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Megashira

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It is well known that all good things come to those who wait. But if you were one of those music fans who have been waiting for the follow up to the excellent debut album "Zero Hour" by the group Megashira, then you will have had plenty of practice in patience. Even though things never drifted into complete silence in the last four years - the crew from Hanau in Germany raised the flag occasionally with the occasional remix, either at home (Karma "48 hours of Le Mans") or further afield (Sabrina Setlur "Nur mir") – the wait since the visionary "Zero Hour" LP has been a long one.

And it isn’t really so easy to appreciate why it has been like that. When Megashira brought out the first German Drum’n’Bass album of all back in 1997, it positively rained down with plaudits and respect. In the competition against the English D’n’B heroes, who were busy losing themselves in their own pose-filled smugness, the project from Hanau continued to win on musical points. The international music press looked more exactingly at the output of the German drum’n’bass community and found Megashira the strongest representatives. They played live at the Tribal Gathering (in 1997 this was seen as the equivalent to receiving a knighthood) and toured through Europe with an entourage of seven instruments and musicians.

But despite all this success, some questions remained open in the minds of Kabuki and Mainframe, known in the other world as ... read more: https://megashira.bandcamp.com/album/at-last

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