MP3 of the week: Purity

• Musical style: Electronica
• Similar artists: Lake of Tears
• Myspace: www.myspace.com/purityuk (you can't download their stuff but you can listen to it. Ce n'est pas the usual Mookychick way - but we make exceptions for friends of friends! Hooray for nepotism!)

If you like your music clean? Forget Aqua. Here's Purity.

Mixing hypnotic jungle beats with their own grim beat of electronic programming, Purity had a lot of bad days to let out when they first hit the studio in 1997. With their gloomy surroundings of South London maintaining a heavy influence on their work, members Jill Stark (programming), Florence Briggs (keyboards/ guitar) and Icy Lazare (keyboards/ guitar) became the first band to be signed to Tommy Boy Records through the internet. The label hook-ups were beneficial, because they gave Purity a chance to play out and spend some time in the studio to record the singles "Adrenaline, " "Bullets for Words" and "Interference/Baby Universe" in 1998.

So what do Purity sound like? Do they sound pure? Of course they do - so long as one accepts that purity is in this case a mix of adrenalin-fuelled pumping electronic beats and sequencing, fusing dance with a raw rock/indie edge. Their sound is about an energy not confined by the bounderies of one type of beat, but creating a distinct style that crosses through dance genres in all their tracks. Purity produce, program and engineer all their material.

Their songs - because they do break up those beats and riffs with beautiful vocals - range from full, dark, heavy drum'n'bass through to breakbeat and then sideways to house.

Purity are currently finishing a set of tracks in their studio in London and due to release a promo single in the next few weeks.

Purity have previously toured as support to Depeche Mode on their European tour, remixed Garbage and created the theme tune to WCW Nitro. Nice.

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