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You can lead a horse to water but generally you can’t make it mono up on its back legs and dance nobly against the brilliance of the setting sun. One man who can though is Sydney’s Lancelot. Starting out quite firmly behind a piano rather than a pair of CDJs, the man is a producer/maker/doer before all else. However, it was only ever a matter of time before the club-ready DNA took charge and young Lancelot found himself to be mixing two songs together at the same BPM to the liking of an adjacent dancefloor on a regular basis. Musical...

Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard (24 March 1902 – 12 March 2001) was a calypso singer and actor who used the name Sir Lancelot. Sir Lancelot played a major role in popularizing calypso in north America, and Harry Belafonte has acknowledged him as an inspiration and major influence. Pinard was born in Cumuto, Trinidad, to a fairly affluent family, and thus had a very different background to that of most authentic Trinidadian calypsonians. He sang from an early age, but it was not until he went to New York in 1939 in order to study medicine that he sang calypso, on...

The Evolution Revolution was an all Hippie Chimp band. The chimpanzees in the band were dressed in outlandish hippie wardrobes and even wore wigs. Lance Link played the guitar, Mata Hairi shook the tambourine and Blackie beat the drums, there was also a chimp on the keyboard, but as far as I know a name was never given for him. Steve Hoffman performed all the songs for The Evolution Revolution and he co-wrote many of them as well. ABC actually released an LP featuring The Evolution Revolution songs and a single for "Sha-La Love You". The sound style of the...