Scratch Bandits Crew Live @ Nuits Sonores, Lyon

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With their hip hop background, these "sound pirates" have not only developed a truly unique writing style with electo, jazz and rock influences, but have also created a stunning visual environment somewhere between street culture and fantasy world.

Live, the band throws down strong beats with a combination of lights and stage play that draw the audience into their self-defined "mutant trip-hop" world.

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Scratch Bandits Crew

The Scratch Bandits Crew is a new approach to scratching; Supa-Jay, Geoffresh and Syr are three hip-hop pirates who love to sail strange seas.

No samples from dusty old vinyls; these three scratch explorers really do write their own tracks. They play or get played the sounds they want to use, and from that they dive into the construction of their original compositions.

They also play with voices, soul, hip-hop or funk, making surrealist collages outlining tall tales.

The Scratch Bandits marry analogue and digital, acoustic and electronic in their own unique musical signature.

And at the other end of the anchor chain, they also develop their own personal scratch tools: extraordinary inventions like the scratch guitar and the darbuka-lamp, or even the lunar scratch, a prototype “scratch controlled instrument” which is the only one of its kind in the world. Then there are new electronic stringed instruments which transform shows into hybrid, mutant events.

The album 31 Novembre – an imaginary date for this disc full of daydreams and diversions – is the image of this trio. A rich powerful collection of tracks stuffed with hip hop references, and nourished by electronic music, jazz and soul. It’s gripping and there’s no down time, just like watching the Scratch Bandits Crew live on stage. Their new album, 31 Novembre, is out on 9th April 2012.

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Nuits Sonores

"En 10 ans, les Nuits sonores n’ont jamais cédé un centimètre sur l’essentiel : sa vocation urbaine et l’intransigeance de sa programmation, un événement collaboratif et ouvert d’esprit, une place importante pour le gratuit... De nouveaux programmes sont nés (Images sonores, le Village, puis Extra!, Mini sonore, le Labo des festivals…), la fréquentation a explosé (pour atteindre 80 000 spectateurs), le public est venu de plus en plus loin pour nous rendre visite. Parmi les quelque 2000 artistes que le festival lyonais a invités, on ne compte plus ceux qui ont laissé une empreinte indélébile dans l’histoire des NS : Laurent Garnier, Gonzales, Einstürzende Neubauten, Justice, Agoria, Pedro Winter, Wire, The Fall, ESG, Ricardo Villalobos, The Residents, Gilles Peterson, Dj Shadow, Jamie Lidell, 2ManyDjs, Paul Kalkbrenner, Caribou, Hot Chip, Trentemöller, Underworld..."

Vincent Carry - Nuits Sonores' director

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