Breaks Co-op is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 band, formed in 1997, first through music company FMR

FMR

FMR can mean:*Ferromagnetic resonance, a spectroscopic technique used to probe the magnetization of ferromagnetic materials* Fidelity Management & Research, the investment management arm of Fidelity Investments...

 and more recently with EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

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The band members are Andy Lovegrove, Zane Lowe

Zane Lowe

Zane Lowe also known as 'Zipper', is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland, where he was a presenter on the local music station Max TV, before moving to England...

, and Hamish Clark.

Lowe and Clark formed Breaks Co-Op in Auckland, releasing the electronic album Roofers

Roofers

Roofers is the debut album of New Zealand band, Breaks Co-op, released in 1997 under music label FMR and then re-released in 2005 under EMI.-Track listing:#Looking Forward#To Faraway Lands featuring DJ Manuel Bundy#Sound Advice...

 in 1997 before they both left New Zealand to travel and pursue other interests. They ended up in the UK, where Lowe has become a hugely successful radio DJ and TV presenter.

After several years hiatus, Lowe and Clark eventually started working on new material in 2004, recruiting Andy Lovegrove from artist/producers The Away Team

The Away Team (group)

The Away Team is a hip hop duo consisting of MC Sean Boog and producer Khrysis, both of whom are members of the North Carolina rap collective the Justus League.-History:...

 after hearing a vocal demo.

Released in 2005 in New Zealand, The Sound Inside

The Sound Inside

The Sound Inside is the second album of New Zealand band Breaks Co-op, first released in 2005 under EMI New Zealand.-Track listing:#The Sound Inside#Wonder#The Otherside#Settle Down#Last Night#A Place For You#Duet...

was a double-platinum selling hit, with lead single "The Otherside

The Otherside

"The Otherside" is the first single from Breaks Co-Op's second album, The Sound Inside, released in 2005.The song is featured in the Season One Brothers & Sisters episode, "Valentine's Day Massacre"...

" the No.1 airplay hit of 2005 and winner of Song Of The Year at
the NZ Music Awards.

The Co-op toured extensively and relocated to the UK, where their album was released by Parlophone

Parlophone

Parlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which...

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The live lineup is Lovegrove on lead vocals

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

 and guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

; Rodney Fisher on vocals, lead guitar, mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

 and percussion

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

; Rio Hemopo on bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 and vocals; Tom Atkinson

Tom Atkinson

Thomas "Tom" Atkinson is a British film and television producer. He holds a BA Hons degree in Fine Art – Sound and Image.-Career:...

 on drums

Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

; and Clark on turntables

Turntablism

Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer.The word 'turntablist' was coined in 1995 by DJ Babu to describe the difference between a DJ who just plays records, and one who performs by touching and moving the records, stylus and mixer...

, samples

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

, and vocals.

The song "The Otherside" is featured in the Season One Brothers & Sisters episode "Valentine's Day Massacre".
The song "Transister" from the album "Roofers" features New Zealand musician Jordan Reyne

Jordan Reyne

Jordan Reyne is an experimental musician from New Zealand, who has been variously described as "industrial-tinged folk“ and "antipodean Steampunk“ yet defies any cut and dried description. She combines the two usually disparate genres of folk and industrial, bringing in celtic vocal melody,...

 as guest vocalist / lyricist.

Albums

Date	Title	Label	Charted	Country	Catalog Number
1997	Roofers Roofers Roofers is the debut album of New Zealand band, Breaks Co-op, released in 1997 under music label FMR and then re-released in 2005 under EMI.-Track listing:#Looking Forward#To Faraway Lands featuring DJ Manuel Bundy#Sound Advice...	Festival Records	-	-	-
21 March 2005	The Sound Inside The Sound Inside The Sound Inside is the second album of New Zealand band Breaks Co-op, first released in 2005 under EMI New Zealand.-Track listing:#The Sound Inside#Wonder#The Otherside#Settle Down#Last Night#A Place For You#Duet...		55	United Kingdom	-
17 March 2005	Roofers Roofers Roofers is the debut album of New Zealand band, Breaks Co-op, released in 1997 under music label FMR and then re-released in 2005 under EMI.-Track listing:#Looking Forward#To Faraway Lands featuring DJ Manuel Bundy#Sound Advice...	EMI EMI The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...	-	-	-

Singles

Year	Single	Album	Charted	Certification
2005	"The Otherside The Otherside "The Otherside" is the first single from Breaks Co-Op's second album, The Sound Inside, released in 2005.The song is featured in the Season One Brothers & Sisters episode, "Valentine's Day Massacre"... "	The Sound Inside	#10 (NZ) #43 (UK) #52(UK Download Chart)	-
	"Settle Down"		-	-
2006	"A Place for You"		-	-