Ugly Edits Vol. 10
Label: Ugly Edits
Catalog#: UGET10
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, White Label, Unofficial Release
Country: US
Released: 12 May 2005
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Disco
Theo Parrish is a techno/house musician based in Detroit, Michigan. He was born in Washington, DC. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois listening to jazz musicians like Miles Davis, Nina Simone, and George Gershwin. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of the Arts and went to study at the Kansas City Art Institute. While at KCAI, he concentrated on sound sculptures, creating sonic pieces by combining live instruments, human voices, and looped recordings. He received his BFA in 1994 and moved to Michigan to focus on musical projects.
He has recorded music under his own name as well as with Rick Wilhite, Marcellus Malik Pittman and Kenneth Dixon Jr as 3 Chairs. He also puts out releases on his record label, Sound Signature. Another aspect of Theo Parrish's productions are his re-edits, often of old disco, funk or soul records. He is almost as renowned for his expansive and genre-hopping live DJ sets as his productions, and plays a monthly residency at the London nightclub Plastic People.
Brainstorm was an American funk and R&B band, based in Detroit, Michigan in the late 1970s. Their debut album, Stormin' , was their best selling album, and was released in 1977 on Tabu Records. It contained the disco hit single "Lovin' Is Really My Game". The album also contained the radio hit "This Must Be Heaven", which is considered a soul classic.
The members of the band (on the Stormin' album) were Belita Woods, Chuck Overton, Lamont Johnson, Renell Gonsalves, Treaty Womack, Bob Ross (a.k.a. Professor RJ Ross), Jerry Kent, Jeryl Bright, and Larry Sims. Future Wham!/George Michael bassist, Deon Estus, was also a member of the band for a time.
Members of Brainstorm continued their musical careers with other bands. Woods later went on to perform as part of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective in touring sets around the world. Sims became the trumpeter for the Sounds of Blackness, which won two Grammy Awards during the 1990s. Bright went on to play trombone with the funk band Cameo for over twenty five years, and later released an album with other former Cameo members Aaron Mills, and Thomas TC Campbell, known as MCB (which was also the title of their album).
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