Artist description Skewed surreal poetry rapped or ranted over a retro-futurist genre-splice. Angelic vocals float above while skuzzy funky guitars fight it out with dub, hip-hop and chemical beats. Its evocative, cinematic and above all, melodic. It’s pop music with a brain, dance music for people who don’t like dance music. In three words: intelligent, melodic electronica.

Music Style melodic alternative electronica/hip-hop

Musical Influences The Clash for their passion and eclecticism, Public Enemy for their articulate righteous anger, funky chaos and wit, Leftfield, Underworld, Fluke and The Orb for their funky dub, Faithless for adding tunes to that mix, Primal Scream for their commitment to tuneful experimentalism, Massive Attack for the same only later at night, Portishead likewise,The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy for re-inventing punk rock, Alabama 3 for their inspirational border crossings.

Similar Artists Garbage, Leftfield, Primal Scream, Bjork, Moby, The Chemical Brothers, The Orb

Artist History In the three years of their existence radium88 have played live all over the UK and also spread the word in Spain, Holland and Belgium. In Manchester we appeared on the Radio1 Roadshow as part of Music Live. We've recorded tracks with well known producer Steve Levine and had songs featured on the radio and various compilations CD's. Occasionally, in suitable venues we do spectacular multi-media shows featuring video projections. For this we utilised the unique talents of Heroes of Film, cult sci-fi programme makers for whom we have also supplied original music. Clare Wilson plays violin live with us sometimes and her string arrangements and playing are becoming an increasingly important part of the recorded sound..

Group Members Tim Thwaites - vocals, guitar, programming, melodica, harmonica, melodeon; Jema Davies - vocals, guitar; Matt Clare - guitar, processing; Clare Wilson - violin, string arrangements

Instruments roland, moog & novation analogue synths; cubase; fender guitars, marshall amps, bottleneck & various effects; cheetah sampler, emu, kawai, yamaha & boss modules; melodica, harmonica & melodeon

Albums A Valuable Addition To Our Modern Lifestyle, Artificial Life

Press Reviews "cosmic collage...hooky samples with infectious injections of mechanised beat, radium88 cut and paste their way through the white noise of the 21st Century. This music is confident, dubby, fast, inventive, energetic, messy and crying out for space. "The Vine" This is what The Shamen could sound like if only they had the guts. It's Screamadelica but with a much higher dose of imagination. "Personality Crisis" ...draws from artists as diverse as Chumbawamba and the B52s or The Sugarcubes and Back To The Planet - electronic prankster pop with political undertones and a dark underbelly concealed by a viciously surreal humour. "Platform"

Location Nottingham, Notts - United Kingdom

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