Live loops/beatbox video - Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers cover)

New beat alert!

MPC toughness, not sure what the plans are for this yet so it may come down soon... in the meantime, enjoy!

Moneylenders (live) - New Video

I'm gearing up for a live tour to promote my forthcoming album, and to give a little taste of my live show, check out this brand new live video where I perform a new track 'Moneylenders'as a 'one man band'. There is also a 'full band' version, which you can hear below this video

Particle Zoo Recordings launched! Free Box Rocket EP!

I'm delighted to announce the launch of my new record label Particle Zoo Recordings!
Created with my good friend Dave Remix, Particle Zoo is a vehicle for our dancefloor-orientated, bass-heavy productions.
To launch the label, we are giving away a series of free EPs. First up is Dave and my production duo Box Rocket 's long awaited debut EP. We have taken cult classics and given them the bass treatment, to devastating effect.
FREE DOWNLOAD!

My Home of Music: Interview on BBC Bristol

I was recently interviewed by BBC Bristol as part of their 'My Home of Music' series. They talked to me about my experiences writing and recording music at home in my studio.
Listen here:

OUT NOW! Manorism EP

The first commercial Ewan Hoozami release in over a year is out now!

Manorism is inspired by the funk-fuelled party carnage we create at Funk from The Trunk's annual stage at Boomtown Fair, Funkington Manor.
I believe these 4 multi-genre party jams capture that raucous essence comprehensively... hope you agree




I've also given a free track away in support of the EP... a quite monstrous glitch-hoppy refix of a track I released last year on Bulabeats.

Free for a 'Like on Facebook'

Featured in the Huffington Post!

I'm pretty chuffed that I've been called agenius (twice) in the huffington Post's article on Unsigned Music You Need To Hear...!
Check the full article here. I'm second down (the handsome ginger one)
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kat-jackman/you-need-to-hear-this-_b_3377146.html

"DJ, Producer, Vocalist"... Ewan Hoozami forgot to mention 'bloody genius' on his Emerging Icons profile it seems. The London-based artist couldn't have come to our attention at a better time really- while the whole of the internet still seems to be belching the words 'Daft Punk' from every social media orifice, a tune like 'Skin Too Deep' is bound to settle well. He's dubbed his fresh blend of electronica, funk and hip hop as 'Robot Soul'. Think.... C-3P0 getting a bit gangster to some sexy beats in an impossibly cool nightclub by the light of a glitterball. Awesome, right? While we love the fact he's so eclectic, creative and prone to dabbling in a plethora of samples; we really should also big up the inventive nature of this fella's stage name. If it's not clicked quite yet, try reading 'Ewan Hoozami' out loud. See? Genius.

New DJ Mixes, Free Remix and Single preview!

New material right here... including some sneaky peaks from my forthcoming album...
First up is the lead single from aforementioned album



A new free download... Lazy Habits - Even Out (Ewan Hoozami remix)



Some new DJ Mixes - Live at KOKO, Ujima Radio Minimix, BBC Introducing Minimix

BBC Introducing Minimix now up!

First broadcast on BBC Introducing In The West on Feb 16th 2013. I have added an extra track onto the end, and naturally this minimix has none of the interview which ran over the top of it on the BBC Introducing show.
Massive thanks to BBC Introducing for asking me to do the mix, and thanks to you for your support.
The music is taken from my new EP 'Fire In Me' and yet-to-be-released album 'Robot Soul'
Please SHARE this among your friends if you enjoy it. As an independent unsigned artist I cannot stress enough how important each share is.
The Fire In Me EP is free to download here http://ewanhoozami.bandcamp.com/
Tracklist:
1) Treading Water
Music and vocals by Ewan Hoozami
2) Android Pillow Talk
Music and scratches by Ewan Hoozami. Vocals by Colleen Quinn
From the Fire In Me EP http://ewanhoozami.bandcamp.com/
3) Fire In Me
Music and vocals by Ewan Hoozami
From the Fire In Me EP http://ewanhoozami.bandcamp.com/
4) Won't Be Long (instrumental)
Music by Ewan Hoozami
5) The Answer
Music and vocals by Ewan Hoozami with additional guitar by Brendan 'B-Dub' White
6) Lazy Days
Music and vocals by Ewan Hoozami with additional guitar by Brendan 'B-Dub' White
7) Dutty Vibrations
Music by Ewan Hoozami. Vocals by Ewan Hoozami and The Scribes
8) Pull Me Up
Music by Ewan Hoozami. Vocals by Colleen Quinn
9) Skin Too Deep
Music and vocals by Ewan Hoozami with additional guitar by Brendan 'B-Dub' White
10) Talkington Dub (instrumental)
Music by Ewan Hoozami

