CHASE & STATUS SIGN WITH MERCURY RECORDS

CHASE & STATUS SIGN WITH MERCURY RECORDS



We'd like to be among the first to congratulate Chase & Status; we've just received word that they've signed a major record deal! Here's the press release we just received:

Ram Records are proud to announce that Chase & Status signed a major record deal with Mercury Records (Universal) this week (18/5/2009).

"Chase & Status would like to take this opportunity to say that they are hugely appreciative of Ram Records' efforts surrounding their formative years and especially the release of their debut album "More Than A Lot" which has sold in excess of 50,000 units to date."

Ram Records' directors Andy C and Scott Bourne remain unwavering in their view that Chase & Status are a huge creative talent and are pleased to remain an integral part of the team moving forward.

That's all the info we have on this at the moment, so speculate on what the actual terms and conditions might be! If/when we get more info, we will definitely give you the scoop!

Good on them i say. 

lets hope they dont start a band and start making synth rock

This!

Big up Chase & Status.

DnB desperately needs a major crossover act right now. Hopefully they stay true to the sound and not do what Khem said and go all Pendulum.

Holy shit! Wil and Saul sound like such professional dudes. I think they were always destined for great things even if that does sound cliche! 

i dont understand

Didn't Reprazent sign with Mercury at some stage (or was that an award they won haha)?

They won the Mercury award.

Were signed to Talkin Loud at the time I believe.

Ah, that's the one.

dont understand what?

Be interesting to see how this influences there sound. They are also making some really sick dubstep.

id imagine one of the reasons they got noticed would have been from that collab with snoop on eastern jam so id suspect dubstep to be very much apart of what they will be doing on there new label imo.

Think they were doin pretty fantastic before the snoop incident

yeah true but that joint with snoop wouldve attracted alot of interest from big labels.

I dare say it was more the fact their singles were popping up on the UK charts that got them major label attention.

It certainly wasn't the snoozestep!

<bites> You seriously don't like Eastern Jam or Saxon? 

Saxon is awesome.

Better than most their DnB.

Nah I like Eastern Jam haven't heard much else...I just thought I'd stir the pot. Baiting dubsteppers is a bit of a trend around these parts it seems...

IMO Noddy has it spot on with the charts explanation - the majors always want a bite once something looks profitable.

I really hope that colab with snoopizzle didn't get them noticed because thats poor publicity! Their names and music have been popin up everywhere in the last 12-24 months so I really feel they got there on their own steam and not fueled by snoops fire.


I think they're making some great dub step but snoop didn't improove the track.
If anything I see it as Snoopy trying to  get back to what the kids are listening to.  Mother fuckers a parasite... wait I've said too much

well what difference does it make if u get signed to mercury - their still only chase and status

Yep, pretty much the biggest names in DnB.

not for long if they follow this path

back up man i ain't even hit this motherfucker yet

scavenger!

Pretty sure Snoop dooesn't need to be riding on Chase & Status' coat tails to get back in with the kids.

so were pendulum and look how they turned out

Headlining music festivals all over the world and worth millions!

Yep, they fucked up.

 

Can see chase and status doing the same thing on a whole different level! Have alot of similar elements to justice imo. That rock and roll superstar aspect!


I'm not convinced.

The reason Chase & Status are doing so well is they are masters of making catchy music. Sure, it may be a bit cheesy in places but there is no denying whatever style they put their hand to they do it so damn well.

They are able to put the perfect elements into their tunes that make their music so easy to like. Very few artists are able to pull that off consistently. One of the only other DnB acts I can think of who is the same is probably High Contrast.

They are two focussed mofo's!

You honestly think Chase & Status are now a bigger name among the youth than freaking Snoop Dogg? Are you kidding or what?

Hold up!  I certainly don't think that. But I think snoop gained as much exposure out of that deal as wil and saul.

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i think snoop had enough more than enough exposure before hooking up with chase and status 

You can't honestly believe that.

A global superstar versus a couple of guys just breaking out of the underground and probably still unknown to most people in their home country, let alone outside it.

There wouldn't be a single person who discovered Snoop purely from the C&S collab. Yet there would have been 100's of thousands (if not millions) who would have heard the C&S name for the first time because of it.

Your right I guess but I don't see it as snoop giving them a leg up more snoop trying to get down with whatever the kids are into.

