Red Snapper

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Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend (double bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar). The three core members are also joined by various guest musicians and vocalists on different records.

Stylistically, Red Snapper’s music contains elements of jazz, funk, jungle, trip-hop, hip-hop and breakbeat, as well as references to early psychedelic and progressive rock.

The band released three EPs before signing to Warp Records for their debut LP Prince Blimey (1996). The band were a somewhat unusual feature of Warp Records’ 1990s roster: in contrast to the studio-oriented idm the label primarily dealt in, the band had a very live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip hop to drum and bass.

For their follow-up Making Bones they were joined by jungle MC Det and singer Alison David. The latter was replaced by Karim Kendra by their third album, Our Aim is to Satisfy Red Snapper (2000).

In early 2002, Red Snapper announced its dissolution, but the band reunited the following year.

In 2002 was released It’s All Good compilation, that included previously unreleased track “Ultaviolet”. The next year (2003) was released remix-album Redone, which included 2 tracks remixed by former members of Red Snapper (Rich Thair and Ali Friend, credited as The Creation).

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second_best wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Brickred is amazing!

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Jaztronix wrote:
Friday afternoon

Very inspiring music

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dbod wrote:
last week

Red Snapper reformed!!! New album!!! W00T!

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tumtur wrote:
last week

My fav songs " They are hanging me tonight " & " 4 Dead Monks " ! Awsome sound !

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MirkoFait wrote:
14 days ago

I like them... ;)

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parano1dandro1d wrote:
last month

New album is killer, "Brickred" especially.

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discounter wrote:
last month

Photos from Red Snaper's show @ Moscow: http://msk.onegintime.ru/photo/official/1842.html

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prod_one wrote:
last month

Im very impressed....

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gotchad wrote:
last month

could you please someone assist me to find their lyrics (especially suckerpunch) ?

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szadzs22 wrote:
August 2008

unfortunatly i have no chance to listening them live

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szadzs22 wrote:
August 2008

what a new and old nostalgic feeling from my teens! amazing,i love it

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Deebster wrote:
July 2008

donker026: it's on the Redone album, track 7. Missed these guys at Glade, despite camping about 50 metres from the stage they played :(

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telifonjasser wrote:
July 2008

'Making Bones' is their best album by far in my opinion. Especially the tracks 'The Sleepless', 'Suckerpunch' & 'Like A Moving Truck' are hopelessly underrated in the top-tracks-list..!

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June 2008

HI, LISTEN OUR MUSIC AND TELL US WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT. FREE DOWNLOAD SONGS http://www.lastfm.es/music/rebery
LucifericLumber wrote:
June 2008

I'm going to see them in Ekaterinburg \m/

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hitman774 wrote:
June 2008

Rekevin

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solkad wrote:
June 2008

donker026: I'd say you mean Alaska Street, no?

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donker026 wrote:
May 2008

Ah, I believe it's Heavy Petting (the creation remix).. can't find it here but it's a great song!

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yulquen wrote:
May 2008

I've got no idea how I survived for so long without hearing this band in my life. They are awesome.

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brewqua wrote:
May 2008

to donker026: maybe "crusoe takes a trip"?

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