DIRT & SOUL

TRACKLISTING: 1. Deep In My Heart feat. Lorna King 2. Right Back feat. Sian Evans (Album Mix) 3. Wanna Feel love feat. Yolanda (Album Mix) 4. Remedy feat. Romaine Smith 5. Fear feat. Celestine 6. Glastonbury 7. You & I feat Lorna King 8. Good Fight feat. Laurent John (Album Mix) 9. Is It You feat. Laurent John 10. Freaks feat. Cappo D & Sharlene Hector (Album Mix) 11. Wrong feat. Harleighblu & Mark Crown 12. Glastonburied 13. Dirt & Soul feat. Laurent John & Celestine PRIVATE ALBUM STREAM: https://soundcloud.com/circusrecords/sets/dr-meaker-dirt-soul-1/s-yH0fg OVERVIEW: One of the most exciting live dance music acts in the UK, Bristol dons Dr Meaker are set to drop their killer new album ˜Dirt & Soul™ through Circus Records on July 1st 2016. This effervescent 8 piece band combine live instruments with samples, studio electronics and big voices to create a seamless fusion of heavy underground D&B, hook laden-soul and classic songwriting that™s also dancefloor dynamite. ˜Dirt & Soul™ follows a string of four massively successful singles; ˜Fighter™, ˜Right Back™, ˜Good Fight™, and ˜Freaks™, the latter three of which were all playlisted on BBC Radio and are featured on the album. These bonafide radio, club and festival smashes are joined by other new anthems in waiting, like the epically-huge drama of ˜Deep In My Heart™ and the feelgood 70s soul sample vibes of ˜Wanna Feel Love™. But despite main man Clive Meaker™s deft hand at delivering such crowd-pleasing bangers, a key component in ˜Dirt & Soul™ is a demonstration of a stylistic diversity and new, previously unexplored sounds. ˜Remedy™™s sub bass and neck snapping breaks propel a darker, more introspective style of breakbeat science, whilst ˜Glastonbury™ is a tribute to their favourite festival and captures perfectly its magic atmosphere of golden sunsets and stone circle sunrises. ˜You & I™ is rich, slow motion deep vocal house and the plaintive, smoky 2 step of ˜Is It You™ recalls classic Bristolia for a new generation. Album title track ˜Dirt & Soul™ demonstrates yet more diverse soundclashes in the form of a gospel-style torch song underpinned by a nasty p funk b-line. Dr Meaker are Clive Meaker (producer, synths), Laurent John (vocals), Tenisha Edwards (vocals), Ben Wood (sax), Sam Brown (sax), Simon Alexander (trumpet), Tom Wheeler (drums) and Mike Prince (bass guitar). The band are joined on the album by a bevy of awesome vocalists and musicians: Yolanda Quartey (Duke Dumont, Chase & Status, Route 94), Sian Evans (DJ Fresh, Kosheen), Sharlene Hector (Basement Jaxx. Blonde), Mark Crown (Rudimental), Romaine Smith, Lorna King, Celestine and Laurent John all feature. PRESS/ONLINE: ONLINE PRESS [CONFIRMED]: For ˜Right Back™ Clash feature - http://www.clashmusic.com/news/premiere-dr-meaker-right-back-ft-sian-evans-instr umental-mix Conversations About Her feature - http://conversationsabouther.net/dr-meaker-sian-evans-right-back-new-music/ For ˜Freaks™ YourEDM premiere - http://www.youredm.com/2015/10/20/your-edm-premiere-dr-meaker-good-fight-feat-la urent-john-trollphace-remix-circus-records/ Thump (Vice) feature - https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/db-don-dr-meaker-gets-freaky-with-cappo-d-a nd-sharlene-hector For ˜Good Fight™ Drum & Bass Arena Interview - https://breakbeat.co.uk/interviews/dr-meakers-good-fight/ Clash premiere - http://www.clashmusic.com/news/premiere-dr-meaker-good-fight-ft-laurent-john For ˜Dirt & Soul™ ˜Remedy™ music video to be premiered by Magnetic - http://www.magneticmag.com/ Key singles leading up to LP have had great success across radio, TV and sales with ˜Right Back™, Freaks™ and ˜Good Fight™ growing band fan base exponentially. Their first album ˜A Lesson for the Speaker™ was a strong underground hit on physical and digital. For ˜Right Back™ Dr Meaker look set to be the next big DnB act to explode in the UK. - The Sun Dr Meaker have broken the mould with their unique fusion of sounds earning |No them fans across the globe." - Don't Panic Dr Meaker are what big festivals and arenas are made for. - Conversations About Her For ˜Freaks™ Dr Meaker's latest single is indicative of British popular music's state at |No the moment, and what those of us in North America are starting to see trickle in to our world." - Earmilk If there™s one thing this tune can do, it™s get the dancefloor moving. - Your EDM Freaks is a rollocking bit of dancefloor dynamite set to soundtrack a tonne |No of sick pool parties this summer "  Thump (Vice) For ˜Good Fight™ There™s a connection which is more than magic. - Drum & Bass Arena New cut 'Good Fight' retains the drum 'n' bass leanings of their early |No material but has a soulful, gospel flair."  Clash DJ support across all singles from Andy C, Friction, Jaguar Skills, B. Traits, Pendulum, Sub Focus, Dieselboy, Futurebound, Bryan G, Shimon, Crissy Criss, Benny Page, Flux Pavilion, John B, Simon Bassline Smith, Dirtyphonics and more. WEBSITE: http://www.drmeaker.co.uk/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/drmeaker/ - 9k followers TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DrMeaker - 4k followers SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Tz73u31G8f4nUjtPOketU - 15k monthly listeners YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/DrMeakerVEVO - 1.8k followers INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/drmeaker/ - 1k followers