Friday, 21 January 2022

BG Prince of Rap

Bernard Greene is an American rapper, who is best known for the US Dance #1 hit "This beat is hot" in 1991. Having been based in Germany after joining the US Army, he launched his career there with major Eurodance influences. "This beat is hot" reached #1 on the US Dance chart and the follow up "Take control of the party" made #2 in 1991. "The color of my dreams" was his biggest hit in Germany (#13) and also reached #1 on Canada Dance Chart in 1994.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date  Ger  USD	Song
1991   21   1	This Beat Is Hot
1991   36   -	Give Me the Music
1991   49   2	Take Control of the Party
1992   49  32	The Power of Rhythm
1993   34   -	Can We Get Enough?
1994   13   -	The Colour of My Dreams
1994   37   -	Rock a Bit
1995   45   -	Can't Love You
1996   53   -	Stomp!

What happened next?
BG still fairly active with his last release being "Sugar" with Chrizz Morisson and Timi Kullai.

Bassheads

Bassheads was a British house duo from Wirral and consisted of Nick Murphy and Eamonn Anthony Deery (Desa). The group had a big European hit with "Is There Anybody Out There?" Subsequent singles "Back To The Old School" (UK chart position, Number 12) and "Who Can Make You Feel Good" (UK chart position, Number 38) followed in the same style of their pulsating house/sample work. They also remixed tracks for Oceanic, Björk and Visage.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Nov 1991    5	Is There Anybody Out There	
May 1992   12	Back To The Old School	
Nov 1992   38	Who Can Make Me Feel Good	
Jul 1995   24	Is There Anybody Out There (remix)

What happened next?
Nick Murphy contiues to produce and perform music. He has released recordings under the alias of "Angel" and more recently been involved in film score/ambient work.
Desa Bassheads went on to record a duet for EMI records with Garry Christian (The Christians) an up-dated version of the George Harrison classic "My Sweet Lord" in February 2008.

Barbara Tucker

Barbara Tucker is an American soul, dance and house music singer. She is best known for the 90s dance hits, "Beautiful People", "I Get Lifted", "Stay Together" and "Everybody dance". All reached #1 on US Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
Hailing from New York, Tucker found her voice from her love for singing in Church. Along with prolific dance music career, she has backing vocal credits ranging from George Clinton to Deee-Lite. Tucker also acts and choreographes notably with C&C Music Factory, Soul System, Jay Williams and Deee-Lite.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1994   23	Beautiful People
Nov 1994   33	I Get Lifted
Aug 1998   28	Everybody Dance (The Horn Song)

What happened next?
Barbara Tucker has since added 4 more US dance chart #1s to her collection. At time of writing, she has 8. "Stop playing with my mind" in 2000 (also reached #17 on the UK chart) was her fifth dance chart #1. She teamed up with Blaze on "Most precious love" in 2005. The Freemasons remix reached #17 on the UK chart, a year later. "Love Vibrations" (2007) and a cover of Lyn Collins' "Think (about it)" (2018) complete her collection of US Dance #1s. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 63rd most successful dance artist of all-time (arguably should be higher now). Tucker is the only recording artist to have had a yearly residency in Ibiza.

Bamboo

Bamboo was an English disco house project created by Andrew "Doc" Livingstone (member of Hed Boys) and Erin Lordan. They are best known for the 1998 dance hit, "Bamboogie", which heavily sampled KC and the sunshine band's "Get down tonight".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1998    2	Bamboogie
Jul 1998   36	The strutt

Friday, 14 January 2022

All Seeing I

All Seeing I were an English electronic music group from Sheffield comprising Dean Honer, Jason Buckle and DJ Parrot. They are best known for their debut single, "The Beat Goes On", which spent 1 week at #1 on the UK Dance Chart and revamped the Buddy Rich version. Oddly, their other 2 UK Top 40 hits, Walk like a Panther" (with Tony Christie) and "1st man in space" (with Phil Oakley) charted higher.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1998   11	Beat Goes On 
Jan 1999   10	Walk Like A Panther '98 (featuring Tony Christie)	 
Sep 1999    8	1st Man In Space

What happened next?
All seeing I did not see past 2000. Dean Honer went on to front the similarly styled group, I Monster and Moon Landingz.
Buckle went on to be a part-time member of Fat Truckers and formed Relaxed Muscle with Jarvis Cocker. He also has a brief cameo as one of the Wyrd Sisters rock band in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, along with Cocker, Pulp's Steve Mackey, Steve Claydon of Add N to (X), and Phil Selway and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.
Barratt was part of the duo Sweet Exorcist with Richard H. Kirk (of Cabaret Voltaire fame).

Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean were a Dutch house/trance outfit consisting of producer Lex van Coeverden (June 17) and Rene Van Der Weyde. They are best known for the various mixes of "Waterfall".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Feb 1994   22	Waterfall
Jul 1994   15	Body In Motion
Nov 1996   21	Waterfall (remix)

What happened next?
Last known release was "Poekauw/The Realm" in 2006. van Coeverden went on open a vinyl cutting and mastering room in 2005. van Coeverden still maintains Dance International Records.

Apollo 440

Apollo 440 is an English electronic music group formed in Liverpool in 1990. The name came from the Greek god, Apollo and the frequency of concert pitch, the A note at 440 Hz, often denoted as "A440", and the Sequential Circuits sampler/sequencer, the Studio 440. The group was known for recording, remixing and collaborating a number of artists. They remixed as remixed as Apollo 440 and as ambient cinematic alter-ego Stealth Sonic Orchestra, and created music for film, television, advertisements and multimedia. Their biggest UK hit was the reworking of "Lost in Space" (UK#4 1998) for the movie of the same name. "Ain't talkin' 'bout dub" heavily sampled Van Halen's "Ain't talkin' 'bout love" from 1978 and that reached the UK top 10. In the 90s, they notched ten top-40 UK singles.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1994   36	Astral America
Nov 1994   35	Liquid Cool
Mar 1995   35	(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Jul 1996   23	Krupa	 
Sep 1996   24	Krupa (re-entry)
Feb 1997    7	Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub
Jul 1997   32	Raw Power
Jul 1998   12	Rendez-Vous 98 (Jean-Michel Jarre & Apollo 440)	 
Aug 1998    4	Lost In Space 
Aug 1999   10	Stop The Rock
Dec 2000   29	Charlie's Angels 2000

What happened next?
Apollo 440 scored one more UK top 40 hit when reworking the Charlie's Angels theme tune in 2000. Last release was "A deeper dub EP" in 2011.