Birdy Nam Nam Birdy Nam Nam

Birdy Nam Nam is one of the biggest names in French Electro / Hip Hop at the moment. The four turntablists, Crazy B, DJ Pone, DJ Need and Little Mike, had been rocking crowds for nigh on 10 years - competing against Q-Bert, A-trak and co throughout the 2000’s in the World DMC’s and winning the 2002 championship as a crew – when they all got together in 2002. They called themselves Birdy Nam Nam (taken from a line in the Peter’s Sellers’ film The Party) and decided to go beyond technique and focused on making their own music by pushing the envelope of scratching, turntablism and hip hop as a whole. Their unique style, which takes its inspiration from everything from the most acid-drenched electro to the smoothest hip hop, has helped the four musicians prove that, whatever people might say, the art of the turntables can and does work live. Like Kid Koala and Q-Bert before, the French quartet approaches 1210’s as an instrument in itself. Each DJ takes an element, whether it be a bass sine wave, a synth wobble, a dusty funk beat or weird percussion line, and weaves their part with the other three DJ’s to create something new, strange and head noddingly compelling. To see it live is jaw dropping and gets any party rocking. After a first album in 2005 and a live CD/DVD in 2006 along with two international tours that led them from Fuji Rock in Japan, Dour Festival in Belgium and Stereoleto in Russia to Central Park Summer Stage in New York, Roskilde Festival and Barcelona’s Sonar, they will come back in 2008 with a new studio album pushing back further the frontiers between DJ skills and music composition. It was introduced this fall by an EP more electro and dancefloor than ever!