Born under the star of the Hacienda, 12 wise men.
Many moons ago, when they used to turn the internet off at 6pm, we spent our time producing breakbeats with sticks, being the pioneers of the 'Amen' break. As time moved on, out styles diversified, our skills increased, our knowledge knew no bounds.
After 1800 years of only having our breakbeat to listen to, we decided on some decisive action, some would say we 'sold out' but this isn't true, our commercial gains from this project was nil... we decided to start performing under a new name, using the moniker Franz Schubert.
We found great success until about 1828 when we briefly disbanded our collective, following some furore during the Independence of Uruguay afterparty, with rumours of José Gervasio Artigas spilling his grog over our Roland-808.
A chance encounter at the EuroSport Penny Farthing Half-Pipe evebt in 1903 brought us back together again. Here we rekindled our love of all things musical after hearing Maxwell's remix of Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony, using the 'Amen' break we'd all come to love many moons before.
From thereon we pretty much had a hand in all things musically enjoyable, from teaching Janis Joplin that life isn't all about having a Mercedes Benz, teaching Ravi Shankar how to play a few simple chords on the sitar, explaining to Patsy Cline the importance of emotion in music, playing Soul music to Al Green for the first time, writing the lyrics to most of The O'Jays tunes especially the good ones, teaching Peter Gabriel how to create animation, touring with The Beatles as the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Beatles until Ringo got on our nerves, introduced Johnny Cash to liquor, showed Prince how to REALLY make love, skinning up with Bob Marley, telling Louis Armstrong to make it all up as he went along and teahcing Aretha Franklin how to spell R E S P E C T.
These days, with a blurred mind but a clear vision, we aim to bring every corner of the musical world to you, if we like, you might too. It's a journey that will never end, so strap yourself in and get comfortable my musical bretherens.
