim Lister & Jake Harries), and all of The Solid Doctor.

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Steven Jon Cobby is a musician, composer, producer, and occasional DJ, he is one half of 'The Cutler' (with Porky), a half of 'Fila Brazillia' (with David McSherry), fifty percent of 'Hey, Rube!' (with Stephen Mallinder), fifty percent of 'Chieftain' (with Adam Regan), fifty percent of 'J*S*T*A*R*S' (with Sim Lister), one third of 'Heights of Abraham' (with Sim Lister and Jake Harries), and all of 'The Solid Doctor'.

Steve is also the co-founder of Steel Tiger (2008 with Sim Lister), Twentythree Records (1998 with David McSherry and Sim Lister), and Pork Recordings in 1990 with Dave Brennand aka Porky.

This SoundCloud page is the home for some of Steves random doings...

More Cobby on SoundCloud 

http://soundcloud.com/thecutler
http://soundcloud.com/chieftain-regan-cobby
http://soundcloud.com/jstars
http://soundcloud.com/filabrazillia
http://soundcloud.com/heightsofabraham

New!  AM's new album PRECIOUS LIFE is out May 20!

The transatlantic duo AM & Shawn Lee continue their journey forward via the past on their album Outlines, digging heavily into obscure soul, sound library and soundtracks for inspiration and re-imagine them through a pop lens.  AM & Shawn Lee focus heavily on synthesizers, but still keep the core organic, with live drums and bass and of course placing a heavy importance on groove.  

Sonically Outlines tips it's hat to other synthesized soul productions such as The System or The Blackbyrds . 

The first single "Persuasion" sets up the album perfectly with a revolving, atmospheric synth pattern suddenly interrupted by a deep funk groove peppered with staccato vocal stylings.  "Cold Tears", a heartbreaking tale of a friend's false imprisonment, flows over galloping funk and sinister synths.  "Again and Again", perhaps the epitome of sparse groove, is a perfect mid-tempo cruiser and a clear nod to AM's past tour mates AIR, while "Nightshine" delivers demented aerobic pop...picture Olivia Newton John's "Physical" set to a John Carpenter film.

The album title Outlines plays on a double meaning.  On the one hand the record sounds like a "trace", giving no more than necessary to the production...the essentials.  Lyrically, there is an undercurrent of an all too familiar modern struggle...the failure to communicate.  We're only giving each other shorthand… “the outlines.”
AM & Shawn Lee's musical and artistic chemistry is very obvious especially since they have never recorded in the same room together.  The duo trade tracks between London and Los Angeles until they feel the songs are complete.  The process is ego-less, and both AM and Shawn Lee play nearly every instrument on the record. 
Outlines is by far AM & Shawn Lee's favorite recording to date.  Minimalist, future soul re-worked for today, but never forgetting what came before. Above all the music just soars. …Like hang gliding into a summer sunset.


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