Artist description We are a duo currently based in Birmingham but formed in London in 1997. Our influences range from battle-style hiphop, drum & bass, punk, triphop, psychedelia, folk, jazz and blues to ambient and classical (and just about everything in between!) Guest collaborations and years of experience help to form our eclectic yet coherent sound.

Music Style Men of many many styles ..

Musical Influences Everything

Artist History uNsoUNd are DJ Kwong and producer Sen©. Kwong hails from Bangladesh originally and lived in various parts of the UK before settling in Brum. He took up the guitar at fifteen and has been hard at it since day one. Deck-nology/Turntablism didnt really feature for at least another six years. His roots lie in Motown, Hip-hop,Blues, Metal and numerous other teenage scenes. Sen© pushes buttons, and has done for seven years. He started out with an Akai S900 and a crap PC and has now graduated in to a virtual studio in a better PC.He once ventured out of Birmingham to learn the art of sound terrorism, but then ran home screaming twelve months later to perfect his skills. He is influenced by all he hears, from experimental noise through to drum and bass, classical, vintage vinyl and everything in between. See our full history at www.un-sound.net.

Group Members DJ Kwong & Sen©

Instruments Samplers, Guitars, Turntables, Computer and much much more ...

Albums Everything For A Reason

Press Reviews uNSouNd -Everything For A Reason UN CD01. At the risk of sounding positively fossilised, a great deal of modern electronically based music leaves me cold, technology and samples all too often being used in place of – rather than to augment – genuine creativity. The talent is out there though, from the divinely talented Laurie Anderson and the chart-busting Moby to the chicly hallucinogenic François Moity. Now we can add to the quality side of the equation two unsound young men; sorry, that should read two young men calling themselves uNSouNd. If you take this name to mean lacking coherence – as in “William Hague’s policies are wholly unsound” – this would not be a fitting tag. However, they are certainly not “safe” and the name does hint at the wit and the musical games to follow. On some tracks, notably DJ Kwong’s Ferocious Shinogi Style, Ash and Dan’s tongues are so firmly in their cheeks you’d think a bar of Toblerone was stuck there. Elsewhere there is jaw-dropping beauty, spare and simple in the case of the instrumental Ehsan Kutir or more developed in Zanzibar, especially during The Zanzibar Suite which concludes the album. Well, almost concludes the album; let the CD run to the very end and you might be in for a surprise. Dan (the electronics wizard) and Ash (guitars and scratches), with the aid of various friends guesting on vocals and other instruments, manage to be deliciously funky and to rock deliriously – check out Bleeding Heart ’99 – whilst also paying homage to various musical heroes. Gone Fishin’ places a Captain Beefheart vocal on top of a thundering new melody and kicks up a storm, while Adagio For Sampler rescues Samuel Barber’s masterpiece from the clutches of William Orbit. Whereas Orbit managed the impossible, draining all semblance of emotion from one of the most emotional pieces of music ever written, the Unsound version – which I can personally confirm was recorded before Orbit’s appeared – reinvests it with some of the original’s punch. I’ll finish with my two favourite tracks. Innocence Released is the thrilling marriage of a richly spoken vocal by Count Ossie to a razor sharp tune with a hook so gripping you could pull in Moby Dick with it. Best of all, an ethereal meld of sounds accompanies the late Robert Stephens as that great Shakespearean actor performs the Seven Ages of man speech from As You Like It. As his voices fades the compulsive main air kicks in amid a murmur of other voices. “Merely players”? – perhaps, but some play. That uNSouNd do not yet have a record deal to give them a wider audience from a full release is a crime. I am confident this showcase for their talents will soon set that straight. from revolutionsuk.com

Location Birmingham, West Midlands - United Kingdom

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