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3000 Feet High
''3000 Feet High'' is the debut studio album by Australian singer-songwriter and music producer Paul Mac. It was released in August 2001 and peaked at No. 29 in Australia. It was nominated for three ARIA Music Awards and won one. Reception In the Mix said ''3000 Feet High'' is "a feast of eclectic sounds with its machinery-like clicks and beeps. It's quirky and funky and something that stays with you." Track listing ;CD Charts Accreditation ARIA Awards The ARIA Music Awards are presented annually from 1987 by the Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing ... (ARIA). , - , rowspan="3", 2002 , , 3000 Feet High , , Best Dance Release , , , - , , 3000 Feet High , , Best Male Artist , , , - , , 3000 Feet High , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Mac
Paul Francis McDermott (born 17 September 1965), who performs as Paul Mac, is an Australian electropop musician, singer-songwriter, producer and music re-mixer. He was classically trained at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Mac has formed various bands including Smash Mac Mac (1986–88), The Lab (1989–1998), Itch-E and Scratch-E (1991–present), Boo Boo Mace & Nutcase (1996–98), and The Dissociatives (2003–2005). Mac has released two solo albums, ''3000 Feet High'' (6 August 2001) and ''Panic Room'' (17 October 2005) – both appeared in the top 40 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2002 Mac won 'Best Dance Release' for ''3000 Feet High'' and was nominated for 'Best Male Artist' and ' Engineer of the Year'. In June 2001 he released his highest charting single, "Just the Thing", which featured lead vocals by Peta Morris. It reached No. 17 on the ARIA Singles Chart and at the APRA Music Awards of 2002 it won 'Most Performed Dance Work'. Mac pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting about west of centre of the state capital, close to Penrith on the outskirts of Greater Sydney region. The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. As defined in 1970, the Blue Mountains region is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers in the east, the Coxs River and Lake Burragorang to the west and south, and the Wolgan and Colo rivers to the north. Geologically, it is situated in the central parts of the Sydney Basin. The ''Blue Mountains Range'' comprises a range of mountains, plateau escarpments extending off the Great Dividing Range about northwest of Wolgan Gap in a generally southeasterly direction for about , terminating at . For about two-thirds of its len ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is a popular music subgenre that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s. It is generally uptempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable but also suitable for contemporary hit radio. Developing from a combination of dance and pop with influences of disco, post-discoSmay, David & Cooper, Kim (2001). ''Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears'': "... think about Stock-Aitken-Waterman and Kylie Minogue. Dance pop, that's what they call it now — Post-Disco, post-new wave and incorporating elements of both." Feral House: Publisher, p. 327. . and synth-pop, it is generally characterised by strong beats with easy, uncomplicated song structures which are generally more similar to pop music than the more free-form dance genre, with an emphasis on melody as well as catchy tunes. The genre, on the whole, tends to be producer-driven, despite some notable exceptions. Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Music
House is a music genre characterized by a repetitive Four on the floor (music), four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 120 beats per minute. It was created by Disc jockey, DJs and music producers from Chicago metropolitan area, Chicago's underground Clubbing (subculture), club culture in the late 1970s, as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat. House was pioneered by African Americans, African American DJs and producers in Chicago such as Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and others. House music expanded to other American cities such as New York City and became a worldwide phenomenon. House has had a large effect on pop music, especially dance music. It was incorporated by major international pop artists including Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson ("Together Again (Janet Jackson song), Together Again"), Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys and Madonna ("Vogu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Music Company
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panic Room (album)
''Panic Room'' is the second studio album by Australian singer-songwriter and music producer Paul Mac. It was released in October 2005 and peaked at No. 39 in Australia. The album was nominated for the "Best Dance Release" at the 2006 ARIA Music Awards, this is the award he won in 2002. The title refers to Paulmac's home studio where the album was recorded. "I've been working on my new album for the past couple of years and I'm really excited it's finally about to released", says Mac. "I can't wait to bring this album alive on stage with the singers, the choir and my band". Promotion On 14 October Paul Mac appeared on Channel s "What U Want" and Rove Live ''Rove'', also titled ''Rove Live'', was an Australian television variety show that featured live music performances and interviews with local and international celebrity guests. The program premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, bef .... On 29 September Paul Mac announced live performance throughout Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just The Thing
