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Rebel Music (Rebel MC Album)
''Rebel Music'' is the debut album by British rapper and producer Rebel MC, released in 1990 on Desire Records. Singles The album contains four singles which charted in several countries: "Just Keep Rockin'" (with Double Trouble; UK No. 11, Belgium No. 14, Netherlands No. 3), "Street Tuff" (also with Double Trouble; UK No. 3, Australia No. 85, Belgium No. 7, Netherlands No. 3, New Zealand No. 29, Sweden No. 12), "Better World" (UK No. 20, Belgium No. 22, Netherlands No. 14, New Zealand No. 4) and the title track "Rebel Music" (UK No. 53, Netherlands No. 84, New Zealand No. 15). Track listing Charts References {{Reflist External links''Rebel Music''at Discogs Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the ... 1990 debut albums Albums produced by Simon Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel MC
Michael Alec Anthony West (born 27 August 1964 in Islington, London, England), better known as Rebel MC and Congo Natty, is a British jungle producer and toaster. He has also gone by aliases including Conquering Lion, Blackstar, Tribe of Issachar, Lion of Judah, X Project and Ras Project. Biography In the late 1980s, West formed the group Double Trouble with Michael Menson, Karl Brown (more commonly known as the UK garage DJ Karl 'Tuff Enuff' Brown) and Leigh Guest. This would lead to two hip house records reaching the UK Top 40 in 1989 - "Just Keep Rockin'" followed by "Street Tuff". The latter reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. These would appear shortly after on his debut album '' Rebel Music''. In 1991, West released his second album, ''Black Meaning Good'', which combined his former hip house and pop-rap influences with a stronger reggae and breakbeat edge. The album featured notable reggae and dancehall artists such as Barrington Levy, Tenor Fly and Dennis Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Trouble (dance Music Producers)
Double Trouble were an English dance record production and remixing trio in the house and hip house scene, active during the late 1980s and early 1990s. History The group consisted of members Karl 'Tuff Enuff' Brown, Leigh Guest and Michael Menson and first rose to prominence through their collaborations with the Rebel MC on the Polydor/Desire releases " Just Keep Rockin'" and " Street Tuff", which reached numbers 5 and 1 respectively on the UK Indie Chart in 1989. "Just Keep Rockin'" then reached number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, while "Street Tuff" reached number 3, becoming their biggest hit. These two singles were included on Rebel MC's debut album, '' Rebel Music'', as well as going on to feature on Double Trouble's own debut album, ''As One'', which also spawned the singles "Don't Give Up", "Talk Back" and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" - a cover of the Rose Royce track. In 1991, a club/reggae single was released, entitled "Rub-A-Dub". New interest in "Just Keep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith & Mighty
Smith & Mighty are an English trip hop group from Bristol, England, consisting of Rob Smith and Ray Mighty. Their first releases, in the late 1980s, were breakbeat covers of " Anyone Who Had a Heart" and " Walk On By". Both songs entered the UK Singles Chart. Their work was associated with the Bristol sound, a precursor to trip hop. They produced Massive Attack's first single, "Any Love" released in 1988. In 1989, they produced "Wishing on a Star" for Fresh Four, which charted in the UK at number 10. Discography Studio albums * '' Bass Is Maternal'' ( More Rockers, 1995) * '' Big World Small World'' (Studio !K7, 2000) * ''Life Is...'' (Studio !K7, 2002) * ''The Ashley Road Sessions 88-94'' (Punch Drunk, 2018) Compilation albums * ''Retrospective'' (Studio !K7, 2004) * ''The Three Stripe Collection 1985-1990'' ( Bristol Archive Records, 2012) DJ mix albums * '' DJ-Kicks: Smith & Mighty'' (Studio !K7, 1998) EPs * ''Stepper's Delight'' (Three Stripe/London/PolyGram, 1992) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Law
Simon Law (born 28 May 1961, in Luton, England) is a producer, keyboardist and songwriter for Soul II Soul. Career Law is an original member of Soul II Soul. The band had a #1 UK hit single with "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)", where he appeared in one of the song's two music videos, and a Top 10 hit with " Keep On Movin'". The band were awarded two Grammys for the songs "Back to Life" and the instrumental "African Dance", both of which Law co-wrote. He worked on all subsequent Soul II Soul albums apart from ''Volume III Just Right'', producing and co-writing many of the band's other UK hit singles, including "Missing You", "Love Enuff" and "Represent". He performs with the band regularly to this day and was on the Jools Holland show '' Later'' in November 2012. Law is also a record producer who has worked with artists such as Chanté Moore ("Love's Taken Over"), James "J.T." Taylor, and Maxi Priest Max Alfred "Maxi" Elliott (born 10 June 1961), known by his stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Tuff
"Street Tuff" is a 1989 song by British producer and toaster Rebel MC and Double Trouble. Released as their second single from the debut album, '' Rebel Music'' (1990), it became a commercial success and the biggest hit of both performers' careers, peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart. It is the follow-up to their first hit, "Just Keep Rockin'", which made it into the UK top 20. Additionally "Street Tuff" also peaked within the top 10 in Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. A music video was produced to promote the single. Critical reception David Taylor-Wilson from ''Bay Area Reporter'' said the song is "one of the most infectious grooves we've heard all year." He noted that it "mixes the rhythms of Jamaican reggae with a house music beat. Just try and sit still when this one’s playing." Bill Coleman from ''Billboard'' wrote that "clever rhyming powered by insinuating club beats could generate multiformat play to follow the U.K. act's previous smash, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Better World
"Better World" is a song by British music producer Rebel MC Michael Alec Anthony West (born 27 August 1964 in Islington, London, England), better known as Rebel MC and Congo Natty, is a British jungle producer and toaster. He has also gone by aliases including Conquering Lion, Blackstar, Tribe of Issach .... Released in 1990, the song was later included on Rebel MC's debut album, '' Rebel Music'' (1990). Upon its release, "Better World" reached number 20 in the United Kingdom, number 10 in the Netherlands, and number four in New Zealand. Track listings CD single # "Better World" (Peace radio mix) # "Better World" (Peace mix) # "Better World" (Unity mix) Cassette single :A. "Better World" (Peace radio mix) :B. "Better World" (Unity mix) 7-inch single :A. "Better World" (Peace radio mix) :B. "Better World" (Unity radio mix) 12-inch single :A. "Better World" (Peace mix) :B. "Better World" (Unity mix) Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 1989 songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MC Kinky
Caron Liza Geary (born 15 October 1963 in Paddington, London), known by various stage names, is an English female raggamuffin Deejay (Jamaican)#Toasting, toaster. She was the first white female reggae/dancehall MC. According to Geary, her first recorded appearance was on a cover of "Kid Ralph", a dancehall track by Little Twitch. The song talks about a "legendary" homosexual figure in Jamaica's prison system. She has subsequently worked as a solo artist and with other musicians, including Erasure and Boy George, who described her music as "the dirtiest 'slackest' reggae I'd heard since the seventies". Background Growing up in Marylebone, Geary lived adjacent to an after-hours party which blasted out reggae music; as a result, Geary was exposed to reggae from a very young age. It is these experiences which inspired her to write the controversial song "Everything Starts with an 'E'" as part of E-Zee Possee, which was banned by the BBC because of its lyrics and made No. 69 in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Debut Albums
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 '' Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
