40 Winks
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40 Winks is an instrumental hip hop group made up of two producers -padmo’ and weedy - from Antwerp, Belgium
No hay banda! (“there is no band”, Mulholland Dr. 2001) pretty much sums up where 40 Winks aims to go with its instrumental hip hop: meticulously chop and paste samples together, to create an atmosphere of beats and vibes which steps beyond unimaginative loops.
Their emphasis on creating vintage organically sounding beats has left people wondering why 40 Winks won’t perform live, the answer simply being: ”there is no band!”.
40 Winks hit the scene about 5 years ago, with a whole slew of laidback beats. Eager to share their sound with the world, they released a couple of albums independently. The attention they got from this, allowed them to build with people from around the world. One of these independently released albums, More Than Loops, got reissued in Japan on Swamp Records, after that the ball kept rolling.
On their first worldwide release, Extended Pleasure on Escapism Records (2005), they reached listeners well beyond the (instrumental) hip hop community with the song “Melancholia”. After appearances on compilations, like Weapons of Hope on Little-D (2006), they got a chance to do their thing on the renowned label, Merck Records with Sound Puzzle (2007). All these exotic international adventures, led them back to Europe, where the German based Project: Mooncircle welcomed them with a spot on the compilation Heart on the right spot (2007).
Discography
- 2008 (May 30th): The Lucid Effect (album, LP/CD – Project: Mooncircle)
- 2007: Heart on the right spot (compilation, 2LP/CD – Project: Mooncircle)
- 2007: Sound Puzzle (album, CD/12” – Merck Records)
- 2006: Weapons of Hope (compilation, 12” – Little-D)
- 2005: Extended Pleasure (EP, 12” – Escapism Records)
- 2005: If Luck Would Have It… (compilation, CD – Little-D)
- 2005: More Than Loops - Japanese Edition (album, CD – Swamp Records)
- 2004: Hypu – Listen to the Hype (compilation, CD – Hypu Japan)
- 2003: More Than Loops (album, CD)
- 2002: Hit the Hay (album, cassette)
- 2002: April to July (demo, cd)
40 Winks is a children's platformer game published in 1999 by Eurocom Entertainment Software and GT Interactive Software for the Sony PlayStation.
You play as either Ruff or Tumble, a brother and sister who are sleeping and trying to free 40 Winks from a man named Nitekap, and his evil accomplice, Threadbear. In the storyline, "Winks" are small, white creatures which make dreams, and "Hoodwinks", which are green and of a similar size are what are responsible for nightmares.
Throughout the game, the player has to collect moon-shaped tokens, which are used to scream at dreamly apparitions, and z-shaped tokens which stop the particular character from waking up. Floating cogs are also collected as a means of opening doors. The character travels through such dream worlds as haunted houses, ship wrecks, planets and prehistoric lands. The player is also able to transform into various types of beings, suggested by Ruff & Tumble's mother during the film featurette before the gameplay begins.
A version was planned for the Nintendo 64, but later cancelled. (Although, it got far enough along in development that Nintendo Power had a walkthrough for it.)
