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An idea to form a band was born in the minds of Plexis
bass-player Dusan Lebl and drummer Martin Svec in 1998.
One free afternoon they put an imaginary band together
and organised few gigs. They performed at the MSC World
Skateboarding in1999, at the punk festival in Vodnany
and at the rock festival in Trutnov.
Bass player Stepan Svoboda, who joined the band only after
three rehearsals, fulfilled the band’s requirements. When
playing live, the band was accompanied by a bongo showman,
a drummer of a band “Chalupari” - Jarda Pero “PEYERL”.
After three rehearsals and a few gigs the band fell silent
for three years. Later, they recorded a promo demo with
six songs (MP3 Songs) and in 2000, they started performing
live again.
The band members, who themselves cannot specify the style
of their music, simply call it JUICE music. When it seems
that the band is stable and complete, the bass player
Stepan leaves the band. A replacement bearing the face
of Josef “Sisla” Riha filly the space.
Currently, APPLE JUICE are playing in the leading clubs
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| URL:
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Prague’s southern suburbs hip-hop formation, was originally
founded as MC Indy and DJ Wich at the 007 Club. La4Boy
has joined the group in the course of the year and they
started to compose their own songs and perform live in
the Czech Republic. They have had over 100 concerts in
the Czech Republic, Dresden (Germany), Bratislava (Slovakia)
and Warsaw (Poland). The band’s members are DJ Wich (trax
and scratches), Indy (rap and trax) and La4Boy (rap).
Pop-Music Academy Awards
On some ocassions they perform with Lin-D. They are considered
to be a local hip-hop stars and they just released a debut
album “MY3” on Mad Drum Records. It should be mentioned
that DJ Wich – apart from producing “MY3” album – produced
the album”Repertoar” of another local hip-hop band Peneri
Strycka Homeboye. He also won the “DJ Mix Award” at the
Pop-Music Academy Awards.
| D I S C O G R A
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| Singl - Pohyb Nehybnyho/Individual |
03/ 2000 Bbarak records |
| 2 songs on the compilation East Side Unia: Leto
a Tema + remix from DJ Wich |
11/ 2000 Terorist? records |
| Single with PSH – Cesta 3tr7tu, Hlasuju proti
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03/ 2001 Terorist? Records |
| Debut Album Indy & Wich – My 3 |
05/ 2002 Mad Drum records |
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After an unceremonious inauguration as a bit of graff
on the side of a box, Taskforce, aka brothers Chester
P and Farma G, are slowly but surely mutating into one
of UK Hip-Hop’s most formidable outfits. The duo garnering
a dedicated following of international Hip-Hop heads with
an ear for hardcore rhymes, intelligent flow and an intrinsically
Taskforce comedic word play.
Getting to this stage (e.g. on top enough to actually
need a biography) has been a slow but continuously moving
process, the pair rapping with intentions to record since
their early childhood. “I’ve got a tape,” Chester laughs,
“With us rapping when I was like 9. Farm’ would be about
11. So you know, if you count that and all the stuff we
must have down before we recorded that tape, we’ve been
at this game for quite a while now.”
During their years growing up on Highbury estate (they
still live there now in the same house with their mum)
they formed a close circle of friends made up of breakers,
producers, emcees and DJ’s. This group eventually coming
to be known as The Bury Crew – the members all from places
ending in b.u.r.y.
Extending their sonic family further the brothers became
part of the now notorious Mudd Family, an affiliation
still in effect today with both Farma and Chester working
with the crew on a typically ‘Mudd Fam’ sporadic basis.
Growing up within the tightly knit community of Highbury
Estate, the brothers came to be known as the ‘strange
ones’ amid their fellow estate bredrens, kids having some
what of a shock when they came round to visit the Coombes
house hold. “We’re a very artistic household and Mum is
very much the visual artist”, Farma reveals. “Back then
she was big on like punk art. Kids would come round and
see like car doors hanging off ceiling, paint splattered
on walls, dolls heads and broken tv’s everywhere and you
just knew they we’re thinking ‘what?’”
