Browse by Artist: QUIO

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Gazon Gasolina/So Dazed
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	AGF 001EP

"AGF announces Quio...AGF is a content producer and believer. Living in Berlin, Quio is an MC and singer living in Berlin -- formerly known as MC Looney Tunes. Quio goes pop or occasionally comic. 'Gazon Gazolina' is a downbeat tune recorded in October 2003 when Quio was highly pregnant maybe that explains the speed ??? 'So Dazed' is a spring tune -- and a serious attempt to be charming." File Under: Hip Hop, Clicks and Cuts ragga, pop, two step hybrid, charts. 5 tracks, including AGF remix.

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Like Oooh!
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 004CD

Quio is a Berlin-based MC, singer, and performer who started MCing in 1997 as MC Looney Tunes. This is her first full-length album, and her second release for AGF Producktion. She performed with drum n' bass and hip-hop DJs in Berlin and throughout Europe, going on to meet DJ G-Serve from Audiotaxi and DJ Christine Lang. Quio is also a part of a radio show on Berlin's former pirate radio station TWEN FM. Quio met AGF (Antye Greie) when they both performed in a club, and various collaborations followed. In 2003 they started Quio. AGF and Quio have put together their different herkunft, to come up with some unique new combinations of hip-hop lyrics and experimental electronic beats -- mixing drum n' bass MC rhymes with anthem-like sad tracks. Between walking to playgrounds, talking to mothers, saving babies from being driven over, spoon feeding, clothes washing and food shopping, Quio has compiled an album full of eclectic combinations -- uptempo beats and sweet, melancholy tunes; two-steps and Greek string guitars; heavy metal and electroclash. Quio wants to be misunderstood and taken unseriously. She will break unbearable content into amusing snippets of new sense, or break up nonsense while replacing them with playful clichés. Her ability to MC along with a vast array of breakbeat music such as drum n' bass, U.K. garage, hip-hop etc. has gifted her with both twisted and profound lyrical content. Guest artists include 15 year-old singer Lise, Dr. Dee, AGF, Audiotaxi, Daddy Jotka, DJ G-Serve, MC Chubba, Dr. Data, and Lempapa.

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Phiu!
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 007CD

Quio, the MC and singer based in Berlin's buzzing club scene, has finished her second album with electronic producer, AGF. She is one of the few female MCs in Germany, and she drops her rhymes over drum'n'bass, garage and dubstep. With Phiu!, she continues to follow her own path. She is already highly acclaimed by critics for her first album, Like Oooh!, released in 2005. On this record, the versatile vocalist shows once again how multi-faceted her styles can be. From the angry rapper to the delicate singer, from the light-hearted MC to the serious speaking artist. Be assured, with Quio's vibrating mixture of hip-hop, club, electronica and pop you will never get bored! She plunges readily in and out of her collected influences: from Ol' Dirty Bastard over the Beastie Boys to Tanya Stevens, Lady Saw and Sovereign, from The Smiths to Phoenix. All these are minced up, recombined and given the unique electronic flavor of Quio's producer, AGF aka Antye Greie. Strong beats support high-impact rap, and deep bass brings out the tangent fragility of Quio's vocal lines. Quio has also invited some prominent guests to support her crazy styles: Nicolette, Edu K, Audiotaxi, Lise, Afia, Kwaku, Nanie, Lempapa, Dr. Data and Al Haca.

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page