Singer-songwriter Douglas Kay (“Thoughtful & passionate songwriting” Scotland On Sunday) has spent the past two decades recording, touring the globe and playing on bills alongside the likes of Billy Bragg, KT Tunstall, Colin Hay and Amy MacDonald.
The wealth of experience gained on stage has seen Kay develop into a hugely engaging live performer and formidable songwriter whose captivating, folk-tinged songs have gained critical acclaim and airplay worldwide.

HEIST ON A BIKE - Released November 2021
November 2021 saw the release of Kay's 6th album, Heist On A Bike. The 12 tracks contained therein showcase a songwriter/performer who is as much at ease in the studio as he is in the live arena, as he weaves together an absorbing work which demonstrates his assuredness across a variety of genres. 

With live music halted during the 2020 lockdown, Douglas Kay joined with a group of fellow songwriters - affectionately referred to as the Mutual Slating Society - to engage in weekly Zoom sessions during which each writer would perform a brand new composition for the others to critique. From these sessions emerged a clutch of songs which would form the basis of this new album.
 
Recorded at his base in Highland Perthshire during the spring & summer of 2021, it was very much a solo project with Kay writing, playing and producing. There is, however, a stunning vocal contribution from Douglas’ sometime live collaborator Carol Laula on the wistful track At My Best - a song based around a simple acoustic guitar hook which sees the elderly narrator ruing how the achievements of life are overlooked by others in old age. The other outside contribution comes with an appearance by South London saxophonist Chris Smallwood on the album closer, Stay With Me, a piano ballad written in tribute to Douglas’ father.
 
Elsewhere on the album Kay flexes his electric guitar-playing muscles in a way not seen since 2009’s Into Your Head, with the pumping, riff-driven Kick Out The Fire, the melodic rocker Break Us Apart and the raw, bluesy When The Devils Come. He also develops his use of vocal harmonies with multi-layered, Queen-inspired voices on Magnificent and on Nearer To Home, while the counterpoint vocal melodies on Run Aground and the mandolin-driven, country romp Strike Me Down hint at the influence of Crowded House and Simon & Garfunkel. Throughout, it’s Kay’s distinctive voice, memorable melodies and captivating lyrics which combine to deliver such a rewarding listening experience.

RECORDINGS 2003-18
The 2003 release of his debut album Of All The Towns To Sleep In generated airplay on radio and TV stations worldwide, including BBC Radio One, Australia's GWN & Xfm London. Its follow up, Douglas Kay Band's 2009 album Into Your Head, is a varied collection with moments of delicate beauty contrasted by the swelling crescendo of tracks such as Haunted.
The song Better went on to top a poll of tracks by Scottish acts in the Edinburgh Evening News.

An acoustic album, Last Touch, was released in late 2012, showcasing Kay’s vocals, guitar & piano, and hinting at some of his traditional folk influences. Lead track, All That We've Lost - a duet with Joanna McQuillan – received considerable airplay and critical acclaim. The tour Douglas played in support of that album included a guest slot for Grammy Award winner and former Men At Work frontman, Colin Hay.

Douglas returned to the studio in 2014 to work on Lift, which like its predecessors gained airplay on BBC Radio. Perhaps his most eclectic work to that point, the rootsy stomp of opening track Casablanca Face introduced a collection which veers from contemporary folk ballads to slide blues, from piano ballads to melodic guitar rock.

2017 saw a flurry of studio activity, the fruits of which arrived in December with the release of the Winterland EP (and accompanying video) and then in February 2018 with Kay's 5th album, Volcanoes.

Lucy explores and celebrates the “emotional woman” archetype through thoughtful collections of covers and original songs, unique to each set. Her original songs mix folk singer-songwriter sincerity with neo-soul style vocals - think if Alicia Keys and Missy Higgins spent the day gardening and swapping love stories. Lucy engineered and recorded 5 of her original songs in late 2022 with an all-women band, she’s currently mixing and perfecting them for release over the coming year.

These lil’ ladies, will bring a lot more than just their ‘Foxiness’ to the table…

Samantha on her 12 string guitar & Hayley Jane on vocals, WITH FOX will draw you in with their delicate acoustic melodies, effortlessly creating mesmerising harmonies through a mix of their unique tunes.
Be prepared to be drawn in to a place of daisies and daffodils …



Both accomplished musicians, Hayley and Sam collaborated as WITH FOX at the start of 2013 to create and perform both originals and acoustic indie twists on a variety of covers.

