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Things you need to know about The Campaign For Real Time:

Boston born and bred, C4RT are a funky-electro-pop-dancey-core band (as I've just decided to pigeonhole them) and have already turned a few heads as they gear up for the release of their debut album, the wonderful 'Yes, I Mean... No', due out through BSM on 20th February 2006.

Sounding nothing like anyone else around right now - hence the awful struggle with a genre title - the band feature an ex-member of Garrison, a keyboardist who has previously toured with nu-metal greats Powerman 5000, another keyboardist who designs crosswords for a living and a guitarist who's father provided the handclaps on David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'. This alone should tell you that they're a little bit different, so when you throw into the mix the fact that the band name artists such as Fugazi and Pink Floyd right alongside N.E.R.D and lots of drugs in their list of influences, as well as their story of being a "time travelling covers band playing the hits of tomorrow", it's pretty unlikely that without listening to them your ears really have any idea what to expect!

The Campaign for Real-Time are Mycroft Leisure ("The Chiaroscurist"), Rory Stark ("The O.E.D"), William Ocean ("Bam Bam"), Vinnie Krakatoa ("Stu Walker"), Benny Manniloggins ("Falconer Model 7") and the lovely and talented Kittie Charlemagne ("The Navigatrix").

Yes... I Mean, No

V/A - All The Better To Eat You With, My Dear

V/A - The New Blood

Record Label Shmecord Label

MP3: Myspace
Video: In Your Dreams

www.c4rt.com
www.myspace.com/thecampaignforrealtime

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Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio One
I can't stop playing this at home, it sounds like one mans attempt to make sense of the landscape around him but it's just one of the most intense, compelling things I've heard in ages

Rock Sound
Boston's The Campaign For Real Time are definitely ones to keep an eye out for - their funk-fuelled electronica will have you shape-shifting in no time... Sounds like: Hardcore-gets-happy riffs, tasty new wave synths and retro hip-hop beats, like Head Automatica on a diet of freeze-dried astronaut dinners and the very sweetest cough syrup.

Kerrang
A melange of 80s electro funk, falsetto and all manner of bleeps and squeaks. "Yes..." is an uplifting party album that effortlessly mixes soul,punk, funk and pop without ever appearing contrived

Drowned In Sound
The Campaign For Real Time, featuring former members of Garrison, add an unexpected 80s edge to a record with nine of its ten toes firmly dipped into the pond of the here and now; 'Something Is Wrong' is both darkly menacing and despicably moreish

Europunk
The Campaign For Real Time, sporting ex members of Garrison, are something exceptional as well with their 80’s kind of sound. The gruffy vocals continually impress on the never-ending chorus

Subba-Cultcha
This album is full of accessibly poppy electro-rock with a fashionable, but not shallow or opportunistic, dollop of the eighties in the mix

Punktastic
80s-infused dancepop stylings and other associated audio sexiness