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NEW ALBUM
'ANNIHILATING RHYTHMS'
Here is the track listing for the new album
1. GO PSYCHO Pt.1 - a short snappy intro for the album. Dirty hip-hop with a flowing vocal and clever drum tricks.
2. FLATLINER - Harking back to the old style US sound with hardhouse influences.
3. IMMORAL - Slowest track on album - a journey into electro house, distored bassline and vocoded vocals
4. HIGH ENERGY - Cover of Evelyn Thomas' 1980's hit.
5. FUCK SOCIETY - Experimental German driving type hardstyle with dark vocals and juno stabs
6. OUR TIME NOW - Upbeat hip-hop with a chemical feel and 50's sci-fi samples.
7.GO PSYCHO PT.2 - A continuation of part 1 over a 4/4 beat.
8. WHAT KIND OF VOODOO - Harkkore style track with uplifiting femail vocals, hard drums and trance-kore hooky synth riffs
9. ANGELS - A new harcore Euphony & Storm remix of the recent single
10. STAYIN UNDERGROUND - Elements once again of Prodigy and Chemical Bros
11. 4,3,2,1 - A bit of a 'piss take' on their earlier track 1,2,3,4
12. DANCE MYSELF TO DEATH - Without doubt the hardest track on the album
13. HIGHER GROUND - Virus infected hard-trance vocal banger a real crowd pleaser when played at coloursfest 2005

ALSO INCLUDED WITH THE ALBUM IS A BONUS DVD FEATURING SOME LIVE FOOTAGE ALONG WITH INTERVIEWS FROM PETER AND RODGER - IF YOU WERE AT AN ULTRASONIC GIG OVER THE PAST YEAR YOU MAY BE ON IT!!!!!

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'ANNIHILATING RHYTHMS'
and
'THE BEST OF ULTRA-SONIC'
ONLINE FROM

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ANGELS / LET ME SEE YOU JUMP
HIGH ENERGY / STAYIN' UNDERGROUND'
also available from the Rumour website

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BIOGRAPHY

ULTRA-SONIC has just released their first new studio album in seven years. The new album titled ' Annihilating Rythms ' is released in the UK on RUMOUR RECORDS in association with CLUBSCENE RECORDS. This album breaks new ground in as much as included with the album is a bonus DVD of live footage and interviews with the Pete and Rodger amonst others. It is believed that this is the FIRST TIME that ANY dance band has included such a DVD with the album. Music on the album is quite diverse and will gain the band many new fans as well as pleasing those who have been fans of the band for many years. The album is due for release in the UK on 3rd Ocober and in Australia early December. Releases are currently being arranged for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

History

Very few ‘dance bands’ in Scotland can claim the lengthy success that ULTRA-SONIC have had over the past eleven years. They have sold well over 300,000 singles and albums and have supported thelike of THE PRODIGY , MOBY and CARL COX to mention but a few. A band whose video sold 6,500 copies in four days, outselling Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ as well as picking up ten awards ranging from ‘Best New Band’ to ‘Best New Single’. Pre-sale orders for their new album was at a staggering 30,000 copies before the album was even released! All of this from a small but rapidly growing independent record label - CLUBSCENE Records..

ULTRA-SONIC were during the late 90’s without doubt the No.1 band in Scotland and the only Scottish dance band to have been invited to headline two massive tours of Australia. They are also the onlyScottish dance band to gig in Germany two weekends out of every month. (80 gigs at the last count) and who have been described by the head of Low Spirit as “the best dance band in the world”.

In February 1992, the band signed a management deal with Bill Grainger Management (a division of CLUBSCENE - Scotland’s highly respected monthly dance music magazine – and you’re reading this on our new online service) This resulted in them being signed to CLUBSCENE RECORDS and led to their first record, “Obsession” being released. The track was written and produced by the boys themselves and recorded in WET WET WET’s “PetSounds” studio in Glasgow. Rodger and Mallorca have both continued to write and produce all of their own material.

