Chasing Tunes catches up with Kyla’s new single

An accomplished singer-songwriter and producer based in Sheffield called Kyla will release her latest single “Beautiful U” on KYPO Records on 29^th June.

DJs and producers including Liquid, Klubfiller, Andy Whitby, Andy Littlewood and Max Porcelli have used songs written by Kyla, who also provided the vocals. For Max Porcelli, she wrote and featured on Give Us Thunder, released on 12 inch vinyl and digitally by 989 Records.

Kyla’s track Under Your Spell was on The Sound of Hardcore in 2009, which reached number 4 in the compilation chart.

Amongst other writing and session work for other artists, Kyla wrote and featured on Klubfiller’s track On A Cloud, which featured on Clubland Extreme Hardcore and also Summer of Love for Fretman & Darwin, which featured on Hardcore Underground 4.

She also features on Liquid Vs Billy Daniel Bunter and Sparky’s Movin’ To The Beat and Everything’s Alright, named on the track alongside Andy Whitby, Klubfiller and Cally Gage.

Having travelled the world as a session musician and providing songs for other artists, Kyla’s own recordings are touching, melodic and uplifting, while sometimes edgy and dark.

Kyla’s new single “Beautiful U” was produced by Glenn Boulton of Creative Studios and features Cary Baylis on guitar with Kyla providing piano, keyboards, synths, percussion and vocals.

The guitarist in Kyla’s band, Cary Baylis has written hit records for Take That, The Spice Girls and Lulu including Everything Changes and Independence, both of which were Number One chart toppers.

Artists such as Pink, Sia, Ellie Goulding, Lilly Allen, Mary J Blige, Lauren Hill and Lana del Ray have inspired Kyla to mould pop, rock and RnB to create her own sound.

Kyla has already performed at many festivals and LGBT Prides in places ranging from Edinburgh, Hull, Lincoln, Tameside, Liverpool and Hull including the Freedom Festival, Tamsweg Festival in Austria, Temple Newsom in Leeds, Hull’s Mardi Grass and the Marvellous Festival in Wellington Country Park.

The brand new single “Beautiful U” will be released on KYPO Records on 29 June 2015 and the video can be seen here:

 

 

 

Experimental producer and vocalist duo release latest recordings

London based Azrock and Pogo are an experimental duo. Azrock, a songwriter, musician and producer, also writes fiction, is a graphic artist and software programmer. He wanted to combine all his talents and when he first heard the voice of Pogo he was blown away by her vocals and the recording project was born.

Together, Azrock and Pogo are driven to produce timeless music across all the genres.  

Azrock and Pogo were one of the original artists to reach the Hall of Fame on artist funding website SliceThePie and were selected as a winner for the £15,000 prize due to the interest generated from thousands of reviewers.

Another song of theirs ‘I’ll Wait Here’ was a top 5 finalist for ‘Song of the Year’ competition.

The new album “ For You” features 14 tracks including the soulful and funky single “ Wha’Cha Gonna Do” to be released on 1 October via A&P Records. 

Here’s the single on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OixyaEtDEsY

Chris Brown – New Flame ft Usher and Rick Ross

Published on 30 Jun 2014

“New Flame” Featuring Usher & Rick Ross Available Now On iTunes! http://smarturl.it/NewFlame?IQid=yt

Music video by Chris Brown feat. Usher & Rick Ross performing New Flame. (C) 2014 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

Demo Demon: Josh Savage – new singer songwriter

Here’s Josh Savage with his song: Your Lips

Spot the location scout: his granddad

Homemade video of the lead track of my upcoming EP ‘Spaces’. Out 7th April 2014 on iTunes.

His website – click the photo

Filmed by Siobhan Cox.
Concept by Josh Savage and Siobhan Cox.
Locations scout: Granddad.

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Annick’s recent release steaming up Europe’s dancefloors

“Give it to me” is the turbo-charged, wickedly erotic and risqué new single from Annick, stage persona of Tammy Pelchat from Ontario, Canada.

Annick explodes onto the scene with her turbo-charged, wickedly erotic, debut single “Give It To Me”. Reminiscent of such old skool, funky, sleezehouse gems as Jamie Principle “Baby Wants To Ride”, Lil Louis “French Kiss”, and Laidback “White Horse” or the tongue-in cheek playfulness of the dance-pop, Eurodance and house of 20 Fingers with 94’s controversial “Short Dick Man.”

“Give It To Me” drives it all home, as it adds some nu-flavour to the already spiced up mix of retro electro delight and oozes with raw sexual passion to become more erotic and controversial than Berlin’s “Sex (I’m A)” or Soft Cell’s “Sex Dwarf”.

