URBAN NEWS: Introducing: The Body Snatchers

The Body Snatchers are 30Hz and Baobinga, two UK boys whose alter egos ride an intergalactic mission for more booty, beats and bass. The duo’s flight paths collided in 2006 and the wreckage fell into a stellar frequency.

The Snatcher’s have created a sound you’d pick up on the NASA dial. Alien static merged with African rhythms and a whole lot of crunk. Yes, crunk.

The aforementioned crunk drives this duo; a mythical brew of booty, beats and bass which ran dry on their respective planets. Leaving his native Washington DC behind, 30Hz landed in Bristol and began tweaking the sounds which would earn him a nomination for Best Single and Album in the 2008 Breakspoll awards. After a juicy collaboration with DJ Pinch of Planet Mu’s fame, the track War Dub featured in the box office release Children of Men. Never slowing down, 30Hz also currently runs two dubstep labels; Techtonic and Earwax.

Baobinga was in Manchester riding the highs of being named ‘player of the year’ in IDJ magazine, doing stints with Tayo for Soul Jazz and making monstrous music with I.D as Big Monster for Fat! Once they paired, the Snatchers began to fuse the southern hip hop of USA with English electronica and created a Frankenstein’s mix of electro, ragga, hip-hop and the transmission sounds of moon landings.

Freaky Ho is the first release from the Snatcher’s debut. It’s booty poppin’ percussion and martian synths. Featuring the MC talents of New Jersey native Kamikaze, who has performed with such luminaries as Grandmaster Flash, People Under The Stairs, Skinnyman and Smith & Mighty, the tracks soars through the speakers at a hectic rate.

As a very special treat, the lads have enlisted the remixing talents of two of the words finest DJs – Meat Katie and the Beat Monkeys to bring to Freaky Ho their special brand of production prowess.   

Between missions, The Snatchers sketched a three part chronicle of life in search of crunk. Their animated episodes are a Gorillaz style voyage of pimps and ho-bots, with phat beats behind the clips. With an infectious debut album and their trademark crunk in hand, it won’t be long before they take over booty’s everywhere.