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Hook The Captain
Bang To This
Trance, house and more.
$12.00
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| Track Listing |
| 01. |
What's Inside Of Us [6:17] |
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| 02. |
Temple [4:36] |
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| 03. |
Liquid Heart [4:46] |
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| 04. |
Happy [4:07] |
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| 05. |
I'll Follow You [7:51] |
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| 06. |
In Dreams [3:46] |
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| 07. |
Dead End [1:34] |
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| 08. |
Temple (Deep Funk Edit) [7:14] |
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| 09. |
Hook's Theme 2002 [1:35] |
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| 10. |
In The Air [4:42] |
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| 11. |
Sigh [3:05] |
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| 12. |
Reach (Bonus Track) [8:10] |
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| Additional Information |
Hook The Captain breathes new life into the juxtaposition between the electronic and pop genres. Fusing elements of trance and pop, the captain works tirelessly to create a powerful blend of sleek sounds that are both underground and accessible. From the stylistic downtempo lo-fi beats and ghostly electronic soundscapes of "take me away," to the darker unstoppable house grooves of "temple," The Temple EP released on Running In Space this year, has a sound all its own. Drawing on a love for warm ambient sounds, dope disco beats, and tweaked out human voices, there is little question why this master of the hook is topping the Washington D.C. charts this month.
A rising force in the progressive underground, Hook started his musical career immediately after spending 9 months playing Internet computer games and never leaving his house. At the time his act consisted of playing electronic music with sequencers, drum machines, and keyboards on St. Louis County buses in Missouri. Even though he has abandoned such gimmicks, a touch of absurdity remains in every facet of the captain's stylized persona. From the web site, to the phony fan sites, one recurring slogan, says it all. "Hook. He's the Pants."* But despite various marketing techniques, Hook remains ever faithful to the music. He works tirelessly to create a powerful blend of unstoppable lo-fi grooves and splendid vocals. So will we all fall subject to the Hook. Keep an eye out for temple - on climax records being released under the captain's alias J punch later this summer. Promos of this dark and dirty tribal / tech-house are currently enjoying plays by John Digweed on Kiss FM, Sander Kleinenberg and the support of other high profile DJs from Balance Promote US, Yoshitoshi, Choo Choo Records, Renaissance, and Grammy winner Deep Dish etc.
Ministry of Sound DJ and Producer Moussa Clarke will be releasing "Liquid" worldwide early summer on hid label OverReady Productions. Up and coming Ministry of Sound DJ and producer James Zabiela put the captains temple track at number 4 on his top ten tracks in the most recent issue of Muzik magazine.
The captain has been hanging out as of late with recent Grammy winner deep dish and is currently producing a track with David Segal, Pop critic for the Washington Post for a short film. Segal himself says hook is, "the pants". Segal will be doing a full-length feature on the captain in for the Washington Post Sunday Magazine. The captain is currently collaborating with other labels and artists including RAW42, Vinylholic, 555 Records, NPN RECORDS, Mutant Records, Toryumon, and many others.
Additionally, the captain is currently featured on the KaZaa network. (on the front page no less)Kazaa is the worlds largest peer to peer software sharing service. From over 12,000 artists he was chosen to be dangled in front of KaZaa's 100 million users and his track, "temple" was chosen to be used as the soundtrack for the broadband demo of the EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM on the kazaa network." KaZaa has over 35 million users and over 2 million people are signed on at any given time.
The captain will also be touring across the nation opening for Rusted Root in the VW 2002 College Tour in front of more then 3000 people, and will also be doing a number of shows sponsored by cornerband.com in the coming months. The captain can has been featured on the front page of the prestigious DC City Newspaper Arts Section. He can be found writing reviews for BPM Culture Magazine and DJmixed.com, URB, and XLR8R. A full length US album is to be released in fall on Indie Label Trifecta Records within the US.
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