Example + Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
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Forget Mylo and Calvin Harris - park your sun-kissed bum over here - 2009's Top 20 hit Watch The Sun Come Up was straight out of the Good Lookin' LTJ Bukem school of smiles and joy. Londoner Elliot Gleave (E.G. = example ... geddit?) early influences were Wu-Tang Clan and Snoop Dogg and, signed to Mike Skinner's label Beats, his first release "Vile", a response to Lily Allen's "Smile", was championed by Pete Tong and Zane Lowe. He's since toured with Lily! Last year's Ibiza-minor-key-bounce-along-with-a-piano-loop smash was followed by Won't Go Quietly, an even bigger success and described by the man himself as Dysfunctional Electro-Pop. A neat tunesmith and very hot property, catch the man himself straight off Tinchy Stryder support duties in Feb. A good example for us all, then ...



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Reply #1 on : Sun March 14, 2010, 15:50:14