{"id":89452,"date":"2012-05-24T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89452\/dance-ends\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:36:50","slug":"dance-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89452\/dance-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DANCE NEVER ENDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Reverence is basically an album of &#8216;filler&#8217; plus two epic songs (Insomnia and Salva Mea).\u00a0 Insomnia became an instant dance classic, upon its release in 1995.\u00a0 Faithless released a much better album in 1998.\u00a0 Sunday 8PM is more focused and consistent, compared with the debut.\u00a0 It contains another epic single (God Is A DJ).\u00a0 Three further singles were released from Sunday 8PM.\u00a0 Then the album was re-released with a bonus disc full of remixes (Saturday 3AM).\u00a0 Reverence was also re-released.\u00a0 The bonus disc (Irreverence) contains remixes.\u00a0 The third (and best) Faithless album received the same treatment (Outrospective was later re-released, as Outrospective\/Reperspective).\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pretty bad batch of remixes though.\u00a0 The album includes the singles We Come 1, Muhammad Ali, Tarantula and One Step Too Far.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faithless - God is a DJ\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qG59eLNL3kM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Rollo also released a solo album &#8211; under the alias Dusted.\u00a0 His sister (Dido) was a regular contributor on Faithless albums.\u00a0 After the disappointing No Roots and the accompanying &#8216;instrumental&#8217; album (Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow) Faithless released a singles collection (Forever Faithless) and announced there would be no further albums.\u00a0 Eighteen months later, a new album arrived.\u00a0 For All New Arrivals is mostly very gentle.\u00a0 It is loosely conceived (so to speak) around the subject of birth (and the hopes and fears which accompany the arrival of a child in one&#8217;s life).\u00a0 The Dance, as the title suggests, is an album full of juicy dance tracks.\u00a0 The singles Sun To Me, Tweak Your Nipple and Not Going Home stand out.\u00a0 The Dance Never Ends was released later the same year.\u00a0 It includes the whole album, an extra track and a bonus disc of satisfactory remixes.\u00a0 Faithless officially split last year.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faithless - Tweak Your Nipple (NEW SONG) + Lyrics\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GnzO7frAoic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Eight years after The Housemartins split, bassist Norman Cook released his first album as Fatboy Slim.\u00a0 Better Living Through Chemistry is a purely electronic &#8216;big-beat&#8217; album (nothing like The Housemartins).\u00a0 Norman Cook had already dabbled in the club scene, under the pseudonym Pizzaman.\u00a0 Nobody noticed.\u00a0 His tracks were unremarkable.\u00a0 It was a transitional period.\u00a0 By the end of the nineties, Fatboy Slim was a household name.\u00a0 Norman Cook clearly had loads of fun creating his best album.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve Come A Long Way, Baby is fantastic.\u00a0 Four singles were released &#8211; including Praise You and Right Here, Right Now.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ULVQOneeZE<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">The fun continued on the next two albums (Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars and Palookaville).\u00a0 Four singles were released from each album.\u00a0 The singles collection (Why Try Harder) was released in 2006.\u00a0 It contains two exclusive Fatboy Slim tracks plus a couple of Norman Cook&#8217;s remixes.\u00a0 I recommend the CD\/DVD set, as most of the videos are suitably fun-filled.\u00a0 If you want ALL of the videos, a separate DVD is available.\u00a0 Norman Cook released an album under the pseudonym Brighton Port Authority in 2009.\u00a0 Collaborators include David Byrne, Iggy Pop and Justin Robertson.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t heard I Think We&#8217;re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat.\u00a0 It received positive reviews.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dins1tqcoAw&#038;feature=relmfu<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Felix Stallings Junior is another musician who has operated under several pseudonyms (eg. Rocketmann and Thee Maddkatt Courtship).\u00a0 He has settled on Felix Da Housecat and has released five albums.\u00a0 Kittenz And Thee Glitz (2001) is the best of them.\u00a0 It is an electroclash classic, featuring Miss Kittin on some of the tracks.\u00a0 There have been four albums since then (if you include Son Of Analogue, which was released exclusively by Mixmag).\u00a0 Each of them contain some good dance tracks, but they are few and far between.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Madame Hollywood (feat. Miss Kittin)- Felix Da Housecat\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3EJ_UBgjpW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Taking his cues from punk and industrial music, Frank Tovey fused elements of these genres with pop.\u00a0 The result was dark and disjointed synth-pop (not unlike Cabaret Voltaire and The Human League&#8217;s early output).\u00a0 He was the first artist to sign to Mute Records &#8211; as Fad Gadget.\u00a0 He was supported by Depeche Mode in the early eighties.\u00a0 He later supported Depeche Mode, on the Exciter tour in 2001.\u00a0 Four Fad Gadget albums were released between 1980 and 1984.\u00a0 From 1986, Frank Tovey dropped the pseudonym.\u00a0 After The Fad Gadget Singles and Snakes &amp; Ladders, he went on to release four more albums (between 1988 and 1992).\u00a0 He lost a lot of fans when he started writing acoustic protest songs.\u00a0 It was a complete change of direction (it was basically folk music).\u00a0 He became less popular with each album.\u00a0 He was in the process of making a comeback as Fad Gadget, at the time of his death in 2002.\u00a0 He was forty five years old.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zP2TJpNcjPM<\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"4\">Further listening<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"by Temple (1 of Frank Tovey&amp;apos;s backing bands ) - Soroguai\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VmIICUcTYdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne - Lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XaNuB52_Irc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook) (Monaco Drum Remix)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l0JdxeUj30w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverence is basically an album of &#8216;filler&#8217; plus two epic songs (Insomnia and Salva Mea).\u00a0 Insomnia became an instant dance classic, upon its release in 1995.\u00a0 Faithless released a much better album in 1998.\u00a0 Sunday 8PM is more focused and consistent, compared with the debut.\u00a0 It contains another epic single (God Is A DJ).\u00a0 Three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5240,5237,5238,5239,5241,108],"class_list":["post-89452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-fad-gadget","tag-faithless","tag-fatboy-slim","tag-felix-da-housecat","tag-frank-tovey","tag-music-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}