Sounds From The Ground is an English electronic music

Electronic music

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 duo formed in 1995. Both members Nick Woolfson and Elliot Jones met through their involvement with the underground music

Underground music

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 scene in London

London

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Career

Elliot Jones's background is chillout and dub, from running his own label and doing clubs and gatherings in the early 1990s. Nick Woolfson has worked in lots of different styles of music, as long as it is innovative and good quality, and downtempo is his comfort zone. Jones had written Triangle as a demo and was introduced to Woolfson, their styles matched and the duo was born.

Woolfson's studio is called The Starlight Rooms and is located in London

London

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. Woolfson has been working on a Mac

Macintosh

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 and Logic

Logic Pro

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 for approximately the last 10 years. He has some old analog and digital synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

s which he still uses : Yamaha CS-70, ARP Axxe, Moog Rogue

Moog Rogue

The Moog Rogue is a monophonic analog synthesizer produced by the original Moog Music in the early 1980s, but, was not designed by Bob Moog. Very basic in its design and use, the Rogue featured a 32-note keyboard and two VCOs. VCO number 2 is tunable between a half-step below to an octave above...

, Yamaha CS30

Yamaha CS30/CS30L synthesizer

The Yamaha CS30/CS30L is an analog keyboard synthesizer that was released in 1977. It is the top of the range in Yamaha's original line-up of monophonic synthesizers, others in the range being the CS5, CS10 and CS15...

, Roland TB-303

Roland TB-303

The Roland TB-303 Bass Line is a bass synthesizer with built-in sequencer manufactured by the Roland corporation from late 1981 to 1984 that had a defining role in the development of contemporary electronic music.-History:...

, Yamaha DX7

Yamaha DX7

The Yamaha DX7 is an FM Digital Synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1986. It was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer. Its distinctive sound can be heard on many recordings, especially Pop music from the 1980s...

, Virus

Access Virus

The Access Virus is a virtual analog synthesizer made by the German company Access Music GmbH. It was first produced in 1997 and has since been upgraded frequently, with the company releasing new models about every two years. Early models include the Virus A, Virus B, and Virus C series, each...

, 2 x Roland JV-1080

Roland JV-1080

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, 2 x Akai S3000 samplers.
He also has a Mackie

Mackie

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 32-8 plus extra 24 input desk but these days most of the work is done on the Mac, making the mixing desk virtually redundant.

SFTG have done a few collaborations over the years, including vocalists Taz

Taz (singer)

Tarsame Singh Saini aka Taz born 23 May 1967, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom), is a British singer, composer and actor of Indian descent. He is the lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation which was formed in 1996...

, Aine, Colein, Nicola Hitchcock

Nicola Hitchcock

Nicola Hitchcock is a British singer and songwriter. She is best known for having been the singer of the band Mandalay...

, Dillinger

Dillinger

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 and General Levy

General Levy

General Levy is a London born ragga vocalist, regularly employed on studio tracks by drum and bass DJs. He is best known for the track "Incredible" which he recorded with M-Beat.-Biography:...

. The duo has also worked with pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole, ex Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor

Mick Taylor

Michael Kevin "Mick" Taylor is an English musician, best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones...

 as well as Gaudi

Gaudi (musician)

Daniele Gaudi is a musician, composer, record producer. and solo artist. Gaudi's music is a fusion of dub, worldbeat and electronica...

 and also collaborated with Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is an English writer and dub poet. He is a well-known figure in contemporary English literature, and was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008....

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The duo were regular performers and DJs at The Big Chill

The Big Chill (music festival)

The Big Chill is an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August...

 music festivals, and have played at Glastonbury

Glastonbury Festival

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...

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SFTG released their latest studio album 'The Maze' in October 2010. They are due to release a remastered version of Mosaic on 28 March 2011. A new EP download only release is scheduled later in the year, as well as Luminal (remastered).

Kin (1996)

Kin merged hip hop

Hip hop

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, dub

Dub music

Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...

 and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, it charted in the top 20 of the CMJ RPM charts.

