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Groove Terminator
Simon Lewicki, also known as Groove Terminator and GT, is an Australian electronic music artist. Originally a Hip hop music, hip-hop Disc jockey, DJ, he eventually began spinning house music. He was featured in the 2000 Australian edition of Ministry of Sound's Club Nation series, as well as several other Ministry of Sound compilations. His song "Here Comes Another One" became the theme of the popular Australian (and worldwide) reality TV-show 'The Block (Australian TV series), The Block' and had featured previously in the cult spoof-slasher film, ''Cut (2000 film), Cut'' (1999). Career Lewicki's parents founded the first community radio station in Adelaide and his mother was a radio presenter. Simon's DJing began with the casual production of mix-tapes on the weekends as a youth. He was a fan of punk rock prior to discovering electronic and dance music. The first concert Lewicki attended as a child (aged eight) was Ramones, The Ramones at Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, Adelaid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Losing Ground (song)
"Losing Ground" is a song by Australian electronic music group, Groove Terminator. It was released in 1997 on 12" vinyl and in May 1998 on CD single. A remixed version is included on the band's debut studio album ''Road Kill''. The song peaked at number 64 on the Australian ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1998, the song was nominated for ARIA Award for Best New Talent and ARIA Award for Best Video The ARIA Award for Best Video, is presented at the annual ARIA Awards, which recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an o ... (Chris Bently). Track listings 12" Vinyl (Interdance – ID 005) # "Losing Ground" (Original mix) - 5:52 # "Losing Ground" (Johnny Lisbon remix) - 6:05 # "Losing Ground" (Coursey & Duane's Mirrorball remix) - 8:05 # "Losing Ground" (Code Warrior remix) - 6:27 CD single (Interdance – 724388518420) # "Losing Ground" (Radio edit) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One More Time (The Sunshine Song)
"One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" is a song by Australian electronic music group Groove Terminator. It was released in May 2000 as the second official single from the band's debut studio album, ''Road Kill''. The song contains an exploration of "Let the Sunshine In" and peaked at number 25 on the Australian ARIA Charts The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offic .... Track listings CD single (Interdance/Virgin – 724389663426) # "One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" – 3:23 # "One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" (Killers on the Loose remix) – 5:26 # "One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" (extended mix) – 5:20 # "Afraid of the Dark Part 1" – 5:09 # "Give It Up" (Force Mass Motion mix) – 7:14 Charts References 2000 songs 2000 singles {{2000s-Australia-singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Kill (Groove Terminator Album)
''Road Kill'' is the debut studio album by Australian dance musician Groove Terminator. It was released in February 2000 and peaked at number 39 on the ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000, the album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Male Artist and ARIA Award for Best Cover Art. Reception The Age said "''Roadkill'' mashed up punky guitar riffage, groove-laden hip-hop, pogoing choruses, rough breaks and anthemic big-beat." Track listing # "What's Your Name?" - 4:21 # "One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" - 4:07 # "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?" - 3:20 # "Yo Baby" - 4:16 # "You Can't See" (featuring Kool Keith) - 6:37 # "The Human Beatbox" - 4:24 # "Here Comes Another One" (featuring Basshoppa) - 3:30 # "I've Got It in for You" - 8:02 # "Notorious (Duran Duran song), Notorious" - Duran Duran cover - 4:53 # "Not Everything" (featuring Cameron Baines)- 3:41 # "Losing Ground (song), Losing Ground" (featuring Zena) (F.I.S.T. remix) - 7:19 Charts References 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer. Electromechanical instruments can have mechanical parts such as strings, hammers, and electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano and the electric guitar."The stuff of electronic music is electrically produced or modified sounds. ... two basic definitions will help put some of the historical discussion in its place: purely electronic music versus electroacoustic music" ()Electroacoustic music may also use electronic effect units to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bexta
