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On the outskirts of a nuclear war torn city lies RFP. A place where the sounds, soul and trash of a bygone electronic era come to dance the night away. Welcome to the future... .

Under the context of The Washington Projects, brother/sister duo Jekob & Rachael Washington merge insightful hip-hop, scintillating soul, rippling R&B, old school funk and pure bred pop. It’s an astonishingly inventive merger that’s given them instant accessibility steeped in street credibility, while breaking down boundaries more than any other eclectic troupe in recent memory. And while this fitting moniker may appear to be a new force on the horizon, the pair previously comprised two thirds of the Word/Warner Brothers recording group SoulJahz, who took the industry by storm in the early 2000s with a jaw dropping spread of radio singles,...

The Projects formed in 2001 and were: Alex Lawton Mawdsley - Bass David O'Malley (Weird Knights - remixers, R3mote) - Keyboards Dino Gollnick (The Beat Up + Ladytron live) - Extra Guitar Edward Ball (The Times, The Television Personalities + many more) - Lots of different instruments Graeme Wilson - Guitar, Vocals Mira Aroyo (Ladytron) - Vocals Phil Sutton (Kicker, The Soft City)- Drums Graeme Wilson died unexpectedly in December 2011. The other band members finished the fourth and final album. .

Washington White, Bukka White (Booker T. Washington White, November 12, 1909 - February 26, 1977) was an American delta blues guitarist and singer. Performing in Memphis, White met Ralph Lembo, a white Mississippi furniture dealer who served as an agent for the Victor label, and he enthusiastically stepped into Victor's Memphis studio to record 14 sides in 1930. Several of them were gospel pieces; one, "I Am in the Heavenly Way," was billed as a "Sermon Sung for You by Washington White, 'The Singing Preacher,' with Guitars and Women Singers." With the Depression underway, Victor released only four of White's...