HOT AND SEXY

Annick says, “if Give It To Me is a little too hot and sexy for your kitchen, there is even a few mixes that will politely douse the fires. It’s still deliciously erotic and seductive pop dance candy.”

Give It To Me, Annick.

Accompanying Annick singles are scorching hot mixes from some of the biggest names in clubland. She’s working with three-time Grammy Award winners The Klubjumpers (known for their awesome mixes of Madonna, Mariah Carey & Britney Spears), the Majik Boys, most known for their mixes of Whitney Houston & Rhianna, followed by Annick’s native Canada’s React.

ELECTRONIC MAGIC

Then mixes include electro madness from UK’s Bu5hboy, then Danny Lee works his special brand of electronic magic. Newcomers from Hungary, Plasticboys vs. Adriano, along with ISV’s own Nivek Tek Vs. Dirty-Z for a hard blast of euro NRG and last but not least; disco house darlings Brick & Mortar.

This sexy single was unleashed worldwide on 26 May 2014 on Ranco Records.

Lana Del Rey admits she “resented” becoming a full-time musician “every day”

Lana Del Rey has opened up on how she deals with negative feedback.

Speaking to Clash magazine, the US star said that after the release of her 2012 major label debut ‘Born To Die’ there were moments where she wanted to give up on her career.

The ‘West Coast’ star said of receiving criticism after her rise to fame and whether she resented becoming a musician:

“All the time. Every day. I didn’t want to do it, ever. You can make music, just for making music – you don’t have to put it on YouTube. That was definitely a viable option for me. I have a lot of passions and making music was always something I would do for fun.

 

“But from what happened, it wasn’t worth it most of the time. It’s still not really worth all the bullsh*t. But, meeting people like Dan Auerbach, making a record [‘Ultraviolence’] that is perfect for me, and being able to tell my story through music – that is totally amazing. But that is where it begins and ends. Sometimes I meet people who are really cool, but most of the time it isn’t like that.”

Del Rey meanwhile is due to release her new album ‘Ultraviolence’ on June 16.

Watch Lana Del Rey’s ‘West Coast’ video below:

Aberdeen band release new EP

The Framed are a 4-piece band from Aberdeen consisting of Glynn McGregor (drums), Gareth Burr (guitars), Steve Ross (rhythm guitar) and Jamie Reid (vocals and bass).

The Framed “I Don’t Know’

The group formed due to a distinct love of all things musical driven by a desire to get out of working 9 to 5. Their music is upbeat rock with some punk simplicity, indie sensibilities and some sometimes naive and thoughtful lyrical content thrown in for a more Vindaloo type kick.

The band have recently recorded their debut EP at Monnow Valley Studios with producer Paul Tipler and mastered it at Metropolis Studios with John Davis. With the release of the EP ” I Don’t Know ” this month, their first festival performance already behind them and strings of gigs, the future should be exciting for the band.

“I Don’t Know” is the latest single from The Framed and will be released on 30 June 2014.

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Newcastle group to have 2014 hit with Top Boy Swag?

The humbly named Top Boy Round Here, a group from Newcastle, release a catchy, attention grabbing new single. Will it be one you will like instantly or wait to be told you should be liking it, a la Gangnam Style. It certainly has its own thing going on.

“Top Boy Swag” is the new single from Newcastle supergroup “Top Boy Round here. The outfit consists of band members Silvar Laidlow (emcee/singer) , Dap CEO (emcee) and Lixie (Lead Vocals).

Mix tapes

 Silvar Laidlow originates from Bedford and has released several solo mix tapes including Green City with OMA award winner DJ Play. He touched the hearts of millions when he performed his song “Mama” on Sky One show ‘Must Be The Music’, impressing judges Dizzee Rascal, Jamie Caullum and Sharleen Spiteri.

Dap CEO is from Newcastle. His solo career has seen many record deals including Sin Nombre Records, Hip Hop Village & RGS Entertainment including many releases and collaborations with the likes of Lil Wayne, Royce 5 9, Professor Green, Shola Ama, Skinnyman and Blak Twang with plenty of plays on BBC 1Xtra, MTV Base & Channel AKA.

Lixie who takes care of lead vocals hails from Newcastle and is the newest member of the group. She has performed on stages across the UK and been in several girl groups before joining the Top Boy team.

New York

The band are produced by New York Super producer 81Neutronz who produced the track Cinderella Man for Eminem. The band got together quite organically, Dap CEO and Silvar decided to collaborate on a song together after being rival solo acts for years, the track need a female vocal, so they called in Lixie, and the rest is history. The band are due to support the top 40 chart act Professor Green at the end of March in Sunderland.

The bold new single “Top Boy Swag” is released on CJMG/Universal via CTD Entertainment with distribution worldwide from Universal Music Operations on 14 April