Zorba's Stick, Hey Duggee (Stick) V LCD Zorba's Dance
Zorba's Stick, Hey Duggee (Stick) V LCD Zorba's Dance
Mc Stompin & Ace - Zorba's Dance
Mc Stompin & Ace - Zorba's Dance
LCD were a computer generated dance act, active in the late 1990s. Signed to Virgin Records, their only hit single was a Europop version of the Greek song "Zorbas", entitled "Zorba's Dance". The music video to the song, made in computerised animation, featured a band of overweight men playing the song.
The single was a club hit in the UK, charting twice in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, within 18 months of its original release, and was one of the first of its kind which was enabled to be played on a computer for its music video. The song was a big club hit in Australia due to its large Greek community supporting the song. The CD to the single pronounced LCD as "The world's first digital supergroup". The man behind the act was David K, a London-based record producer. A second single "Follow The Leader" did not chart and in 2000, LCD was discontinued. The video for "Follow The Leader" shows the act's name LCD stands for "Large Cool Dudes". The video also shows the four leading men were called Zed, Ed, Ned and Ted.
"Zorba's Dance" is an instrumental by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. The song featured for the dance, which has become known as sirtaki, in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack and became renowned around the world. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas. The film's track has since been recorded as a standalone song by many different musicians from around the world. The song is particularly infamous in Peru for its association with Sendero Luminoso. In the early 1990s, excerpts of a video of Sendero Luminoso's leadership dancing to the song during a celebration was given to the media, showing that the organization's heads were hiding in middle-class districts of Lima itself.
Sunmachine (Radio Mix)
Dario G featuring David Bowie - Sunmachine (Radio Mix)
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Some interesting FACTS about Dario G.
1. I love football, hate gyms.
2. I’m untidy. Can I blame the creative mind? A messy studio is a creative studio!
3. I’m usually always late. I have never managed to work out time and space.
4. I’m bald. I dealt with it. I used to have long hair to my shoulders (with a perm!). I now save a fortune in hair care and time getting ready. Result!
5. I often enjoy making or building things. As long as it's for my own selfish use. Making music creates something that isn’t physical. It can be years until a piece of music is used or noticed. Physically making something means the result is right there in front of you and the satisfaction is immediate (I’m not so good at tidying or repairing!).
6. I love cars, but not to own. I’ve tried the classic car thing but don’t like the fear of breaking down. I actually like the anonymity of driving a car with over a quarter of a million miles on the clock.
7. My first crush was Shirley Bassey. I worked with her on my song We Got Music. Amazing! What a woman!
8. My second crush was Kim Wilde. Yep, I got to work with her too (and she’s equally fab!). My third crush was Cleo Rocos. I don’t think she can sing.
9. I first became obsessed with the piano, when watching the pianist play at church. The keys disappeared somehow (when you look at them from eye level). I thought they were being squashed. Like most people I learnt chopsticks first then took lessons and realised I was pretty good at it.
10. I’m not always late. Before a show I will always get there in plenty of time. Traffic across long distances can appear at any time. I like to set up my gear and work out the crowd for a while before I play. They know me but I don’t know them at that point.
11. I’m a night person when it comes to creativity. I could quite happily work in the studio until 3am, 4am.
12. I was in the school Brass Band and played Cornet. Never practised, but my skills on the piano gave me an advantage. My stamina on the cornet was dreadful but now I pick up my trumpet and record with it regularly.
13. As a 15-year-old boy, I had a main vocal part in a children’s opera in Buxton. My voice was still unbroken but during the week of the show it started breaking. Onstage I was (a poor version of) Aled Jones. Backstage I sounded more like Frank Bruno.
14. I’d love to be making music for the rest of my life. Whether it be for my own projects or collars with others. My attitude to music has recently changed. I wanna be more fearless and confident. Everyone's favourite track sounds like nothing else, so why not be brave enough to try to create something different that will make people notice you (Have you heard my new Dario G track called Cry?)
15. My Dario G track Carnaval de Paris contained a bagpipe solo. Has anyone else ever had a bagpipe SOLO in a top 5 record? Now THAT’s daring to be different...
Dario G aka Paul Spencer
Dario G is the stage name of English musician Paul Spencer. Dario G was originally a trio, who are best known for their 1997 hit "Sunchyme", which reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The group formed in Cheshire, England and consisted of three DJs and producers Scott Rosser, Paul Spencer and Stephen Spencer (the Spencers are not related). The group changed their name from Dario to Dario G after being threatened with legal action from an artist of the same name. True to popular belief, the name Dario G was named after the manager of Crewe Alexandra F.C., Dario Gradi, and the similarity to Gradi was not a complete coincidence. Paul Spencer also said they added the G in tribute to the American jazz saxophonist Kenny G. Rosser and Stephen Spencer later left to pursue other things leaving Paul Spencer to perform in a solo capacity. The Musical Journalist R J Formeta, writing for Vent Magazine in 2018, described Dario G as being "one of the World’s finest DJs and performers."
