
AZ&TOR
Hometown: Bristol.
The lineup: Aisha Zoe and Rich Main.
The background: Aisha Zoe and Rich Main are a Bristol duo specialising in soulful house, with some UK garage influences, positing their work as contemporaneous with Disclosure and AlunaGeorge, although their songs arent quite as blatantly poppy as the latters. Its tempting to think of theirs as a peculiarly Bristol take on that kind of sound, with some of the fuggy drag that has distinguished much of the citys R&B music all the way back to Smith and Mightys Wishing on a Star. But the fact is, Az&Tors Aisha Zoe and Rich Main arent from Bristol and maybe they havent lived there long enough for it to have seeped under their skin.
Actually, Zoe was born in Jamaica and Main is from Detroit and they met in Bristol on a music production course after she saw his moustache and "thought he must be cool". She had been in a hip hop band and then a jungle outfit called SpaceKuggies and had spent her...