---Facebook Link Above - Please feel free to add us---  TWITTER: @MashedPotatoHdz

MASHED POTATO HEDZ - Hip Hop For Idiots

Mashed Potato Hedz (MPH) was first started ages ago in West(side) Sussex when 3 idiots thought they were really funny but actually werent. 

A fourth one was added and they recorded a load of really immature songs that appeal to 15 year old boys and people with brain damage and hardly anyone else. 

They played gigs that were good and the other not so good and then recorded a load more songs.

The Mashed Potato Hedz (named after a scene in Weird Al Yankovic's cult movie "UHF") first started recording rad hip hop craziness in the bedroom of Alex "A-Dub" Woodford in the late 1990s, when A-Dub, Neil "Beatz" Bartlett and Mat "Just Mat" Pitman put down their tea cups and picked up mics. SO that's long before your Goldie Lookin Chains, your MC Pitman and 50 Pence. They discovered a mutual love of mastabation (individually, not together), tea and hip hop and decided that hippity hop just wasnt funny enough.
The original wack(y) MCs realised that bedrooms were best for sleepin in and migrated to the living room of new member Drew "Drewman" aka "Drewvis" Bristow. After several successful recording sessions, the band (whilst on a shopping trip to Brighton) popped in to see their friend Martin who'd changed his name to Krafty Kuts and was DJing some mad Big Beat stuff around Brighton. They gave him a tape of the garbage they'd been turning out. And he played it there and then. A local wheeler dealer was in the store at the time and heard the beats and insane lyrics. He then forced the band to record with him and play a gig.
During this time they saw the departure of founding member A-Dub who went off to have a successful career doing Horrorcore Hip Hop (whatever that is). Shortly afterwards came the "Tougher Than Trevor" EP and a live gig in Brighton. Both rocked various houses, schools and, later, a pub.
After the huge buzz and wide spread praise of these releases came the guys second tho never bothered to finish properly album "Oh Jeremy, It's Those Boys Again" (in exists in full as a kind of demo / slash lofi-hiphop-comedy classic. Whilst not as instant as the previous two releases (less knob jokes), the album featured some really messed up songs and has become known as "The Pauls Boutique Era".  
The band performed another gig at The Beach Club on the same bill as Peshay, Dett & Skibadee and Mark Rae! Fancy eh? Unfortunately, the cool people didnt really get three twats in loud shirts and hair singing about Helen Daniels and threw bottles at them. Gits. They ran and so did former manager Dave. DO you blame him?
The days looked dark. And after much debating, they continued alone. A bit like the Littlest Hobo.
Next came the classic "Merry Christmas, Hairy Valarie" EP, which contained two non hip hop versions of Jingle Bells, an early version of "Your Mum Smells Of Cabbage" and the ... ummm... unforgettable "Pillow Song" - Neil's ode to humping a pillow.
During a turbulent time for the band, Neil was unavailable due to, ahem, 'other commitments' which resulted in the EP "Exercising Every Muscle" which featured the Drew & Mat song "Skool" and the Indestructible Peanuts Of Mary remix of  an early previously unissued monologue performed by Neil called "My Fitness Record Sheet".
Glad tidings came with Bartlett finishing his 'evening class' and a new album soon followed. "How Hard Is It To Go Back To Someone Who Has Seen You Naked And Say That You Were Wrong" (AKA "Hat"). Featured a brand new version of the half finished "Hamsters Paradise", a remix of the classic, unissued demo "Dead Tonys" and several brand new recordings.

August 2013 Update....

Now MPH are back in 2013 after 10 years.  Three new songs were recorded, celebrating Neil's 40th Birthday.  This includes two songs with original founding A-Dub.  Check em out.  We might do more.

April 2015 Update....

We're back again!  New EP this year!  Woooo

Be Loud Be You Radio is a podcast that discusses the intricacies of everyday life. Forget about the bells and whistles, host Krystin Hargrove gets real about navigating through various topics such as motherhood, relationships, and career to name a few.  Here we focus on the constant in every situation, YOU!

