TORPEDO BOYZ
Berlin, Berlin, Germany | INDIE
Music
Press
"They're irrepressibly modern in their approach, sort of like someone taking a baseball bat to all those poppy, quasi-ethnic hack bands..." - Skope Magazine
"To say this is a good time would be an understatement. It's a party on a plastic disc and it wants you come along for a ride. You should!" - First Coast News
Just the sort of jet-set cool we love. Throw it on at your next shindig and much rump-shaking is sure to ensue - PLAYBOY Magazine, USA
"It's sleek and hip, and cooler than you'll know what to do with" - Up&Coming Weekly
Discography
US
* 2007 Headache Music (12-track CD on Sounds From The Roof)
* 2008 Cum On Feel The Boyz (11-track CD on Sounds From The Roof)
* 2011 Return Of The Ausländers (10-track CD on Sounds From The Roof)
Europe
* Gimme A Bassline!!! (12" on Lounge)
* Are You Talking To Me???, incl. Fort Knox Five remix (12" on Lounge)
* Headache Music (12-track CD on Lounge)
* Start Being Nicer, incl. P E T remix (12" on Lounge)
* Are You Talking To Me??? Part 2 incl. Skeewiff remix (12" on Lounge)
* Torpedo Bootz (4-track 12" on Illegal Beats)
* Japaneeze Boyz, incl. Smoove & Cubismo Grafico remixes (12" on Lounge)
* Cum On Feel The Boyz (11-track CD on Lounge)
* The Disco Song, incl. Pinker Tones & Groove Alliance remixes (12" on Muto)
* Funky Stuff On Vinyl! (12-track DLP on Muto)
* Back To The Beatz!, incl. Torpedotrickser & Hopperider Rmx (12",Lounge)
* Return Of The Auslanders (10-track CD on Lounge)
* Welcome To The Sugar Show, incl. Lack Of Afro & Infragandhi remixes (12" on Lounge)
Photos
Bio
ATTENTION! Extremely Funky Break Beat Alarm!!!
The TORPEDO BOYZ can’t be stopped!
Berlin is not a place where things happen according to the normal rules. And Berlin’s Torpedo Boyz — winners of the 2009 US American Independent Music Award for best dance/electronica album for Cum On Feel the Boyz — are proof of that.
But let’s start from the beginning. In 2004 their ground-shaking debut 12”“Gimme A Bassline!” entered the Top 5 in the German Club Charts shortly after its release and was picked by PUMA for a major tv spot. In no time the track started to rotate on turntables and airplaylists around the globe. New York-based Ursula 1000 put “Bassline!” on his famous “Ursuladelica” compilation, en vogue producers Fort Knox Five from Washington D.C. offered their remix services for their next single.
In 2004 their ground-shaking debut 12”“Gimme A Bassline!” entered the Top 5 in the German Club Charts shortly after its release and was picked by PUMA for a major tv spot. In no time the track started to rotate on turntables and airplaylists around the globe. New York-based Ursula 1000 put “Bassline!” on his famous “Ursuladelica” compilation, en vogue producers Fort Knox Five from Washington D.C. offered their remix services for their next single.
The Torpedo Boyz continued delivering more quality dancefloor smash hits like „Are You Talking To Me???“, „Japaneeze Boyz“ and „The Disco Song“ (with remixes by Smoove, Skeewiff, The Pinker Tones, Cubismo Grafico, Groove Allegiance a.o.) while their albums “Headache Music” and “Cum On Feel The Boyz” were released in Europe and North America. Further official album releases followed in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Well, that also doesn’t happen to everyone.
BUT the Torpedo Boyz are far from just being a club music producer team. The fact that they have managed to put their funky music live on stage is surely exceptional in this genre. With their incredible live show and outfits they left their audiences in disbelief with open mouths and hands way up in the air. But they really are hard to catch on stage these days due to the fact that they have decided to only play special events. So far they did exactly that in the USA, Canada, Russia and selected European cities. In 2009 the Torpedo Boyz played their first shows in Asia with more dates to follow.
The new record "Return Of The Ausländers" (US release: 2011) once again defies expectations, bringing in new sounds—like Returner’s Krautrock influenced “Maschinenwelt” and Daisuke’s exposing “Ich bin Ausländer” (“I’m a Foreigner”). It’s an upbeat, breaktastic record ready to get the party started on your block—whether your block is in Brooklyn, Bristol, or Beijing
“Just the sort of jet-set cool we love. Throw it on at your next shindig and much rump-shaking is sure to ensue.” (PLAYBOY Magazine, USA)
Links
