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ON THE RADAR ARCHEO
TWENTY-ONE year old Archeo has already been honing his craft for years releasing singles Mr General and Glass Half Empty via his own label, Music Mantra, to acclaim from The Guardian, Sunday Times Culture, NME and Notion. Building up to the release of
next single, summery pop song The Payback (complete with an LA- filmed seasonal video), Archeo has been playing a few spot dates around London “getting the foun- dations right”. Speaking to Music Week, the
young artist describes his sound as “An ode to the mash up culture that we live in. “I like to call it ‘Neo Pop’
because it’s a fusion of genres and influences. “It’s about creating something
that can travel. I’m a child of the world, if that’s not too cheesy a description. I don’t like to stick in one place.” It seems spot-on as Archeo’s
heritage and travels take in a blend of cultures from Panama, India, Hong Kong, America, Nigeria and, finally, London. He’s also been flitting to and from LA bang- ing on people’s doors for songwrit- ing sessions, sometimes getting turned down and sometimes striking lucky. As for his image, the self- described self-sufficient artist
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admits: “Being a male artist in this day and age is difficult. There’s an expectation to be fanciable and whatnot. I’m inspired by real char- acters, Rick James, Bobby Brown; eccentric characters. I feel like that’s been lost in music from a male perspective. I want to be larger than life.” He’s currently in the studio work-
ing on his debut album about which he reveals “I’m seeing what the reaction to the singles is like. Hopefully it’ll be out by the end of the year.” In addition to Mr Waltmann
(Madonna, No Doubt, Janet Jackson) who produced The Payback, Archeo is working with
production talents MNEK (Rudimental, The Saturdays), Fred Cox (Wretch 32) and The White N3rd (Loick Essien), but remains at the helm throughout. Looking to the future, although he’s set on cracking his home turf
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DISCOGRAPHY Nov 2011 single: Mr General May 2012 single: Glass Half Empty Sept 2, 2012 single: The Payback TBC album: Archeo LABEL Music Mantra 020 3119 2007 MANAGEMENT Hall Or Nothing Management 020 3119 2007
market first, Archeo has ambitious international plans: “My roots are in the UK but I’m not limiting myself at all. I’ve got stuff in the pipeline… I like the idea of cracking Bollywood. I just want to take this everywhere, I want to go global with it. I hope everything will feed out from [the UK] with a sort of trickle down effect.”
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