The band called Fuse

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FUSE began in 2001 as a project to bring together rock and hip hop in the vibrant New Brunswick underground music scene that thrives around Rutgers University (NJ). With an evolving lineup of experienced musicians, the band built a growing and devoted fan base, played some two hundred shows in the Tri-State area and collaborated with dozens of up-and-coming performers to develop the live sound of soul rock, fusing urban beats, rock riffs, funky rhythms, soul singing and original street rhymes. FUSE emerged as the core of a growing and diverse musical tribe -part P-Funk and part Wu-Tang Clan- known as the Soul Rebels. The band headlined at the Planet Hip Hop 3 festival at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (featured in the Star Ledger), the Manhattan Black Beats festival run by legendary promoter Bob Holman (featured in the Village Voice) and the Hub City Revival concert in New Brunswick (featured in the Home News Tribune).

With X on guitar, Toast on bass, Mr. Pocket on drums, Jack Leary on keys, Soul Qlok on the MPC and sharing the mic with Silent Knight, the band plays at its best at packed live shows in venues big and small from New York to Philly (main stage at Knitting Factory, GrapeStreet, Lions Den, Galapagos, Five Spot, etc.). FUSE collaborates and shares the stage with a growing talent pool of MCs, DJs and singers including KON, DJ KO, Shon Penn (Making the Band 4), Jah, St. Joe Louis (aka Prizm), Damon St. Alborne, Reason Beings, Medinah Starr, M Josephine and DJ Iris, Jamilah Imahn, Marie Kanu, Captin Planit, and DJ INGS.

With so many collaborators and diverse musical influences (The Roots, James Brown, The Police, KRS-1, Black Sabbath, Tribe Called Quest, Soundgarden, Charles Mingus, Aretha Franklin, The Meters, but also Kashmere Stage Band, Kyuss, Alice Donut, ) FUSE developed a unique, dynamic music-writing process: The band records original tracks at its very own Compound Studios and sends them out to a fusiverse of promising MCs, DJs and singers who remix and add their own flavor to them. FUSE practices the remixed tracks live in the studio until they gel into fusic the coherent new sound of soul rock.

FUSE just released the Soul Rebels Volume I CD featuring 13 brand new tracks with Soul Qlock and Silent Knight headlining on the mic and collabs with Saint Joe Louis, Reason Beings and M Josephine. The band is hard at work promoting the new record throughout the Tri-State area and working on several new recording projects with the growing Soul Rebels family.

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  Fuse is amazing! I love the music.. and they rock hard no matter where. If you're looking for a good time then def check this band out.

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  March 28, 2010 by Rose

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