Biography
True Ingredients are cooking up a musical revolution. With some of the freshest sounds around they are also the first band to release their debut album on sunglasses. The album "Prepare and Assemble" is available in ten magnificent colours from www.trueingredients.com and selected retailers.
The album features the vocal talents of Mr Milk, Aina and BluRum13, three amazingly talented lyricists and performers who take us on a journey through true music laced with hip hop, introducing various vocalists and musicians on the way. The single "Who's Next?" also features Natty, Mr Basista and special guest musicians…
"***** Their amalgamation of quality production, heavy beats, good tunes and occasional sweet insanity, helps them span several musical boundaries… The True Ingredients are here and now!"
- Jamie Topham, Straight Outta Now
"**** Their music a veritable menagerie of agrarian hip–hop grooves and dubwise jazzy nuances, True Ingredients are a much needed breath of fresh air in the often stale and staid world of UK hip-hop. With the right combination of ingredients, these lot seem to have the recipe for success. "
- Kim O’ Conner, DJ Mag
"True Ingredients are mixing up a storm which is getting ready to blow! This mixed bunch of musicians, rappers and great performers have put together their own sound with some sublime production. The full line up consists of Fenna Rhodes, Josh Wah, Aina, Blu Rum13, Mr Milk, Mr Basista,Natty, Millzy and Steve O. Does sound like a lot of faces, but trust me - they are all adding their own individual ingredients to the pot!"
- Dave Simpson, SoulM8
Music by the True Ingredients has already been featured on TV shows, Gumball 3000 and Streetball Extreme, Channel 4, E4, the Extreme Channel, The Breakdown and Skins Season 2. They have performed live on various radio stations including Kiss FM and on RSR National Swiss Radio. True Ingredients were also finalists at Hugo Boss Urban Rules Manchester 08, shown on MTV and MTV Base.
The band are based in London but are a mix of British, American, Sudanese, Irish, Brazilian, French and international artists. Along with the "Prepare and Assemble" album, True Ingredients' members have sold tens of thousands of records worldwide and have worked and shared the stage with acts as diverse as; Finley Quaye, Kele le Roc, Jungle Brothers, Aquaksy, Foreign Beggars, High Contrast, Bugz in the Attic, and the Gap Band who feature as the brass section on "Who's Next?" the single. Look out for an abundance of remixes of the single from some of the worlds top acts and producers, all currently bubbling away in the labs….
True Ingredients live shows feature an explosion of rhymes, flows, and music with keyboards, decks and percussion from Fenna Rhodes, guitars from Josh Wah, bass from Millzy, drums from Steve O, and additional brass when there's space on stage! The band have been touring hard throughout 2009.
They hosted their own stage at Glastonbury 09 with the Love Bullets Movement, performed in Trafalgar Square for London Peace Week, took the London Fashion Week afterparties by storm throwing shades on the models and artists, went crowd surfing to people losing their minds at TMBase 09 Festival in Romania, Switzerland, Austria, France and all across the UK to name just a few of their recent live events.
The True Ingredients will be touring the new single "Who's Next" in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA and Asia throughout 2010. Get to a show, get some shades, and get involved!
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