Electribe 101 produced electronic soul in the early 90s that was both glacial and warm (more here ). Glacial in the vocals and warm in the music. From the remix 123 of 1990 single Inside Out comes this curiously entitled number. Warning: contains sax. Electribe 101 - Mummy I'm Sick, I'm Underwater Buy
Tweet When I was but a wee lad, one could always find me laying on my bed with the radio blaring. In the days when top 40 radio actually played dance music, more specifically Euro-dance, it was always a treat to hear Your Loving Arms by Billie Ray Martin come on. My ears immediately perked up and off the bed I went. The destination was the mirror where I would pick up a hair brush and valiantly attempt to belt out BURNING INSIDE, YEAH. BURNING [...]
We changed the name of the Friday night party we hold down at badformat... Robo:Love I guess we just wanted to be a little more synths and smiles... see you there! As well as some moniker brain storming we have been further extending our musical journey of discovery, mining the far flung corners of the internet to get some quality sound gems. I wholly recommend checking Slutty Fringe and Disco Delicious for heaps of audio treasure. What [...]
Here are some of my favorite Frankie Knuckles remixes. These are from an era of soulful deep house, before thick neck British blokes with shaved arms took over. Here is also a live mix from Gallery 21 in Chicago from 1987. Sorry for the marginal sound quality, please hit us up if you have any high quality mixes. Electribe 101 - Talking With Myself (Frankie Knuckles Mix) Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody (Frankie Knuckles Remix) Frankie Knuckles - Live at Gallery 21 Chicago in 1987
Groove Corporation make soulful house. Formed from the ashes of Electribe 101, they are still going today. From their bio: The Groove Corporation first appeared in the public eye as Electribe 101. Hailed by the N.M.E. as the forefront of the British house movement, at a time when house was experimental and only heard on pirate radio or in underground, mainly illegal clubs. They managed to achieve 3 top 40 singles and a top 20 album, but soon became disillusioned with the [...]
Some more icey electronic soul from Electribe 101, a group described as "Imagine Aretha Franklin backed by Kraftwerk". In late 1990, the band released their reading of the classic Jesse Rae song Inside Out (a hit, amongst others, for the group Odyssey in the early 1980s). Perhaps due to fallings-out with their management and a lack of a unified vision for the group's future, promotion was inadequate. The song failed to reach the Top 75. It has become an underground classic, as have all of their single releases. [...]
We've had Electribe 101 previously as part of the Charity Shop classics series. Now it's time to give this classic group their own posts. For a group that produced only one album and a small handful of singles, their work has had surprising longevity. Named after a Soviet refrigerator and/or the popular Roland SH-101 synthesiser, the band was comprised of four electronic composers/producers from Birmingham. These were (Brian Nordhoff, Joe Stevens, Les Fleming, and Roberto Cimarosti) and a female vocalist from Hamburg, Germany (Billie Ray Martin). [...]
Two more artists from this weekend's charity shop trawl, both of which come under the letter E, which should be arriving in the next couple of weeks. Think of these tracks from Electribe 101 and Everything But The Girl as a taster. Originating at the turn of the 1980s as the archetypal indie bedsit band, Everything but the Girl became an unlikely success story more than a decade later, emerging at the vanguard of the fusion between pop and electronica. Founded in 1982 by Hull University students Tracey Thorn and Ben [...]
in my formative indie years, i.e. ca. 1990, i was short of money and long on a thirst for this new music called indie. before then i had never really concerned myself particularly with genres and record labels and all that stuff. no, i was too busy listening to queen, eurythmics and def leppard to care about that. but then the stone roses and ride came along and kicked the shit out of all that. and suddenly i was wide awake, eyes wide open, legs spread, arms outstretched (you get the idea) for more. so being a skint [...]
Dubbed the " Queen Of Electronic Sou l" Billie Ray Martin's sumptuous vocals have graced numerous classic tracks stretching back 20 years. Luckily the voice is as timeless as her energy is seemingly undimmed, with projects bursting forth left, right, and most often off centre. A solo top 20 in the states, a club night and DJ career, and now her new "Carpenters meets Kraftwerk" group "The Opiates". The name Opiates is obviously open to interpretation but the disappointingly mundane truth is its the name of one of Billie's favourite albums (by Swedish post-rockers Anywhen). This [...]
YouTube Direktvideo link Ok so it's been a minute since our last 90s post, but tonite is YOYOYO 90s JAM so it's a good time to bring it back. First of all that video up there is I'm Gunna Get You by none other than Bizzare Inc featuring the oh so early 90s vocalist Angie Brown (more on her below). What you might not know is that before dropping this massive cheese dance hit Bizarre Inc had some serious rave anthems, especially 1991's [...]
Acid Ted
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
PARTYCMYK
Beat Electric
the blackened air
music like dirt
Soul Clap
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Crystalfilm
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