When Kentastic and Rollin Hand started fooling around with some funky beats and sounds in 2004 they had absolutely no clue where this could possibly lead them to.
„Gimme A Bassline!“, their funky and infectious first single with an incredible dancefloor action effect, scored a # 5 position in the German Club Charts (DCC) while hitting top DJ playlist around the globe. Ursula 1000 put this track on his “Ursuladelic” compilation, en vogue producers Fort Knox Five from Washington D.C. offered their remix services and PUMA featured the song on their MTV commercial.
In no time their hit “Are You Talking To Me???” with mind-blowing remixes by Fort Knox Five and UK producer wizzards Skeewiff (London/UK) set the spotlight straight onto the Torpedo Boyz.
Meanwhile food giant Nestlé got knocked out by their wicked album track “Any Trash Professor Abacus?“ which is still being used for the current Cheerios tv ad “Smiles All Around” in England, Ireland, Finnland and Australia. In Down Under “Are You Talking To Me???” received massive radio airplay and ended up on various heavy rotation lists. Italian prime time tv show “Le Iene” have borrowed a couple Torpedo Boyz tracks for their game show jingles and the magazine English24 is still featuring “Are You Talking To Me???” for their current tv spot.
Throughout the year the Torpedo Boyz have scored worldwide with their incredible debut album „Headache Music“, a groovy and colorful longplayer perfectly suitable for dancefloors as well as „for your personal listening pleasures at home“. All of a sudden the Torpedo Boyz where everywhere!
Kentastic got invitations from around the globe and was asked to spread the word of Torpedo funkyness. He made people shake their butts in Barcelona, Warsaw, Vienna, Tokyo, San Francisco, St.Petersburg, Amsterdam, Zurich as well as in New York or Budapest. Spinning the funkiest breaks, fattest beats and grooviest basslines with a fine sense for tasty music, Kentastic has gained international respect.
BUT the Torpedo Boyz are far from just being DJs or club music producers. The fact that they have managed to put their funky music live on stage is surely exceptional in their music scene. The Torpedo Boyz 5-piece live band travels with an international line-up featuring ODD (Japan) and Returner (Cuba). With their incredible live show they left their audiences in disbelief with open mouths and hands in the air.
And it seems that all this is just the beginning: „Headache Music“ will finally be released in the USA in January 2007 while the new Torpedo Boyz single „Japaneeze Boyz“ (incl. cracking remixes by Smoove (UK) and Cubismo Grafico (Japan)) is due on January 26th.
In 2007 Kentastic is scheduled to spin his records in Portugal, Italy, Greece and the USA and the Torpedo Boyz live band will play a few selected European shows before hitting the festival season in summer! Some might say the Torpedo Boyz madness is just starting to get into second gear…
A few quotes on „Headache Music“…:
„Colorful fireworks of Big Beats, Glam- and Poser-Rock, Piggy-Funk, Psychedelica and marvelous 60s and 70s quotations.“
(„album of the month“, Loop Magazine)
“Either you have it or you don’t! The Torpedo Boyz have lots of it.“
(„album of the month“, Station To Station)
„Maybe the most original and most imagitive album of the year. If AIR suddenly had balls, they would sound like the Torpedo Boyz...“
(Westzeit)
„Extremely funky, extremely cool and extremely versatile – an extreme record and nothing for humorless purists.“
(hamburg mag)
„The hot new thing on the dancefloor….“
(TIP Magazine Berlin)
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