Brand new EP out now!

 

Ewan Hoozami
Fire in Me EP
Self Released


Bristol is rightly renowned on a global scale for its rich vein of musical diversity. With an artistic reputation that is rivaled only by London, the city is slowly but surely cementing its status as the place to watch for all things big beat and bass influenced.

Popular mixed genre, heavy beat maestro Adam Hignell aka Ewan Hoozami ("youˈn'hooz'arr'mee") is not only "stupendously well-named", but is currently amassing a loyal and fervent following in both his hometown and internationally. Known as a versatile live performer - encompassing nimble fingered MPC routines, live microphone manoeuvres, loop station lunacy and multi-angled bass assaults - and renowned party smashing DJ, playing Soundwave Croatia, V Festival, Isle ofWight Festival, FBBB Holland, Brisfest, Red Bull Riders, Boomtown Fair, Larmer Tree Festival and Chai Wallahs, as well as a sea of events with massive Bristol promotors and collective "Funk From The Trunk", 2012 saw Adam release a veritable cornucopia of prestige productions. Dropping releases on Big M, Pig Balls Records, Breakbeat Paradise and seeing self-released songs number downloads in their thousands, 2013 is set to be the year that Ewan Hoozami compounds his status as a production force to be reckoned with.

Readying for the release of his long play album "Robot Soul", Hoozami invites listeners to feast upon a delectable free four part EP entitled "Fire In Me". Combining classic boom bap hip hop, breaks, bass, big beat and unashamed pop tendencies amidst a natty ear for samples and electronic elements, the EP serves to whet appetites for his impending album.

Opening salvo "Fire in Me" caters to Ewan's hip hop aesthetic with a robust boom bap bed graced with his lyrical debut. Evoking an old school mic style with dense, intricate linguistics and wordplay, he denotes his emphasis toward creative impulse and individuality in contrast to the current trend for identikit rappers and producers.

"Through With Love" features popular Bristolian rapper Blacksmith. Blacksmith oozes soul whilst expressing his woes at a lost love, displaying a level of maturity and honesty seldom seen in modern rap. The production appears to begin with a classic hip hop aesthetic, before dropping into what can be more comfortably defined as a big beat influenced breaks bass production.

"Android Pillow Talk" sees the EP lean more toward modern pop stylings, with the lush, eerie tones of Substatic vocalist Colleen Quinn. This song hints toward the robotic soul of his impending LP, contrasting the EP's earlier lo-fi slant with creeping electronica and sub-bass aplenty. The result wouldn't sound too out of place amongst the finest work of Morcheeba in their pomp.

EP Finale "The Quiet" sees Ewan return to mic duties over a re-imagining of one of his more renowned indy releases "All Quiet". Again ably assisted by Colleen Quinn, classic spanish guitar and piano elements are fused with arpeggio and rampant bass to create a textured epic with Hitchcock-esq breakdowns. The lulling vocal sample permeates throughout, ending the project on the line "Til you come back to me".


