Colossus Projects | pt

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. .