Ibaraki,Japan

Jun Ueno Guitar&Vocal
Takao Yoshiba Vocal& Bass
Junichi Miyazaki Drum

2001.7
Formed TOO CLOSETO SEE.
2001.11
And carried out first live at EVIL GARAGE
2001.12
Released 1st demo TAPE "PLEASANT DAYS FOR ME"
2002.6
Dr Junichi Miyazaki left the band. Takashi Nakata joined the exTOP GRADE
2002.8
Released 1st demo CD-R "PLEASANT DAYS FOR ME"
2002.9
West Japan tour support FLASH BACK
2003.5
V / A "RAT RACE # 5" to participate in PLEASANT DAYS FOR ME (LOUD MOUTH RECORDS)
2003.6
Birth of first child, daughter Lin Chan Takao Yoshiba
Equipment stolen car first unit 1 TOO CLOSE TO SEE
2003.8
50 sheets Anniversary Limited Release CD-R won the national high school baseball tournament Josogakuin
2003.9
V / A "SPIKE AROUND 2" REPEATEDLY to participate in (3 LINE SYSTEM)
2003.11
Center Japan tour support MILK ROBBER
2003.12
Takao Yoshiba , married his wife Chie
2004.5
V / A "NEW RECORDS ACHIVEMENT!?" REFLECTS A SHINING LIGHT and NOTHING LEFT FOR ME to (NEW RECORDS)
2004.8
for better, for worse WestJapan tour support
2004.9
1st album "Something nostalgic, Something precious" carried out Release release tour (CATCH ALL RECORDS) 
2004.11
V / A "PUNK ROCK CAMP! NEXT2" participated in and REPEATEDLY to A WHOLE NEW WORLD (IMC RECORDS)
2005.1
V / A "CATCH ALL YOUR STUFF" NOT CHANGE FOREVER to participate in (CATCH ALL RECORDS)
2005.2
Net change jobs Ueno
2005.3
one-man live in Utsunomiya, Tochigi HELLO DOLLY
2005.6
V / A "YOUTH MOVEMENT 05" NOSTALGIC DAYS to participate in (BUDDY RECORDS)
2005.11
1st COVER album "GOOD OLD DAYS" Release (CATCH ALL RECORDS)
2006.1
V / A "STRIKE THE PUNK 2" to participate in the STARTING MIND (BELLS ON RECORDS)
Mr. Ken Takao YoshiNami birth second child
2006.2
V / A "PUNK ROCK CAMP! EX2" GOING DOWN HILL and participate in YOUR SONG (IMC RECORDS)
Japan tour support CRUISERWEIGHT(USA)
2006.3
Japan tour support TEN FOOT POLE(USA) & SECOND SHOT(USA)
2006.4
GIRLFRIEND FOLLOWERS to participate in the V / A "CATCH ALL YOUR STUFF 3"
2006.9
Japan tour support NO USE FOR A NAME(USA)
2006.10
Jun Ueno, married his wife Junko
2007.2
JAPAN tour support Jet Market(ITALY)
2007.3
Dr Takashi Nakata left the band
2007.4
Readmission Dr Junichi Miyazaki is back out
2007.7
Ryo first child born Jun Ueno
2007.10
Center Japan tour support UNDER LIFE
2008.6
Repeatedly participated in the DVD "CATCH ALL SHOW 2007"
2008.7
1st Maxi Single "Eternal Baseball boy" Release (CATCH ALL RECORDS)
Center Japan tour support Northern19
2008.8
2nd Album "Days Again" release (CATCH ALL RECORDS)
2008.11
Center Japan tour support SUPER COLA
2009.2
Release Split CD "Only Yesterday / TOO CLOSE TO SEE TAKE SHIT GROOVE". Participation For Three Month, at Song For
2009.3
Participation in AGAIN to DVD "CATCH ALL SHOW 2008"
Be forced to transfer due to the recession Junichi Miyazaki
Japan tour support JET MARKET(ITALY)
2009.4
Japan tour support Hey! Mike(USA)
2009.5
Center Japan tour support TOTAL FAT
2009.8
Release V / A "B-Yond"
Participation in the Beyond the Generation
2009.9
Transfer end Junichi Miyazaki
2010.3
Kokone second child born Jun Ueno
2010.7
V / A Let's Talk About Origins-A Tribute To LAGWAGON Release (AMBIENCE RECORDS). Participation in Making Friends

Release 2009 DVD CATCH ALL SHOW. Participation at Pleasant Days For Me.

2010.9
Release V / A "B-Yond 2nd season"
Participation in the Save The Nature
2011.7
Celebrated 10 years of formation casually
2011.10
TOO CLOSE TO SEE formed a band called the old and the new (position change) at the after-party of wedding you are taken care of senior years. (Jun Ueno Vo.B, Takao Yoshiba G.Cho, Takashi Nakata Dr Junichi Miyazaki G)
2011.11
Release DVD CATCH ALL SHOW2010.
Participation in the One Side Love.
2011.12
Ayane the third child born Jun Ueno
We celebrate the 10th anniversary live at EVIL GARAGE TOO CLOSE TO SEE

Tree Adams approaches the sound of a wooden spoon mashing potatoes, church bells tolling in Corsica, or air/a signal pushing through a tube mic pre with equal interest. Any of these could inspire a fresh way to tell a story with music, which is what he does. Equally at home conducting a large orchestra, programming beats in the studio, cranking out loud guitar solos in an amphitheater or arranging vocal parts with a gospel choir, Tree lives to create original and unique work for his every project. 

