Headrillaz

South London Big Beat Trio Headrillaz Produce Caustic Bombastic Up-Tempo Trip-Hop In The Chemical Brothers/Monkey Mafia Mold Fusing Rock-Based Samples And Attitude With Elements Of House Techno And Club-Bound Hip-Hop. Formed In 1995 As An Offshoot Of Ninja Tune Acid-Jazz/trip-Hop Group Slowly Headrillaz Is The Brother/stepbrother Team Of Casper Saul And Darius Kedros All Of Whom Had Produced Music In One Form Or Another Since Their Early Teens. The Name Headrillaz First Surfaced As A Remix Credit On One Of A String Of Experimental Brit-Hop 12"s Following Slowly's Demise The Kedros Brothers Released A Number Of Singles As Tranquil Elephantizer And Trunk And Continued As A Proper Project After London Producer Howie "B" Bernstein Saw The Group Dirty Up A DATs'n'tables Performance In A Club. Bernstein Insisted On Releasing Their 1996 Debut 12" Weird Planet On His Own Pussyfoot Label And The Group Followed Up With Two More 12"s -- Screaming Heads And Spacefuck 2010 -- Before Releasing The Full-Length Coldharbour Rocks In 1997. A Singles Compilation Mostly Coldharbour Collected The Best Of The Group's Pussyfoot Output To Date And Added A Few Unreleased Cuts. The Trio's Live Performances Also Escalated To The Band Level With A Full Touring Ensemble Landing Gigs At Major U.K. Festivals Such As Tribal Gathering And Glastonbury. ~ Sean Cooper All Music Guide read less