Bonobo

Downtempo Dance Pioneer

Pigeonholes. Much loved by journalists and music fans alike to categorise and define music but prone to being used as restrictive shoehorns that encourage people to dismiss or overlook the subtle (or even huge and unmissable) differences between artists’ output. Bonobo, AKA Simon Green, found himself imprisoned by such narrow-minded tag-slinging when his debut outing ‘Animal Magic’ happened to get dragged along by the media-induced tidal wave that was Chill Out in 2001.

The follow-up, ‘Dial M For Monkey’, saw an evolution in sound to rely less on sample-based productions and incorporate more live instrumentation and forthcoming third album ‘Days To Come’, while still distinctly Bonobo, sees a further progression to an almost completely live approach.