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The style clash monster is back! "All Good Things Must Come To A Beginning" is the first of six themed EPs every two weeks that lead towards the release of the second Urban Delights album in October. The first EP features four songs of the upcoming album: retrofuturistics partyrockin beats and indietronica for the mashup generation. catchy 21st century songs with a diy feel that celebrate the clash of funky electronic grooves and indie guitars. Yes, with this EP good things will beginn - with spectacular 12 weeks of "BOGOF". each release of an EP "for sale" is followed by some surprise "for free" one week later. 12 visual artist will be featured on the way with their interpretation of the songs. "Maybe Baby" features the only guest appearance on the album: soulful berlin singer Ms Marx already teamed up with boysnoise founder kid alex as well as with Denyo and his German hiphop band Beginner. Here she sounds like a forgotten soul singer from the 60s, wanting to be loved, being cut up, rearranged and transformed by beat mangler Harry K. and guitar maniac Malte Hagemeister. Hypnotic, sexy, upbeat - like a futuristic version of mark ronson. "Break It All Down" shouts it out like it could be anthem for a generation in changing times: We gotta tear it all apart, we gotta make a new start! so you can create something new. phoenix from the ashes. An infectious tom-tom-groove, a prominent live bass, some spare cutting tele-guitar-riffs and a hooky synth line make it sound like what the new LCD Soundsystem could sound like. "Motor City" sounds like a UK indie rock band got hijacked by some mad electro-clash-soundsystem. The lyrics strongly demand: "I get up and i know I´m not to pretty, head up cause this is motor city!" underdogs of the world unite - to this playful breakbeat styleclash in the mindset of non conformists like gorillaz or outkast. Dirty synth lines, surprising breaks, shout vocals that maybe remind of the Chili Peppers and yet another uptempo party slammer that makes you wanna move. "Electroshock" could be a theme song for the musical transformers Urban Delights are: "we like it when things get hot, we like things that electroshock!". More electronic than the other songs this one shows their love for vintage sampledelica as well as for deep down & dirty dubstep synth madness. Expect the unexpexted seems to be the bottom line of this electroclash-song, and Harry K. nods: "we love it when the worlds collide. It´s gotta be fun and exciting, so we always try something new." More song driven than nu disco heroes like justice & boysnoise, but more experimental, dirty and surprising than alternative pop bands like Hot Chip or Santigold, Urban Delights work on their own niche in the exploding electro-rock-dance-crossover-party world of today. Band history: For the last three years Urban Delights have smuggled infectious riffs and beats into the fabric of global music with their debut album “Revolution No. 1”. From Europe to Australia Urban Delights have contributed to sought-after film soundtracks, snowboarding and extreme sports DVDs, advertising campaigns and of course dance floors of every independent persuasion. "This is beats for the rockers and rock for the clubbers - someone has to make drunken party records for the dance floor!" - an Australian critic wrote. On stage the British/German duo mutates into an incendiary cocktail of DJ-sound-system and indie-guitar rock. "We want to continue to explore the mixture of party-beats and live instruments. In future we’ll probably try to break up the traditional concert concept even further, we want to experiment with a mixture of live music and club culture…" says Hamburg based Malte Hagemeister. As a band they’ve been on tour with Boysnoize founder Kid Alex, Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) sound-system. They’ve DJ’ed with Malente and Azzido da bass and they weren’t too shy or too cool to support Germany's pop superstar - number one Herbert Grönemeyer in two sold out stadium gigs in Hamburg. "Our music has so many cross references, so a lot of people have fun with it. The rockers love to dance, and in electro clubs you always see the hands go up when the guitar sample drops in! With us you get everything - and you get a chance to sing along, too…" says breakbeat fanatic Harry K. Earlier on in his career Harry K was an essential member of drum ‘n’ bass mash-up-masters Apollo 440, now he’s a well respected genre-breaking party DJ – pushing the boundaries with a mix of breaks, beats, hip-hop, ragga, electro & mash-ups. Add to this Hagemeister’s songwriter’s pop sensibilities (credits include German hip-hoppers Fettes Brot, Timo Maas and the Sugababes) and you’ve got a sound that feeds the heart, feet and head simultaneously. Where the rough compliments the smooth. Their new album "Analogue Players In A Digital World" will be released on the new label "Minor But Major" featuring collaborations with several British, German and international artists. "We want to create synergies that go beyond the usual artist-designs-record-cover thing - maybe gigs in galleries or exhibitions in dark clubs - we will see" Hagemeister reveals. "Street art, visual art - we want to try more than the typical release concept. Urban Delights parties will also be a concept-clash of a special kind!” Retaining the ethos of “Revolution No. 1” their new album will unify opposites as though they were best friends: future electro sounds and retro samples, hip shaking break-beats and sing-along vocals, dirty samples and classical songwriting, old meets new, robot meets tree - the best of club-culture and rock music. They remain true to themselves - and apparently they’re right. When they released "Maybe Baby" as a free mp3 track with a local Brighton magazine it climbed to number 1 in its respective chart – the irony wasn’t lost on Harry K. "It’s funny - we’ve been doing our breakbeat thing for years and now suddenly we are compared with high-flyer Mark Ronson. Maybe the time is right for our style." Harry K is a DJ, singer, bass player, producer & songwriter. He toured with the British band Apollo 440, wrote their hit "My Heart Goes Boom" and remixed many artists like Kool Keith, Asian Dub Foundation, Bloodhound Gang and Herbert Grönemeyer. His has his own releases as a solo artist as well as with his own bands (Maximum Roach, magnetic empire) on Electrolux, Hydrogen Jukebox & Mahogany Chopper/ New State. Malte Hagemeister is a guitarist, singer, producer & songwriter. For many years he played with the German crossover-esperance "be", wrote and produced songs for geman hip hoppers Fettes Brot, Timo Maas, Sugababes and wrote a lot of music for big TV campaigns (AOL, IKEA, Honda, etc). Several own band projects include the Gogogos, iPunx and Hagemeister (solo). links: www.urbandelights.net www.myspace.com/urbandelights www.minorbutmajor.com (launch tba)