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Mutant Funk
''Mutant Funk'' is the fifth studio album by Praga Khan Maurice Joseph François Engelen (born 7 January 1959), known by his stage name Praga Khan, is a Belgian electronic musician. Khan is considered one of the leading pioneers of the new beat/acid house/techno electronic dance music scene that origi .... It was released in 2000. Track listing # "The Power of the Flower" – 6:00 # "Love" – 4:29 # "Meditation" – 5:18 # "Keep the Dream Alive" – 5:28 # "Pittsburgh Angel" – 4:52 # "Sayonara Greetings" – 3:55 # "Dreamcatcher" – 4:55 # "Turn Me On" – 3:13 # "Northern Lights" – 6:02 # "The Moon" – 5:30 # "Immortal Sin" – 3:45 # "Eyeless in El Paso" – 4:10 Certifications Notes 2000 albums Praga Khan albums {{Belgium-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praga Khan
Maurice Joseph François Engelen (born 7 January 1959), known by his stage name Praga Khan, is a Belgian electronic musician. Khan is considered one of the leading pioneers of the new beat/acid house/techno electronic dance music scene that originated in Belgium. Khan has also contributed to the theatrical scene with his musical collaborations in ''The Next Dimension'' and ''Code Red''. Career In the late 1980s, Engelen teamed up with Jade 4U ( Nikkie van Lierop) and Olivier Adams to form Lords of Acid and multiple other projects including Channel X and Digital Orgasm. Khan's most famous solo work is "Injected with a Poison" (1992). The single "Free Your Body / Injected with a Poison", by Praga Khan featuring Jade 4U, reached #16 in the UK. "Rave Alert" also charted (#39). In 1992, Channel X's "Rave the Rhythm" was included in the soundtrack for ''Basic Instinct'', after director Paul Verhoeven had by chance heard the track in a New York City disco during the shooting. After thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Beat
Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno. The term has been used by the British music industry to describe music by artists such as the Prodigy, the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method, Propellerheads, Basement Jaxx and Groove Armada. Big beat achieved mainstream success during the 1990s, and achieved its critical and commercial peak between 1995 and 1999, with releases such The Chemical Brothers’ Dig Your Own Hole, Prodigy’s Fat of the Land, and Fatboy Slim’s You've Come a Long Way, Baby, before quickly declining from 2000 onwards. Style Big beat features heavy and distorted drum beats at tempos between 100 and 140 beats per minute, Roland TB-303 synthesizer lines resembling those of acid house, and heavy loops from 1960s and 1970s funk, soul, jazz, and rock songs. They are often punctuated with punk-style vocals or rappers and driven by in ... [...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] |
Trip Hop
Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as a psychedelic music, psychedelic fusion of hip hop music, hip hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound, often incorporating elements of jazz, soul music, soul, funk, reggae, dub music, dub, Contemporary R&B, R&B, and other forms of electronic dance music, electronic music, as well as sample (music), sampling from movie soundtracks and other eclectic sources. The style emerged as a more experimental music, experimental variant of breakbeat from the Bristol sound scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, incorporating influences from jazz, soul, funk, dub, and hip hop music, rap music. It was pioneered by acts like Massive Attack, Tricky (musician), Tricky, and Portishead (band), Portishead. The term was first coined in a 1994 ''Mixmag'' piece about American producer DJ Shadow. Trip ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acid House
Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer, an innovation attributed to Chicago producers DJ Pierre of Phuture and Sleezy D. Acid house soon became popular in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, where it was played by DJs in the acid house and later rave scenes. By the late 1980s, acid house had moved into the British mainstream, where it had some influence on pop and dance styles. Acid house brought house music to a worldwide audience. The influence of acid house can be heard in later styles of dance music including trance, hardcore, jungle, big beat, techno and trip hop. Characteristics Acid house's minimalist sound combined house music's ubiquitous programmed four-on-the-floor 4/4 beat with the electronic squelch sound produced by the Roland TB-303 ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twenty First Century Skin
''Twenty First Century Skin'' is the fourth studio album by Praga Khan Maurice Joseph François Engelen (born 7 January 1959), known by his stage name Praga Khan, is a Belgian electronic musician. Khan is considered one of the leading pioneers of the new beat/acid house/techno electronic dance music scene that origi .... It was released in 1999. Track listing # " Breakfast in Vegas" – 6:09 # "Isolation" – 5:41 # "Visions & Imaginations" – 4:15 # "Far Beyond the Sun" – 5:26 # "What's Wrong With Me" – 4:14 # "Lonely" – 5:33 # "Supersonic Lovetoy" – 3:23 # "Lady Alcohol" – 4:25 # "Bored Out of My Mind" – 4:47 # "Begin to Move" – 6:08 # "One Foot in the Grave" – 4:09 # "Adult Entertainment" – 3:34 Notes {{Authority control 1999 albums Praga Khan albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freakazoids (Praga Khan Album)
''Freakazoidz'' is the sixth studio album by Praga Khan. It was released in 2002. Track listing # "Glamour Girl" – 3:20 # "Visions of Heaven" – 5:08 # "Kinky World" – 3:58 # "Picture This" – 4:57 # " Tausend Sterne" – 4:30 # "Because of You" – 3:38 # "Look into the Future" – 5:31 # "Freakazoidz" – 2:55 # "No Earthly Connection ''No Earthly Connection'' is a studio album by English keyboardist Rick Wakeman, released in April 1976 on A&M Records. After touring worldwide in late 1975 in support of his previous studio album ''The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the ..." – 6:48 # "Skin to Skin" – 5:17 # "Fame" – 3:14 # "Your Lyin' Eyes" – 6:59 Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Freakazoidz (Praga Khan Album) 2002 albums Praga Khan albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
