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(Instrumentals, producer, vocals, b. 1965) New Yorker Richard Melville Hall started his career in punk Vatican Commandos before becoming fascinated by the sound and possibilities of dance music when it emerged during the 1980s. Ambient and techno works won him club reputation with tracks like ‘Go’ and ‘I Feel It’ seeping into the lower branches of UK charts. His abilities continued to develop throughout the 1990s reflected in chart success of ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Electronic group, 1989–present) Initially working under the name The Dust Brothers, Tom Rowlands and Edward Simons began their career as DJs and remixers. After threats of litigation from US Dust Brothers they began recording under the name The Chemical Brothers. Their eclectic, analogue beat-driven dance tracks won a huge following. Live work and collaborations with John Lydon, Noel Gallagher and Beth Orton also displayed their versatility. Albums Dig Your Own Hole ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Dance/vocal group, 1990–present) After releasing the infectious ‘Charly’, Prodigy mainman Liam Howlett secured acid-house credentials with a series of singles, recruiting dancers Keith Flint and Leeroy Thornhill and singer MC Maxim to distract live audiences from his knob-twiddling. Music For The Jilted Generation (1994) displayed wide-ranging styles fused on to the frenetic beats. The Fat Of The Land (1997) broke the band worldwide via Flint-sung ‘Firestarter’, a UK No. 1. Invaders ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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In the early 1980s, Derrick May was one of a triumvirate of techno pioneers in Detroit who began providing a soundtrack for the future. May was friends with Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins at junior high school in Belleville. Atkins turned them on to music by the likes of Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk and the sprawling Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic funk beast. The home of Motown, Detroit certainly was a funk city but its car ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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