Credit: L-R: Jaz, Ida, Rahsaan

Last summer you couldn’t turn on a radio without hearing that Fedde Le Grand track ‘Let Me Think About It’. But dance music by its very nature is temporary – only a few monolithic tracks get to stand the test of time. But it stuck in our heads nonetheless. So when the guest vocalist on that track, Ida Corr, popped up as part of SugaRush Beat Company, our interest was piqued. And the more we googled them, the more our interest grew.

In addition to Corr, SugaRush Beat Company has two other core members – New York nu-soul singer Rahsaan Patterson, who in addition to his own work has song credits with acts like Brandy, and Australian uber-producer Jarrad 'Jaz' Rogers, who has recently been involved in the long-delayed comeback album for a certain Lauren Hill.

Of course, none of this explains how an American, an Australian and a Dutchwoman formed a band that has been compared to Gnarls Barkley, Outkast and even early Prince. Music Towers had Rahsaan give us the edited version:

“I was in Australia a couple of years ago, promoting my own album [2004’s ‘Purchase After Hours’] and doing shows, and the promoter that had brought me suggested that I travelled around and met a couple of the top writers there, one of which was Jared. I went to his house, and we collaborated for two days and produced two songs…”

The pair soon realised that they’d stumbled across a potentially mighty partnership, and began working together. Rogers later stumbled across Danish singer Ida Corr, the third member of SRBC, when someone gave him a copy of one of her CDs (she’s done a couple of solo records – a lot more than just that Fedde Le Grand spot…) to complete the line-up. Of course, at this point in time the group were spread across three separate continents – hardly the most conventional setup for writing an album.

“It has intensified it,” stresses Ida. “We don’t just sit around drinking coffee, we write when we’re together. We’re all over the world doing different songs, and it puts you in a place where you really have to just do. It makes it honest.”