Born on March 30th of 1976, Simon Green is a British DJ and producer who is more commonly known by the moniker “Bonobo”.
Simon has also captured tracks and executed lone DJ sets as Barakas, and along with Robert Luis from Tru Thoughts under the handle “Nirobi and Barakas”.
Nevertheless, Green’s 1st launch beneath the handle Bonobo was during October of ’99 with the tune “Terrapin” via the Tru Thoughts collection entitled “When Shapes Join Together”. Two years later, he introduced his very first recording entitled, “Animal Magic on Tru Thoughts” in 2001. With this particular recording, totally self-produced as well of creating all instrumentals, he grew to become one-of the “new downtempo innovators.”
Later on in 2001, Bonobo joined Coldcut’s record label called Ninja Tune
In 2003, following a single recording of remixes on Tru Thoughts in 2002, he launched Dial ‘M’ For Monkey.
Two years later, Bonobo added his music to the Solid Steel series, along with his Bonobo Presents Solid Steel: “It Came From the Sea”. While the launch date was slated for October 10th of 2005, it ended up being unveiled one week early. Nevertheless, it offers numerous unique songs together with remixes and reedits.
His 3rd album, named “Days to Come”, was published on October 2nd of 2006. The very 1st single from the record was “Nightlite”, showcasing singing by Bajka. Following this release his songs have shown up in a lot of media related things. In fact, Gilles Peterson’s listeners selected Days to Come as the top album of 2006.
The track “The Keeper” showcasing singing by Andreya Triana was launched in September of 2009 as the first track from his 4th record Black Sands, launched in March of 2010. Black Sands produced outstanding approval and found Green enlarging his tunes to contain afrobeat, middle-eastern and gamelan musical effects.
During February of 2012, the remix album of Black Sands was launched on Ninja Tune. The remix album featured tracks from the first Black Sands album which were remixed by electronic producers including, Mark Pritchard, Floating Points, Lapalux and Machinedrum.
The very 1st single from the latest Bonobo recording, “Cirrus”, was presented with its global introduction on the BBC Radio 6 Gilles Peterson programme on January 19th of 2013. The brand new record was called “The North Borders” and had been slated for launch on April 1st of 2013. However, it was introduced prior to its anticipated release in its electronic framework once a promo copy was released before the intended kick off date.
As for his music style, Bonobo makes use of a broad variety of samples in his own tunes coupled with hefty, generally complicated basslines. His songs normally evolve linearly – with fresh components including bass-lines or drums to arrive one following another. In Times ahead, he combines this sonic background together with the clean yet identifying vocals of Bajka, who frequently employs equilibrium to develop a multi-faceted tone.
Although usually traveling solo and executing DJ sets by his lonesome, in 2004 Bonobo preferred to check out the expanding tendency between electronic artists of using a complete group. The band performs live versions of studio content, having a singer, guitarist, drummer, electronics string section, and saxophonist. Having said this, Simon Green mostly takes on bass guitar, and directs the group while performing in the middle of it.