Dario-G-Carnaval-De-Paris
With a knack for transforming classic pop songs into modern dance anthems, production trio Dario G enjoyed chart success across Europe in the late ’90s. Named after Crewe Alexandra’s long-serving manager, original members Paul Spencer and Scott Rosser met during 1989 at college in Manchester, where they were both studying pop music and recording. After graduating, the pair set up a small studio at Paul’s Cheshire home and began recording and releasing songs under various names through their own label. In 1996 they met Stephen Spencer, unrelated to Paul, who was working for one of dance music’s biggest independent labels, and asked him to join. After signing to Warner Records, the group released “Sunchyme,” which heavily sampled Dream Academy’s “Life in a Northern Town.” Only kept from the number one spot by Elton John’s Princess Diana tribute single, it became one of the biggest hits of 1997 — hitting number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart — and its video was used by the Red Cross to promote racial equality.
Follow-up “Carnivale de Paris,” released a year later, was almost as successful. An unofficial anthem for the 1998 World Cup, it reached number three and was later re-released for the 2002 World Cup. Third single “Sunmachine” (number 17) and the debut album of the same name (number 26) continued their chart success, while final single “Voices” (number 37) was used on the hugely successful The Beach soundtrack and the threesome were nominated for Best Dance Act at the MTV European Music Awards. In 2001, they returned with a full-time vocalist, Ingfrid Straumstoyl, but minus Stephen Spencer, who left the band to pursue other projects. Comeback single “Dream to Me,” which used the hook from the Cranberries’ “Dreams,” became their third Top Ten single, but follow-up single “Say What’s On Your Mind” and album In Full Colour failed to chart. They returned in 2003 with “Heaven Is Closer,” a reworking of Fiction Factory’s “Feels Like Heaven,” and again in 2006 with “Ring of Fire,” a cover of the Johnny Cash classic, after it became an anthem for Liverpool fans during the 2005-2006 Champions League season. ~ Jon O’Brien, Rovi
Bassheads - Back To The Old School ( (In Your Area Mix) (1992)
Bassheads - Back To The Old School ( (In Your Area Mix) (1992)
Bassheads - Back To The Old School (Original Mix)
Bassheads - Back To The Old School (Original Mix)
Bassheads was a British house duo from Wirral. This consisted of Nick Murphy and Eamonn Anthony Deery (Desa). The group had a big European hit with "Is There Anybody Out There?" Murphy and Deery started to produce house music in Nick Murphy's home studio in 1989. Their first recording was the white label "The Defhouse Vol. 1" and their third release, "Is There Anybody Out There?", was picked up by Deconstruction Records for national distribution. In November 1991 it got to number 5 in the UK Chart Singles Chart, and charted in other European countries. The original white label resulted in threats of legal proceedings for illegal use of samples from Afrika Bambaataa's "Just Get Up and Dance", Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" and Pink Floyd's "Is Therer Anybody Out There". Therefore the Deconstruction version contained re-recorded versions of the sampled tracks, other than the Pink Floyd sample. The use of samples for Africka Bambaataa was cleared by giving 25% of the publishing. Pink Floyd allowed Bassheads to use their sample on the promo but not for full release, so Nick Murphy (Bassheads) re-wrote that opening section also replaying the Talking Heads sample. The Osmonds' "Crazy Horses" guitar riff was replaced by a session player.
Bassheads - Is There Anybody Out There? (Hardfloor Mix)
Bassheads - Is There Anybody Out There? (Hardfloor Mix)
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Nick Murphy was the engineer and main programmer on most of, or all of the Bassheads material commercially released / white labels, apart from a major contribution on "Is There Anybody Out There" from Shaun Imre. It was recorded mixed and mastered by Nick Murphy at his home studio, with the exception of a handful of tracks on the Bassheads album C.O.D.E.S, which where co-produced and mixed by Dave Eringa at Konk Studios in London (owned by The Kinks). These tracks also originated from Nick Murphy's new studio called "The Lodge" in Neston. Over the next three years Bassheads had three more hit singles, and remixed tracks for Oceanic, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, and Visage. In 1993, Deconstruction released the album C.O.D.E.S. which contained ambient influences but did not chart, this proved to be Bassheads' last release. After being dropped by EMI for failing to pay the mixing/production costs at Konk studios, which their management had booked thus not implicating the Basshead directly, Deconstruction records then offered a new deal to Bassheads thru mother label BMG...But the effort put in by Nick Murphy was not matched by his partner who had lost the Passion for running a professional Band....and Nick Murphy felt it better to call it a day, even though there was a deal on the table for Bassheads to continue!.
Nick Murphy has released recordings under the name "Angel" and more recently been involved in film score/ambient work, also some live Bassheads gigs recreating the original recordings from Baked Tapes from the original recordings (done on an old Fostex E16 multi track Tape Machine) to play live PAs with Ableton Live.
