Biography
Painted Van is Scott Tinsley, ascending from dancefloor success with the Cleveland City label to record an album for Different Drummer that fuses funk with deep dark hip-hop beats to convey a summertime on the chain gang feeling, a stunning and passionate re-interpretation of the blues from a cheap sampling keyboard, a home made mixing desk and pair of old BSR decks.
The project name Painted Van is drawn from the graffiti canvases used by New York’s outlawed spraycan artists who have taken to bombing parked vans.
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Scott Tinsley is well known to the UK dance underground via his work with tracks like “Chubby Chunks” and on Tony DiBart’s ‘The real Thing”, a UK number one.
You could call it street music for the 21st century, a breath of fresh air in the rarified realms of electronica, a timely and radical synthesis of hip-hop, jazz, rare groove and house- or you could just listen to the music.
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