It wasn’t just their home’s décor though that set them
apart…Farma continues
“In the circle of friends we’ve had we’ve probably always
been the most like misunderstood. Not so much now as people
know what we’re about but when we we’re younger people
thought we we’re a bit weird…”
“It’s not even like we were weird,” Chester adds, “Just
more peaceful and civilised and shit. We we’re like what’s
wrong with you lot? You go out do your thing and we’re
not getting involved.”
Far from being angels though, both boys partook in their
fair share of youthful wildness (‘I was naughty man’ –
Chester), but it was more along the lines of typical juvenile
shenanigans as opposed to the out and out destructive
chaos created by a majority of their neighbouring juniors.
Almost a decade later, and a new batch of terrors on the
estate, Taskforce provide the kind of sterling example
many youths lack throughout their early years of growing
up. Kids can drop by to borrow mics, make some beats or
even to just ‘ear some rhymes’ – the continuously bifter
wielding brothers making an unlikely, but undoubtedly
successful source of stabling influence.
“I know it might sound ridiculous but in are own way we
are example to the kids here.” Chester states, almost
as if he can’t believe it himself. “We grew up round here,
did the same things as them – smoke, got drunk, be naughty,
got told off, never went to school. But we reached a certain
point in our lives and we decided to do something. All
the kids here know that. Every kid here knows our names
– from the ones who can just speak to the ones that our
old enough to rob our house. They can come round here
and borrow stuff and do something constructive and they
really respect that.”
 Lending
an ear during the early stages of the Coombes brothers
career was the now infamous UK producer Mark B, the brothers
briefly forming a five piece crew with the producer, alongside
Eno Redrum and DJ Prime Cuts, called The Graforiginees.
The project was but a short-lived affair, Prime Cuts going
on to gain critical acclaim as a turntablist with Scratch
Perverts and Eno Redrum leaving to take on a more righteous
tip of beat making for the church. Mark B released Taskforce’s
first ep as a double act, ‘New Mic Order’, on his ‘K-Boro’
label soon after.
Release wise Taskforce are an ever present unit within
the core UK Hip-Hop scene, recently collaborating with
UK dons Aspects, DJ Skitz and Joe Christie, aka Braintax
and head honcho of Lowlife records - the duo releasing
much of their material, including their latest ‘ep’ ‘The
Great Outdoors’, on this latter independent.
With limited vinyl pressings and no set label or management
affiliation, much of the reputation of Taskforce has incurred
via word of mouth recommendation and through a spattering
of ‘intimate’ (OK small capacity) live performances. Their
Morcambe and Wise-esque stage play and ‘You know what
brov I’m gonna freestyle’ dialogue providing as much towards
their notoriety and appeal as the astuteness of their
material.
Described by themselves as ‘the hobo’s of the industry’,
Taskforce better be prepared for immanent changes in their
currently low-key profile. For with the world finally
ready to check skills from mic-ampers of a non US orientation,
and with copies of their 2000 single ‘Wha Blow’ currently
going for L40 a pop, urban music fans seem finally ready
to take on the original tramps of the airwaves. Are you?
| D I S C O G R A
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| CD EP - New Mic Order |
K-Boro 1999 |
| DJ Vadim - "Friction / Raps Don't Grow On
Trees" |
Ninja Tune 1999 |
| Vinyl EP - Voice Of The Great Outdoors |
Low Life 2000 |
| "Graf Da Bus Up" |
Low Life 2000 |
| "Wha Blow!" |
Low Life 2000 |
| Task Force - Music From The Corner Volume 1 |
2001 |
| Wordlab "It's Us Were Back" Wordlab
2 |
2001 |
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 February
1993: After a long time, 3 punks meet each other again
in one of Berlin-
Kreuzberg´s pawnshops. As a matter of fact they wanted
to pawn their musical instruments,
because they needed money to pay their bills. But what
happened ? Archi "MC"
Motherfucker (voc, git), Johnny Bottrop
(git) and Hermann von Hinten (drums)
were celebrating their reunion and decided to form a new
band together.
