Bad Bad Girl is the second single from Broadcaster’s acclaimed album ‘Folksploitation’ featuring folk icon Peggy Seeger.

Released via Red Grape Records (Hafdis Huld / Jake Morley) onMonday, the single is the follow up to First Time Ever which featured on Janice Long, Chris Hawkins and Dave Gorman radio shows. The new single has already featured on Gideon Coe’s 6 Music Show and Mark Radcliffe’s Radio 2 show.

Bad Bad Girl was originally transcribed from an Alan Lomax recording of Ozella Jones in Florida State Prison in 1936. The deep south vibe isn’t lost in the track which is underpinned with adeep and soulful menace.

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Seeger’s haunting vocals are set against Broadcaster’s powerful backdrop of swaggering beats and snarling guitars to provide an darkly satisfying and unexpectedly moving twist.  ‘Bad Bad Girl’ was originally transcribed from an Alan Lomax recording of Ozella Jones in Florida State Prison in 1936. Hot Dubstep producer Bluze has created a deep and soulful remix that vibrates with barely supressed menace, while the South London Mix has an urban skank influence.  Doktor Musik’s DJ Mix reveals a starkness that is perfect for club play.

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 ‘Folksploitation’ has been shortlisted for the Genre Spotlight Award at the 2012 AIM Independent Music Awards

Reviews of ‘Bad Bad Girl’:

“With her weathered, steadfast voice filtered and edited, there’s steel in her performance – set to a Weatherall-esque dub rock chill.” Q Magazine

“Thrilling” Daily Mirror

“This is sublime” Spiral Earth

“Seeger’s voice remains the star, its slightly sour timbre set to a dub skank punctuated by bursts of snarling guitar.  Download this.” 4 stars, i newspaper (The Independent)

“Utterly vital, the kind of recasting of a classic that gets Quentin Tarantino’s blood up.  Sounding like Bonnie stood alone without her Clyde, Seeger’s voice drips with menace and sex.  She has a catwoman slink as Broadcaster’s snarling guitars and outlaw-swagger beats stalk after her.  It’s hypnotic.”  Music OMH

Broadcaster’s debut album ‘Primary Transmission’ was a reworking of the ground-breaking ‘Radio Ballads’ series.  It received glowing reviews from across the music industry and picked up plays on Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 Music.

Links: Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/redgrape/sets/bad-bad-girl

Broadcaster: http://www.broadcasteruk.com / Peggy Seeger: http://www.peggyseeger.com

Bad Bad Girl is the second single from Broadcaster’s acclaimed album ‘Folksploitation’ featuring folk icon Peggy Seeger.

Released via Red Grape Records (Hafdis Huld / Jake Morley) on Nov 26th the single is the follow up to First Time Ever which featured on Janice Long, Chris Hawkins and Dave Gorman radio shows. The new single has already featured on Gideon Coe’s 6 Music Show and Mark Radcliffe’s Radio 2 show.

Bad Bad Girl was originally transcribed from an Alan Lomax recording of Ozella Jones in Florida State Prison in 1936. The deep south vibe isn’t lost in the track which is underpinned with adeep and soulful menace.

Seeger’s haunting vocals are set against Broadcaster’s powerful backdrop of swaggering beats and snarling guitars to provide an darkly satisfying and unexpectedly moving twist.  ‘Bad Bad Girl’ was originally transcribed from an Alan Lomax recording of Ozella Jones in Florida State Prison in 1936. Hot Dubstep producer Bluze has created a deep and soulful remix that vibrates with barely supressed menace, while the South London Mix has an urban skank influence.  Doktor Musik’s DJ Mix reveals a starkness that is perfect for club play.

