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Temperley- Music producer Jeremy Balius - Manager Guest
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The Resonance is a live Drum & Bass collective, consisting of a producer/DJ, a guitarist and a duo of vocalists. Polyrhythmic heavy beats, dirty liquid basslines, soaring soulful vocals and deep ‘n’ insightful lyrics are The Resonance’s recipe for rebirthing the cool. See, what The Resonance as a collective is doing is presenting a continuum to the non-linear history of Drum & Bass. By collapsing your chest with the gut-wrenching sub-bass, by mutating your understanding of frenetic accelerated trip hop, by incorporating sexy-ass guitar licks, The Resonance hand out the one-two punch in that the live vocals present an entirely new context. This just isn’t being done elsewhere. If Perth is Australia’s Drum & Bass capital, then The Resonance is Australia’s premier Drum & Bass live act. The formation of The Resonance was a process. As Goldie and A Guy Called Gerald began their forays in the mid-nineties, Trilby Temperley, beat-maker / rhythm-slicer / vibe-setting producer, came out of Audio Response Group, a ‘hip hop with guitars’ group and began to shift his focus. “I decided I wanted to get pure. I wanted to focus on something with fat bass-lines, with soulful chords and vocals, but still with high-tech energy that was new and fresh,” explained Trilby. It wasn’t long afterwards when Trilby met Rebecca Brennan at the West Australian Music Institute Awards. Rebecca had been fronting a blues band in Perth and upon meeting Trilby, decided that the combination of soulful bluesy vocals with driving D&B was just what she was looking for. These two formed the earliest incarnation of The Resonance. Shortly thereafter Jono McNeil joined, a jazz student at Perth’s Conservatory. Jono’s addition to the group brought an edge of Stevie Wonder style vocals. Vocals with deep roots in jazz and funk. Leanne Cole was the third singer to fill out a front line vocal threesome. All three vocalists have been the group’s lyricists and each has brought a different take to the same Resonance vibe. It was in mid-2006 that Leanne decided to pursue other venues of interest and The Res began a series of collaborations with guest musicians and MCs. Akin to the vocal charades of the lead singers of the Scissor Sisters, Jono and Bec seduce the crowd with their sassy on-stage panache. The final addition to The Resonance came by of former Audio Response Group guitarist Paul Hines. With Paul’s smooth guitar licks and rock’n’roll persona, the live Drum & Bass collective became complete.
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The Resonance have been nominated for West Australian Music Institute Song of the Year, two years in a row. In 2005 The City was nominated and this year it’s Hotels and Motels. Tension Release, The Resonance’s latest stormer, has already been featured as part of In the Mix’s tenth podcast when The Res was “ITM Emerging Artist”. Having shared the stage with multiple award-winning artists, The Resonance have supported such luminaries as Roni Size, K-Oscillate, Shapeshifter, Mo’ Horizons, and current cool cats, The Presets, amongst others. The Resonance have been featured on both Deuce compilations and Semikazi’s latest compilation of Perth up’n’comers. The City was also featured on Pixel Paintings, a Perth visual arts DVD made and released by VJzoo. Proving that a collective can hold down a residency, The Resonance were playing weekly for a year at Perth’s much lauded Beat Suite, created by ITM Top 50 DJ Micah and Triple J’s Sharif Galaal. The heads of The Resonance crew may be swirling up in the Drum & Bass clouds, but their feet are firmly rooted in the soil of hip hop, funk and soul. The latter half of 2006 is looking to be one hell of a ride. Trilby’s been dirtying up the beats and producing some serious D&B and hip hop with Belgian MC Killamatic and the Hz Crew. With tracks notched up and a release in the works in Europe, this collaboration is about to blow up. Trilby’s not only in the process of producing ‘Subsonic Symphonies’, a series of dance compositions for Perth’s Flutterby Dance Company who are fresh back from touring Savilla and New York, he’s also now Overclockers Australia Podcast producer. With over 40,000 monthly podcast subscribers, new fans of The Resonance, let alone Drum & Bass as a whole, are being won over in droves. A word of caution though. If you have a history of heart problems or are prone to heart failure, have any nervous disorders whatsoever, or are quick to faint, then The Resonance may not be for you. This music has been known to have quite a ravenous effect on the general physicality of the listener. It’s not everyday when a collective comes along and challenges the way we should think about music or how we enjoy a live show. The Resonance is doing just that: pushing boundaries, extending the soul and rebirthing the cool.
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photo by Marina Dragovic
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an interview with Trilby on In The Mix: http://www.inthemix.com.au/features/19094/
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a review of the RTR gig on In The Mix: http://www.inthemix.com.au/reviews/events/19096/