CONTACT: EwanHoozami@gmail.com +44 (0) 7718004327

credits

released 16 February 2013
A. Fire in Me - Produced, written and performed by Ewan Hoozami
B. Through with Love - Produced by Ewan Hoozami, vocals by Blacksmith
C. Android Pillow Talk - Produced by Ewan Hoozami, vocals by Colleen Quinn
D. The Quiet - Produced by Ewan Hoozami, vocals by Ewan Hoozami & Colleen Quinn

Artwork by Tsiou at Kimolia Graphics www.kimoliagraphics.gr

EVERYTHING MUST GO!

After several years making a large quantity of music in a variety of different styles, I am giving away almost everything I have ever written. But this is not an end, it's a beginning. If you are interested, I have written a few words to explain why I have come to this decision...

As a young producer with nothing but an MPC500 and my record collection, I made a well received trip-hop EP and my debut album. A few of the tracks on the album also used a couple of hardware synths, but the overall idea was to cut up and re-interpret the sounds from great and obscure records I picked up along the way. I would grab a few sounds I liked, put them into the MPC, sample some drum hits and start chopping, editing and slicing until I had something I liked. I didn't really know what I was doing, and some of my mixdowns were horrendous, but somehow the album was picked up by Terry at Pig Balls Records, and a few of the tracks ended up on Solid Steel mixes and got a bit of radio play, including Radio 6 Music.


Since then my skills as a producer have steadily improved, and I've been fairly prolific, producing tracks in loads of different styles, to varying degrees of interest from the wider world.


As a music fan I've never been able to devote myself to one style or one genre, and it's the same with my production. As a DJ, I've played all sorts of music, from the incredibly obscure and psychedelic to the guilty pleasures and everything in between. This started back when DJs tended to have one genre and would only play that style (it was 90% vinyl back then so switching up genres was much harder to pull off!)

I realized recently how much I have missed playing live. My old band, Syte and The Sound, had some great times in the 2 years we were together but sadly split last year. I would regularly turn up to gigs with MPC, decks & mixer, guitar, bass, and synth, and play them all live during the show. You can't beat the feeling of playing live, when anything could go wrong in a second, but when you pull it off it feels amazing.

So, thanks to encouragement from friends like Cheeba, who strong-armed me into playing an MPC set at a recent Soundcrash party, I started playing live shows again. The shows were great, and I got the familiar rush of performing, but despite the positive reactions I quickly realised that something was missing as a live spectacle... too much head-down tapping and not enough audience engagement. What was missing was vocals, mainly, so I started writing full songs with proper structures, and performing the vocals myself. This was a complete accident - every vocalist I approached with music let me down in some way, so I thought I'd just do it myself!

This process has been massively eye-opening... I feel competent enough as a musician to write the music that's in my head, and confident enough to vocalise the words that are in my heart. I also feel like there is so much potential in developing a live show around the new material. It's proper self-expression, a shift in my perception, and I want to make a new start, focusing on my original sounds.

And that's where I am now... writing new material, that sound like 'proper' songs, with original vocals, and working with Substatic's Colleen Quinn to put together an album and a live show that I think will blow some people away. I will lose fans, there is no doubt about it... some of you won't understand what I'm doing. But I'm cool with that.

So this is a chance for me to draw a line under the music I have made thus far, by giving it all away for FREE, as a thank you to all who have supported me during my career so far. I will archive it all at some point, so grab what you can now if you want it.

Peace out for now, I'll be back with a bang soon.

Yeah, I know... TL:DR

One Love

Adam AKA Ewan Hoozami

TRACKS: This is everything I've done to date as Ewan Hoozami, except 2 current or pending remixes, which it would not be fair on the labels to give away. Also except for some material that will be on my new album.

There are 3 BRAND NEW tracks up for grabs - I've put these at the top of the set.

If you wish to make a donation, please make payments to ewanhoozami @ gmail.com via Paypal.

Runner-up in the Dimensions Festival Producer Competition!

I'm delighted to announce I have come 2nd in the Dimensions Festival Producer Competition!


Here's the track that I entered