Album Notes

Gimme A Bassline!“, their funky and infectious first single with an incredible dancefloor action effect, scored a # 5 position in the German Club Charts (DCC) while hitting top DJ playlist around the globe. Ursula 1000 put this track on his “Ursuladelic” compilation, en vogue producers Fort Knox Five from Washington D.C. offered their remix services and PUMA featured the song on their MTV commercial.

In no time their hit “Are You Talking To Me???” with mind-blowing remixes by Fort Knox Five and UK producer wizzards Skeewiff (London/UK) set the spotlight straight onto the Torpedo Boyz.

Meanwhile food giant Nestlé got knocked out by their wicked album track “Any Trash Professor Abacus?“ which is still being used for the current Cheerios tv ad “Smiles All Around” in England, Ireland, Finnland and Australia.

In Down Under “Are You Talking To Me???” received massive radio airplay and ended up on various heavy rotation lists. Italian prime time tv show “Le Iene” have borrowed a couple Torpedo Boyz tracks for their game show jingles and the magazine English24 is still featuring “Are You Talking To Me???” for their current tv spot.

Kentastic got invitations as a DJ from around the globe and was asked to spread the word of Torpedo funkyness. He made people shake their butts in Barcelona, Warsaw, Vienna, Tokyo, San Francisco, St.Petersburg, Amsterdam, Zurich as well as in New York or Budapest. Spinning the funkiest breaks, fattest beats and grooviest basslines with a fine sense for tasty music, Kentastic has gained international respect.

BUT the Torpedo Boyz are far from just being DJs or club music producers. The fact that they have managed to put their funky music live on stage is surely exceptional in their music scene.

The Torpedo Boyz 5-piece live band travels with an international line-up featuring ODD (Japan) and Returner (Cuba).

With their incredible live show they left their audiences in disbelief with open mouths and hands in the air. .

In 2008 Kentastic is scheduled to spin his records in Portugal, Italy, Greece and the USA and the Torpedo Boyz live band will play a few selected European shows before hitting the festival season in summer!



A few quotes:

„Colorful fireworks of Big Beats, Glam- and Poser-Rock, Piggy-Funk, Psychedelica and marvelous 60s and 70s quotations.“ („album of the month“, Loop Magazine)

“Either you have it or you don’t! The Torpedo Boyz have lots of it.“ („album of the month“, Station To Station)

„Maybe the most original and most imagitive album of the year. If AIR suddenly had balls, they would sound like the Torpedo Boyz...“ (Westzeit)

„Extremely funky, extremely cool and extremely versatile – an extreme record and nothing for humorless purists.“ (Hamburg Mag)

„The hot new thing on the dancefloor….“ (TIP Magazine Berlin)

“Just the sort of jet-set cool we love. Throw it on at your next shindig and much rump-shaking is sure to ensue.” (PLAYBOY, USA)

"..The Torpedo Boyz have returned and they have once again brought the party with them. Their second album, Cum on Feel the Boyz picks up where their debut left off. It's yet another weekend bender with so many grooves there may be a world wide shortage of funk as a result.

Cum on Feel the Boyz is all about ridiculous amounts of fun. There isn't a mundane moment on this record, the record is obnoxious, filled with attitude and sitting somewhere between classic baggy stuff like the Happy Mondays and all those classic big beat records that Wall Of Sound put out in 1997. It might not be bang up to date and covered in fluro colors but it is loaded to the gills with enough beatastic grooves that will have your feet spasming in all sorts of directions.

The Torpedo Boyz raps are hilarious, their musicianship is spot on and their songs are like pre packaged parties let loose on an unsuspecting society. This is the sort of album that would make Fatboy Slim blush or spend hours analyzing it incessantly while still trying to figure out their first album. If you don't laugh and dance while listening to Cum on Feel the Boyz you have no soul.

"I Can't Make It On Time," is a song that will hit home with about half the world while, "Chickee Pow!," sounds like Pizzicato 5 colliding with Shaun Ryder in a Ecstasy filled pool. Cum on Feel the Boyz is pure madness; it needs to be put in a straight jacket and sedated but it can't be controlled much less restrained. It's a good thing someone forgot to tell Torpedo Boyz that big beat is past its sell by dates, because they don't know and as long as they continue to make records like Cum on Feel the Boyz that's just fine.

Take the weekend off, stock up on supplies, drop this disc in your CD player and hold on, The Torpedo Boyz are about to take you on one wild ride! -(First Coast News)