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Last update: 05 Feb 2010 09:43 PM Account: AltBasic Location: New York, NY Signed up: 08/04/05 00:56:18 Members: Ming + FS Genre: Junkyard Influences: Electro/Turntablism/Hip-hop/Jungle AltSounds URL:http://www.altsounds.com/mingandfs Website: http://www.mingandfs.com/

Biography
Return of the Junkyard
junk-yard -Function (noun): sound, a raw mixture of hard-step hip-hop beats, soul and rolling bass lines replete with turntable wizardry.

Are you ready? Ming and FS are back!!! Straight from the gritty streets of Manhattan's "Hell's Kitchen", Ming and FS return to their "Junkyard" roots for their third album, "Subway Series" on San Francisco's Om Records. Setting the record straight, the new album is a progressive hip-hop and drum and bass odyssey. For those unfamiliar in the Junkyard arts, please prepare to be educated. Stepping up to their four decks with guitar and bass in hand (and a bevy of production equipment), Ming & FS whip their music into a mind-blowing frenzy, mixing razor sharp drum patterns with pin-point accurate scratching and chest caving bass. Closer to their famous live sets than any album in the Ming and FS catalogue, Subway Series is here, hope your system can hold up!!!

The attacks of September 11th had a dramatic effect on the new album. "For us the attacks put in perspective how important family and friends are to us. With this clarity, we decided that we needed to capture these feelings through our music. I think everyone in NYC either knew someone or of someone that was directly effected by the attacks" explains Ming. The concept behind Subway Series lies in two teams, both strong and beloved, facing off to create something that is truly New York. Focusing their energy on bringing NYC artists together to produce something they could all feel part of, Ming and FS asked their friends Doctor Israel, DK of Omzone, and Blestenation to help them in creating something that represents the teams of NY: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx etc. Joining forces with a like-minded cast of local MC's and musicians, "We all got together to create something new in an old school way" reflects Ming.

Subway Series' gritty edge has a lot to do with Ming's musical upbringing. Influenced by punk and hardcore sounds at an early age, Ming started playing guitar in punk bands at age 15. In high school, Ming's tastes moved into the progressive breakbeat sounds of Mickey Finn, Prodigy and Meat Beat Manifesto, and led him to discover early forms of Jungle, while attending Miami University for Audio Engineering. At this time, Ming grew addicted to the turntable, and began to DJ sets that would be an early taste of future sets with FS.

Subway Series' beat heavy elements come from FS' strong love and devotion to the art of hip-hop. To this day, hip-hop is the essence of everything he does. DJing in Connecticut in 1983 at the tender age of 10, FS began flipping beats on a home built mixer he made out of an Atari and some components from Radio Shack. His early influences include New York City Breakers (his first record he ever bought), Big Daddy Kane, Juice Crew and Just Ice. Studying jazz piano at Brooklyn Conservatory, FS began to listen to jazz like Herbie Hancock, Winton Kelly, McCoy Turner and started producing hip-hop and R&B for Coolio, Brandy, Channel Live and Carl Thomas.

The legendary story of Ming and FS as a team begins in 1996, when the two collided at a party in Manhattan. Together under the moniker Lead Foot, they put out several breakbeat tracks, and eventually opened their own production studio/label Madhattan Studios in 1997. Introduced to San Francisco's Om Records, and signed to the label in 1998, they garnered more attention from the underground music community producing tracks for the likes of Omzone, Terra Deva and DJ Spooky, as well as tracks for Jungle Sky and Ubiquity Recordings. On the Madhattan Studios label, they also released the rare and highly collected breaks 12" inch series "Bar Mitzvah Breaks" which DJ Craze used to win two DMC championships (1999 and 2000). That record also found its way into the hands of Mix Master Mike and Z Trip, both of which incorporated it into their sets.

Their debut full-length album Hell's Kitchen, released on Om Records in August of 1999, achieved huge critical acclaim. Gaining features in URB (Next 100), Mixer, BPM Culture, XLR8R and Spin, Ming and FS' reputation as premier up and coming producers enticed other established artists to seek the duo for remix work and has led to collaboration and remixes with Puff Daddy, Aphrodite, Craig David, Glenn Lewis, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Suzanne Vega.

Beyond their production prowess, the Ming and FS live show has earned them their biggest following. Their four turntable spectacular is the performance that DJ's from around the world come to see. DMA Magazine's Willy Vega explains "If I started practicing today, I'd still die of old age before I could do that!!!" Performing before masses from 1,000 to 40,000, Ming and FS have shared the stage with the likes of Sting, Moby, Run DMC, Armand Van Heldon, Mark Farina, Paul Oakenfold, The Roots, Mix Master Mike and Kruder and Dorfmeister. Remixing tracks live, creating original works of music using turntables and accapellas strictly, has created such "live only" classics as Black Sabbath, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliot, Ludacris and Michael Jackson remixes heard only at Ming and FS shows. Fans know that when Ming and FS come to town, it's going to go off, and the party will leave you hooked on the junkyard sound forever!

In the fall of 2001, the world got a taste of the sophomore effort, The Human Condition, a gritty experimentation into the sides of house and breaks. Gaining strong support from lifestyle and music magazines such as Billboard, Paper, VIBE and URB, the Human Condition established Ming and FS as a national touring act. New York's Agency Group head Peter Schwartz signed the duo for all national booking, placing them with other artists in his repertoire including George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, The X-ecutioners and Creed.

Returning to the studio to record their strongest musical achievement to date, Ming and FS come home to the hip-hop staple and heartbeat that is Hell's Kitchen NYC! Closer to their world-renowned live show than anything they have ever recorded, this new album stands as a hard progressive hip-hop and drum and bass banger. Stay tuned for The Subway Series Tour beginning in September, featuring the four turntable masters incorporating live instrumentation and guest performances and loads of special remixes only available LIVE! Comments (0)

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