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Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend (double bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar). The three core members are also joined by various guest musicians and vocalists on different records.

Stylistically, Red Snapper’s music contains elements of jazz, funk, jungle, trip-hop, hip-hop and breakbeat, as well as references to early psychedelic and progressive rock.

The band released three EPs before signing to Warp Records for their debut LP Prince Blimey (1996). The band were a somewhat unusual feature of Warp Records’ 1990s roster: in contrast to the studio-oriented idm the label primarily dealt in, the band had a very live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip hop to drum and bass.

For their follow-up Making Bones they were joined by jungle MC Det and singer Alison David. The latter was replaced by Karim Kendra by their third album, Our Aim is to Satisfy Red Snapper (2000).

In early 2002, Red Snapper announced its dissolution, but the band reunited the following year.

In 2002 was released It’s All Good compilation, that included previously unreleased track “Ultraviolet”. The next year (2003) was released remix-album Redone, which included 2 tracks remixed by former members of Red Snapper (Rich Thair and Ali Friend, credited as The Creation).

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ofgriding wrote:
Thursday morning

Wow, this vid is amazing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE

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RedZnapper wrote:
last week

http://www.redsnapperofficial.com/download/ has been updated. Go fetch your tracks:)

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ron1999 wrote:
18 days ago

Nice

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maxxbachman wrote:
21 days ago

IDK why, but Red Snapper has really great opening and closing tracks. Everything in between just sucks.

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anotherexlibris wrote:
last month

see u in belgrade :)

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kellanos wrote:
last month

thanks cambri!

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extra_sense wrote:
last month

love them! they changed my musical perception heavily... check this: http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Extra+Sense/Elsewhere

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-40- wrote:
last month

Чудесные!

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bjunt4prez wrote:
September 2009

Cool stuff!

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burntheweb wrote:
September 2009

I saw them at the Great Wide Open on Vlieland... it was a perfect act to close a great festival! I will dig in their disco and hop eto catch them again live soon!

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lykojo wrote:
September 2009

just added some new photos, vote if u like

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DDRmaster117 wrote:
September 2009

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=201105901&blogId=510795321 New album in 2010 yaaaay :D

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magu2k wrote:
September 2009

Wow not much love for *Image of you* Great track!

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it-is-aai wrote:
September 2009

They were great on Into The Great Wide Open, Vlieland, The Netherlands!

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veeXopek wrote:
July 2009

Genious, and only 1 millions of listens :(

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Pat-Flip wrote:
July 2009

the paranoid & crusoe takes a trip & thomas the fib & fatboy's dust & bussing with a mouse with only ear.

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riigo wrote:
July 2009

the paranoid & crusoe takes a trip & thomas the fib & fatboy's dust & bussing

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isssssa wrote:
June 2009

the paranoid & crusoe takes a trip & thomas the fib ;)

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isssssa wrote:
June 2009

*the paranoid*

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riigo wrote:
June 2009

red snapper

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RED SNAPPER NEW ALBUM

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To all our Red Snapper fans, we are currently in the studio writing our new album due for release in 2010. Exclusive / free downloads from the new album will be available to everyone on our mailing l. …

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