Their first few live performances saw them come through the heats and place runner up in the Jameson's Live Music Battle (The Forresters, Surry Hills). Since then the girls have been in high demand, with a month-long residency at Circular Quay's Bar 100 and work in venues such as the Billich Art Gallery, Hibernian House and the Trinity Bar.

WITH FOX are currently recording with their first single due for completion soon ...

Hayley's previous work can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/hayleyjane

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White Empress comprise: Paul Allender, formerly the main guitarist and songwriter in Cradle of Filth, vocalist Mary Zimmer from Luna Mortis and a vocal coach, Will Graney, keyboardist from Damnation Angels, Chela Harper, bass player for Coal Chamber, guitarist Jeremy Kohnmann from the Awakening and drummer Zac Morris who’s played with many bands including Ugly Kid Joe. 

When Paul relocated to the USA in 2012, in between working with Cradle of Filth, he decided to start work on another project, with local musicians in his newly adopted home of Minneapolis and his friend, Martin Skaroupka from Cradle of Filth; this soon became White Empress.

With Paul’s relentless guitar and Mary’s diverse vocals ranging from operatic to death metal screams, White Empress is exploring new areas of metal.

Paul Allender says, "White Empress is the link the music scene has been so desperately missing. The band started writing together two years ago and have slowly crafted the sound that is White Empress. White Empress has all the best parts of the metal scene rolled up in to one band. The music is hard, but emotive. White Empress’ unique style and sound stands is bringing the fresh life to the music scene that its been crying out for.” 

Their first release was their EP ‘White Empress’ which garnered great press and radio coverage. 

After this the band have moved on to their first album, entitled ‘Rise Of The Empress’. This has been recorded in White Empress’ studio and has been mixed and mastered by veteran producer, Kit Woolven (Thin Lizzy, Dave Gilmour…) and is set for release on Peaceville Records, 29th September 2014. 

The band already have fans in the press from their EP: 

Dom Lawson – Metal Hammer – UK  “Further proof that Paul Allender is one of the foremost masters of infernal riffs and atmospheric filth in metal today, White Empress wield old school grandeur and haunting, arcane extremity like gleaming weapons of sonic refinement. Dark, diverse, lissom and wickedly infectious, theirs is a sound that oozes freshness while dragging us ever deeper into the depths of Hell…”  

Malcolm Dome: Total Rock, Classic Rock – UK  “Really impressed with the tracks. They combine a eerie choral atmosphere with a full-on, scathing metal attack. The musicianship is intricate yet ferocious, and the vocals have the delicate web of intrigue.” 

Aldo Mancusi – Brutal Crush – Italy  “Devastating, Deadly, Extreme! Three words to define the sound of these guys. A war machine that wounds the listener to death with riffs forged in hot metal, drum rhythms that will rip out your guts and the ear-melting screaming. Excellent!” 

Tarja Virmakari – Metal Shock – Finland  When I heard the first WHITE EMPRESS demo tracks at the end of summer 2013, I was absolutely amazed! It’s not possible to compare their music to anything I have heard before. At one point I thought I heard something that reminded me of a song, but right in the next instant new atmospheres filled my mind. There were rich riffs, drum blasts, gut-tearing clean vocals, along with growls and screaming, which proved my assumptions to be wrong. WHITE EMPRESS is new, fresh and hypnotic,  something that has to be experienced personally. This band is surely one of the greatest sensations of 2013 and I cannot wait to see what 2014 will bring from the WHITE EMPRESS camp! 

RISE OF THE EMPRESS

“It might have looked like smoke to those who hadn’t been there…but it was steam. Steam rising from the still-wet wounds of the fallen, scattered across the fields. It mingled with the collecting dew and filled the air with a rank, pungent aroma. 
The smell of a new era.

The Warrior stirred, managed to get to his knees, and then, pushing with an iron hand on the dank ground, to his feet. His eyes scanned the scores of dead, searching for his weapon. A smile crept across his face.
Strong, victorious, he strode to the edge of the wood. All along the treeline, first one here, then one there, a new member of the new race emerged. They nodded to each other, knowing this was the dawn they’d waited for.