JAM & SPOON feat. PLAVKA - Angel (ladadi o-heyo) / edit / 4,09''
JAM & SPOON feat. PLAVKA - Angel (ladadi o-heyo) (airplay edit III)
Jam & Spoon were a German electronic music duo formed in 1991 in Frankfurt. The group consisted of composers and producers Rolf Ellmer (a.k.a. Jam El Mar, classically trained composer) and Markus Löffel (a.k.a. Mark Spoon, DJ). They also worked under the pseudonyms Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Storm and Big Room. Under these pseudonyms, the credits on the albums are listed as Trancy Spacer and Spacy Trancer.
Jam & Spoon's first album, BreaksUnit1, was released in 1991. They had their first hit with the 1992 song "Stella", which was widely played, remixed and bootlegged in the dance club community for years after its release. The pair also remixed the singles "The Age of Love" and "Go". Their first international and commercial success came in 1993, with the single "Right in the Night", followed by "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" and "Angel (Ladadi O-Heyo)". These tracks featured vocals by the singer, Plavka Lonich, following the first of which, she was welcomed as the third member, frequently co-writing and performing live. The albums Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 and Tripomatic Fairytales 2002 were released in 1994, followed by Disco 2001 (1995) as Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Kaleidoscope (1997), Stormjunkie (2000) as Storm, and finally Tripomatic Fairytales 3003 (2005).
Markus Löffel (L) and Rolf Ellmer (R)
In 2000, they remixed "The Chase," a 1979 Giorgio Moroder track. Credited to 'Giorgio Moroder vs. Jam & Spoon', the song reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart, in June 2002, "Be.Angeled" peaked at #4 on that chart. Sadly Markus Löffel died of a heart attack in his Berlin flat, on 11th January 2006 at the age of 39. In September 2006, a two compact disc set entitled Remixes & Club Classics was released to celebrate Mark Spoon. It is the first compilation of the duo's collected works, and featured an exclusive track "Be.Angeled – Tribute to Mark Spoon", performed live at the 2006 Love Parade in Berlin.
𝐉𝐚𝐦 & 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐧 - 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐨 𝐍𝐨𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟑)
Jam & Spoon - Who Opened The Door To Nowhere (1993)
Garden of Eden
Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka - Garden of Eden
Jam & Spoon - Heart Of Africa
Jam & Spoon - Heart Of Africa
Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka – Kaleidoscope Skies (Club Mix – 1997)
Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka – Kaleidoscope Skies (Club Mix – 1997)
Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka — Find Me (Johan Agebjörn feat. Sally Shapiro Remix)
Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka — Find Me (Johan Agebjörn feat. Sally Shapiro Remix)
Ancient Dream
Jam & Spoon - Ancient Dream
![Jam & Spoon You Got To Get In/To Get Out [1997]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R4roc42CYhw/sddefault.jpg)
Jam & Spoon You Got To Get In/To Get Out [1997]
Jam & Spoon You Got To Get In/To Get Out [1997]
Liquid Child - Diving Faces (Vocalised Fairytale Remix) (1999)
![Liquid Child - Diving Faces (DJ Icey's Arctic Mix) [1998]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qaWNAMBRWuo/maxresdefault.jpg)
Liquid Child - Diving Faces (DJ Icey's Arctic Mix) [1998]
Liquid Child - Diving Faces (Vocalised Fairytale Remix) (1999)
Liquid Child - Diving Faces (DJ Icey's Arctic Mix)
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Liquid Child were a German dance music production duo,comprising Tobias Menguser and Jürgen Herbath. They had chart success in 1999, when they reached #25 in the UK Simgles Chart with "Diving Faces". Their next single release was "Return of Atlantis" (1999).
Albums
Non Stop Liquid (2000)
25th Floor (2007)
Singles
"Diving Faces" (1998)
"Return To Atlantis" (1999)
"Magic Crystals" (2001)
Minky - The Weekend Has Landed (Ruff Driverz Remix)
Minky - The Weekend Has Landed (Ruff Driverz Remix)
Minky - The Weekend Has Landed
Minky - The Weekend Has Landed
187 Lockdown - Gunman (Est 1987 Remix)
187 Lockdown - Gunman (Est 1987 Remix)
![Gunman [Original Mix]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ff_SADtyK5E/maxresdefault.jpg)
Gunman [Original Mix]
187 Lockdown - Gunman (Original Mix)
187 Lockdown was a British speed garage act, comprising Danny Harrison and Julian Jonah. The duo produced one album, with four singles released from it, and remixed many songs towards the end of the 1990s. The duo also recorded under a number of other aliases, such as Gant, Ground Control, Nu-Birth and M Factor. Of these, M Factor was the most commercially successful, notching up a UK top 20 hit with the vocal version of "Mother". After M Factor, Harrison went on become part of remix outfit Moto Blanco, Jonah still continues to work as a producer.
KUNG FU - 187 LOCKDOWN - P.O.T REMIX - 1998
KUNG FU - 187 LOCKDOWN - P.O.T REMIX - 1998
The Don
Lockdown 187 - The Don.
