Chili Hi Fly are a collective of singers, musicians and

producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *A stakeholder of economic production *Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...

s from

Sydney, New South Wales Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, put together by Simon Lewicki (aka

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 Min ...

) and Noel Burgess. Their

disco Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric pia ...

-inspired track "Is It Love?" (which featured 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 US ''

Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertise ...

Hot Dance Music/Club Play Dance Club Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It is a national look over of club disc jockeys to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the country. It was launched as th ...

chart A chart (sometimes known as a graph) is a graphical representation for data visualization, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart". A chart can represent tabu ...

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 22 on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart that same year.

Discography

Singles

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;", UK
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;", US Dance Music/Club Play
, - ! scope="row", "Is It Love?" , rowspan="1", 1998 , 57 , , 37 , , 1 , - ! scope="row", "It's Alright" , rowspan="1", 2002 , 95 , , - , , 22 , - ! scope="row", "I Go Crazy" (featuring Jonas) , rowspan="1", 2009 , - , , - , , - , - ! scope="row", "Higher Ground" (with Olsen) , rowspan="1", 2018 , - , , - , , -

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

The

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 Austr ...

is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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 ...

. They commenced in 1987. Chili Hi Fly were nominated for one award.ARIA Award previous winners. , - ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, ''Is it Love'' ,

ARIA Award for Best Dance Release The ARIA Music Award for Best Dance Release, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987. It is handed out by the Australian Recording Indus ...

, , -

References

{{Authority control Australian electronic musicians

Discography

Singles

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

See also

References