Red Snapper

David Ayers, Guitar.     Ali Friend, Bass.      Richard Thair, Drums.
 

Red Snapper is a British group, who works with mostly acoustic instruments,
with composition principals from electronic dance music.
Red Snapper is put together by Richard Thair, who at that moment played drums by The Aloof.
He steals Friend and Ayers form the band from Beth Orton (Chemical Brothers) and Heather Nova.

The idea is a couple of masters from techno and drum and bass, like repeating,
working with loops and the articulation on the groove, played by real instruments.
Other influences are dub, surf, soundtracks, and the adventurous jazz
from Charles Mingus and Roland Kirk.
The group records a couple of EP's, collected on the album Reeled and Skinned.
Hot Flush enjoys a bit of  interest to the crowd 'cuz of a remix
from Andrew Weatherall (Sabres of Paradise).

Guest Sax player Alan Riding (8Up, obO), who, after a while, is being replaced by Ollie Moore.
Prince Blimey, the actually debut is much better compared to the first album, which is kind of empty.
Ayers' guitar is being put through effects heavily, Thair hits more Drum and Bass style at the moment and the compositions are more improved. Red Snapper is the Weather Report for the Post-Techno generation, as the rumours say.
In '96 the band makes a lot of impression on stage, in the clubs and on the north sea jazz festival.
the band is there, only without Moore but with trumpet player Byron Wallen and the out of the Drum and Bass scene famous MC Det. Loopa Scoopa turns out to be a mini album which contains remixes form Prince Blimey, remixed by DJ Food, Mr. Scruff and John McEntire from Tortoise.

1995- Reeled And Skinned -1995
1996- Prince Blimey - 1996
1997- Loopa Scoopa -1997

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1998-Mo