Beats and Styles is a
Finnish
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* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
pop/
rock
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/
rap
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group led by DJ Alimo and in the past also
DJ Control, whose real name is Jaakko Manninen. Beats and Styles sings in
English
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and has collaborated with wide variety of artists, such as
Michael Monroe
Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm (born 17 June 1962), better known by his stage name Michael Monroe, is a Finnish rock musician who rose to fame as the vocalist for the glam punk band Hanoi Rocks, and has served as the frontman for all-star sid ...
,
Papa Dee
David Christopher Daniel Wahlgren (born 13 July 1966), better known by the stage name Papa Dee, is a Sweden, Swedish Rapping, rapper. His most commercially successful track is his version of the Cat Stevens song "The First Cut Is the Deepest#Papa ...
,
Toni Wirtanen
Toni Juhana Wirtanen (born 4 April 1975, in Heinola, Finland) is a Finnish musician, best known as the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Apulanta.
Wirtanen is also known for having written numerous songs for the Finnish pop s ...
,
Raymond Ebanks
Raymond Anthony Ebanks, also known as B.O. Dubb (formerly known as B.O.W.; born 2 January 1970), is a British-born Finnish rapper best known as the frontman of the hip-hop group the Bomfunk MC's.
Early career
Raymond was born in London to ...
,
Andy McCoy
Antti Hulkko (born 11 October 1962), better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is best known for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the rock band Hanoi Rocks, but has also played with Iggy Pop and a variety of oth ...
and
Jutty Ranx.
History
The band was originally a duo, consisting of DJ Control (guitar, vocals) and
DJ Alimo whose real name is Asmo Soivio (vocals). Alimo and Control started their career as DJs and club promoters. In 2000, they got their own club culture TV show on
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
local television. They became more and more interested in making music, and they made
drum'n'bass
Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...
music in solo and later
Finnish language
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music under the name Alimo&Control. The Alimo&Control project's most famous song was "Tarkkaillaan", featuring
Laura Närhi
Laura Närhi (born 19 January 1978) is a Finnish pop singer. The lead singer of Kemopetrol, she started a solo career and her debut solo album '' Suuri sydän'' was released in August 2010 and has sold over 30,000 copies in Finland. It peak ...
from
Kemopetrol as the vocalist. In 2003, Alimo and Control released an album, ''
This is... Beats and Styles'', whose most famous songs were "Dynamite" and "Girls' Anthem".
In 2004, the duo released the album ''
We're Not Ready Yet'', whose most famous hit was "Renegades", sung by Michael Monroe and Alimo, as well as "Fire" and "Dance, Dance, Dance". In 2005, they released the album, ''
Everything is Everything'', whose most famous songs included "Invitation to the Dancefloor" and the title song "Everything is Everything", whose
music video
A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a m ...
was shot in
Prypiat near
Chernobyl
Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about no ...
. Beats and Styles won a bronze award in the 2005
Muuvi music video competition and a special mention for productive and good quality video work. The group's music has been published in
Sweden
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,
Germany
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Poland
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,
Ukraine
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,
France
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,
Italy
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,
United Kingdom
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,
South Africa
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and
Australia
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among other countries, but so far the duo has not achieved a true international breakthrough.
Beats and Styles released their fourth album ''Walk, Don't Talk'' on 14 February 2007. The album's first single was "Ocean Wave", featuring guest artist Michael Monroe from
Hanoi Rocks
Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band formed in 1979. They were the first Finnish band to chart in the UK and they were also popular in Japan. The band broke up in June 1985 after drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley died in a drunk driving acciden ...
. The video for "Ocean Wave" was shot in
Fuerteventura
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and was directed by
Kusti Manninen. The group also participated in the Finnish
Eurovision Song Contest
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selection for the Finnish entry with their song "See the Signs", but got last place.
Soon after that Alimo stopped performing at the gigs and doesn't appear at all at the Beats and Styles album
Schizosonics released on 16 September 2009. DJ Control said his departure was caused by musical differences: "Alimo didn't want to join the new album's pop vibes."
"Hymy Magazine"
9 September 2009, p.9
Discography
* ''This is... Beats and Styles'' (2003)
* ''We're Not Ready Yet'' (2004)
* ''Everything is Everything'' (2005)
* ''Two White Monkeys (France)'' (2006)
* ''Walk, Don't Talk'' (2007)
* ''Straight Forward - The Best of Beats and Styles'' (2008)
* ''Schizosonics'' (2009)
External links
Official site
Beats and Styles at Last.fm
Notes and references
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Finnish musical groups