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AudioMatriX

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Taken from www.footworkrecords.com. Brothers Raleigh and Renan Woods and friend Robert Sewell started their music career six years ago in a group called The Sound Odyssey. With R&B vocalist Nyima Funk their live performances earned them a strong following in their hometown Detroit, leading them to play at the Miami Winter Music Conference in 1999. But when Nyima Funk left they decided to take stock. Heading back to the studio they regrouped and concentrated on developing their sound. With each member of the group assigned specific instruments they set out to develop a project that could hold its own with the classic sounds of house and techno they had grown up with. This was the birth of AudioMatriX (AMX). Hailing from Bellevue, and attending the same school as that other trio Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson they were veterans of the scene that gave birth to house and techno music. With AudioMatriX they wanted that pure unadulterated electronic funk that they heard span in the mid-late 80s but injected with their own ideas. It took a while, but in 2002 they finally unveiled AMX Records. Their debut AMX Records release called Audio Africanisms EP was a strong statement of intent crossing detroit techno drama with delirious soul and r&b vocals, presenting a tense, dramatic take on the legacy of Disco. And their Footwork House Ballads Part 2 release, an AMX live favourite, is an underground house music anthem in waiting. Jonas Stone in Musik magazine described the record as " a killer Detroit house/techno fusion that would shine in any set from Kenny Dixon Jr. to Derrick May and beyond." Their recent live performances alongside Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Kenny Dixon Jr have demonstrated that AudioMatriX are one of the strongest live electronic music acts around at the moment, and they plan to build on the success of their label with performances in the US and Europe in 2003.

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