MUDDYLOOP have it all. They're gorgeous, wealthy superstars who mingle with the A-list and attract the world's finest women. Their days on the whole comprise of sipping pink champagne on tropical white sand beaches while getting rubbed down and blown away by Playboy models. by night they dance to their muddy funk in only the most exclusive clubs across the globe or back in the plush Muddy Mansion where many a wild orgies, we mean parties, have been thrown. And when the vibe is right and their aura's become aligned, MUDDYLOOP step into their fully equipped million Dollar Pro Tools studio and create music which tops charts, burns up dance floors and makes women orgasm...



In reality, Muddyloop have very little. Their looks are flawed. They are skint. Their girlfriends are tired of lending them money with only promises of "making it" in return.  Their days comprise predominantly of doing bullsh*t jobs and small time hustles, avoiding over-zealous bosses & the law, just to get some money together for studio gear and intoxicants. by night they're either shopping their demos to DJs and A&Rs, only to be snubbed, or making love to their wives and girlfriends, inhaling the nag champa whilst dreaming of success in this nasty music game. But when they've finally, finally got their everyday struggles out of the way, MUDDYLOOP will enter their low budget basement studio and create music that will hopefully one day gain them some fans. Or, to put it another way : MUDDYLOOP are production duo Blonde Peterson and Metro Williams and executive producer and all-round svengali Tas 'Phoenix' Bones - three Londoners in love with making music, stepping out of their boudoir studios like super heroes in the night. Blonde plays the synths, Metro's on the drum machines and Tas pulls the strings. Together they pen those quirky little electro funk/soul/pop/dance (whatever!) tracks that you can't quite get out of your dirty mind. Completely self-financed, self-produced, self-promoted, and self-pleasured, MUDDLOOP continue to work hard, overcome all adversaries, make love not war, and generally be as good as they can be to provide you with new original music to make your bodies and brains jiggle.

          

 
MUDDYLOOP make anything from synthesized electronic soul music through hard-edged dance floor killers to quirky electro-pop songs and heart-felt love ballads...! Eclectic is definitely the word when it comes to MUDDYLOOP's music and their influences. Although wearing the Prince badge firmly on their lapels, MUDDYLOOP are not just here to mimic the Purple Midget. Indeed, the eighties era plays a part in their music - a diverse blend of Shep Pettibone's early Madonna work, the camp-classic disco-house sound of Bronski Beat and Sylvester and all the early eighties funk-soul-music you could imagine, from Midnight Starr, Alexander O' Neal, The Time, the Gap Band, man, the list could go on and on and on and on. the modern side of their sound is shaped by sample-led hip-hop production values, tuff beats that rattle speakers and the infinite sounds of the synthesizer. At the heart of all this is Metro and Blonde's penchant for penning catchy, original lyrics about anything from heart-break to hairstyles...don't ask! So I guess what this all adds up to is this: MUDDYLOOP will make you feel good. So just take it and enjoy it baby.

 
 

The story of Blonde Peterson and his love of making music began when he received a Casio PT-80 keyboard for his 8th birthday. He would play all day long and teach himself the melodies of his favourite pop songs. Now, over two decades later, flanked by his trusty synths, his MPC and piano, in the cloudy smoke of his retro-styled studio, Blonde Peterson can be found. Either recording the latest electro-jacked bass-line, or penning weird & wonderful lyrics alongside Metro Williams, together they both create the perfect environment for sensual riffs and ideas to float and become reality in the sequencer... Metro Williams , the dice man, the mover, the shaker. Once into cheesy rock ballads, Metro Williams would later discover the music of Prince and the Revolution. Struck by it's sheer musical genius, he would end up dressing as the Minneapolis sex-stick and emulating his style on the streets. Much later, a chance meeting with his cousin Blonde would open his ears to the crazy crap the young Blonde was producing at the time. He would see the potential in the quirky melodies and off-key beats, and take it upon himself to mould Blonde and himself into what is now called MUDDYLOOP. This is where Phoenix Bones entered the story. Mr Bones, sex god, smooth daddy and 5-time Poker Champion of North London, is the executive producer pulling the strings behind the MUDDYLOOP scenes. Growing up in the same neighbourhoods as Metro Williams, Phoenix Bones dreamed of R&B stardom, man, he was hot. Unfortunately, torn between the family business and sweet soul music, Tas, the realist, instead turned to the poker tables and amassed his fortune playing real top card players like Johnny 'The Eyes' Madonna and 'Millionaireman' Bruce Bucks (not really, but it sounds cool). But still the passion for music throbbed...so hard at night, and pretty much all day long. Knowing of the hardships of his friend Metro Williams and distinctly impressed by the orgasm of the MUDDYLOOP grooves, Tas found the perfect way to maintain his lasting passion...supplying the bucks, making the calls and pulling the shots. Soon all three realised that the only way to do it in this business is to go it alone. Forget about chasing labels and coke-head A&R's who hate music. Man, let's just take it to the people! Live and direct! So, with due diligence and downright determination, MUDDYTRAX was born...An outlet for MUDDYLOOP to make their billionaire music and create their own hype, and, finger-crossed, in the future, an outlet for hot, individual, cool-as-Prince artists to express themselves too. So look out for digital releases on the web, and the latest hype to see you can get your hands on MUDDYTRAX 12" vinyl releases. SAFE, YEAH.

