About Us
To push Their musical style into the outside world; to challenge the status quo; to have the world listening and moving to Their sounds.
WHAT ARE THE BEAT MONGERS/ WHAT DO THEY DO?
Simply put, they’re producers who create music using studio hardware, live instruments and vocalists. They’re also a collective of musicians performers and DJ's
chedck out the individual members on the Artist page
WHY THE NAME
A fish monger is in the business of selling fish, an iron monger works with iron. The BEAT MONGERS are in the business of beats
THEIR STYLES & INFLUENCES
They produce mainly dance and urban orientated music, including Hip Hop, Drum & bass, House, Garage, Grime, RnB, Breakbeat, Electro, Broken beat and more. Their music is often lead by beats, baselines or chord progressions.
Their Influences are mainly taken from the styles mentioned above but also include other genres such as jazz, disco, funk & classical.
Listing all the specific artists or tracks or DJs that influence them would be impossible but there’s a rough idea their favourite styles below
Favourite artists, DJs, Labels and compilations
Hip hop: everything from the old skool bboy stuff like grandmaster flash to the lyricist lounge mcs like mos deff and faro monch or others like Slum vilage, Jurasic 5, Dialated peoples, dela soul, tribe called quest, beastie boys, rhyme fest, nas, busta rymes, jz, and cl smooth, Gangstar, common sence, lupe fiasco.
Producers like J Dilla, timberland, pete rock, Neptunes. Uk MC's: Rodney P, Sway, Skinnyman, kilashikoff, taskforce, many many more.
R&B: Mainly the soulful side- Angie stone, Jill Scot, Maxwell, Raphiel Siddique, Erica Badu, floetry, Dwele but also enjoy the more upfront artists.
Garage (from old skool to new): MJ cole, Artful dodger, Wide boys, DJ EZ, Matt Jam Lamont, Wookey, club asylum, Middle row, Ant hill mob, Roll Deep too, & many more
Drum & bass: shy fx, High contrast, London Electricity, Calibre, Goldie, Anything from good looking records, LTJ Bukem, Photek, Peshay, Dilinja, Lemon D, many more
House: Mainly Deep house, masters at work, basement jaxx, daft punk, kimblee & solu misic, loads of obscure unknown artists
Breakz: anything from the Distinctive breakz label, plump djs, hybrid, Stanton warriors, DJ zinc, break beat era,
Broken beat/ others: Bugs in the attic, Amp fiddler, 4 hero, DJs like Giles Peterson, Patric Forge,
Other styles include Funk, Blues & Jazz: Earl Hinds, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Fella Kuti, James brown.
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