Cool Hipnoise
Cool Hipnoise is a Portuguese band that mixes different styles such as reggae, soul, funk, afrobeat and hip- hop.
Career
The band was formed in 1994 by Tiago Santos ( Git ), João Gomes (keyboards), Paulo Muiños ( Sax ), Nuno Reis (trumpet ), Francisco Rebelo (bass) and Melo D ( vocals) founded.
For the first time make Tiago Santos ( guitar) and Francisco Rebelo ( bass) in February 1994 with jazz courses in the Hot Club de Portugal in Lisbon music. Together with three other students, João Gomes (keyboards), Paulo Muiños ( Sax ), Nuno Reis (trumpet ), they share their musical preferences and their curiosity about other styles of music and start the band. After months of interaction and jam sessions with various fellow rappers take Melo D. on the band as a singer. There he produced his first own songs. At the time, a thriving hip- hop scene in the Greater Lisbon area began to develop, and Cool Hipnoise feel it in the broader sense connected and integrate similar influences. They are based on jazz and hip -hop alike and so develop their own sound patterns. Were you beginning still a hip-hop -influenced acid jazz group, came gradually more style influences also, of soul, funk and African and Brazilian music styles. Especially after their focus on more dub elements, they developed a sound that brought you more attention and international recognition. Melo D left the band in 2000 and embarked on a solo career.
The band is aligned quite strong internationally since its inception. Already their debut album from 1995, the Briton Luke Williamson (Big Chees All Stars ) produced the following of German Ralf Droesemeyer ( Agogo Records) and Briton Nick Manasseh. In addition to many international DJs they have also been taken with the Last Poets. They completed Spain tours and found sustained attention in France. They have also recorded some videos in Angola and is involved in a successful, internationally acclaimed campaign against prejudice against the mentally retarded.
In Germany recordings have been released by them on the Select Cuts label in the former EFA sales.
In recent years, they are a little less active, but control repeatedly contributions to projects such as the José Afonso tribute sampler " Reintervenção " of 2011.
Santos, Rebelo and Gomes lead next with Spaceboys another band project, which is dedicated to more electronic varieties of their music. Rebelo and Gomes are also musicians in the Soul / trip-hop band Orelha Negra.