Fingathing
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Fingathing are an instrumental Nu jazz
/ hip-hop
band from Manchester
, UK
, comprising classically trained double bass
player Sneaky and DJ
/ turntablist Peter Parker.
was on the judging panel. Parker later met Rae at the Fat City Records
store in Manchester and was asked to audition for the Rae & Christian
live backing band.
Parker performed along with Sneaky for Rae & Christian, before teaming up as a pair. The band were signed to Rae's Grand Central Records
in the UK (sub-contracted to Ninja Tune
in the US), and have released three studio albums plus a best of compilation
. The band's album and single sleeves contain distinctive cartoon drawings by Chris Drury.
Nu jazz
Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul, electronic dance music, and free improvisation...
/ hip-hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
band from Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, comprising classically trained double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
player Sneaky and DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
/ turntablist Peter Parker.
History
Parker was a finalist at the UK DMC DJ Championship, where Mark RaeMark Rae
Mark Rae, born in Ashington, Northumberland, England, is the head of the highly revered independent record label Grand Central Records and one half of DJ and production duo Rae & Christian.-Grand Central and Rae & Christian:...
was on the judging panel. Parker later met Rae at the Fat City Records
Fat City Recordings
Fat City Recordings is an independent record label. It emerged in 1998 from the Fat City Records shop originally situated in Affleck's Palace in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, but which has now moved onto Oldham Street....
store in Manchester and was asked to audition for the Rae & Christian
Rae & Christian
Rae & Christian were Grand Central Records' founder Mark Rae and fellow producer and DJ Steve Christian. Their music is broadly classed as Hip-Hop / soulful dance music and features such vocalists as The Jungle Brothers, Jeru The Damaja and The Pharcyde as well as contributions from Bobby Womack...
live backing band.
Parker performed along with Sneaky for Rae & Christian, before teaming up as a pair. The band were signed to Rae's Grand Central Records
Grand Central Records
Grand Central Records was an independent record label based in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, UK. It was started in 1995 by DJ Mark Rae . Rae started out working as manager of the Fat City Records' store...
in the UK (sub-contracted to Ninja Tune
Ninja Tune
Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke. The label has a strong leaning towards mostly Electronic Music...
in the US), and have released three studio albums plus a best of compilation
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
. The band's album and single sleeves contain distinctive cartoon drawings by Chris Drury.
Fingathing albums
- The Main EventThe Main Event (album)The Main Event was the debut album released by Fingathing in November 2000 on Grand Central Records.Believed to be named after the series of wrestling bouts broadcast by the World Wrestling Federation .-Track listing:# "Intro" – 0:43...
(20 November 2000)Grand Central Records - Superhero MusicSuperhero MusicSuperhero Music was the second album by Fingathing, released on Grand Central Records in June 2002.-Track listing:# "Intro" – 0:40# "Ogre" – 5:07# "Drunken Master II" – 5:33# "Scrap" – 4:06# "The Answer" – 0:32# "Criminal Robots" – 4:48...
(24 June 2002)Grand Central Records - And The Big Red Nebula BandAnd the Big Red Nebula BandAnd the Big Red Nebula Band was the third album by Fingathing.It was released in May 2004 on Grand Central Records in the UK, and licensed from them by Ninja Tune in the U.S...
(10 May 2004)Grand Central Records/Ninja Tune(US) - Time Capsule: The First Five Years of Fingathing (19 September 2005)
- Apocalypso ep (25 Oct 2006)
Solo releases
- Peter Parker released a limited edition DJ mixDJ mixA DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track. When a DJ mix or DJ mixset is recorded onto some medium, it is often referred to as a mix tape...
CD called Life After Death Mix. - Sneaky has also released two limited edition mix CDs entitled Biscuit Mix and Bloody Axe Mix.
- Sneaky - Feel Like A King EP (4 January 2008)
- Sneaky - "Feel Like A King...Pluck A String" album (june 2009) Big Chill Label