Find out more about the A/V show and check the tour dates to see when Format is near you!

Here’s a little taster of what to expect at the new live Audio/Visual show that DJ Format & The Simonsound are currently touring around the UK and Europe to promote the long awaited new DJ Format album Statement of Intent.
Format starts the show on the turntables cutting up some of his better known songs before being joined by Simon on the Moog Synthesizer and an armory of electronic effects. Here they take you away on a musical journey from Hip Hop & Funk to spaced out electronics. The music is accompanied by synchronised visuals that sample moments from classic B-Boy footage, tripped-out animation and carefully chosen visual oddities in a cut ‘n’ paste style that is completely in tune with the music.
The music itself consists mostly of songs from DJ Format’s first two albums, his new album  Statement of Intent and also songs from The Simonsound’s album Reverse Engineering that Simon & Format made together in 2010.
The video footage was filmed at the launch party on Friday 2nd March 2012 at The Concorde 2, Brighton but the sound was replaced with practice recordings from home due to sound quality issues on the actual video recording.

The album features songs with EDAN, MR LIF, PHILL MOST CHILL, SURESHOT LA ROCK, THE NOSTALGIA 77 QUINTET and THE SIMONSOUND and is out on Feb 27th 2012 on Project Blue Book.

The video was created using animated graffiti art by Paintshop Studio and filmed and edited by Jeff Metal.

Taken from the new album Statement of Intent.

In anticipation of the release of my new album ‘Statement of Intent’ I thought it might be a nice idea to have a little giveaway to say thank you, to you, the listeners.

So I’m giving away 10 signed copies of the album in CD format. All you have to do is either:

A) Follow me on Twitter and retweet this message 

OR

B) Like my Facebook page and share this status update 

The competition ends next Friday (2nd March) and if you are following and have done one of the above by then, you’ll be in with a chance of winning. It’s open to current fans and followers, so there’s no need worry about unfollowing and re-following or anything daft like that. The intention is just to spread the word, so no one misses out.

Winners will be picked at random. And informed shortly afterwards.

Unfortunately, due to costs and other technical issues the winners must be from the UK. You’ll also need to supply your contact info. My geeky friend @Age_Dub is handling the technical side of things so don’t be surprised if you hear from him.

At the moment I’m busy preparing for the tour dates and putting the finishing touches on the show, so I apologise now if I don’t have time to thank you all for helping to spread the word.

Alas, despite my love of vinyl, I cannot afford to give away the vinyl version of my record as I’ve already spent all my money in production of the album and promotion! Still, I know you’ll enjoy the CD version.

Thanks for reading and GOOD LUCK!

UPDATE…

The winners have now been chosen. I’ve selected 5 winners from Facebook and 5 From Twitter.

The winners are:

Facebook

My assistant @Age_Dub will be in contact soon to get your details and once all the contact info is collected we’ll send them all out in one go.

Thanks for taking part!

This album sampler video gives you a little taste of the album but I could only include snippets from 8 songs so there’s so much more to enjoy on the album in full. The video was created using animated graffiti art by Paintshop Studio and filmed and edited by Jeff Metal so I’m very grateful to those guys for the amazing job they did for me. I did a 1 hour mix of old Hip Hop & B-boy breaks etc to help lauch the new website for Paintshop Studio so keep an eye out for announcements here as my mix will be going live soon when their website is ready.

I’m currently busy putting together my new live show with The Simonsound which we will be touring from March onwards. Such is the state of the music business nowadays that I can no longer do a tour over a 2-3 week period hitting all the major cities every night of the week. I now find myself, like most DJ’s/artists, having to mostly play on Friday & Saturday nights as it’s hard to find the right clubs/venues to play midweek, let alone fill those venues when everyone is skint. As a result, it’s not possible for me to involve MC’s in my upcoming tour. While I would love to have had Sureshot La Rock on stage with me to perform our songs live, it’s just not possible, financially or logistically, as he lives in the States. Instead I’m putting together a great audio/visual show with Simon James (The Simonsound) that includes quite a lot of my old songs, a lot of songs from my new album, and also a lot of songs that me & Simon made together as The Simonsound. For those of you that don’t know, The Simonsound consists of Simon and myself, and last year we released our debut album Reverse Engineering so please check us out if you haven’t already. www.thesimonsound.com

Statement of Intent – 2012 on Project Blue Book

Tracklisting:
1 Statement Of Intent
Featuring – Sureshot La Rock
2 Spaceship Earth
Featuring – Edan
Lyrics By, Vocals, Recorded By [Vocals] – E. Portnoy*
3 Copper Canyons
4 Beyond Disco
Featuring – Simonsound, The
5 A Quick Ego Trip
Featuring – Sureshot La Rock
6 Dope Pusher
Featuring – Sureshot La Rock
7 Battle Of The Planets
Featuring – Simonsound, The
8 Terror
Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Headnodic
Featuring – Mr.Lif*
Lyrics By, Vocals – J. Haynes*
Recorded By [Vocals] – Peter Jaques
9 Notes In Quotation
Bass – Riaan Vosloo
Featuring – Nostalgia 77 Quintet, The
Flute – Mark Hanslip
Guitar, Keyboards, Vibraphone – Ben Lamdin*
Producer – DJ Format, Nostalgia 77
Saxophone [Saxophones] – Jonny Spall
Trumpet – Tom Allan
10 Live At The Place To Be
Bass – Simon Hill (3)
Featuring – Phill Most Chill, Sureshot La Rock
11 Horse Power
Bass – Simon Hill (3)
12 Mayor Of A Ghost Town
Bass – Simon Hill (3)
Cello – Joe Giddey
Electronics – Simon James (8)
Piano – Sanj Sen
Violin – Ellie Wyatt
13 Remember…
Backing Vocals – Alisha Anthony
Featuring – Sureshot La Rock
Recorded By [Background Vocals] – Oxygen (17)
14 Mr DJ
Bass – Simon Hill (3)
Featuring – Sureshot La Rock
15 The Long Goodbye
Bass – Riaan Vosloo
Drums – Graham Fox
Featuring – Nostalgia 77 Quintet, The
Guitar, Keyboards, Vibraphone – Ben Lamdin*
Producer – DJ Format, Nostalgia 77
Saxophone – Jonny Spall
Trumpet – Tom Allan
Bonus C.D. Track
16 Here Comes The Dope Pusher!

Available on CD, Double Vinyl LP and digital download.

Label and sleeve design by Mr Krum -
http://mrkrums.blogspot.com/

Taken from the new single by DJ Format available from 31st January 2010 on 12″ vinyl and digital download.

DJ Format’s comments:
This video features the ‘Vinyl Killer’ record player. It looks great but the sound quality is awful so what you hear is not the sound that was actually being produced at the time..we switched it for maximum effect. Still,it looks good though!
It was filmed by Simon James (The Simonsound).

Label and sleeve design by Mr Krum -
http://mrkrums.blogspot.com/

Video recorded with the help of http://www.youtube.com/user/simonsound1

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