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Artist
AZ&TOR
12+ albums
House
about
AZ&TOR are a Pop-garage duo from Bristol with a shared love of beats and moustaches Aisha Zoe and Rich Main are a Bristol duo specialising in soulful house, with some UK garage influences, positing their work as contemporaneous with Disclosure and AlunaGeorge, although their songs aren't quite as blatantly poppy as the latter's. It's tempting to think of theirs as a peculiarly Bristol take on that kind of sound, with some of the fuggy drag that has distinguished much of the city's R&B music all the way back to Smith and Mighty's Wishing on a Star. But the fact is, Az&Tor's Aisha Zoe and Rich Main aren't from Bristol and maybe they haven't lived there long enough for it to have seeped under their skin. Actually, Zoe was born in Jamaica and Main is from Detroit and they met in Bristol on a music production course after she saw his moustache and "thought he must be cool". She had been in a hip hop band and then a jungle outfit called SpaceKuggies and had spent her young life listening to dub, reggae, garage and rap, while he was the disco fan who played sax and piano at school before graduating to decks and DJing in his teens. An early collaboration, Save My Soul, introduced Az&Tor's soulful brand of house with a two-take video and a pleasing blend of rawness and polish - Main's beats are created on a laptop while Zoe's melody lines are sung into her phone. A new EP, Sit Back, on Madtech (home of, among others, Rinse FM DJ/disco artist Krystal Klear), finds a good balance betw
