Krush were a UK dance music group, who had a crossover

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with "

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" in 1987.

Career

The group consisted of musicians Mark Gamble, Cassius Campbell and record producers Mark Brydon and Robert Gordon. Ruth Joy was the featured vocalist. "

", a

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-based dance track, was a No. 3 hit on the UK Singles Chart in December 1987 into January 1988. Alongside similar releases by artists such as Bomb the Bass and S'Express, "House Arrest" is considered a pioneering example of British house music. It has since been licensed to numerous

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s. Their second single "Walking on Sunshine" was a club hit in 1992, and peaked at No. 71 on the UK Singles Chart. Brydon went on to have continued success with a variety of other projects within

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/dance music. The most notable of these was as the producer of The Funky Worm, who had a top 40 hit in the UK in 1988, with "Hustle (To the Music)". However, Brydon's biggest success came from the mid-1990s onwards with vocalist

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, as the producer of Moloko. Gordon was also well known within Sheffield's music scene, and was the co-producer of Forgemasters' "Track with No Name", one of the seminal tracks of the

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scene. Gordon was also a co-founder of Warp Records, until leaving the label acrimoniously in 1991. In 1989, Ruth Joy (real name Ruth Joy Oram) launched a solo career, releasing the single "Don't Push It" ( UK No. 66) (backed with "Gimme Your Love") on MCA Records. Both tracks were produced by

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. She followed it up with the single "Soul Power", and in 1991 she released the Carl McIntosh-produced (of the band Loose Ends) "Feel" (UK No. 67). All of these tracks, plus some additional ones, ended up on her 1992 album, ''Pride and Joy''.

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