KAV
British, LA based artist KAV's music has been compared by the press to BRMC, Primal Scream, The Stooges & Kasabian. He helped reform well-known British band Happy Mondays in his early 20's with Shaun Ryder, joining the band on guitar, co-writing their latest album. Recently he's been writing & recording with Andy Rourke from The Smiths for new band 'BLITZ VEGA', ready for a 2019 debut release.
KAV's worked with Howard Marks, Zombie Boy, Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (Oasis), DATAROCK & Tall Paul. His track 'Man With No Shadow' was picked up for a recent episode of Teen Choice winning TV Show 'Riverdale', ’Blaggers N’ Liars’ was used in Shameless USA and 'Dance in a Panic' was picked up for a movie teaser featuring Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) for ‘Decoding Annie Parker’. KAV wrote the end credits for a movie starring John Malkovich which is due for release in 2019. He's also regularly had his music picked up for FIFA World Cup Coverage, ITV Sports, Champions League & FA Cup, Sky Sports 'Goals on Sunday', BBC Football Focus & The Europa Football League.
ROSS GODFREY
Ross Godfrey is a founder member of the band Morcheeba, a multi instrumentalist and composer producer heavily influenced by late 60’s acid rock and early hip hop and electro. Morcheeba’s cinematic music has been used in countless movies, tv shows and advertising campaigns. Ross has also composed bespoke film scores for Steven Soderbergh
PHANTOM:RUCSAK
Like a wrecked rusty cargo ship, slowly sliding down a ragged rock face, the Rucsak emerged from the late 90s industrial dark step scene to unleash his unique noise in the form of a short Ep, 'Sounds from the island of dance'. A number of ear ripping live sets followed in 1999 and 2000. A founder member of the now infamous art collective the 'Phantom:researchfoundation', Rucsak disappeared from the scene in a mist of secrecy.
Surfacing in 2017 to start working on a full length album titled, 'Possible Allegorical Bird' with a sound that is more glass shard in the mind than rusty nail. Focused and more precise, with a wealth of sounds from his travels, a true comeback of epic proportions.
HENRY LAW
A dawn chorus in a silicon jungle. As a founder member and one half of ‘Yimino’, Henry’s haunting, ethereal, yet playful electronics helped shape the sound of the cult Electronica band in the early 2000s up until now. Having existed below the radar since inception - possibly due to shunning the awkward nature of live electronic music and instead focusing on recorded music - Yimino returned this year (2018) with a new album, ‘Æng’, of abstract, ambient, floaty electronics.
Having spent the last four years working alongside filmmakers and podcasters, aiding the storytelling process through sound and music, Henry has found himself more concerned with narrative and is now searching new ways in which to present his ideas. He is currently working on the concept of an “audio animation” and a “sound portrait” where he asks subjects about phenomena like auditory memories. He then takes sections out of context to form strange stories, all set to his trademark spacious music.
DAVID LIGHTFOOT
David Lightfoot has been composing since his teens, landing radio play from Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio One with his first band demo back in 2000. He went on to write and record hundreds more songs and signed a number of recording and publishing deals with various bands - including indie chart topping acts The Moths and Me My Head.
David has since toured the globe and his music has regularly featured on radio and TV, on shows like 'The Hills', MTV's 'Life of Ryan', 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Life' on NBC, 'Big Brother' on Channel 4, 'Match of the Day', 'Football Focus', 'BBC Rugby' and 'Wimbledon' sports coverage and the 'Test Drive Unlimited 2' video game soundtrack for Activision.
ALEX GRAY
Alex is 100% self-taught and plays instruments by ear. In his short rocket-ship journey so far, his passion and immersion in engineering and production steered him towards Metropolis Studios assisting on studios sessions with Pharrell Williams, Van Morrison, Kelis and Parliament Funkadelic. This was interwoven with promo of the calibre of; White Mountaineering X Adidas video, a series of Vivienne Westwood Instagram videos and Transformer, a passion project/ documentary to help save his native Portugal's beautiful coastlines.
He now spends his time between Universal and his own creative work space in a self-confessed quest for the perfect sound.
LiVES
As the songwriter and lead guitarist/ singer with cult 2 piece rock band The Sea, LiVES played over 1000 concerts in over 15 countries, had a top 5 chart hit, supported Muse, The Kills, James Morrison and has played some of the biggest festivals worldwide including Glastonbury, SXSW, CMJ, Fate De Musique, M pour Montreal and Eurosonic. His music is now used on TV and film globally including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Warner Bros, ESPN, Canal Plus, MTV, Netflix and many synchs for major brands.
LiVES specialises in rock, pop and has written for Bob Geldof, James Morrison and collaborated with producers such as John Cornfield (Muse, Supergrass, Razorlight) and Pete Briquette (Tricky, Massive Attack, Glen Hansard).
Dead Love Fear Wave
Bringing together a vast array of influences from a wide range of media it would be absurd to try and pigeon-hole DeadLoveFearWave. “We didn’t talk about inspirations at the start of the project, we both knew the idea of sounds rather than specifics, but during the process we did find inspiration in unusual places”, Citing the work of writer William S. Burroughs, lyrically narrative style of Tom Waits, the non-linear recording approach of Beck’s early work, the synthesis of 808 State, vocals of Ian Brown, guitar of Bert Jansch are just a few of the influences heard in DeadLoveFearWave’s music. “These were the inspirations, personal and political, quite an uncomfortable mix, but in the end, wholly satisfying.” say the duo.