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▀▀▀▄ ARTIST.......: Envoy ▄▀▀▀
▀▄▄ TITLE.......: Solitary Mission (SOMA ▄▄▀
▀█▄ SOURCE.....: EP ▄█▀
▄█▀ STYLE......: Techno ▀█▄
▄▄█▀▀ LABEL.......: Soma Quality Recordings ▀▀█▄▄
▄█▀▀ CAT.NR........: SOMA 028 ▀▀█▄
▀ QUALITY.........: VBRkbps/441kHz/Joint Stereo ▀
▄▀ URL...............: http://www.somarecords.com ▀▄
▄ RIP.DATE...........: 2006-06-25 ▄
█ LENGTH............: 19:55 █
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██▓▓ Who exactly is Envoy? Is he the modern day techno ██▓▓
██▓▓ soul man, the singer who pours out his heart on ██▓▓
██▓▓ tracks like æEmotional?Æ Or is he the æking of ██▓▓
██▓▓ stringsÆ, the musical genius who makes club ██▓▓
██▓▓ symphonies like æDark ManoeuvresÆ? Perhaps heÆs a ██▓▓
██▓▓ sexy, Chicago house legend with a penchant for carnal ██▓▓
██▓▓ classics like æSex DriveÆ û or a robotic machine ██▓▓
██▓▓ funker with little regard for humanity? Maybe Envoy ██▓▓
██▓▓ is really the fly in pop musicÆs ointment, the ██▓▓
██▓▓ vocalist who looks to shatter the manufactured boy ██▓▓
██▓▓ band stranglehold with his soulful, spiritual ██▓▓
██▓▓ intonations on the soon to be huge æMove OnÆ? ██▓▓
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██▓▓ The reality though, is that Envoy, real name Hope ██▓▓
██▓▓ Grant, is all of these things û and much more, an ██▓▓
██▓▓ enigmatic electronic music character, as complex and ██▓▓
██▓▓ unpredictable as his multi-faceted work. His new ██▓▓
██▓▓ album æShoulder 2 ShoulderÆ is released on Soma ██▓▓
██▓▓ Records May 2004. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ Fabric, London, 21st Feb 2004. ItÆs a full house and ██▓▓
██▓▓ the atmosphere in the venue is bristling with ██▓▓
██▓▓ anticipation as Envoy prepares to take to the stage. ██▓▓
██▓▓ If you could bottle and sell the mood in the crammed ██▓▓
██▓▓ venue, youÆd never need to work again. This is ██▓▓
██▓▓ EnvoyÆs first live performance in two years since he ██▓▓
██▓▓ was the lead vocalist on a year-long world tour to ██▓▓
██▓▓ promote SlamÆs æAlien RadioÆ album, but now heÆs ██▓▓
██▓▓ ready to take the UK capital in style. As the intro ██▓▓
██▓▓ to æInto the ArenaÆ seeps through the speakers, a ██▓▓
██▓▓ familiar voice from the back of the venue introduces ██▓▓
██▓▓ himself. Even before the initial applause has ██▓▓
██▓▓ subsided, Envoy is centre stage, working the crowd ██▓▓
██▓▓ into a second wave of frenzied acclaim. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ Stamping the mike stand in time to the beats and ██▓▓
██▓▓ flicking his dreadlock mane up and down and from side ██▓▓
██▓▓ to side, Envoy is radically different to his ██▓▓
██▓▓ softly-spoken off stage persona. HeÆs the front man, ██▓▓
██▓▓ a role heÆs visibly comfortable with. Hands ██▓▓
██▓▓ outstretched and with a mile wide toothy grin, like a ██▓▓
██▓▓ techno evangelist, he points to the sky and urges the ██▓▓
██▓▓ sweaty throng to æcome into the light and let ██▓▓
██▓▓ yourselves goÆ. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ At other times during the performance, his voice is ██▓▓
██▓▓ moody and ominous, like a deranged preacher ██▓▓
██▓▓ announcing the coming of the apocalypse. Centre stage ██▓▓
██▓▓ throughout, Envoy also uses his vocal talent to deep ██▓▓
██▓▓ effect and, on other occasions, his singing is ██▓▓
██▓▓ sleazier, twisted and darker, a different sound to ██▓▓
██▓▓ the utopian feel of classic Envoy material like ██▓▓
██▓▓ æEmotional.Æ ██▓▓
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██▓▓ EnvoyÆs live shows, as well as his imminent second ██▓▓
██▓▓ album æShoulder 2 ShoulderÆ, will serve to confuse ██▓▓
██▓▓ anyone who had Hope Grant as just a producer who ██▓▓
██▓▓ merely tried to spice up his tracks with the odd ██▓▓
██▓▓ vocal. He has been signed to Scottish label Soma ██▓▓
██▓▓ since 1995 and, unsurprisingly, originally comes from ██▓▓
██▓▓ a singer-songwriter background. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ ôWhen I was young, I was hugely into Prince and ██▓▓
██▓▓ wanted to write songs. IÆm still just as comfortable ██▓▓
██▓▓ playing Elton John songs on my piano at home,ö he ██▓▓
██▓▓ laughs. ôI used to hate acid house because it didnÆt ██▓▓
██▓▓ have a chorus, but then I started going to clubs and ██▓▓
██▓▓ buying tunes and it began to make sense,ö he recalls. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ôI had an affinity with Detroit techno - although I ██▓▓
██▓▓ didnÆt know what it was called at the time - and put ██▓▓
██▓▓ song writing on hold.ö ██▓▓
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██▓▓ However, before he began creating his own techno ██▓▓
██▓▓ symphonies, bizarrely, Envoy enjoyed a stint in rave ██▓▓
██▓▓ combo Bizarre Inc û who now work as Chicken Lips. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ ôThey wanted to turn into a jazz-funk band and wanted ██▓▓
██▓▓ me as the singer,ö he explains. ôBut I was only in ██▓▓
██▓▓ the band for six months. The major label wanted them ██▓▓
██▓▓ to churn out loads more versions of æPlaying With ██▓▓
██▓▓ KnivesÆ and werenÆt interested in them progressing. ██▓▓
██▓▓ The experience left me with a sour taste in my mouth ██▓▓
██▓▓ towards major labels and drove me towards independent ██▓▓
██▓▓ labels.ö ██▓▓
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██▓▓ When Hope started releasing dance music, his first ██▓▓
██▓▓ outlets were respected underground imprints Peacefrog ██▓▓
██▓▓ and Plink Plonk - where he released as St Vitus Dance ██▓▓
██▓▓ and Urban Groove Alliance respectively. Then, in ██▓▓
██▓▓ 1995, Hope met Slam û and his first demos became his ██▓▓
██▓▓ debut EPs for the label, æSolitary MissionÆ and ██▓▓
██▓▓ æHeart Of The SoulÆ. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ A1 - Prologue (Envoys Message) : 1:46 ██▓▓
██▓▓ A2 - Leave This World Behind : 5:12 ██▓▓
██▓▓ A3 - Soulmate : 6:21 ██▓▓
██▓▓ A4 - Heat Haze : 6:36 ██▓▓
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