BeXta is the performance name of Rebecca Elizabeth Poulsen, a trance and hard dance, DJ and producer. She studied classical music and music technology before turning to electronic dance music from 1992. BeXta established her own label, Mixology Digital, in 2000. Biography Rebecca Elizabeth Poulsen studied at Queensland Conservatorium of Music for a Bachelor of Sonology. She started creating her own music using keyboards and computers in 1992 and started performing live as BeXta in 1993. BeXta extended her talents to DJing in 1997 and her first weekly residency was Plastic in Sydney in 1998. In 1995 she released her first single, "Lunar Tango", on an independent label in Melbourne. She supported shows by Björk and by Prodigy. Her debut album, ''beXtaIsm'', was issued on a music cassette in that same year. Bexta has several single releases currently, after the release of the EP - Skirmish LIVE, this was received well entering the ARIA singles charts in 1999. One album, Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Music Awards Of 1998
The 12th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 20 October 1998 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. Presenters, including Democrats deputy leader Natasha Stott Despoja and former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, distributed 29 awards with the big winner Natalie Imbruglia receiving six trophies. In addition to previous categories, a new category Best Rock Album, was presented to the Superjesus for ''Sumo''. An Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to Savage Garden for "world sales of 8 million and counting." The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: the Angels and the Masters Apprentices. Ceremony details The ceremony was hosted by comedian and TV presenter Paul McDermott with a capacity crowd of 1900 attending. Presenters (see below for full list) distributed 29 trophies. Best Group winners the Whitlams received their award from the group's namesake Gough Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Music
The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions of indigenous and Western styles are exemplified in the works of Yothu Yindi, No Fixed Address, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu and Christine Anu, and mark distinctly Australian contributions to world music. Australian music's early western history, was a collection of British colonies, Australian folk music and bush ballads, with songs such as "Waltzing Matilda" and ''The Wild Colonial Boy'' heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, Indeed many bush ballads are based on the works of national poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson. Contemporary Australian music ranges across a broad spectrum with trends often concurrent with those of the US, the UK, and similar nations—notably in the Australian rock and Australian country music g ... [...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] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974. History The ''Go-Set'' charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts, published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding ''Go-Set'', the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940 to 1974 in a retrospective fashion using state-based data. In mid-1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the ''Countdown'' chart, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonite Only
Tonite Only is an electronic music group formed late 2005 in Sydney, Australia, which disbanded late 2006, only to reform a few years later. Its two members are Sam Littlemore (Sam La More) and Simon Lewicki (Groove Terminator), leading proponents in the Australian electronic music scene. In 2006, the duo released "Danger (The Bomb)" and "Where the Party's At" and soon after announced that they would separate and focus on their respective solo careers. In 2006, they also remixed Sneaky Sound System's track Pictures which peaked at number one on the ARIA Club Tracks Chart for a record-equaling thirteen weeks. In 2008, the pair reunited to remix (Ministry of Sound label-mate) Hook n Sling's "The Best Thing", a cover of the 1980s Boom Crash Opera song. In 2011 they resumed production together and released the single, "We Run the Nite" which peaked at number 42 in the Australian pop charts. Discography Singles Awards AIR Awards The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chili Hi Fly
Chili Hi Fly are a collective of singers, musicians and Record producers, producers from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, put together by Simon Lewicki (aka Groove Terminator) and Noel Burgess. Their disco-inspired track "Is It Love?" (which featured Sampling (music), samples from a 1980s Kool & the Gang song, "Be My Lady") peaked at number 57 on the ARIA Charts in 1998. It went to number 1 on the United States, US ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Songs, Hot Dance Music/Club Play Record chart, chart in 2001. The same track peaked at #37 in the UK Singles Chart in March 2000. In 2015, "Is It Love" was listed at number 30 in In the Mix's '100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time' with Jody Macgregor saying "They warped and stuttered the original as if it had been altered by its travel through time, mutated into some new shape and then let loose to monster the dancefloors of the 21st century". They also had a follow-up, "It's Alright", peaking at number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