Over the past 20 years, Tree’s adventures in film and television have given him the opportunity to collaborate with great talent in diverse styles. Recent projects include a haunting battle score for Jason Rothenberg’s THE 100 (CW.) The score is rife with middle eastern colors and epic orchestral themes. Ken Biller’s international espionage thriller, LEGENDS (TNT) features a more minimalist approach combining solo cello and electronic soundscapes. For the John Hertzfeld’s redemption film “REACH ME” (MIllenium Films), a traditional orchestral score.  A gritty rock score for “CALIFORNICATION” (Showtime), an urgent cerebral score for the crime drama, “PERCEPTION” (TNT) a high energy electronica score for action/thriller “RUN” (Millenium Films.) A dusty western score for “SWELTER” and hip hop for Denis Leary and Bob Fisher’s comedy “SIRENS” (USA). 

Tree was somewhat reluctantly immersed in classical piano training at an early age.  When he was around 10 years old, he heard Hendrix, at which point he picked up the guitar and found his love o’ the sport.  He spent most of the ‘90s on the road as the frontman for a rock band called the Hatters, who released several records on Atlantic.  They were road warriors, touring with bands like the Allman Brothers, Tribe Called Quest, King Sunny Ade and Jimmy Cliff.  While in the studio recording the band’s last album, Tree had the opportunity to produce an end title song for a studio feature film and he had his first taste of music as an applied art.  He found the process of working to picture exciting and intriguing and when his band dissolved later that year, Tree set out on a new course as a composer.  

Since then, Tree has enjoyed collaborating with filmmakers to craft music with storytelling.  He says that typically, a composition forms in his head before he even picks up an instrument and often, the centerpiece of an idea will evolve by experimenting with a sound or a piece of gear in the studio in the initial stages of the process.  Although his primary skills as a performer are as a singer and a guitarist, he employs a much more expansive palette with his adventures in film and television.  

Born in Berkeley, raised in New York City, Tree lives on the east side of Los Angeles with his wife and kids 


GERONIMO
His career as a DJ began already in 1992. Born 1976 in Solothurn, GERONIMO got his inspiration by legendary House Parties in the former In-Club NEW YORK in Neuenburg (NE). The ability of the DJ’s to excite a crowd by playing music fascinated him from the beginning. He organized parties with his friends in the ALTEN DROGERIE in Biberist (SO), where he played for the first time as a DJ. Therefore, Geronimo’s small success story took its course. Forthwith followed by requests from other clubs in the region. 
Another milestone have been his regular gigs at the late 90’s in the legendary NACHTSCHICHT (SO), later called GALLERY. With his friends DJ TONIC and TREMENDO & RHYTHM, he was an integral part of the club and brought him wide attention in Switzerland. 
Even the co-founder of the Zurich cult club OXA and DJ-pioneer DJ MAS RICARDO did notice his talent and procured him his first performance at an after hour party in the OXA. The now recurring gigs at the club led to further bookings in the area of Zurich and allowed him to play in the hippest clubs in Zurich.
Not to be forgotten are the events with the party label of DJ Tonic called FRESH’N’LOUD. Along with TONIC and TREMENDO he belonged to the residents of the label.
Even International performances, such as IBIZA, ITALY, GERMANY, FRANCE, TURKEY and ARGENTINA were the indefatigable DJ not denied. 
Always endeavor to develop further, he became interested in the production of music and so get in touch with the DJ and producer JOHN CURTIS. With JOHN CURTIS, he now runs the label QT RECORDS that also released a few songs. GERONIMO’S remix of the track “CARLOS BELLS” by S.M.E.R.T made it into the top 50 international DJ charts.
The lasting friendship with his mentor MAS RICARDO and the lifeblood of the same distinctive music style made the two into a dream team. GERONIMO and MAS RICARDO now successfully run the party label FLINKE FINGER that had been founded by MAS RICARDO in 2005. 
In spring 2015 a new successful cooperation began. GERONIMO family member was in the Bernese booking agency DROPOUTAGENCY which is fully responsible for the management of the DJ's until today.


