Birdy Nam Nam
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Birdy Nam Nam are a DJ crew from France
whose members are Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike. Birdy Nam Nam have won several prizes throughout their career including the DMC
Technics
2002 World TEAM Championships. Birdy Nam Nam's goal is to use the turntable player as an actual musical instrument. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2006 on Uncivilized World Records, and in March of that year, they performed at the internationally-renowned music conference SXSW. The group's name is taken from a line in the 1968 Peter Sellers
film The Party
, directed by Blake Edwards
.
They gain their music from friends, owned albums, and press beats and patterns into vinyl to assemble their music live.
Birdy Nam Nam's song "Trans Boulogne Express" hit main stream when it appeared in the movie Transporter 3
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
whose members are Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike. Birdy Nam Nam have won several prizes throughout their career including the DMC
Disco Mix Club
Disco Mix Club is a DJ remix service founded by Tony Prince which began as a radio show in 1981 on Radio Luxembourg in the UK. Prince helped popularise a new style of DJ mixes using the turntable as an instrument. DMC started operating as a remix service in 1983. They started producing remix...
Technics
Technics
Technics may refer to:* Technics turntables, no longer in production.* Technics , a brand name of the Panasonic Corporation* An anglicization of the Ancient Greek term techne, used primarily in media theory...
2002 World TEAM Championships. Birdy Nam Nam's goal is to use the turntable player as an actual musical instrument. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2006 on Uncivilized World Records, and in March of that year, they performed at the internationally-renowned music conference SXSW. The group's name is taken from a line in the 1968 Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...
film The Party
The Party (film)
The Party is a 1968 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. The film has a very loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of set pieces for Sellers's improvisational comedy talents...
, directed by Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures...
.
They gain their music from friends, owned albums, and press beats and patterns into vinyl to assemble their music live.
Albums
- Birdy Nam Nam (2005)
- Live (2006) Recorded live on June 28, 2006 at "La CigaleLa CigaleLa Cigale is a theater at 120, boulevard de Rochechouart near Place Pigalle, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. The theatre is part of a complex that is connected to Le Trabendo and the Boule Noire. The hall can accommodate 1389 people or 954 people...
" (Paris) - Manual For Successful Rioting (2009)
- Defiant Order (September 2011)
Other releases
- "Jazz it at home"/"Body, Mind, Spirit" (Vinyl)
- "Engineer Fear" (Maxi Vinyl)
- "The First Break Beat" (Vinyl)
- "Trans Boulogne Express", December 2007 (Maxi Single)
- "Worried", (EP)
- "The Parachute Ending" (Vinyl)
- "Defiant Order", 2011 (Free Downloadable Track)
- "Goin'In", September 2011 (EP)
Birdy Nam Nam's song "Trans Boulogne Express" hit main stream when it appeared in the movie Transporter 3
Transporter 3
Transporter 3 is a 2008 French-English action film, and is the third installment in the Transporter film series, as well as the first not to be distributed by 20th Century Fox in the United States. Both Jason Statham and François Berléand reprised their roles, as Frank Martin and Tarconi,...
.