Majors chase Northvibz

Huddersfield R n' B artist Daniel Ryan has attracted a growing wave of interest from major record companies.

Daniel is currently on the New Deal employment option as a project development worker at Beaumont Street Studio's Relyte Records. After writing and producing most of the tracks, he is soon set to release an R n' B and soul album through the Relyte label. Daniel is also developing a compilation showcase album for the label featuring Huddersfield's burgeoning R n' B, soul and Hip Hop talents. As Daniel says: "When someone breaks out of Huddersfield then it will open the doors for other people."

But it is his work with garage act, Northvibz that has drawn a lot of attention from labels like Sony and Universal. With Daniel performing vocal duties on the five-piece outfit, Northvibz are about to release a single entitled 'Easy' through London based Streetbeat Records and the majors are watching with interest the reaction from clubs and DJ's. A white label of Easy, the first tune the band wrote together, will be available soon with a full commercial release later in the year. Formed last year, Northvibz, who all hail from Huddersfield, recorded all their material for an album in the town.

The band have appeared at several successful gig up and down the country but for the moment Daniel says: "We are just concentrating on getting ourselves established but we hope to do a gig in Huddersfield in the near future."