Discographie:

„Splash“
(Geronimo - Original Mix)
 Neurotraxx Records 
 Release Date: 25.10.2008

„Kill Me In My Bathroom“ 
John Curtis 
(Geronimo Remix) 
QT Records 
Release Date: 06.11.2009


„Carols Bells“ 
S.M.E.R.T. 
(Geronimo Remix) 
QT Records
Release Date: 28.05.2010

In 1993, years before anyone told ya’ to “get up off them goddamn diamonds”, South Jamaica, Queens, craziest Bal-Hed sons, ONYX, were already busy takin’ some of the Golden Era’s loot and running with it to new heights, stamping the term “hardcore” in its darkest terms upside hip hop’s head with their seminal, trailblazing platinum debut, Bacdafucup.

 

The iconic cover image of four bald, angry-lookin’ niggas, their legendary “MadFace” logo, a shoulder-strapped automatic and a menacing boot-tread took rap to a world that could “Slam” in an era where even looking at someone wrong at a rap show could get you gone. Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz, SonSee and the late brother Big DS didn’t break the rules: they scared them the fuck away.

 

Twenty years and several full-length underground classics later, there is still nothing so raw in live rap as getting tossed into the barrier by the smiling, sweating, maniacal fans swarming the pit, to find yourself face-to-face with the ever-Mad Faced, ever Bal-Heded ‘Dro and Sticky (and this summer, on the Rock the Bells tour, Sonsee).

 

Face to face with loud, abrasive greatness, you might just find yourself lucky enough to embrace a boot to the temple when Sticky stage-dives, or swimming with the sharks to make waves for the crowd surfers while you “Throw Ya Gunz”.

 

ONYX made boom bap gangsta, gave metal street cred, and exposed the kinship of hip hop and punk rock cultures to a wider global audience on the strength of their delivery and the look in their eye that said this was no gimmick, motherfucker – all under the guidance of their mentor and producer, the departed architect Jam Master Jay.

 

With the Snowgoons-produced Cuzo LP hot on the way and the custom-built hybrid project Black Rock in the aisles and their newly-minted international “100Mad” click growing stronger, 2013 sees ONYX bring it back-da-fuck up in your mad face. Watch out, ‘cuz they’re coming for head-blood. 


Bio by Darcy MacDonald

	
"NYMPH, from New York, sounds as if it’s from everywhere and nowhere. This group’s first, self-titled album, on the Social Registry label, begins with the sound of Matty McDermott’s hollow-bodied electric guitar, playing curled and emphatic Malian riffs with amplifier settings that sound like Neil Young’s, loud and tough and warm and hugely echoing. Then the record stops and starts through drum rolls and cymbal crashes and rattled bells, with theatrical yelping, wordless vocals by Eri Shoji. And that — give or take a clarinet, a shakuhachi and an electric bass — is pretty much the template for the whole intuitive and sensible, contemplative and bone-rattling album. It knows what it’s doing, and doesn’t need to make it too clear."
- Ben Ratliff, NEW YORK TIMES

TarantisT - a toxxxic uncontrolled impulsive dance mania caused by the bite of a Tarantula. Also known as Tarantism.

TarantisT was formed in 2000 in Tehran, IRAN by a group of young underground metal heads and moved to Los Angeles, CA in 2008.

TarantisT started playing alternative rock and heavy metal music in the basements of Tehran, secretly and quietly, but LOUD. Putting on secret, underground shows and through word of mouth, the band obtained international attention. International media correspondents (including, but not limited to; BBC, NHK, SKY, CNN, NPR, SAT 1, Metal Hammer, Kerrang) started visiting Tehran to meet and talk with TarantisT. Soon news reports and posts began to aid TarantisT with international expansion. Following that, TarantisT was invited to play their music in European and North American festivals, such as; SXSW, CMJ, NXNE, Canadian Music Week, and Intergalactic Fest, to name a few. TarantisT played with familiar bands; Metallica, Motörhead, Stone Temple Pilots, Muse, Cheap Trick, Voivod, Sum 41, My Ruin, Ben Harper, and many more.

TarantisT released their self titled EP in 2006, Tarantism in 2008, Distorted Brains in 2010, "Say Hail" single in 2010, and the single "For Me The Bells Toll" in 2011, which has been featured and published by the SXSW festival.

Diving Bells are an Alternative band from Ireland. 

"...pure guitar-scree bliss; piercing noise that begs to be played loud enough to ensure resulting tinnitus." - The Sound Of Confusion Blog

"It pushes and pushes and pushes, piled behind itself in the shell of an abandoned bank headquarters. Ride it to where it takes you." - Sonic Masala Blog

Beverly Dortha is following