Urban Myth Club
Encyclopedia
Urban Myth Club is the UK–based electronic duo Mark Desvaux and Ian Sanderson who work with a collective of vocalists and other musicians. Known to have worked with Urban Myth Club are Hollywood film composer Stephen Barton
(Narnia (movie), Shrek (movie), Call of Duty 4), vocalists Clare Szembek (Captain
& The Funky Lowlives), Rowan Godel, Jenni Stanley and Miz Agata, keyboard player Shannon Harris (Lily Allen
, Amy MacDonald
, Wheatus
), Bassist Louis Thorne and percussionist Ben Gurney-Savage. Their music can be characterized as downtempo
electronica
. Urban Myth Club is on the TRL Music
record label
owned by Mark Desvaux.
In 2004 they released a limited edition Secret EP. In 2005, they released their debut single I Feel It on TRL Music as an underground digital release with no promotion. The track broke into the iTunes
top 30 chart, and radio airplay followed. The band debuted at the Glastonbury Festival
in 2005 and played the main stage at The Big Chill
. Other festival appearances include The Glade
, Secret Garden Party
and a return to Glastonbury
in 2007. In 2006, I Feel It was released reaching top 10 in a number of European countries. Their debut album Helium followed, receiving critical acclaim as one of the 'best downtempo
albums ever released' (Blues and Soul magazine). The album has become a bestseller on Amazon, reaching No.1 in the Chill charts and a regular Top 10 in the Dance and Electronica charts. The album has sold over 10,000 copies.
The band's new album Open Up was released on 28 February 2011 on TRL Music
and charted on iTunes and Amazon. Mark was interview by Victoria Derbyshire
on BBC Five Live about the new album in March 2011. A number of singles from the album will be released during 2011.
played tracks from Helium announcing the album was "Absolutely gorgeous". Rob De Bank also supported the album, which he first played when Pete Lawrence, founder of The Big Chill
, was on his show to announce that Urban Myth Club would be playing the main stage at the festival. Justin Wilkes
of KISS FM
is one of the band biggest fans, regularly playing tracks from the band on his show and using "I Feel It" as the first dance at his wedding. The band have recorded a live session at Xfm and have received airplay on many other national and regional stations in the UK including BBC 6 Music, BBC 5 Five Live, Classic FM
, Chill DAB, BBC Asian Network
, Ministry of Sound Radio
and Q Radio who have playlisted several tracks.
, Top Gear and the Rugby World Cup Finals.
“Absolutely gorgeous,” Bob Harris
, BBC Radio 2
“A freshness and originality setting them apart from the rest,” Music Week
“Blown me away, knocked me out,” DJ Magazine
“Dreamy pop, silky summer vocals and gracious production,” Chris Hawkins
, BBC 6 Music
“Absolutely brilliant,” Victoria Derbyshire
, BBC Five Live
"Beautiful Bjork-esque vocals with a languid rhythm that brings back memories of a distant summer night out," Caroline Beavon, Q Radio
“A lush album. 8/10.” Rocksound Magazine
“Urban Myth Club have created something so special,” Eddy Temple-Morris
, Xfm
"Album of the Month. 5/5" Bent Magazine
“I'm a massive fan. Beautifully-crafted music," Justin Wilkes
, Kiss FM
“Watch your back, because Urban Myth Club will be wherever you turn.” Gigs and Festivals
"Record of the Week," BBC Introducing
“A new entry in the super league of Portishead, Air & Zero 7
.” Notion Magazine
“Fantastic,” Pete Lawrence
, Big Chill Founder
“The band to watch out for,” Martin Madigan, Update
“Urban Myth Club have arrived and delivered an album which is musically, lyrically and production-wise, right up there with the finest,” Pathaan, BBC Asian Network
“As close to musical perfection as it gets. One of the best albums ever,” Ben Mynott, Blues & Soul Magazine
Singles and EPs
Remixes and Mixes
Compilations
Stephen Barton
Stephen Barton is a British film composer including "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont." He has composed numerous solo projects including the video game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and the upcoming Tim Allen film, The Six Wives of Henry Lefay...
(Narnia (movie), Shrek (movie), Call of Duty 4), vocalists Clare Szembek (Captain
Captain (band)
Captain were an alternative rock band from London, England, who formed in early 2005. Influenced by groups such as The Smashing Pumpkins, The Beach Boys, My Bloody Valentine and The Cure, their music has also been compared by critics to Prefab Sprout, The Beautiful South and Deacon Blue...
& The Funky Lowlives), Rowan Godel, Jenni Stanley and Miz Agata, keyboard player Shannon Harris (Lily Allen
Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper , better known as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative...
, Amy MacDonald
Amy Macdonald (singer)
Amy Macdonald is a Scottish recording artist. Macdonald rose to fame in 2007 with her debut album, This Is the Life and its fourth single, "This Is the Life". The single charted at number one in six different countries worldwide, and charted inside the top ten in another eleven countries worldwide...
, Wheatus
Wheatus
Wheatus are an American rock group from Northport, New York. They are known for their 2000 single "Teenage Dirtbag" which was featured in the movie Loser, as well as in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill.-1995-2002: Formation and Wheatus:...