I know your right that just having snoops name on the track increases their exposure. But I do think in the whole scale of things he stands to gain as much from it in the long run as them. 

how amazing are chase and status!

What the kids are in to?

He IS what the kids are in to! That pop rnb shit that Snoop pumps out (Rihanna, Akon, Beyonce, etc. etc.) is arguably the most popular music in the world right now and has been for many years now.

I liken it to Reprazent's In The Mode album, they became a big enough name and pretty much a crossover act and were able to attract some different big talents to work on the album with them. It's debatable whether your average Wu-head or political metal fan got into dnb after those collabs however...anybody?

What would he gain from it anyway? Dnb/Dubstep producers asking to do collabs with him? Unless his whole aim is to diversify a bit and try some new sounds there is definitely not a whole lot of commercial merit to him teaming up with 'underground' musicians.

What the kids are into is hip hop and RnB mate. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, a dubstep track has never even touched the commercial charts, let alone gone to number 1.

I hear what your saying I just think the Dogg wouldn't have partaken in the colab if he didn't stand to gain.  Chase and Status are pretty big names not just in D'n'B but is up there with the best of electronic music. So i just don't see this as so one sided.

I think they're amazing

I think most people except Simmo (well, and Rumble but he just copies Simmo's opinion anyway) think they're amazing.

They were in mix mags best albums of 2008 and best tune.

Is it not conceivable that Snoop actually liked the track?

Is it possible that someone could actually like some music they were sent to listen to?

Is it possible that Snoop Dogg has so much money that he doesn't give a rats arse about what 'he stands to gain' by rhyming over a dubstep track?

Maybe he just liked the song...?

there is alot of dubsteppers out of the uk and us doing tunes with r and b crunk people lil jon has a dubstep tune incoming. hahaha. should be funny. also im not really feeling snoop dogg millionaire. removes the best elements of the tune eastern jam to make it palatable for the masses. although this tune would murder a dancefloor just because of snoop. the plastician rmx is the one. snoop seriously had nothing to gain from this collab. he doesnt really need any new fans. 

It's not like Snoop is the first US hip hop act to hire the talents of a UK DnB/dubstep producer to make beats for them.

Definitely cheaper than hiring one of the big name US guys.

I'd hate to think what it costs to have an album produced by someone like Timbaland these days.

1 cd containing 13 4 min rnb rip offs does not make u the best thing ever

news just in, fiction has been signed to virgin

makes you a lot of money and gets you loads of hoes tho

ok so how much money do they actually make???

just for the record i listen to the more than alot cd probably once a week.

out of my own curiosity, why would you listen to a cd that obviously makes you upset once a week?

do you have a secret man crush on the guys?  are you really a closet r&b head?  are they into tea?

huh?
More than alot is Chase an Status' album
I too have it on reguar rotation!

did i say it makes me upset?? im just stating the truth about them - its nothing special been done since the 90's

fuck off you cracked up old coot

yes i have some similar opinions and tastes as simmo but seeing as he is on of the most respected dnb heads in oz im not really worried what you think cause i'm probably on the right track

you'll be in here bagging chase and crapus out in a year just as you did with pendulum and as you are doing with break now

Mission accomplished.

Iits sad really with all you've accomplished all your left with now is baiting of people on a web forum, Enjoy the rest of your petty life won't you man. 

Tad grumpy today are we?

Seems my comment touched a nerve. Truth hurts?

get a room (or take it to pm)



chase and status or stfu

Getting pretty strict on conversation topics Khem!  Keepin peeps to the point.

damn i was going to say that

I'd say Mercury took notice when they realized C&S had sold 50, 000 copies of their album.

Similar to Pendulum. If big labels know you can shift that many units off your debut independent album (with comparably tiny distribution advertising and radio play) they know that they can bank on you to up those numbers with their backing.

Either way i love Chase and Status on the most part. Think they are innovative and talented writers and producers and i buy loads of their tunes and will continue to as long as they make great music.

If you a real bad man, then you never back down.

 

It's a great album and it get regular rotation around here too.
Running is an insane tune... so much better than Eastern Jam!!!

