Eddy Temple-Morris and Tom Bellamy are Losers.

Eddy is the Xfm radio legend responsible for
the corruption of thousands of former rockers, slipping a pill into their collective pints and seducing them onto the dance floor until dawn. Tom is a keyboard, FX pedal and guitar legend whose perfect cheekbones and wild techno-noise could be seen and heard on stage right
of a Cooper Temple Clause gig for many years.

Together, they remix and produce music in a rural studio, Bleak House, just outside Reading in Berkshire, England. If you stand in the yard

you can hear the banging of a rivet gun in the metalworks on one side, clanging from the car body shop on the other, and furious beats, insane bleeps and rumbling squelches coming from the open studio door. A nice bearded man called Alan brings them chilli jam and bizarre cheeses to go with the hummus and 'Food Doctor' mixed seeds they eat all day, following a studio food tip from Paul Epworth.

What do they sound like? Picture a twin headed beast of Liam Howlett and Soulwax Nite Versions taking Teenage Badgirl Up the arse at SebastiAn's house, while Kissy Sellout watches and wanks furiously in a Phones T-shirt, simultaneously on a mobile phone conference call with Justice and Pendulum.

'Killing In The Name' has been Eddy's signature tune closing legendary sets at Glade Festival, Manumission, Razzmatazz, Secret Garden, Es Paradis and on tour with The Prodigy. This slice of Pendulum/Mr Oizo inspired genius is the best thing Tommy and Eddy have ever done...and they've done a lot. There are only 500 promo copies of this end of set bomb, guaranteed to leave a crater the size of Hiroshima on any dancefloor. And if that's not good enough the b-side to this hell beast 'Listen Up' will make you want to take your clothes off and fight with your parents.

Get it while you can.

 



Date: Sometime in 1976
Location: London, suburbia
Time: Supper

Whilst busying himself with a chocolate spread sandwich,
9 year old Mark Vidler became increasingly aware of what was unfolding before his eyes on the telly.
A snotty-nosed bunch of kids, in the process of 'stirring up trouble'.

"Go on, you've got another five seconds……say something outrageous"
"You dirty bastard"
"Go on, again"
"You dirty fucker"
"What a clever boy"
"What a fucking rotter"
"Well that's it for tonight…….."

Some things are never easily forgotten.
"That was the moment I sat up and took notice, to be honest" says Mark.
"Nothing in pop music had impressed me up to that point……from then on, I just wanted to be in a band, get a reputation and learn to play guitar……….
in that order."
  Call it the 'inspiration.'

2003 and this time it's a new breed of musicians 'stirring up trouble' most notably a certain Go Home Productions (see earlier reference to kid with the chocolate sandwich) who establishes himself as one of the major forces within the UK mash-up scene after releasing classic mashes such as 'Making Plans For Vinyl', 'Work It Out With A Foxy Lady' and 'Sexual High'.

Then, in 2004, GHP agrees (luckily for us) to sign to Half Inch and releases the anthem that is otherwise known as 'Ray Of Gob' to critical acclaim. Following this Marks release schedule has been busy to say the least..but keep watching cause the best, and we really mean this…is still yet to come.


 

  
 



Having started the first 8 or so months of his life as a
recluse it's hardly surprising how secretive the life &
works of f&s have been, but after 20-odd years of
existence it's time for all that to change.....

f&s is the next incarnation of Frenchbloke & Son,
(in)famous for one of the earliest UK bastard pop
albums 'Haggis Trax' and the 60 tunes in 30 minutes Superchunk on Xfms The Remix.

f&s are/is just one person who prides himself on
making people enjoy themselves whilst listening to music at high volume. To achieve this he likes to play records/cd's/ laptop live, all at the one time with often
disastrous/commendable [delete where applicable]

  results, featuring musical styles from ambient to gabba, obscure to mainstream, rock to rave, psychosleazygrimefunk to jazyzbluesysoulpop and from time to time the unlistenable, successfully avoiding genre-lisations.

f&s has recently released the 'Sexy Model' 7" - an illegitimate pop mash-up of Kraftwerk's 'The Model' and Right Said Fred's 'I'm too Sexy', on the Half-Inch label, as well as tracks on the Jerry Springer the Opera 'Slut Junky' EP with GHP. f&s has also been spotted accosting the ear drums of many at several venues around the UK.


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As a young boy, Lemon studied classical piano,
but, like the typical Yank kid, wanted to be a
professional baseball player.

As he reached his teens, he came back to music,
as his baseball desire gave way to that all-too-common fantasy of being a rock star.

Sadly, the rock 'n' roll delusion continues to this day.

Lemon thrashed about in a few bands, but came to realize that borrowing (and tweaking)
the expensively recorded instrumentals of existing groups, was much preferable to lugging heavy equipment around, and dealing with drunken guitarists and drummers who miss practice.

So Lemon began to amuse himself singing over the nicked parts, at first writing new melodies over the existing chords. This led to experimenting with what he now calls 'karaoke mash-ups' -- singing one song over the (rearranged) backing track of another song.

"It's fun", says Mr. Lime. "Plus, I could never figure out how to get clean a capellas when I tried doing conventional mash-ups, so I just gave up. This is much easier."

There was scant interest in this approach on his own soil, but we at Halfinch were glad to offer a home to this new mash-up sub-genre.

We hope you'll find Lemon Lime's debut single as refreshing as we did.