Soon after a bassplayer called "Ice Tüte"
joined and in April´94 the four punks rehearsed
constantly in their basement. They were looking for
a peaceful sounding name for their young band, so they
called themselves "Terrorgruppe" which of
course means
Terrorgroup.(In English) It did not take to long and
the band was well known in Berlin. They released a couple
of self produced 7" vinyl-ep´s which sold an amazing
amount in the german punk-scene. In fall 94 "Ice
Tüte" left the band and after a miscarried experiment
with
a guy called "Fritz", Zip Schlitzer took place
as the bassplayer.
Until today "Terrorgruppe" released about
14 Singles and 4 full length albums.
Musik für Arschlöcher 1995 (CD/LP) Gringo/Metronome
Melodien für Milliarden 1996 (CD/LP) Gringo/ Metronome
Nonstop Aggropop 1997 (CD/LP) Gringo/Interco
Keiner hilft Euch 1998 (CD/LP) Gringo/Intercord
With the last two albums, they hit the top ten of the
german alternative charts and the single "Rockgiganten
vs. Strassenköter - a split singel with Die Ärzte -
even made it in the german Top 100 chart
The early recordings sounded strickly punk-rock, somewhere
between melodic skate-punk from California, London 77
and old german punkrock of bands like KFC, Razors or
Middle Class Fantasies...... Then MC & Co added
more and more Reggae, Ska and Pop elements to their
songs and on "keiner hilft euch" you can even
hear a jazz - song. Today the band calls their music
AGGROPOP and has founded a little aggropop-scene with
their own small fanzine "Church of Punkology"
as the central organ of public propaganda.
Terrorgruppe´s (most german) lyrics are as important
as their music & style. They write about politics,
sexuality, religion, drugs,relationships and boring
life in Germany in their own respectless, naive and
unconcerned way. Cynical and ironically they like to
spread salt into the open wounds of the modern, German
society and sometimes they give practically instuctions
for rebellion. "We want to spread hate and mistrust
among the shitty people of germany and make kids rebell
against their parents, against the state, church and
society", the four Berliners confess. But Terrorgruppe
is not a politically punk-band. They characterize themselves
as 10% PC (and 90% politically incompetent).
They like to disfame stars from politics and show-business
in their own way of despising mankind. Melicious joy
is their most important driving element.
Of course, with this attidude they do not only make
friends: A certain chain store was not willing to distribute
Terrorgruppe´s products; some well known stars were
thinking about sueing "Terrorgruppe" (but
refrained); communities tried to prohibit Terrorgruppe´s
live-shows and the "Office for Protection of the
Constitution" recorded every little move of the
band. Christian moral-theologains and radical femenists
were threatening with riots...etc.....etc......
Notwithstanding to this little problems the band was
constantely following their triumphal procession.("learning
from Terrorgruppe means to learn how to win") so
they were touring the hell out of Germany, Austria and
Switzerland. Until today they did about 450-500 live-shows
and tons of fanzines voted them as "the best german
live - band".
With the idea "language-barriers Fuck off"
the four maniacs also visited countries like Poland,
Czec, Holland, France, Hungary, Italy, Spain and California
(where they released 1997 their compilation-album "Terrorgruppe
uber Amerika" on BYO-Records).
Unfortunately drummer Hermann v. Hinten left in summer
1998. 4 days later Maschine West joined the band and
made their music more compact an powerfull. Right now
they re presently working on new songs.
For 1999 they "only" playd around 50 live-
shows because the band needs a little break to clean
their instruments. Plus they were working on their 5th
album "1 world --0 future" which will be released
european wide on Epitaph records. Street date will be
the 11th of March 2000. The first time the band recorded
1 spanish and 4 english songs together with 9 german
songs. So, all you not german speaking people have a
chance to sing along.
So don´t miss out one of their live-shows this year.
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