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Neil and Tim have has a busy year and a half since the release fo their debut album The Limehouse Link. From Ilford to Florida they've been out d.j ing and promoting their music. They joined the Miami Dance Conference in March 99 and d.j.ed with Gus Gus and Wamdue Project at the Liquid Room, and with Roy Davis Jr and Steve Silk Hurley in a penthouse suite at the Fontainebleu hotel! They then jetted to Austin Texas for SXSW where they were nearly killed by a mad taxi driver whilst trying to find a cable t.v. station, hence the tile of the new album Death at Wild Onion Drive!Tim has been djing throughout the u.k. so keep an eye out for him in a backroom in your town.
Musically the boys have been developing their production skills and are now ready to release their new album this summer. It will feature the cracking lazy summer anthem Easy Living, which peatured a special vocal collaboration with their jazz hero Jon Lucien. The track, and the remixes by Ashley Beedle and Aim went down a storm, getting 5 out of 5 from the likes of Terry Farley and Dr Bob Jones. The boys sound has developed into a soundscape of lush stringsand crunchy electro beats from everywhere for the backrooms to your bedrooms.
BIOGRAPHY:
Tim Punter and Neil Dunford aka Mucho Macho, have been attempting to smuggle their party-style breakbeat funk formula through the Limehouse Link to London since their first release on the Monk on Fire label and it seems, at last, its getting through.
"She Devils", "a bad-tempered disco-bitch with knuckle dusters" (NME), was adopted by Pete Tong and Dave Pearce as the theme tune to their Radio One shows. NME described it as "impolite and irresistible", while Mixmag Update called it "a monster". Second release "Eric B Is On The Cat" saw Mucho Macho digging into their "back of the stack" hip hop collection and pulling out a frenzied, bass-station tear-up.
Follow ups "Rockley Sands" and "Surrender", (released later with remixes from Fused and Bruised's Sgt Rock) celebrate the hedonistic days of the 80's weekender, the blossoming of a scene that fused jazz with early acid house with rare groove with soul, and in particular one weekend in Dorset in 1987 spent with the Special Branch DJs and the then fresh faced Pete Tong and Nicky Holloway.
NME made Mucho Macho's next single "Lightning" Single of the Week. They declared it "a degree course in easy-going cool fand evidence that we'll soon be scratching our heads in pursuit of a new dance tag". Muzik were equally impressed that it was "thankfully free of the tedious locker-room sweat and beer-breath superlarge macho which seems to characterise much of the scene's output ...:
With the irreverent ÔRap is Really Changing' in August Ô98, Mucho Macho once again turn genre restrictions and preconceptions arse-about-tit and injected a mucho-needed shot of irreverent humour with this party-flavoured chunk of old-skool sampling. The track first appeared as a split single with Cornershop and was immediately charted by Norman Cook in Update.
Mucho Macho mayhem continued apace at the end of Ô98, with another slice of non-beery breakbeatery in the form of "The Airport Freeze", which was quickly followed by their much lauded debut album "The Limehouse Link". To get an idea of where Mucho Macho are coming from check out the many and varied credits given on the sleevenotes. "The Limehouse Link" cites George Clinton and Jon Carter, Trouble Funk and John Barry, Mantronix and Marshall Jefferson, Kraftwerk and Tito Puente in its thanx-n-influences. Bit of a mixture, but a very good one. Much like their own music. Tim and Neil have been clubbing and DJing since the mid 80's and cannot help but bare their influences proudly. Consequently their debut album "The Limehouse Link" was a testament to "a few of their favourite things", from old-skool party breakbeat, Chicago house, weekender funk grooves, and full on techno. NME declared it "an excuse to stay in and lollop unabashedly round your living room, wishing all dance music was as much fun as this..." Ultimately it is a party-flavoured, been-there-done-that kind of album, (ie - the kind you'd actually dance to).
In contradiction to their name Mucho Macho do not dress up as Red Indians and construction workers. The name comes from The Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video (where as fake 70's cops they leap around shouting "Mucho Macho"). Great fans of the Beasties, they were little short of overwhelmed when the band invited them to DJ at the launch party for the opening of the Grand Royal label in London.
Tim continues to d.j. at club nights like Sonic Mook and The Gallery, and d.j.ed at Ministry of Sound on New Year's Eve, by invitation of Annie Nightingale. The boys were invited to d.j. at the Miami Dance conference, and ended up playing alongside Steve "Silk" Hurley and Roy Davis Jr at the Warners Fontainebleu penthouse suite, and alongside Wamdue Project and Gus Gus at a club event. They then flew to Austin Texas for South by South West, at which a close encounter with a mad rednick taxi driver gave them the inspiration for the title of the new collection of tracks that was the summer 2000 album - "Death at Wild Onion Drive".
