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artist: Cagedbaby
album: Hello There
label: Southern Fried Records
cat: n/a
year: 2006
genre: Electronic
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.90.3 --Alt-Preset Standard
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 44,2 MB
link: http://www.cagedbaby.com
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 08:51 Hello There (Radioslave Remix)
02 07:06 Hello There (Matthew E Remix)
03 07:32 Hello There (Radioslave Dub)
04 07:04 Hello There (Matthew E Instrumental)
total time: 30:33 min
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│release notes.
"Brighton in Spring. Pac-a-mac families huddle together on the
seafront, defiantly eating their chips and ignoring the bluster of
a typical seaside downpour. Tom Gandey, aka cagedbaby, takes a long
sip of his pint, settles into one of the warm nooks of the Fortune
of War and gazes out of the window, smiling. "I've travelled to
lots of amazing countries over the last few years," he laughs.
"Amazing hot countries, but I still love it here. I'm Brighton born
and bred."
The son of wholesome hippies, Gandey was raised amidst boats and
pianos. His two brothers now run their father's fishmonger
business, but Tom decide to follow more in the footsteps of the
distaff side. "All my mum's family are classical musicians and my
grandfather was a conductor of the Royal Philharmonic," he smiles.
"When I was young I thought I might combine both of the family
passions and become a rockstar yachtsman. You know, like Simon le
Bon." And he's far from given up on this dream. "I've got this
vision of me in five years time re-living the scene at the end of
Trading Places," he grins.
Growing up Tom soon learnt to love the buzz of performing to an
audience. By the age of eight he was already playing the piano
better than any of his school teachers and would entertain his
classmates by jamming classical hymns. He also began to write his
own material: "I'd sit at my piano and play for hours," he recalls.
"I'd be writing little chord progressions and maybe come up with
some lyrics and sing them." But as the hairy-palmed grasp of
adolescence began to take hold, assembly recitals were swapped for
stints in local bands and Tom's creativity took a decidedly, erm,
experimental turn: "Everything I do is very influenced by films,"
he explains, pausing only to polish off the remnants of his second
pint. "Classics like The Goonies and Cocoon. I started to
experiment by taking the audio from one film and laying it over a
muted version of another. It was like phonic art. At one point I
had Texas Chainsaw Massacre going with Song of The South - it was
pretty fucked up."
Production came naturally with the skills he already possessed and
with friends like Ashley Slater and Cut la Roc on hand to help out,
Tom's sound began to take shape. "I used to mess about making love
songs, playing piano and singing Elton to over-amorous grannies at
Freemason Dinner Dances," he laughs, sweeping his techno-hippy
locks out of his eyes. "But I realised I needed to do something
more rock 'n' roll."
And so the cagedbaby persona began to evolve. Think acid-house
superhero meets New Romantic. Influenced by everything from Talking
Heads to Toto it's music that pops out of the speaker with a
martini in its hand. But why the name? "You want the idealistic
version or the truth?" he smiles. "Either it's something to do with
being linked to the earth, chained to Mother Nature by an unseen
umbilical chord. Or I chose it because my releases would end up
being next to the Chemical Brothers in the racks at HMV. Either way
if you type it into Google you get lots of weird pictures of little
kids behind bars."
cagedbaby's big break came after a spur-of-the-moment trip to the
Miami Winter Music Conference in 2002. DJ Magazine were looking for
an unsigned artist to follow around and stumbled across Tom in his
most natural habitat - a party. Stunned by the quality of his demo,
they covered him in a two-page feature. Simultaneously he was
throwing out promos to the producers he respected and couldn't look
past Southern Fried when deciding which labels to approach. "I
liked their reputation," he chuckles. "They're such a bunch of
reprobates. I managed to talk my way into their exclusive party at
the Nash Hotel and got my demo to everybody who counted." Needless
to say the label snapped him up on the spot and released his first
track 'Star' as a double AA with 'Berlin' on the reverse. Since
then he's gone on to remix artists as diverse as Ocean Colour
Scene, Armand Van Helden and Har Mar Superstar, who was recently
spotted standing on a table in a crowded London bar, doing groin
thrusts and repeatedly shouting "cagedbaby is a fucking genius."
Now, after over a year in the studio, Tom is finally set to release
his debut album cagedbaby 'will see you now' on Southern Fried
Records. You might well think we were being a bit bold, if we
started comparing it to the Pet Shop Boys, Talking Heads, Raspberry
Beret-era Prince, the Beloved and INXS, but one listen to first
single '16 Lovers' or 'Hello There' and you'll soon see it's not a
load of bollocks.
"I'm really pleased with the way the album came about," admits Tom,
modestly. "Listening to it for the first time as a piece of work
rather than just a collection of tracks in my head is a real
pleasure."
And it's not just his productions that are causing a bit of a
rumpus: Tom's eclectic DJ mix of everything from odd-ball leftfield
to pornstar-electro has wowed both punters and Portuguese trannies
alike. "I was playing in Lisbon for a label tour," he laughs
loudly, cutting the tobacco-thick silence of his sea-side local.
"Afterwards we ended up running into the ocean fully clothed. The
next thing I remember it's 9am the next morning and I'm lying in a
kid's paddling pool, sandwiched between a couple of what can only
be described as 'dubious' ladies."
Now with the backing of a full band and Tom performing both
keyboards and vocals, the cagedbaby live show is also set to go on
the road, with a series of national dates already in the pipeline.
Alongside nights including Bugged Out and The Boutique, you can
also expect to catch the baby at the likes Glastonbury, Creamfields
and Fuji Rock. "I've been writing new tracks especially for the
live band, and I've also been gee-ing up the set so we can blow
places away, robocop style. Come on Fuji Rock Festival!"
In fact, these live shows have been such a success that cagedbaby
has grown and morphed. Tom is still the main man but now it's more
of a band vibe. Jim Carmichael (drums), Jimmy Day (Keys), Kan
Lailey (guitar) and with Tom himself on vocals, they have been
rocking out! The album comes alive...
It's been something of a journey, but cagedbaby are ready to see
you now..."
- cagedbaby.com
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