), Bassist Louis Thorne and percussionist Ben Gurney-Savage. Their music can be characterized as downtempo
Downtempo
Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...
electronica
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
. Urban Myth Club is on the TRL Music
TRL Music
TRL Music is an independent record label and publisher based in the UK, home to artists that include Urban Myth Club and Stillman. It was formed in Cambridge, UK in 2002 by Mark Desvaux.The label's first full album release was Urban Myth Club's Helium....
record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
owned by Mark Desvaux.
In 2004 they released a limited edition Secret EP. In 2005, they released their debut single I Feel It on TRL Music as an underground digital release with no promotion. The track broke into the iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
top 30 chart, and radio airplay followed. The band debuted at the Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...
in 2005 and played the main stage at The Big Chill
The Big Chill (music festival)
The Big Chill is an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August...
. Other festival appearances include The Glade
The Glade
Glade Festival is an electronic dance music festival which originally started out as a stage at Glastonbury Festival. The annual festival takes place in England for three days in the summer and attracted around 16,500 people in 2007. The festival's home for the first five years was the Wasing...
, Secret Garden Party
Secret Garden Party
The Secret Garden Party is an annual independent arts and music festival which takes place in Abbots Ripton near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Part of the grounds of a Georgian farm house, the location has its own lake, river and landscaped gardens...
and a return to Glastonbury
Glastonbury
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,784 in the 2001 census...
in 2007. In 2006, I Feel It was released reaching top 10 in a number of European countries. Their debut album Helium followed, receiving critical acclaim as one of the 'best downtempo
Downtempo
Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...
albums ever released' (Blues and Soul magazine). The album has become a bestseller on Amazon, reaching No.1 in the Chill charts and a regular Top 10 in the Dance and Electronica charts. The album has sold over 10,000 copies.
The band's new album Open Up was released on 28 February 2011 on TRL Music
TRL Music
TRL Music is an independent record label and publisher based in the UK, home to artists that include Urban Myth Club and Stillman. It was formed in Cambridge, UK in 2002 by Mark Desvaux.The label's first full album release was Urban Myth Club's Helium....
and charted on iTunes and Amazon. Mark was interview by Victoria Derbyshire
Victoria Derbyshire
Victoria Derbyshire is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster who currently presents the mid-morning news/current affairs & interview programme on BBC Radio 5 Live between 10am and 12noon each weekday...
on BBC Five Live about the new album in March 2011. A number of singles from the album will be released during 2011.
Radio
Urban Myth Club first received national airplay in the UK on BBC Radio 2 when Bob HarrisBob Harris
Bob Harris may refer to:In sport:* Bob Harris , American baseball player* Robert Harris , Scottish footballerIn TV and radio:...
played tracks from Helium announcing the album was "Absolutely gorgeous". Rob De Bank also supported the album, which he first played when Pete Lawrence, founder of The Big Chill
The Big Chill (music festival)
The Big Chill is an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August...
, was on his show to announce that Urban Myth Club would be playing the main stage at the festival. Justin Wilkes
Justin Wilkes
Justin Wilkes is an English DJ, record producer, and presenter who currently presents shows for the UK Radio station Kiss. Kiss can be heard on FM & DAB Digital Radio around the UK & nationally on Freeview, Sky and Online.-Radio career:...
of KISS FM
Kiss FM
-United States:* KISS-FM , a brand name used for several Top 40 stations, many owned by Clear Channel Communications including:** KBKS-FM, better known as "106.1 KISS-FM", in Seattle** KHKS-FM, better known as "106.1 KISS-FM", in Dallas...
is one of the band biggest fans, regularly playing tracks from the band on his show and using "I Feel It" as the first dance at his wedding. The band have recorded a live session at Xfm and have received airplay on many other national and regional stations in the UK including BBC 6 Music, BBC 5 Five Live, Classic FM
Classic FM
Classic FM may refer to:*Classic FM , a British classical music radio station**Classic FM TV, a British classical music television channel*ABC Classic FM, an Australian classical music radio station run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
, Chill DAB, BBC Asian Network
BBC Asian Network
BBC Asian Network is a British radio station serving those originating from and around the Indian subcontinent. The music and news comes out of the main urban areas where there are significant communities with these backgrounds. The station has production centres in Birmingham, Leicester and London...
, Ministry of Sound Radio
Ministry of Sound Radio
A UK based radio station operating since 1999, it is now found on the Ministry of Sound website as streaming audio.Current MoS radios DJs include X-Press 2, Hed Kandi residents Des Paul and Andy Norman, Markus Schulz, Ross Allen, Stuart Patterson, Terry Farley, DJ Storm, Hospital Records, The Idjut...
and Q Radio who have playlisted several tracks.
TV / Film
Urban Myth Club's Music has appeared on many TV shows and films including Ugly BettyUgly Betty
Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...
, Top Gear and the Rugby World Cup Finals.
Press
Urban Myth Club's music has received critical acclaim from broad spectrum of the music press, DJs and artists:“Absolutely gorgeous,” Bob Harris
Bob Harris
Bob Harris may refer to:In sport:* Bob Harris , American baseball player* Robert Harris , Scottish footballerIn TV and radio:...
, BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
“A freshness and originality setting them apart from the rest,” Music Week
Music Week
Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on 18 March 1972 as Music Week . On 17 January 1981 the title was again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to Music & Video Week...
“Blown me away, knocked me out,” DJ Magazine
“Dreamy pop, silky summer vocals and gracious production,” Chris Hawkins
Chris Hawkins
Chris Hawkins is a presenter, performance DJ, reporter, journalist, producer, and music pundit....
, BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....
“Absolutely brilliant,” Victoria Derbyshire
Victoria Derbyshire
Victoria Derbyshire is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster who currently presents the mid-morning news/current affairs & interview programme on BBC Radio 5 Live between 10am and 12noon each weekday...
, BBC Five Live
"Beautiful Bjork-esque vocals with a languid rhythm that brings back memories of a distant summer night out," Caroline Beavon, Q Radio
“A lush album. 8/10.” Rocksound Magazine
“Urban Myth Club have created something so special,” Eddy Temple-Morris
Eddy Temple-Morris
The Honourable Edward Temple-Morris is a British DJ, record producer and TV presenter.-Biography:Eddy Temple-Morris hosts XFM's specialist show The Remix. Before joining XFM, he was the main presenter on the MTV show Up for It Live, presented shows for Atlantic 252 & BBC Hereford & Worcester,...
, Xfm
Xfm
Xfm is a brand of two commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned by Global Radio.-History:Xfm was created in London in 1992 by Sammy Jacob, who later co-founded NME Radio in 2008. Xfm subsequently expanded to a network of four stations; there are...
"Album of the Month. 5/5" Bent Magazine
“I'm a massive fan. Beautifully-crafted music," Justin Wilkes
Justin Wilkes
Justin Wilkes is an English DJ, record producer, and presenter who currently presents shows for the UK Radio station Kiss. Kiss can be heard on FM & DAB Digital Radio around the UK & nationally on Freeview, Sky and Online.-Radio career:...
, Kiss FM
Kiss FM
-United States:* KISS-FM , a brand name used for several Top 40 stations, many owned by Clear Channel Communications including:** KBKS-FM, better known as "106.1 KISS-FM", in Seattle** KHKS-FM, better known as "106.1 KISS-FM", in Dallas...
“Watch your back, because Urban Myth Club will be wherever you turn.” Gigs and Festivals
"Record of the Week," BBC Introducing
BBC Introducing
BBC Introducing is the brand for new music programmes across the BBC radio stations, showcasing unsigned, self signed and other emerging musical talent primarily from the UK. Launched in 2007 the Introducing brand brings programming from across the BBC under a unified brand with each show retaining...
“A new entry in the super league of Portishead, Air & Zero 7
Zero 7
Zero 7 is a British musical duo consisting of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker. The group members began their musical careers as studio engineers and in 1997 formed the group Zero 7. Their debut album, Simple Things was released in 2001 and received critical acclaim...
.” Notion Magazine
“Fantastic,” Pete Lawrence
Pete Lawrence
Pete Lawrence is a conceptualist, recording artist, DJ, event organiser, music programmer writer and broadcaster based in the UK.-Background:...
, Big Chill Founder
“The band to watch out for,” Martin Madigan, Update
“Urban Myth Club have arrived and delivered an album which is musically, lyrically and production-wise, right up there with the finest,” Pathaan, BBC Asian Network
BBC Asian Network
BBC Asian Network is a British radio station serving those originating from and around the Indian subcontinent. The music and news comes out of the main urban areas where there are significant communities with these backgrounds. The station has production centres in Birmingham, Leicester and London...
“As close to musical perfection as it gets. One of the best albums ever,” Ben Mynott, Blues & Soul Magazine
Discography
Albums- Open Up (2011)
- HeliumHelium (album)Helium is the best-selling debut album by UK electronica duo Urban Myth Club.-Track listing:# "e=umc²" 0:47# "I Feel It" 4:05# "Calling" 7:07# "Schnorkle" 3:27...
(2006) - HeliumHelium (album)Helium is the best-selling debut album by UK electronica duo Urban Myth Club.-Track listing:# "e=umc²" 0:47# "I Feel It" 4:05# "Calling" 7:07# "Schnorkle" 3:27...
(2006 - Ltd Ed)
Singles and EPs
- Fragile - Single (2011)
- Moon And The Night (Radio Edit) - Single (2007)
- I Feel It - Single (2006)
- I Feel It - EP (2006)
- The Secret EP (Limited Edition) (2005)
Remixes and Mixes
- Creep (Urban Myth Club Radio Edit) - Eliza Lumley (Single) (2008)
- Creep (Urban Myth Club Mix) - Eliza Lumley (Remix) (2008)
Compilations
- Wolgan Valley Sounds (2010)
- Eco Zen 2 (2008)
- Pescadores Island (2007)
- Cafe Karma (2007)
- Elysian Vibes 4 (2007)
- The Chillout Lounge (2007)
- The Departure Lounge: Chill (2007)
- City Hippy (2006)