Artist: Mattafix
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Signs Of A Struggle
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Though Mattafix's Marlon Roudette and Preetesh Hirji come from different backgrounds (Roudette grew up on the island of St. Vincent, where he studied the steel drums, spell Hirji was born to Indian parents in London and was spell-bound by the reckoner), as a band they play urban, poppy music that fits in perfectly on European radio receiver. After merging each other ane day in a transcription studio apartment, the two became friends and decided to take off a ring. Calling themselves Mattafix, a derivative instrument of the West Indian construction "matter fixed," the chemical group released the unmarried "Big City Life" in the summer of 2005, and the song, a mix of island beat and unobjectionable production, was shortly existence played crossways Continental airwaves. Their debut uncut, Signs of a Struggle, came out a few months later, and after a year or so of touring Mattafix began writing and recording their next LP, Rhythm & Hymns. Though the album came out in November of 2007, the duo released the charity individual "Living Darfur" in collaboration with the groups Save Darfur and Crisis Action, in hopes of upbringing sentience about the ongoing conflict there.
Louis Chen and Ya Dong
