EGLO RECORDS - IT'S TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO TAKE CHANGE

The brand new UK indie label EGLO have been causing quite some noise in the last year courtesy of his quality roosters of talents incorporing the lights of rising stars, Floating Points, Fatima, Shuanise, Funkineven, fusing the electronic sounds of house with hip-hop, soul and rare groove to bring you an eclectic futuristic dancefloor music.





The label was created by Alexander Nut and his friend Sam Sheppard (Floating Points) to expand opportunity to up and coming artists.
Alex Nut says about his label : "We just love music and want to share it with the world. At the same time it's a business and in a way it'a also quite political. We're putting out a lot of hip-hop, soul, house and whatever else we feel is exciting and good. "

After one year of existence there seems to be a lot of exciting things to coming up in the future for Eglo. To give you a little preview and to satisfy your curiosity you can listen to the following
tracks & enjoy!

















ALEX NUT - Anti Focus Pt. 1






















AARON JEROME - Angel lady (Floating Points remix)





















FUNKINEVEN - You!




















FLOATING POINTS ENSEMBLE - mind

Voice - Fatima
Trumpet/Flugel - Freddie Gavita
Alto Sax - James Bateman
Violin - Tsze Yenn Yong
Violin - Mariko McTier
Viola - Matt Kettle
Cello - Magda Pietraszewska
Cello - Michelle So
Guitar - Billy Adamson
Bass - Olly Buxton
Keys/Composition - Floating Points
Drums - Josh Blackmore
Percussion/Vibraphone - Chris Marshall



















TETTORYBAD FEAT FATIMA -UNITE






POTFORMAT FEAT SHUANISE - fairly child





FunkinEven, Fatima, Alexander Nut (Eglo Records)

"We raver third generation, brought up among parties d'n'b, hip hop and techno, we listened to everything and absorbed with the subconscious also things we liked least, whose sounds have become increasingly familiar to us" - Alex Nut

After the acid house, critical mass, the UK has been shaken only by the movement from the explosion of UK garage and dubstep. But even the latter, which has honored the best traditions rave in almost ten years, seems on the verge of collapse or at least launch signals failure. In fact in London do not speak the premature end of a genre, but more proud of the evolution of underground sound, which is increasingly absorbing the rhythms of hip hop, funky house and wonky without abandoning Detroit and Jamaica, and in some cases is rediscovering soul and pop. A development which saw some really exciting music, small independent labels run by young talented DJ and producer with a culture and a musical taste matched only by their resourcefulness DIY. We met the minds of three labels and artists, selected from emerging (the Eglo Records rising star Floating Points and Alexander Nut, protagonist of the pirate radio station Rinse FM, accompanied by Fatima), to understand their background and, most importantly, which direction they are facing.

And 'Sunday evening and the Plastic People, the historic East London club that hosts the evening's most desirable and at the forefront of bass culture (FWD>>), is already packed. Luckily make eye shy of Sam Shepherd, who has just finished his set as Floating Points and accompanies us in the basement. The space is minimal, the temperature hot, the soundsystem monstrous. The Plastician low bounce on the walls and throw it on dozens of bodies piled and swinging, among which we maneuver to reach the console Alexander Rogers, aka Alex Nut. In a rapid exchange of words we agree to a meeting quieter the next night at the diner there in front. Will he, Sam and Fatima Scuderia Eglo.

"I grew up in the 80s in Wolverhampton, a boring city in the West Midlands where people spent their evenings getting drunk in pubs and does not share my interest in music," starts to tell Alex. "In 2003, at age 21, I moved to London and enrolled at the university of music. Here I met people with the same aspirations: producing music, djing, found a label. " How many boys come to London to chase a dream, Alex plunges without wasting time on various experiences of clubbing and promotion. For three years working full time for the agency Zzonked, where he learns the mechanisms of the music industry, the Internet and radio. Then decides to go it alone, to work with friends met at Plastic People or his program on Rinse FM. Among these the roommate Fatima, noted in the club as he leapt on the microphone, and Sam, of which by chance discovered the music on the Internet. "Once you have contacted has sent me over 20 tracks that no one wanted to publish, including the first 12" of Eglo, For You / Radiality "says Nur. "In one year we met and talked about what labels would be suitable to his music, coming to the conclusion that we would open a whole." Sam has at least 12 years of production behind him, Alex began playing in clubs and on radio thanks to my friend Charles Holgate aka Nomad. "We met in an evening FWD linked to Rinse FM and I gave him some mix. Shortly after he offered me a space on the radio on the broken beat. I accepted, even if I put a mix of Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawk and cross whatever kind (laughs). " And while spending generous words for Sarah Lockhart and Geneeus, which for 15 years take up the radio despite two closures, Nut tells how tastes have changed in London in recent years. "There was a mix between friendly genres influenced by the likes of Benji B, Plastician and Dam-Funk, now all the DJs do not play more than just one style of music. Most of our musical tastes have developed on the streets of London, from drum'n'bass to 2step, up to the garage, the grime to dubstep to funky house and clearly as now. In 10 years much has changed in the musical history of the United Kingdom, which has a great tradition of clubbing and rave culture. We raver third generation, brought up among parties d'n'b, hip hop and techno, we listened to everything and absorbed with the subconscious also things we liked least, whose sounds have become increasingly familiar to us. If you squeeze all these styles still get soulful core that unites us and that even in the sounds harder and more violent there is overstepping in industrial or gabber. With its romantic vision of the world and tired of the pervasive cynicism, "record of cocaine and served to shit," Alex wants to control their own destiny and seeks to bring out the talent with sincerity and respect.