Track listing:

1. Gather
2. Drawn to the woman
3. Loaf
4. Pearl
5. Triangle
6. Over There
7. Where The Wild Things Were
8. Seven Sisters

Mosaic (1999)

Known as Terra Firma in the U.S.. The album includes drum and bass

Drum and bass

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, jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 and soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 influences.

The album charted on the top 20 of the CMJ RPM charts as Terra Firma.

Track listing:

1. Snow
2. Treasure
3. Bodega Bay
4. Drugstore
5. The Cut
6. Marshmello
7. Rye
8. Circle & Star
9. Planted

Natural Selection (2003)

The song New Day was featured on the movie The Guardian

The Guardian (2006 film)

The Guardian is a 2006 action-adventure drama film starring Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, and Melissa Sagemiller. The film was released on September 29, 2006, and was directed by Andrew Davis, director of The Fugitive...

 soundtrack and the TV series Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls is a comedy-drama television series that was broadcast on the Fox television network in 2004.The show centres on Jaye Tyler , a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop...

. Lean On Me was also on Wonderfalls.
Gentle Healing was featured in Smallville

Smallville

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 season 2 soundtrack.

Track listing:

1. Lean On Me
2. Moving Into a New Space
3. Inner World
4. Gentle Healing (Trust)
5. The Shepherd
6. New Day
7. Whispers
8. I Forgive Me
9. Wishing Tree
10. Pictured

Luminal (2004)

Luminal charted in the top 20 of the CMJ RPM charts.

Track listing:

1. Razz
2. As The Day Goes By
3. Stampede
4. Ten Tons of Dope
5. London Fields
6. Tumbledown
7. Move On
8. Burning Bright
9. Poems

High rising (2006)

Features collaborations with Gaudi

Gaudi (musician)

Daniele Gaudi is a musician, composer, record producer. and solo artist. Gaudi's music is a fusion of dub, worldbeat and electronica...

 and UK vocalist Taz

Taz (singer)

Tarsame Singh Saini aka Taz born 23 May 1967, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom), is a British singer, composer and actor of Indian descent. He is the lead singer of the pop band Stereo Nation which was formed in 1996...

.

High rising charted in the top 20 of the CMJ RPM charts.

Track listing:

1. White City
2. Rotorblade
3. Slate Grey
4. Viper Style
5. Beautiful Feeling feat. Taz
6. Modo
7. Palmprint feat. Gaudi
8. Blink
9. Speedbumps
10. Allsorts

Brightwhitelight (2008)

Released on Waveform Records. Brightwhitelight charted for three months in the top 20 of the CMJ RPM charts in the USA, peaking at #6 (November 2008 to February 2009).

Track listing:

1. The Gift
2. Eclipse on 5th
3. Restless
4. Nightshift
5. Dune
6. Under the Sun
7. Elemental
8. Sweet Confusion
9. Waves
10. Mesh

Thru The Ages (2009)

Thru The Ages contains rare and unreleased material. Originally released via download only, it was subsequently available as a limited edition CD including a bonus track.

Track listing:

1. City Of Dust
2. Inside Out
3. Eyes Wide Open Ft Aine
4. Union Dub
5. Vessel And The Deep
6. Shapeshifter
7. Wicked Flow
8. Bunches
9. Al Takure (Bonus Track CD only)

In The Cool Of The Shade EP (2009)

Download only release.
Track listing:

1. Departures
2. Molten
3. First Light

Spectral EP (2010)

Download only release.

Track listing:

1. Tale Before Time
2. Crystal Beam
3. Corran

KIN Remastered (2010)

Released on Upstream Records.

Track listing:

1. Gather
2. Drawn to the woman
3. Loaf
4. Pearl
5. Triangle
6. Over There
7. Where The Wild Things Were
8. Seven Sisters

The Maze (2010)

The Maze charted in the top 20 of the CMJ RPM charts and #2 in Echoes chart.

Track listing

1. Gap in the Clouds
2. A Thousand Colours
3. Delphine
4. Acid Cornflats
5. Midnight Crossing
6. This Land
7. Subdub'in
8. The Lenox
9. Temple Steps
10. Afterglow

External links

• Sounds From The Ground's official site
• Official Myspace page
• Official Facebook page
• Official YouTube channel
• Sounds From The Ground at Discogs
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• Sounds From The Ground at Last.fm
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