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Elevate were a short-lived but inventive guitar-based band, formed in London in 1993. They released two albums (Bronzee, 1994 and The Architect, 1996) and several singles on Robin Proper-Sheppard's Flower Shop Records. Musically, they sit somewhere between The Fall and Slint, while always ploughing their own very particular, and very British, furrow. Elevate bring out the grimmer aspects of indie-noise in comparison to the likes of early Sonic Youth and Girls Against Boys. The band split up in 1997. Members were Tim Ward (Lord Ward NYC), Graham Miles, Paul Collyer MBE (of Championship Manager fame) and James Elkington (now of...

ELEVATED RUFFIANS is a fellowship between elevatedSOUL, the three-man production team from Los Angeles, and Magnificent Ruffians, a two emcee + one DJ crew from SoCal's Inland Empire(IE). The crew met four years ago in a recording studio one lazy afternoon in Southern California and immediately hit it off largely due to their passion for grimy, offbeat, dirty, hiss laden souljazz and artistic-futuristic boom-bap genre of hip hop. The Elevated Ruffians line-up consist of emcees Specific(Jerome Mitchell), Master Chief (Eon Rhodius) and DJ Sway Deez (Soweto Rembert) from the Magnificent Ruffians; backed by beatsmiths; ORA-KL (Karl Oracion), Fushuz (Edward Galura)...

Elevate: I Am is a post-hardcore band from Southern California. Their line-up consists of: Joe Brown - Vocals / Lyrics ( A Static Lullaby) John Martinez - Vocals / Guitar (ex A Static Lullaby / Lorene Drive / Lower Definition) Kris Comeaux - Drums (ex Lorene Drive) Matt Faulkner - Bass Brett Glazier - Guitar Their debut album "The Ghost Eclipse Sessions" was produced by Steve Evetts (Everytime I Die, A Static Lullaby, The Dillinger Escape Plan) and was released June 7th via ALF Records, a record label found by Joe Brown. The album title "The Ghost Eclipse Sessions" was...