Flowriders is the band of producer, beat maker and keys player Vincent Helbers.

 

He started out his career performing, writing and recording contemporary acoustic jazz, and now combines this with hip hop, broken beat and electronics. Fat grooves, tricky arrangements and “jazz wise” soloing make the band sound both raw and sophisticated.

 

The latest album "R.U.E.D.Y" is just about to drop on Mr Bongo Records and a 12" EP featuring the CO-OP smash hit “Russelology” will be released in August 2007 including a Marc de Clive Lowe Remix plus an unreleased bonus track. The album features such great vocalists like Nia Saw, Spoonface and regular collaborator Colonel Red, not to mention live drum contribution from Richard Spaven (MdCL, 4hero, TY and many others). The sound is cosmic, twisted hip-hop-bruk-soul laced with soulful vocals all in the future manner.

 

Their debut album “Starcraft” was very well received by the international press: Straight No Chaser:”An Highly impressive debut”, Update Magazine:”broken beat ticking all the right boxes” DJ:” The dutch can stop searching, they’ve found the soul, the broken electronics, the spot-on acoustics, the soaring jazz”

 

 

Band line up:

 

Colonel Red -vocals

Nia Saw - vocals

Han Litz - flute

Vincent helbers - keys & samples

Bas van der Wal- guitar

Richard Spaven – drums

+ guests

 

Check out their live show here and watch out for European tour dates in the Autumn

 

This is the first joint release between Mr Bongo & Unique Uncut, the soul music collective and label set up by Mr Bongo's own Graham Luckhurst along with Straight No Chaser's Amar Patel. For more info please visit their site www.uniqueuncut.co.uk

 

 

Buy this release here