"Just the Thing" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter and music producer Paul Mac and features the vocals of Peta Morris. The song was released in June 2001 as the second single from Mac's debut studio album '' 3000 Feet High''. "Just the Thing" peaked at number 17 on the Australian ARIA Charts and was certified gold. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2001, the song was nominated for Best Male Artist and Best Dance Release. At the APRA Music Awards of 2002 APRA or Apra may refer to: Places * Apra, Punjab, a census town city in Jalandhar District of Punjab, India * Apra Harbor, the main port of Guam Acronyms * American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana), a Per ... the song won the APRA Award for Most Performed Dance Work. Reception Nick Jarvis from in the Mix said "From the gospel intro to the tribal conga drums, driving bassline and diva vocals exploring themes of "love on the dancefloor", 'Just the Thing' takes a swathe of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sound Of Breaking Up
"The Sound of Breaking Up" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter and music producer Paul Mac and features the vocals of Peta Morris. The song was released in October 2001 as the third single from Mac's debut studio album ''3000 Feet High''. "The Sound of Breaking Up" peaked at number 25 on the Australian ARIA Charts. At the APRA Music Awards of 2002 the song was nominated for the APRA Award for Most Performed Dance Work. Track listing # "The Sound of Breaking Up" – 3:20 # "The Sound of Breaking Up" (Paul Mac’s Afterdark remix) – 3:34 # "The Sound of Breaking Up" (L'More remix) – 7:34 # "Just the Thing "Just the Thing" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter and music producer Paul Mac and features the vocals of Peta Morris. The song was released in June 2001 as the second single from Mac's debut studio album '' 3000 Feet High''. "J ..." (Sgt Slick's Vinylvoyage Club mix) – 9:32 Charts Release history References {{DEFAULTSORT:S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The event has been held annually since 1987 and encompasses the general genre-specific and popular awards (these are what is usually being referred to as "the ARIA awards") as well as Fine Arts Awards and Artisan Awards (held separately from 2004), Achievement Awards and ARIA Hall of Fame – the latter were held separately from 2005 to 2010 but returned to the general ceremony in 2011. For 2010, ARIA introduced public voted awards for the first time. Winning, or even being nominated for, an ARIA award results in a lot of media attention and publicity on an artist, and usually increases recording sales several-fold, as well as chart significance – in 2005, for example, after Ben Lee won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby Dobson
Abby Dobson (born 1969) is an Australian singer and musician. Dobson was the lead vocalist for the pop band Leonardo's Bride. In 2002, Dobson recorded the song "Don't Ask For More" for ''The Secret Life of Us volume 2'' soundtrack compilation album released through Liberation Music. The following year, Dobson contributed the song "I'm Not Missing You" to ''The Secret Life of Us'' volume 3 soundtrack album. Dobson has collaborated with musician Paul Macthedwarf.com.au : Rise Up – Abby Dobson on several tracks, including "Gonna Miss You" and "Above the Clouds" from the 2001 album '''' and "The Beginning of the End Of Time" from the 2005 album '' |
The Sound Of Breaking Up
"The Sound of Breaking Up" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter and music producer Paul Mac and features the vocals of Peta Morris. The song was released in October 2001 as the third single from Mac's debut studio album ''3000 Feet High''. "The Sound of Breaking Up" peaked at number 25 on the Australian ARIA Charts. At the APRA Music Awards of 2002 the song was nominated for the APRA Award for Most Performed Dance Work. Track listing # "The Sound of Breaking Up" – 3:20 # "The Sound of Breaking Up" (Paul Mac’s Afterdark remix) – 3:34 # "The Sound of Breaking Up" (L'More remix) – 7:34 # "Just the Thing "Just the Thing" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter and music producer Paul Mac and features the vocals of Peta Morris. The song was released in June 2001 as the second single from Mac's debut studio album '' 3000 Feet High''. "J ..." (Sgt Slick's Vinylvoyage Club mix) – 9:32 Charts Release history References {{DEFAULTSORT:S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tex Perkins
Gregory Stephen Perkins (born 28 December 1964), better known by his stage name Tex Perkins, is an Australian singer-songwriter who fronted the Australian rock band The Cruel Sea, but has also performed with the Beasts of Bourbon, Thug, James Baker Experience, The Butcher Shop, Salamander Jim, and Tex, Don and Charlie. He has also released many solo records. In 1997, a portrait of Tex Perkins by artist Bill Leak won the Packing Room award at the Archibald Prize. Career 1980s: Early Groups Perkins started his musical career in Brisbane cowpunk outfit Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums,Audio interview with Tex Perkins on 612 ABC Brisbane [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