Good on the guys for 'making it'. I honestly can't see them taking the same path as Pendulum because they actually have the ability to come up with something different in their new tunes. Unlike Pendulum who's production has become extremely 'samey' over the past 5 odd years.

haha this thread is funny

Big up C&S they make tunes that make a dancefloor move not tunes you can only play in your bedroom. Wish they still did make some renegade hardware tunes like there ep but i reckon if any one of us were in there position we wouldnt be doin it either. Dnb is a close knit scene so any artists that get outside interest is always goin to be good for dnb. Also pretty sure timbaland has a price tag of about a mill for a hit.

props to em. they're great music makers. why is everyone so surprised they got signed? isn't that a producer's aim?

see i disagree with this - their tunes sound like every other tune made over the last 5 years - they keep it safe and all they do  is put a catchy vocal over the top, use a pre programmed amen and use a loud reece bassline.

they certainly are not pushing the music forward. maybe they just appeal to more people than say d bridge who is pushing the boundaries - "wonder where" is a prime example.  and i can say i will sell the same amount of that tune on vinyl than say "pieces" by chase and status.

how is d bridge pushing the boundaries tho simo?  guys like him make amazing music dont get me wrong, but its just becoming more and more minimal....   its all been done before, now it just sounds better

Agreed. He makes some beautiful stuff but some of it is just becoming too minimal and boring!!!

My personnel taste leans towards dBridge but he definitely isn't doing anything new - just doing it better like Jules said.

Chase & Status are definitely pushing more boundaries than he is.

As for your sales comment, well that's just silly and hardly an indication of global sales patterns now is it.

well mr noddy it is based on my shop. just to give an idea on what people buy here

ive never heard dnb like wonder where before - find me something that sounds like it

fixed

OH SHIT JAMES HETFIELD GONNA SUE SOMEBODY!!

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Whats the legality there?  When I heard this track i asumed they would have had to get metallicas say so but is that the case? How much can you sample and get away with? ie kid Rock

fucking big tune!!!

I've done farts that sounded better than that "tune", took more talent to produce as well no doubt.

You should record those farts and maybe one day you too could get signed to a major label after attaining success in the independent music industry. 

I tried, unfortunately they are so good though that they cannot be recorded.

BTW - I wasn't saying they are shit, just that tune in particular to me is boring as hell. GTFO!

such a ten year old thing to say. love it!

as of today 6 - 6 -  09 they are still only chase and status and nothing has changed - i will keep u posted on any breaking news

have a listen to the remix they are releasing

http://www.myspace.com/whitelies

wow - that white lies remix really blows

POO!
Mistabishi's mix is better!!!!

jay-z is gonna be working with chase & status

around 4:50 in:
http://vimeo.com/5750918

wow- that could be really good or really bad

i'm gonna remain optimistic

he just jacks other peoples beats anyway... does anyone remember that aboriginal hip hop track about going down to the river and catching the brim,  he put the beat to that into some rhianna track

That was morganics
wilkahnia kids or something

yeah thats it, wilkania mob, produced by morganics

I don't mind that at all.

Different.

Yeah, not bad.

So since collaborating with Snoop, they're now making a beat for the richest man in hip hop, Jay Z, and Snoop is doing exactly what he would have been had he not collaborated with Chase N Status. Think it's pretty easy to tell who got more exposure out of that one now.

um.... er.....   
Kudos to the boys. Working with Jay Z is pretty fuckin massive!

From Ram to Rihanna: the rise of Chase & Status

http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/viewfeatures.aspx?featureID=406

good read.

hahah look at the label its on!

WHITE1 White Lies - Death (Chase & Status Remix) 12” (Fiction)

Hold The Front Page. This is another big remix! This Chase & Status remix of White Lies' 'Death' is one of those tracks you just know you're going to hear again again this summer, and this is the only place you will get it on Vinyl. Please confirm orders ASAP, as this 12" Vinyl will be limited edition!

a White Lies - Death (Chase & Status Remix) b White Lies - Death (Crystal Castles Remix Edit)

I hope not

just so u know i didn't write that my distributor did

buy up kids!

wow thats a really cool interview, they sound like they have a shit load going on right now. im interested to hear the rhiana album

Chase & Status Live footage:

http://www.youtube.com/user/chaseandstatustv

CHASE & STATUS NEWS UPDATE (AUGUST 2009)

http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?threadid=642989&mode=article