Breakbeats
Sneaker & The Dryer was formed in 2005 by Dj Btz and DJ Red Echo. With a combined 16 years of experience behind the decks, and a shared love of breaks, their sets destroyed dance floors wherever they went. Constantly playing out wherever they could, from house parties to after parties and by relentlessly promoting themselves on the internet and by giving away hundreds of CDs, t-shirts, and other clothing with their brand, the duo rapidly made a name for themselves in and outside of New England. Compiling the busiest schedule in breaks in the New England scene, their fan base and credentials quickly grew. Their broad track selection, high energy style, and flawless mixing were hard to match.
Along the way Sneaker & The Dryer acquired two more members to the S&D crew in A. Balls, a breaks producer and Dl a well known breaks DJ in New England with a serious knack for scratching. Playing alongside many well known DJs in and out of breaks, headlining all over including Canada, NYC, Las Vegas and more plus doing a weekly two hour radio show on the world’s biggest breaks station, Nu Skool Breaks Radio(NSB Radio) the S&D name quickly spread as a force to be reckoned with here and abroad. In mid 2007 two of the members, Red Echo and A. Balls decided to make a move down south and headed for North Carolina. Carrying on the S&D name, the two now work under the Rigorous Intuition moniker. The two remaining members of Sneaker & The Dryer, DJ Btz and Dl, continued to carry on the S&D name, lighting floors afire with their super high energy sets, nasty scratching and extensive track selection including their own works.
In late 2008 Btz and Dl decided that after a good run under the S&D name, it was time to go their separate ways. At about the same time, Btz started working with another up and coming DJ from the New England scene, TJFX. The chemistry between them behind the decks was immediate and electric. The obvious next step was to join forces as Sneaker & The Dryer Ver. 3.0 With break beat dexterity, an endless track vault, and a unique setup, the two put on a 4 table, 2 mixer set like you’ve never seen before that always packs the floor!! Keep your eyes and ears open for Sneaker & The Dryer as they work their way to a city near you, dropping the hottest, funkiest, break beat bombs.
Up and Coming
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A cold Coors in front of him a pen,paper,guitar and Digital recorder. Sitting back with a few good friends writing the next big song! Knowing his path has just begun and will be long and tiresome, yet he smiles because at 24 he has already accomplished so much. Work ethic and heart is something that can never be taken away from or that Wisconsin raised Todd James will ever fall short on.
Born in July to a mother and father he never met, has never affected Todd James poorly. He was born in Rhinelander WI known in the midwest for the Hodag country music festival. Todd was adopted soon after, and moved to a small town just outside of Wausau in Wisconsins beautiful northwoods. His “real” parents inspired him to always chase his dreams and never take no for an answer. Todd grew up bartending, working at the local ski hill, and most of the time for his Fathers sign company. Music was always something that Todd loved, but it wasn’t until his father passed away that he got the inspiration to write music and pursue his dreams further. Todd James starting Singing for a band in WI with a couple of close friends. They played out from time to time and created a few originals. With every song they wrote getting better, Todd decided it was time to try his skills on the big stage.
Nashville,TN became the bigger stage and Todd has since grown as a person and a musician taking every moment in and learning from the big city life. The road has thrown Todd many curves in life but his strong northern values and never give up attitude will bring him to be well known sooner than later in the Nashville Music scene. Check out Todd James here
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Dr. Hugh Everett III, Ph.D., was what Scientific American magazine calls “one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.” A quantum physicist who authored The Many Worlds Theory, Everett inspired countless science fiction books, movies and Star Trek episodes with the concept of parallel universes. As a young teenager he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein, debating whether it was something random or unifying that held the universe together.
Until the age of eight, Hugh Everett lived in Washington, DC with his mother, Katharine Kennedy, a troubled poet and author, and his father, Col. Hugh Everett, Jr., US Army. As an adult, Dr. Everett settled in nearby Virginia, with his wife Nancy. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, and a son, Mark Oliver.
Mark Oliver Everett showed no talent for physics, or even mathematics. He was much more interested in the records his sister was playing in the house.
Everyday after school one year, Elizabeth played Neil Young’s AFTER THE GOLD RUSH album over and over. Mark listened. He never would have dreamt that one day he would record an album (DAISIES OF THE GALAXY) playing the same upright piano that Neil Young played on AFTER THE GOLD RUSH.
At the age of six, Mark found himself at the next door neighbor’s garage sale where he saw the toy drum set that would change his life. He begged his parents for the $15 it cost to buy the set, and they relented. Most children that get a drum set play it for a week and then leave it in the closet until their parents have a garage sale. Unfortunately for the Everett family, Mark played those drums everyday for the next 10 years.
As a young teenager, after a period of trouble with the law, being arrested and thrown out of school, Mark started to pay attention to the acoustic guitar gathering dust in his sister’s closet. He had already been making up little songs on the family’s upright piano for years.
Mark had several friends that were coincidentally named Mark. To avoid confusion, they would refer to each other by their initials. Throughout his teens Mark Everett was “M.E.” Gradually it was shortened to the even easier “E”.
By the time he was 20, E was obsessed with writing songs and recording them on his secondhand 4 track cassette recorder. He wrote and recorded virtually every day of the next seven years.
At the age of 24, feeling stifled by the lack of inspiration and creative community in his Virginia neighborhood, E packed up everything he owned into a car and drove 3,000 miles across the country to Los Angeles, where he knew not one person.
He eventually moved into a tiny apartment above a garage in Atwater Village, on the East side of Los Angeles, and resumed his antisocial routine of waking up, writing and recording 4 track cassettes, going to one of many shitty jobs that he hated, coming home, writing and recording more, and going to sleep.
As time went on, from the time he started his obsessive song writing, the quality of the songs and production of his tapes slowly improved. Eventually someone heard some of his songs and asked him to record for a record label. The rest is well…history!!! Check out their site here