 
 
Here's the not-even-close-to-full list of influences for people that need to know: Prince 1978-1990, Dr Fink, Midnight Star, Stevie Wonder, Mirwais, Metro Area, Saturday Night Fever Original Soundtrack, Chic, Nile Rogers, Royksopp, Classic house music, sexual ladies, Ray Bradbury, Space Odyssey, Madonna (with Shep Pettibone), Michael Jackson (when he was black), Zapp (yeah, just Zapp, f**k Roger!), The Time, SOS Band, Chaka Kahn, Rene & Angela, Barry White, Patrice Rushen, Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Laurent Garnier, Hot Chip, Sebastien Tellier (with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo), Les Rythmes Digitales, Mylo, Felix Da Housecat, Giorgio Moroder's basslines, LCD Soundsystem, Groove Armada, Air, Mirwais, Malcolm Mclaren, Dazz Band, Fatback Band, Colonel Abrams' 'Trapped', RIchard X, Duran Duran, Neon Neon, Crystal Castles, Gnarls Barkley, Steed Lord, Nu Shoes, Debbie Deb's 'The Weekend', Kavinsky's '1986', Etienne De Crecy, Aphex Twin's 'Windowlicker', Breakdance Original Soundtrack, synthesisers, old drum machines, Manhattens 'Crazy', Marvin Gaye's sexual politics, Kleer, Imagination, Womack & Womack, Prince's dad's piano solo in Purple Rain, Electro stabs, sensual chords, Patrick Cowley's mix of Sylvester's 'Do You Wanna Funk?', spiritual guitar solos, Arthur C. Clark, Circulation, Bronski Beat's 'Smalltown boy', 80s pop music, cassette mixtapes, the question of you, the cosmos, the eternal question, love.

 
 

AS you heard, if you were reading properly, MUDDYLOOP release their music completely independently through their MUDDYTRAX Recordings imprint. Yep, completely independently - from sleeve art to promotion and distribution, and every little detail in between! MUDDYTRAX is new, exciting, hot and sexual - an electronic music label formed and breathed in to life by Metro Williams, Blonde Peterson, and Phoenix Bones. MUDDYTRAX exists because Metro, Blonde and Tas love music - old music, yes, but also new music, from new producers and artists who look and sound like weirdoes, but are insanely captivating. Man, we're looking for the next Prince! Together we can kick dirt in the face of the accepted mainstream pop charts! Listen, MUDDYTRAX does not want to be perceived as a straight-up house/dance music label. There are already plenty of good quality house labels in operation and MUDDYTRAX does not want to be restricted by the b**llshit 'dance music' tag. MUDDYTRAX gets excited about artists who are individual, who have that something different, who look cool as f**k. basically, MUDDYTRAX Recordings endeavors to be the main purveyor of eclectic soulful electronicness which has that something extra and quirky, that good sh*t that other labels don't have the balls to touch. On the release front, MUDDYTRAX will hit the masses with: 12" remix vinyl's of MUDDYLOOP's material to widen their audience across the realms of dance music; 12" singles and remixes from fresh artists that MUDDYLOOP have met across the digital realms; and, in the near future, eclectic album projects from these artists too. These will be released in CD, 12" and 7" vinyl and digital download formats, and, if requested, on 60 minute compact cassette format. Ha ha ha.

 
 

       

 

 

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