1. VS were a British pop group, the brainchild of former Blue member Simon Webbe (who was also their manager), Melody from DJ Pied Piper and established singer/songwriter Ali Tennant who came together to form production company Love For Music. Checkout Websites - www.jaimejay.com and http://www.myspace.com/officialryantaylor Band Members|Jaime Summaz - a female rapper from Manchester who worked on music projects with Simon Webbe before he joined Blue. Also a dancer, Jaime has featured in many music videos and shows. Chinyere McKenzie - a choreographer, Chinyere set up her own dance school in Manchester at an early age, to work with under-privileged children. She had been best friends with Simon since childhood. Blimi - a rapper from West London. He and Simon share the same barber who suggested they meet when he heard Simon was putting together a band. Blimi was clearly destined for stardom from an early age, winning the coveted Tim Westwood Open Mic contest in 1997, and Simon was quick to recognise his talent. Marvin Humes - the baby of the band. Not was he a singer, he was also an established actor, and appeared as a regular cast member in BBC1’s Holby City. However, Marvin desperately wanted to make music his career and after recording several tracks, he met Simon at the 2003 ‘Soccer Six’ Industry Football match and handed him a demo tape. Simon was so impressed with what he heard that he called Marvin straight into the studio. He’s now in the band JLS. Ryan Taylor - he has also been singing from an early age. He met up with Marvin on the audition circuit where they discovered their mutual love of soul music and Marvin suggested he join VS as the fifth member – thus completing the line up. They had three hit singles: ‘Love You Like Mad’ #7, Call U Sexy #11 and ‘Make It Hot’ #29. They also released an album named ‘All Kinds Of Trouble’. 2. A French progressive electro-pop/rock band Checkout Websites - http://www.vs-music.com and http://www.myspace.com/vsteam 3. Hiphop alias of Canadian multi-genre musician Andrew “Songs to Wear Pants To” Huang http://songstowearpantsto.com VS. is the emcee and producer alias of multi-genre Canadian musician Andrew Huang. He’s released stuff independently and with conscious hiphop label “Prophetic Poetic” as a free download. 4. VzyalSoundsystem, ambient/dub/techno duo from Ukraine. http://www.facebook.com/vzyalsoundsystem VS best known as VzyalSoundsystem is a Kiev-based Ukrainian electronic unit formed in early 2000 by dub addicted SKP Records head and sound producer Serge Dubrovsky aka Dubmasta and Eugene Stolbow known as Stolbowie, sound producer and DJ with huge vinyl and synth collection. Inspired by Jamaican roots music and dub science the band produced 5 studio albums and a bunch of EP’s, mixtapes and bootlegs. They are often performing and DJing in Kiev as also regularly participate in various international collaborations and remixing projects. VS is a kind of aerial ambience featuring trippy echoes and delays mixed with eclectic beats and glitchy samples from deserted suburbs. Their 6th album “Save Our Sounds” released on Passage, has 9 urban dub tracks filled with the spirit of ghetto-futurism, deep structures and psychedelic experiments. Check it here http://fslab.net/passage/pass019-vs-save-our-sounds/ |
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