The marriage of man and machine had birthed them into a future where they held within them all the capacities of both.
Against the rising sun, a silhouette loomed, and he knelt at her feet. He turned his face up, and swallowed his knee-jerk revulsion to her monstrous flesh…
Aluminum coils, laced through her skin, held her form together here and there, the sacrifice she had coldly made to achieve majesty. 
All color had left her except for the dried clots of blood, which clung insistently to the holes left by the stoic stitching, begging her to remember a humanity she had marshaled, a mortality…. she’d eschewed.
The ink pools of her eyes surveyed her subjects, as one by one they bowed before her. Her glittering irises assessed them, counted them- dismissed them.

What she’d done had been for the cause- not them. If they proved loyal, they might live to see the third moon. If not- only the Warrior would be spared. 
Wiping the last of the battle sweat from her lips, she took his weapon and knighted him- the first, the last, the best… into the reign of the White Empress.”

Fantastic, eclectic, hysterical euphoria, like so many synthetic sounds, the sound of MËka, makes us schizophrenic.

The decks, his battle music is paradoxical, always looking for new sounds, we propose a cocktail or groove and emotion combine with the strength of a mix without compromise.
Alone account for the challenge of humanizing the machine with sounds of yesteryear and now. Today, he plays music inspired by the moment without being restricted to a particular style, provided the excitement going on ...

 

What a suitable title for Seb Dhajje’s excellent Tetsuko, "thought of the day", which sums up Seb’s approach to music and to his label. A thinking man’s producer and up-and-coming musical talent with fingers in progressive and deep-house flavour pies, Seb is picking up support with Tetsuko from Hernan Catteano, Laurent Garnier, CID Inc and the man himself Sasha amongst many others. The label’s second release features fellow Frenchman MËka, a seasoned DJ from the South of France stepping up with his production debut here with an original track so atmospheric it could make mars habitable. A coming together of styles with progressive, tech-house and probably many other ambient or down-tempo influences this is a mature approach to house music, both quirky and usable, brimming with feeling, like the sensation of golden sand underfoot on fresh summer's morning or the nostalgic recollection of a memory from yesteryear.

 

Seb Dhajje’s remix is classic progressive house as it should be; big-sounding, wonderfully produced and dripping with the production values many top producers only aspire to achieve. The pads and arpeggios have been used to maximum effect with a searing horn style lead and a rolling bassline to pin it all together; it’s deep and driving in a powerful way. 

Just a Mecha proves that MËka certainly has a sound, quirky, glitchy, atmospheric deep-house, something you might expect to find on a James Holden mix-tape and wonder what the hell it was. Delicate riffs soundclash into hard analogue noises, overlaid with already hall-mark lush pads and squelchy bass – unique enough sounding to be noticed and danceable enough to play in a club. Tetsuko have landed in exactly the right place, a label that’s going places, one of the best releases this month.

 

 

Quel titre très approprié à l’excellent label TETSUKO de Seb Dhajje, la pensée du jour, qui résume bien l’approche de la music et son label. Un producteur réfléchit et un talent musical aux touches progressives et aux doux parfums deep house, Seb et Tetsuko récolte le soutien de Hernan Catteano, Laurent Garnier, Inc CID et le maitre en personne Sasha parmi beaucoup d'autres. La 2eme production du label présente un français, MËka, un DJ expérimenté du Sud de la France qui monte d’un cran grâce à cette 1ere production, avec un titre original tellement atmosphérique qu’il pourrait rendre Mars habitable.Un mélange de styles avec de la progressive, tech-house et probablement de nombreuses autres influences ambiantes et down-tempo, il s'agit d'une approche évoluée (mature) de la house music, à la fois excentrique et utilisables, débordant de sentiments, comme la sensation de marcher pieds nus dans le sable doré un beau matin d’été ou le souvenir nostalgique de la mémoire des années passées.

 

Seb Dhajje remix, est classic progressif house comme il doit être ; gros son, magnifiquement produit et ruisselant de valeurs que de nombreux grands producteurs rêvent d’atteindre.

Les tampons et les arpèges ont été utilisées pour un effet maximum avec une avancé aiguë torride et un roulement de la ligne de basse pour les accrocher ensemble ; c'est profond et transporte de manière puissante.

 

Just a mecha prouves que Meka a certainement un son à part, original, étincelant, l'atmosphère deep-house, quelque chose que l’on pourrait s’attendre à trouver sur un mix de James Holden et se demander « mais qu’est-ce que c’est que ce truc ? ».élicat de "riffs soundclash" analogiques, recouvert d'une marque déjà estampillée luxuriante et des basses "squelchyTetsuko a atterri à l'endroit exact, un label qui voyage, l'une des meilleures sorties de ce mois-ci." suffisamment unique pour être remarqué et assez dansant pour être jouer en club.