Stop Press:

 ‘Folksploitation’ has been shortlisted for the Genre Spotlight Award at the 2012 AIM Independent Music Awards

Reviews of ‘Bad Bad Girl’:

“With her weathered, steadfast voice filtered and edited, there’s steel in her performance – set to a Weatherall-esque dub rock chill.” Q Magazine

“Thrilling” Daily Mirror

“This is sublime” Spiral Earth

“Seeger’s voice remains the star, its slightly sour timbre set to a dub skank punctuated by bursts of snarling guitar.  Download this.” 4 stars, i newspaper (The Independent)

“Utterly vital, the kind of recasting of a classic that gets Quentin Tarantino’s blood up.  Sounding like Bonnie stood alone without her Clyde, Seeger’s voice drips with menace and sex.  She has a catwoman slink as Broadcaster’s snarling guitars and outlaw-swagger beats stalk after her.  It’s hypnotic.”  Music OMH

Broadcaster’s debut album ‘Primary Transmission’ was a reworking of the ground-breaking ‘Radio Ballads’ series.  It received glowing reviews from across the music industry and picked up plays on Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 Music.

Links: Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/redgrape/sets/bad-bad-girl

Broadcaster: http://www.broadcasteruk.com / Peggy Seeger: http://www.peggyseeger.com

The collaboration of a septuagenarian US folk music legend and a British experimental dance music producer may be highly improbable, but folk grande dame Peggy Seeger and Broadcaster have pulled off a genre-defying album full of hypnotic and hook laden delights.

Lead single ‘First Time Ever’ is out July 2nd via Red Grape Music and has already been played by Radio 2′s Janice Long who described the single as “…excellent and fantastic”. The track is supported by a superbly shot video :

The song was originally written by Ewan MacColl for the 20 year-old Peggy in the early days of their courtship. Broadcaster works his studio magic on Peggy’s heart-rending vocals and lays them against dub, groove and techno beats. With the added poignancy of a woman in later years remembering a lost love, the results are nothing short of stunning.

 The track is taken from new album ‘Folksploitation’ which is both a musical collaboration and a concept.   The unlikely juxtaposition of Seeger’s delicate vocals and Broadcaster’s dub, hip hop, funk and techno beats, turns the improbable into the possible, the traditional into the experimental and a conundrum into artistry.

Broadcaster has never been afraid to break musical boundaries or cross genres, as witnessed by his remarkable 2008 debut ‘Primary Transmission’, in which he took samples from the legendary 1960s BBC Radio Ballads series and gave them a radical dance makeover.  Played on BBC Radios 1,2,3,4 and 6Music the album received universal praise across the media:

“Among the list of 100 things you never expected to happen in this or any other lifetime is Ewan MacColl turning up as a Radio 1 Record of the Week” -fRoots

“deserves to be played ALL over Radio 1” -  Colin Murray, Radio 1 DJ

“ground breaking” – Rock n Reel Magazine

“revolutionary” – Gillian Anderson, Daily Telegraph

“right up our street” – Ministry of Sound Radio

“refreshing and vibrant” – Folking.com

Other tracks on the album include traditional songs from early last century that tackle the still contemporary topics of inner city violence and drugs.  Still others are just great danceable tracks that make one smile.  All are given the Broadcaster treatment that takes them into a different realm.

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It’s not every day you receive a single that teams a modern day dance producer, Broadcaster with a living American folk icon, Peggy Seeger and yet First Time Ever does just that and is actually the first taster of a forthcoming album, Folksploitation, between the two artists. And if the collaboration wasn’t intriguing enough the original track, First Time Ever was originally written by Ewan MacColl for the twenty something year old Peggy in the early days of their courtship.

Broadcaster actually has something of a history for mixing, matching and splicing styles as previously the producer took legendary 1960s BBC Radio Ballads and gave them a radical makeover on his critically acclaimed, Primary Transmission album.

First Time Ever could well repeat the success of Broadcaster’s previous release, the single is a stunning mixture of groove-laden laid-back dub, dance friendly beats and Peggy’s stunning heart tugging vocal, creating a completely fresh take on folktronica. The single is quite simply sensational, giving a traditional folk classic a wonderful contemporary feel straddling both music genre and time lines.

If the groundbreaking single is anything to go on, the forthcoming full length release could become something of a cult classic appealing to both dance and traditional roots fans alike.

Rhythm & Booze Rating 9

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