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Big Hair

Real Name:
Aaron Trinder, Chris Butterworth
Profile:
Big Hair's patent brand of tech-house funk with a twist of wry humour has won them many fans. Chris and Aaron started Big Hair in 95, and started releasing on Kontraband in 97. They swiftly received dancefloor recognition with such Tech House anthems as Dougie At the Ockie, their ‘le grande boofont’ work on Wiggle, their string of remixes including the Manor Maus mix for Terry Francis and Nathan Coles, and collaborations with Ben Chapman (for Visitor, Belgium) and Nathan Coles (for Surreal).

Big Hair's own sound - grounded in good ol' 4/4 beats - is surrounded by a palette of different influences including afro beat, tech-house, chicago house, funk, hip hop and various charity shop oddities. Their recent album 'Imagine Being Chased by a One Man Band', covers the whole spectrum over it's 12 tracks. With a conscious aim to challenge the preconception of a 'dance' album, Big Hair created a parallel world, fuelled with dancefloor dynamite - broken up with psychedelic interludes and sleazy instrumental segways. "Imagine Being Chased By A One Man Band' remains funky and entertaining to the last.

Recently, the duo have signed to u-freqs, a new label with a music policy aimed to freq out both the dance floor and the bedroom listener. Already causing quite a stir, with releases and remixes from the duo’s other, more dancefloor monikers, Le Grande boofont., and with Big Hair collaborations with Dave Coker (Pig Bwoy, Smart Alec) and Timmy S (Surreal), the future of Big Hair noises looks blissfully twisted. The first 3 releases have won many fans already including Terry Francis, Seb Fontaine, Laurent Garnier, Eddie Richards, Kenny Hawkes and Nathan Coles.

Alongside their production duties, live is where Big Hair need to be experienced. Working back to back alongside DJs, with a blend of laptops, FX, decks, sequencers, live MCs and video, the Hair have been regularly rocking The End with their bi-monthly live spots at Subterain, and with the Underground Freqs crew (Tak Records, DIY, Drop music) at a whole host of partys and club dates, including Turnmills, Jax, Nitsa, OTV, and Kozzmozz.
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Discography

Releases:
To The Manor Haus (12")   Kontraband 1997
The Eric Hotel (12")   Kontraband 1998
Dougie At The Ockie (12")   Kontraband 1999
Flobadob (12")   Wiggle 1999
Imagine Being Chased By A One Man Band (2 versions)   Kontraband 2000
Randy Cowboy (7", Single)   Kontraband 2000
Album Sampler 1 (12", Smplr)   Kontraband 2001
Album Sampler 2 (12")   Kontraband 2001
Hindoos & Hairdoos (Single) (2 versions)   Kontraband 2001
Imagine Being Chased By A One Man Band (CD)   Kontraband 2001
Glad To Be A Freq / Fear Of The Haircut (12")   U-Freqs 2003
Imagine Being Chased... EP (12", EP, Ltd)   U-Freqs 2003
Sold Down The River (CD)   U-Freqs 2003
U-Freqs Allstars Vol. Vl (12")   U-Freqs 2004
Remixes:
Sorry Mate, You've Got the Wrong House (12") Sorry Mate, You've Got... Wrong 1999
Dark And Dirty (12") Dark And Dirty (Big Ha... Plastic City 2000
U-Freqs Allstars Vol. I (12") G String Overbeard U-Freqs 2000
Take Me I'm Yours (Maxi) (2 versions) Take Me I'm Yours (Bri... Kontraband 2001
Nite:Life 010 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Doob Moon (Big Hair Mix) NRK Sound Division 2002
Nite:Life 010 - Peace Division (2xLP) Doob Moon (Big Hair Mix) NRK Sound Division 2002
That Beat (12") That Beat (Big Hair Mix) Afro Art 2002
The Afro Art Remixes (12") Guts For Saxophone (Bi... Afro Art 2002
U-Freqs Allstars Vol. III (12") Doob Moon (Big Hair Re... U-Freqs 2002
Wokka Wokka (12") Wokka Wokka (Big Hair'... U-Freqs 2002
Closer To Julie EP (12", EP) Closer To Julie (Big ... Pschent 2003
Mama Sister (12") Mama Sister (Big Hair ... U-Freqs 2003
Teenage Disco (12") Teenage Disco (Big Hai... U-Freqs 2005
Do Not Return (12") Do Not Return (Big Hai... Not On Label  
Pigeons In Your Clothes (12") Butchery Of Pigeons (T... Abnormal Recordings (UK)  
Production:
Midas / Move Away (7")   Balloon Records (2) 2002
I See You (7") I See You Sharp Attack Records 2004
Lick The Frog Pheremones / Touch Me There (12", Ltd, Smplr)   U-Freqs 2004
United Freq Nations Vol. 1 (12")   U-Freqs 2004
Appears On:
I See You (7") I See You Sharp Attack Records 2004
Suck My Udder (12") Housing Things (Big Ha... Flatpack Traxx 2008
Tracks Appear On:
Tech House Phenomena 2 (CD) Manor Mouse Mix, Dougi... Eukahouse 1998
Beat-nik D (CD) Kurdish Full Moon Part... Kontraband 1999
DJ Eric Denz Da Denz Presents Teq-Denz (CD) The Nerger's Brother Quality Denz 1999
U-Freqs Allstars Vol. I (12") Ying Tong U-Freqs 2000
Mix CD 1 (CDr) Hindoos & Hairdos Not On Label 2001
FabricLive. 05 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Hindoo's And Hairdoo's... Fabric (London) 2002
U-Freqs Allstars Vol. III (12") Being And Nothingness U-Freqs 2002
U-Freqs Allstars Vol. V (12") Trumpets For Kebabs U-Freqs 2002
Haunted House Of Horror (12") If I Was A Psycho Kill... U-Freqs 2003
Flokati House (2xCD) Glad To Be Freq Harry Klein Records 2005
VOLT Fesztivál 2005 (CD) Arsehole - Tear You A ... CLS Records 2005
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Review by nobby Mar 15, 2002
this lot are awesome.. you don't get house and comedy mixing often, but these lot do it, with total funkiness and total dark bizarrenes...

league of their own..

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