“Obsession” was released during November 1992 and sold over 6,000 copies in Scotland alone before being deleted, so that it could be included in the exceptionally successful ESSENTIAL CLUBSCENE Vol.1 compilation album.

The group released their second single. “The Pulse” on 7th April, 1993 which went on to sell over 10,000 units. The third single “Arpeggio / Annihilating Rhythm Pt.1 & Pt.2” was released in October 1993 and entered the UK National Independent record saleschart staying there for some six weeks. Sales to date, which have been mainly in Scotland, are fastly approaching the 21,000 mark, and are testament to the bands growing and ever increasing popularity. This track was licensed to LOW SPIRIT/POLYDOR in Germany and to date has sold a massive 56,000 units in that territory alone! Several of ULTRA-SONIC’s tracks are also featured on numerous European, Australian, Japanese and UK compilation albums.

On the 20th December 1993, ULTRA-SONIC released a full length video containing footage of their recent gigs, by the 24th December -four days later - all 6,500 copies of the video had been sold.

Noted for their incredible ‘high-energy’ charged performances, ULTRA-SONIC have topped the bill at almost all of the biggest dance events in Scotland including: FANTAZIA, REZERECTION, EURODANCE, STREETRAVE & REVOLUTION, not to mention selling out the prestigious GLASGOW BARROWLANDS venue on a number of occasions

ULTRA-SONIC were voted ‘BEST NEW BAND’ in the 1992 ScottishDance Music Awards and “Obsession” was voted ‘2nd BEST NEW SINGLE’. In 1993 they were voted ‘BEST SCOTTISH DANCE BAND’ in the M8 Magazine Awards; and ‘BEST SCOTTISH BAND’ in Radio Forth’s “Steppin’ Out” Dance Awards. The single “Annihilating Rhythm” was voted ‘BEST SINGLE’ of 1993. Last year the band were also voted ‘BEST PA’ by the national magazine DISCO CLUB INTERNATIONAL.

In polls held in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the band were acclaimed both the ‘BEST BRITISH DANCE BAND’ and the ‘BEST DANCE BAND IN THE WORLD!’ The band also topped the bill at the
prestigious MAYDAY event in Dortmund, Germany where they appeared in front of some 3000 people and as a result they now spend two weekends every month appearing at various clubs and events all over Europe including some of the former ‘Iron Curtain’ countries such as Hungary and Poland.

ULTRA-SONIC made a return visit to Australia in June of 1995 during which they appeared to ‘full-houses’ in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne & Adelaide.

In August the group appeared at the prestigious DANCE MATRIX ‘95 in Tokyo, Japan where they supported THE PRODIGY, the concerwas recorded and subsequently aired for Japanese network television. Their first album “TEKNO JUNKIES” has just been released in Japan by AVEX RECORDS. Also in August they were voted the best band to appear in Northern Ireland, at the ETERNITY Northern Ireland Dance Awards show, with the event being broadcast on the dance music programme BPM throughout the ITV networks.

In line with their continued plan of ‘global domination’ the band made their live debut in the United States in October 1995, where they stormed both the PALLADIUM and LIMELIGHT clubs in New York with stunning and highly charged performances, an incrediblachievement for a relatively unknown British band, and what’s even more incredible is that they’ve already been booked to return to the same venues in February of 1996.

The band ended their relationship with Clubscene and BGM in 1997 and released an album on their own label 'Hour Of Chaos'

In 2003 they teamed up with CLUBSCENE and B.G.M again and released THE BEST OF ULTRASONIC, followed a year later by the single 'Angels'.The band have headlined many appearances at Glasgow's famed CARLING ACADEMY to full houses and also topped the bill in the Back To The Future arena twice at COLOURSFEST at Braehead.as well as appearing at numerous venues in Scotland and Ireland as well as at VIBEALITE in England.

The band headlined the main arena at FANTAZIA which was held at Braehead, Glasgow in January 2006

The latest single 'High Energy' is the boys treatment of the worldwide Evelyn Thomas hit of the 80's, and the new album 'Annihilating Rhythms' was released on 3rd October, 2005 in the UK and a new single is due in July 2006

March 2006