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iannis loumakis
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Born in Pireus, Greece, Iannis with his family migrated, at an early age, to the U.S.A. (Atlanta, Georgia), where he was exposed to southern fried funk (James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Ike & Tina Turner etc.) and the local Blues artists, both white and black, which today continue to inspire and influence him. He still considers himself lucky that, at the age of 14, he was given his first guitar lessons by his neighbor and family friend Isaac Jones, a “sweet elderly black man that could only play guitar with a medicine bottle on his finger,” which is called slide guitar.
After moving back to Europe, he started playing guitar and singing in various Blues, Rock, Funk bands, but at the same time listening and studying other types of music (Greek, Balkan, jazz, reggae and dub). At the same time he started working as a DJ after many years of doing it for fun, spinning rare grooves from Rock, Funk, Dub & Reggae artists. By the late 80’s he had already bought himself a sampler, synthesizer and sequencer in order to emulate the sounds that were coming out of New York, Chicago and Detroit, which were Electro HipHop, House and Techno respectively, and to marry that with what he already knew.
“Easier said than done!” as he himself says. “If it wasn’t for me moving to Vienna, Austria because of a woman I fell in love with, and there hearing the sounds of Kruder & Dorfmeister, I might have never gotten it right.”
After moving back to Europe, he started playing guitar and singing in various Blues, Rock, Funk bands, but at the same time listening and studying other types of music (Greek, Balkan, jazz, reggae and dub). At the same time he started working as a DJ after many years of doing it for fun, spinning rare grooves from Rock, Funk, Dub & Reggae artists. By the late 80’s he had already bought himself a sampler, synthesizer and sequencer in order to emulate the sounds that were coming out of New York, Chicago and Detroit, which were Electro HipHop, House and Techno respectively, and to marry that with what he already knew.
“Easier said than done!” as he himself says. “If it wasn’t for me moving to Vienna, Austria because of a woman I fell in love with, and there hearing the sounds of Kruder & Dorfmeister, I might have never gotten it right.”
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StarSoul wrote:
sounds like summer! great music.
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claudiodezz wrote:
Excellent taste man! Muito legal...
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fatherlesschild wrote:
Great!
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qubit54 wrote:
thank's for the shout ;) great slid on maryjane I like....
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baskyl wrote:
If I liked it? It's fricking awesome! Keep up your good work! Baskyl :)
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Sapeuryogiste wrote:
Yep, pretty good sound!
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l1somerider wrote:
Great sound, I´ll come back again
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guellepumpe wrote:
Mary Jane turns, Gylepomp
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LordHali wrote:
Hidden Artists
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Handballfan wrote:
Hi Iannis, it is not the music that i hear normaly, but i like yours!
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TheBullfrog wrote:
I like your sound!!! Jacky Bullfrog
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Handballfan wrote:
Hi Iannis, maybe you like the music of my friend http://www.lastfm.de/user/TheBullfrog. Greetings from Germany
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in_cognitus wrote:
I love it!) Welcome to Чёрный квадрат!
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UCs wrote:
hey iannis, just had a listen to MaryJane edit, this is a great mix, really nice space-out sound man :-) nice work on the synths too, nice and tweaky. Cheers!
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gofung wrote:
gReat
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SoLLoNaS wrote:
η Μυρτω ειν'αυτη στην "eviotisa"?μαλλον οχι...μπορει αρχοντισα η eviotisa αλλα το κομματακι suck. sorry 8~(
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R-n-B wrote:
nice tune, man!
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ettas wrote:
muy bueno!!! gracias!
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cslhclan wrote:
Motown Showdown is genious
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cslhclan wrote:
quality beats, cheers for the free tunes
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Free MP3 MaryJane (edit) | 5:42 |
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Free MP3 Motown Showdown (short) | 5:08 |
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