r0ckdave
A mixture of old school hiphop beats, metal, obscure sega games and indie rawk.
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Flow (Demo) Flow (Demo)
A fast raw and gritty rock riff placed in an almost shoe-gaze style track with a long winding distorted chorus. Demo.
Intergalactic Roses Intergalactic Roses
Alternative Intergalactic mash up with Outkasts 'Roses'
Shake Your Roses Shake Your Roses
Mash up of Roses by Outkast and Shake Your Rump by the Beastie Boys
Streets of Triple Trouble Streets of Triple Trouble
beastie boys - triple trouble vs the streets of rage soundtrack
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After years of pondering whether or not it's possible to make good quality songs on low budget equipment, Rock Dave eventually decided to give it a shot and create a new genre called 'Hip-Sampldelic-Punk-Rock-Noise-Hop'. Then shortened it to H.S.P.R.N.H. After that didn't catch on, he renamed his custom genre, to SampRock and the cash flowed in.
Rock Daves music mixes hip-hop beats, rock guitars, funk riffs, scratches, vocal samples and and other crap that sounds good to create a semi-enjoyable mess. He produces all his songs himself (becasue no one else will go near them) and has taught himself how to produce tracks, which is harder then most people would think.Band/artist history
Born on 24th November 1986 in Newcastle, Rock Dave was destined to be a star. After hearing Bomb The Bass' 1987 UK #2 hit "Beat Dis" in 1993 he knew he wanted to become a weird music person. Dave was educated at the great Priory Primary School in is local town of Tynemouth where he lavished in the great education given to him, in particular music class. Dave realised he was a natural born musician when he started playing the guitar in Year 4 in Mr Richardsons' music class. Other then appearing on TV with Jimmy Nail, meeting Evil Jared from the Bloodhound Gang and infamously hitting someone on the back with a tennis racquet Dave hasn't had much fame, until now.
Living in the rough suburban "Millfield" district of Tynemouth has given Dave a flavour of street life. After joining numerous gangs in his younger life including the feared He-Man Woman Haters Club and the now disbanded Spot-Nose Gang he decided to keep a low profile, appearing on the streets every now and then to perform a 'mental act' to make sure his name wouldn't be forgotten. For the most part, Dave was watching TV, playing Sega and listening to Huey Lewis & the News, but every now and then he would immerse himself in the music that he wanted so badly to become a part of. Deciding that rock was the way forward in 1997 after hearing Hansons' agonising "Mmm Bop" Dave requested an electric guitar from his Uncle who refused to acknowledge the request with a response. Instead he decided to ask Santa and that year he got what he wanted. After numerous attempts and failures at trying to master Cornershops - Brimful of Asha, he came to the conclusion that he needed guitar lessons, as he was shit. 5 years later he was still shit, so he kept on getting them until he could play the riff from Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby". When someone hearing Dave play this tune asked why he was playing Queen's "Under Pressure", Dave decided to find out on the Internet why Mr Ice (who's real name is Rob Van Winkle) had stolen Brian May's fabulous riff. What he found was a new form of music called 'Rap' that was based on concept sampling - stealing other peoples music and arsing around with it in the attempt that the original performer wont recognise it. After listening to literally 100's of these rap albums, Dave decided that a merge of rock and rap could be a fresh new concept and would no doubt make him rich. After finding out via the Internet that this concept was developed in 1986 when Run-DMC had a hit song with the then coke-addicted rockers Aerosmith, he decided to go back to the drawing board and come up with something original. 5 minutes of thinking time later, he decided to merge rock with rap, hip-hop, soul, dance, electronica, easy listening, weird sounds, sampling and classical music to create a new nameless genre which people would either love or (most likely) hate.
In 2004 he spent most of the year listening to new music and sampling various artists, whilst buying a guitar effects unit to make himself sound better then he actually is. After illegally downloading Sound Forge 6 form Kazaa he decided recording his first set of demos, which he never got finished. The demos combined all his favourite genres of music and each one successfully managed to infringe on at least one registered copyright. In late 2004 he decided to continue making the demos until they were finished then re-record them to produce a debut E.P, which he still hasn't done, but will do soon. This hotly anticipated CD is due for release in early 2005 but will most likely be released in 2007 - Biography by Gerald PatmesonYour musical influences
In Terms of Genre - Rock, Rap, Pop, Dance, Hip-Hop, Electronica, Soul etc. In terms of artists - James Brown, Public Enemy, NIN, My Bloody Valentine, Pop Will Eat Itself, Beastie Boys, Prodigy, DJ Shadow, Happy Mondays, Duran Duran, Bloodhound GangWhat equipment do you use?
Fender Strat Guitar, Behringer V-Amp2 Efects Unit, SoundForge 6, Acid Pro 4 and to many samples.
Tynemouth,
United Kingdom
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341484
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