RED SNAPPER

Acid Jazz / Nu Jazz / Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop • United Kingdom
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Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend (double bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar). The three core members are also joined by various guest musicians and vocalists on different records. According to music journalist, Jason Ankeny (Allmusic) "the British acid jazz trio were notable for their pioneering synthesis of acoustic instruments and electronic textures".

Stylistically, Red Snapper's music contains elements of jazz, funk, jungle, trip-hop, hip-hop and breakbeat, as well as references to early psychedelic and progressive rock.

The band released three EPs before signing to Warp Records for their debut album, Prince Blimey (1996).[1] The band were a somewhat unusual feature of Warp Records' 1990s roster: in contrast to the studio-oriented IDM the record label primarily dealt in, the band had a live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip
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RED SNAPPER Prince Blimey album cover 4.25 | 2 ratings
Prince Blimey
Acid Jazz 1996
RED SNAPPER Making Bones album cover 3.25 | 2 ratings
Making Bones
Acid Jazz 1998
RED SNAPPER Our Aim is to Satisfy album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Our Aim is to Satisfy
Acid Jazz 2000
RED SNAPPER Red Snapper album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Red Snapper
Acid Jazz 2003
RED SNAPPER Redone album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Redone
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2003
RED SNAPPER Key album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Key
Acid Jazz 2011
RED SNAPPER Hyena album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hyena
Acid Jazz 2014
RED SNAPPER Everybody Is Somebody album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Everybody Is Somebody
Acid Jazz 2022
RED SNAPPER Barb & Feather album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Barb & Feather
Nu Jazz 2025

RED SNAPPER EPs & splits

RED SNAPPER Heavy Petting album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Heavy Petting
Acid Jazz 2002
RED SNAPPER A Pale Blue Dot album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Pale Blue Dot
Acid Jazz 2008
RED SNAPPER Space Sickness (Live - Spectral Karaoke Mixes) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Space Sickness (Live - Spectral Karaoke Mixes)
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2023
RED SNAPPER Red Snapper ft. David Harrow : Tight Chest album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Red Snapper ft. David Harrow : Tight Chest
Nu Jazz 2024

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RED SNAPPER Live At The Moth Club album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live At The Moth Club
Acid Jazz 2023

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RED SNAPPER Reeled and Skinned album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Reeled and Skinned
Acid Jazz 1995

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Mooking
Acid Jazz 1996
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The Sleepless
Acid Jazz 1998
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Some Kind of Kink
Acid Jazz 2000

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