I think many of the Amp fans are people who discovered him as a 'house' artist. Then they get the CD and are like, wow, this is some nice R&B, sweet. Some of the Amp fans I know are totally unaware of the 'neo-soul' explosion of the 90s/early 2000s - Omar, Saadiq, D'Angelo, Eric Benet, Maxwell, Erykah Badu, Tony Rich, Lewis Taylor, Musiq, Bilal, Jill Scott. Vivian Green, etc, etc. Of course Amp pre-empted it all with the Mr Fiddler LP on Elektra in the early 90s. Van has a similiar background as a session player. I remember now he toured Australia with Dionne Farris. I also found out today that he did an entire album with Rahsaan Patterson potentially for MCA which never came out. Also on the neo-soul tip, I hear Raphael Saadiq is working with Spacek and I think signing them (or has signed them) to Pookie, his label.
---------- >From: Minto George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: (313) Van Hunt anyone heard of this guy? >Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 10:44 AM > > > I was into this song he did called Out of the Sky... > guess the album came out in February on Capitol but > makes me wonder why Amp's album didn't come out here > in America on a major? It's a little too smooth for me > but some people on here like Cyclone might dig this. > He's from Atlanta, a city with rich music history so > not hard to envision why it sounds the way it does. > What else has he done? > > m > > ===== > down low music > http://downlowmusic.org > UPCOMING '04 > East Island vs The Moderator dL011 OUT NOW > Iridite Productions "The Acceptable Face of Elitist Techno" dL012 MAR > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway > http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
