National Anthem Of The Coburn Republic / Sick - Coburn & Princess Superstar/Solid State / Closer / Razorblade - Coburn & Heidrun / We Interrupt This Programme - Coburn & Solid State / Beyond Dawn / Give Me Love / Matured Sinner / Tallulah / 10000 Leagues - Coburn & Dean Van Jones / I Get My Kicks / Stay Alive In '85 / Too Drunk To Recall / Baby Boomer / Edge Of A Knife / Interlude/ Sick / 

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GREAT STUFF RECORDS

An abject lesson in how to expertly blend the underground and the mainstream, Coburn are a dance duo sublimely mixing cutting edge dance with helium filled pop.

Debut album, the self titled COBURN is a collection of slinky pop songs that takes this premise and runs with it; a gloriously sublime affair that finds the middle ground somewhere between Unkle, Goldfrapp, Saint Etienne and Gorillaz.  Opener SICK features Princess Superstar on vocals; delivering street smart pop melodies and dueting with Solid State, perhaps the best example of crossover dance/pop since Gorillaz last committed themselves to wax.  The sun drenched pop melodicism of CLOSER is another faultless moment of pop genius whilst the glorious sounding RAZORBLADE featuring the sublime vocals of Cicada and Gus Gus vocalist Heidrun Bjornsdottir is an essential summer anthem in the waiting.

On WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM, Coburn show off their dance music chops, DJs and producers Pete Martin and Tim Healey laying down a trance like bed of beats and synth swells against Solid State's tough rhymes.  BEYOND DAWN and GIVE ME LOVE continue in this vein, the latter a kind of alternate reality companion piece to Donna Summer's I Feel Love.

The candy pop stylings of TALLULAH puts a twisted spin on Burt Bacharach like timeless pop whilst the atmospheric 10000 LEAGUES is a Beatles-esque slice of lush orchestral songwriting, a tune that features Dean Van Jones on groovy beat poetry duties; Coburn rivalling ELO or the Super Furry Animals in the progtastic pop stakes.  The more straightforward I GET MY KICKS reinvents Coburn briefly as an indie rock styled outfit; think Kasabian meets the White Rose Movement.  Elsewhere, STAY ALIVE IN '85 is a gloriously eighties sounding slice of electro disco, TOO DRUNK TO RECALL a strange folk meets psychedelic affair and EDGE OF A KNIFE an off kilter excursion into lo-fi indie rock territory.

A record that delivers mainstream pop without the bitter aftertaste, COBURN proves that you can still have ideas and originality in today's over saturated pop marketplace.  A brilliant mash up of everything from dub to reggae to pop to hip-hop to funk, Coburn are an outfit unafraid to experiment and not shy of the odd anthemic pop moment either.

BIOGRAPHY

Coburn are the producer/DJ duo of Pete Martin and Tim Healey. Together, they represent that space between rock'n'roll and dance where pretty much anything goes. As producers they are at the cutting edge and in demand, with their original material and dance cuts frequently topping charts (Cool Cuts, Beatport, Buzz) and getting regular radio play. 

They have single-handedly pioneered the "crossover" indie/dance sound and all but given birth to the dance-style currently hailed as: electro-house. Thanks to their releases and legendary Rock Da World/Dirty Beat All Stars events, as DJs, they have headlined clubs and festivals from the UK to Japan. They are currently some of the hardest working jocks in the UK, who when not touring are on permanent production duty in their west London studio.

Years ago, they kick-started the mash-up/remix/re-edit movement in the UK with their re-edits of The White Stripes, The Hives and Nirvana. Even to this day, their highly sought after strictly limited releases change hands for big cash on ebay.

Their critically acclaimed label: Frontier Recordings continued to showcase their talents as dance producers,  until, in 2005, their monster dance anthem: We interrupt this programme, turned the modern commercial house track formula on its head and was signed to Ministry of Sound, and championed by Radio 1's Zane Lowe and Jo Whiley (among others). Their follow up, the Moroder-esque Give me love (2006), continued to tear up dance-floors across the globe.

To celebrate 4 years of their cult status, Frontier Volume 1: Mixed by Coburn is due out in May 2007, accompanied by 2 x promo 12" singles.

Their debut artist album is due in May on Ministry of Sound/Great Stuff, and recent collaborations with Robbie Rivera and Princess Superstar in the pipeline, there will be no rest for the wicked at Coburn HQ.

More even more info and regular updates, check: www.myspace.com/coburnoffical and hear new Coburn studio output as it happens.

LINE UP

Pete Martin

Tim Healey

DISCOGRAPHY

COBURN (Great Stuff Recordings>2007)

National Anthem Of The Coburn Republic

Sick - Coburn & Princess Superstar/Solid State

Closer

Razorblade - Coburn & Heidrun

We Interrupt This Programme - Coburn & Solid State

Beyond Dawn

Give Me Love

Matured Sinner

Tallulah

10000 Leagues - Coburn & Dean Van Jones

I Get My Kicks

Stay Alive In '85

Too Drunk To Recall

Baby Boomer

Edge Of A Knife

Interlude

Sick

Metro

Erase

LINKS

Coburn>www.coburnmusic.com

FURTHER LISTENING

Gus Gus

Princess Superstar

Unkle