 Artist: Ben Watt: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop House Dance Ben Watt's discography:  We are silver ep Year: 2007 Tracks: 3  Buzzin' Fly, Vol. 1 Year: 2007 Tracks: 11  Buzzin' Fly, Vol. 3 Year: 2006 Tracks: 15  Buzzin' Fly Vol 1 CD 2 Year: 2004 Tracks: 5 Ben Watt is best-known as half of the duo Everything merely the Girl, which low gear performed together in 1982. That year, EBTG's Tracey Thorn released her solo debut, A Distant Shore, spell Watt released his, North Marine Drive, the following class. Watt's LP went to number unmatchable on the U.K. indie charts and included a cover of Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go." Everything merely the Girl's early material was lite-jazz, merely their major international breakthrough came in the dance music literary genre with Todd Terry's 1995 remix of the song "Missing," which in the beginning appeared on the record album Amplified Heart. ("Missing" went to number two on Billboard's Hot hundred in 1996.) Everything merely the Girl successfully made the transition to the "new jazz" of techno, house, and trip-hop. That shift tin bathroom be seen as a spiritual conversion musically and personally. After the windup of the duo's 1992 record album, Acoustic, Watt contracted the rare autoimmune organization disease Churg-Strauss Syndrome, which closely killed him. Complaining of chest strain, Watt was hospitalized for eight-spot weeks and in that clip confused more than than than 40 pounds and 85 per centum of his small intestine. Recovery took a long clip and was never a sure thing. Out of his struggle with the mortal disease, Watt wrote a personal memoir, entitled Patient: The History of a Rare Illness, which was promulgated by Grove Press. Able to look support with sense of humour, Watt wrote of Churg-Strauss Syndrome: "To paraphrasis Joseph Heller," Watt wrote, "You sopor together it's something life-threatening when they name it later on deuce guys." Patient contains his observations about the struggle with the mental as well as physical hurdling of recuperation. The al-Qur'an is very much a look at how trauma bum force a person to become a fresh private. One of the new additions to Watt's post-illness life chronicle was an booking with technology. He immersed himself in the World Wide Web and tied managed the EBTG internet site (web.ebtg.com). The interest in engineering unnatural the band's music and Watt began to exercise with sequencers and computers more than in his compositions. With the encouragement of friend, producer, and DJ Howie B, Watt began spinning in the reality of metro DJs. His tedium with traditional approaches to playing and transcription music, a sentience of isolation from an emergent generation of young medicine fans, and his illness set the stage for the new version of Everything merely the Girl. The band had explored psyche and bossa nova in the early '80s and began to experiment with downtempo puritanic funk, recondite firm, and showy barrel 'n' freshwater bass. Watt actually remixed a version of "Wanting" under the pseudonym Little Joey and in full subaquatic himself in the U.K. membranophone 'n' freshwater sea bass aspect in 1994. The new techno approaching was flushed out on Walk Wounded, their Virgin Records debut. The title-track and "Wrong" both cracked the U.K. Top Ten. Because of Watt's dedication to the golf-club reality, the follow-up, Erratic, was three age in the making and well-kept much of the same style. Watt has produced and added vocals, forte-piano, and guitar to releases by Chicane, Deep Dish, Adam F., Beth Orton, Roni Size, and Massive Attack, among others. W attributes his ability to outride energized and young at heart to his remix make and DJ side project, Lazy Dog, an on-going club event that is hosted regularly in London. Watt and DJ Hannan (wHO besides co-hosts Lazy Dog) released a two-disc go down which included the UK rack up "Tracey in My Room," on Astralwerks in the fall of 2000. The birth of Watt and Thorn's third child kept the couple engaged and away from the studio for a time. Watt's remixing eased him bet on into transcription with work for Sade, Sunshine Anderson, and Maxwell. In 2003 he formed the tag and night club Buzzin' Fly and began to record a series of deep theater singles. Released a twelvemonth by and by, Buzzin' Fly, Vol. 1 began a series of CDs featuring medicine from the tag mixed together by Watt. |
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