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Even before Apple Ruca was tall enough to reach the turntables, she was always passionate about music. Born in Osaka, Japan, she started her music career early on the piano. She has won her numerous awards from various competitions in Japan (Matsumoto) and Australia (Melbourne/Adelaide).

Apple Ruca music accomplishment didn’t end there. She continues to inspire people as a ‘DJ’ with what many define as a “bold and delicate” sound that is always delivered with lovely looks and a charming killer smile.
In 2003 she made her debut as a DJ at Club ATOM in Tokyo, and has continued to get bookings from many other world famous night clubs such as ATOM, ASIA, MODULE, AIR and WOMB.

She was rewarded ‘BEST 8’ at the Kawasaki Halloween DJ Battle from 150 participants in October 2008. And, at last, she was invited to UK (London) ZEN BAR and Ukraine (Kiev) SAXON in spring 2009. In addition, she played at the Roland Stage of METAMORPHOSE FESTIVAL’09 which is the most famous dance music festival in Japan.

2010 her mix was a podcast on the electronic music radio "Insomniafm" and had a big success, being a no.1 show based on top10 listener tune, she also played at THE CORONET TEATER in February. In 2010 she moved to London and, she started to produce at the Subbass DJ Academy in January 2011.

Ruca Apple was the first female DJ to release an album for Insomniafm Records, leader in progressive and big-room house music. Her first album was "Message from Shirley" (IFMR014) was released in July 2011, also released "Decided to Believe" (IFMR024) in September 2011. Furthermore, in the same year she appear on the compilation "Autumn Nights vol.1", which is a whole lot of deliberate and sparse bass music to process at once a quality level rarely dips below above average, it's a mammoth undertaking to get through in its entirety.

On 2012, her guest mix played on various radios world wide and she was invited to play at INDIGO TRIBE FESTIVAL, a gathering that is dedicated to all free spirits! The annual gathering is a global reunion of the tribes. Ruca Apple is currently busy mixing a third album for Insomniafm Records.
That little girl from Osaka will always inspire you in the heavily male dominated DJ market, she created a huge impact on the scene in a short amount of time.


DJ Apple RUCA (Tokyo) 
1983年2月6日、大阪府で誕生する。東京都在住。 
1986年、３歳時よりクラシックピアノを始める。 
国内の数々のピアノコンクールで入賞し、国内(松本)＆オーストラリア(メルボルン／アデレード)で開催された世界大会へも４度出場した。 
2003年、Club ATOMにてDJデビュー。 
現在までに、ATOM/ASIA/MODULE/WOMB等、都内有名クラブでのレジデントDJ、その他ゲストDJとしても多数出演。 
2008年10月、約１５０名が参加した『KAWASAKI Halloween DJ Battle』に出場しBest 8に選出される。 
2009年3月、ウクライナ(Kiev)SAXON、4月にはUK(London)に連続招致され、DJとしても世界進出を果たす。 
2009年9月、METAMORPHOSE FESTIVAL,09 （Roland 出展ブース）にてDJ出演。 
絶対音感とロングミックスが武器である彼女の繊細且つ大胆なDJプレイ、そしてその愛くるしいルックスは、クラウド全てを虜にすると言っても過言では無いであろう。

When the seductive crooning of Natasha Singer met the crushing sounds of distorted guitars and sovereign drumming, she found a safe haven for her voice and a way to reach the soul of the fan, 
at the depths of their emotions. 
 
Eye Ra Haze was the natural formation of five music lovers who shared the dream of sculpting a nonpareil sound as a progressive metal act. Comprised of an irresistible melodist, Natasha Singer; Queen of the battle axe, Nicole Papastavrou, a Berklee schooled bass player, Chris Marrone; Hard hitting drummer, Kevin Corcoran; and the soothing, vocals and keys of Karine Catenacci.
 
	Their blend of delicate, ardent melodies and tumultuous rhythm riffs can only be compared to the leaders in the progressive metal scene. They craft each song like a passionate, personal encounter, using dynamics to translate their mood and intentions. During the tremors of their live set, Eye Ra Haze exposes a crude display of skills, taking the audience from love to rage leaving them hung; craving to know the source of their enigmatic dark side, and their intimidating show of beauty and skill.


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