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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Jamiroquai
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Jamiroquai are a British funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992. Subsequent albums have explored other musical directions such as pop, rock, the band name is a mix of jam and iroquai, based on the Iroquois, a Native American tribe. The original band was Jay Kay, Toby Smith, Stuart Zender, Nick Van Gelder, Wallis Buchanan and these are the founding members of Jamiroquai and were involved in the writing and production of the first album. Kay was the impetus behind the formation of Jamiroquai, deciding to form the band after an audition to become the singer of the Brand New Heavies. Although he has said that he has attempted to have Jamiroquai treated as a band, Jamiroquais first single, When You Gonna Learn, was released in 1992 on the Acid Jazz label. Following its success, Kay signed a record deal with Sony Music Entertainment. The first Sony album, Emergency on Planet Earth, was released in 1993 and it was followed in 1994 by The Return of the Space Cowboy. The single Space Cowboy gained notice on the charts and in club rotation, while Jamiroquai was growing in popularity in the UK, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, it remained relatively unknown to U. S and other international audiences. The bands American breakthrough came with the album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996. The success of Virtual Insanity was due in part to its Jonathan Glazer-directed video, in 1998, Jamiroquai released Deeper Underground, the first single from their fourth studio album, Synkronized, which also appeared in the soundtrack for the 1998 movie Godzilla. By their fifth album, A Funk Odyssey, they had evolved so drastically, with the departure of more and more original band members, including Wallis Buchanan and his didgeridoo, Jamiroquai had become a very different band from that of 1992. In spite of the changes, the albums first single, Little L. In 2003, Jamiroquai compiled and mixed a DJ mix album for the Late Night Tales series for Azuli Records, the track selection shows some of the bands soul, funk and disco influences, including tracks from The Pointer Sisters, The Commodores and Johnny Hammond Smith. Its sixth album, titled Dynamite was released on 20 June 2005 and it reached No.3 on the UK charts. The first single, Feels Just Like It Should was released early in June, Jamiroquai released a greatest hits collection, High Times, Singles 1992–2006 in November 2006. The release of this marked the end of Kays eight-album contract with Sony. The album reached the number 1 spot in the UK album chart after its first week of release, the album featured two new tracks, Runaway and Radio. On 18 September 2006, Runaway was given its first play by UK radio stations and it was released as a single on 30 October 2006
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Emergency on Planet Earth
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The album features strong elements of the mixture of funk and acid jazz genres. The recurring theme on the deals with lyrics about world issues and self-consciousness. The album produced several well-received singles, including Too Young To Die, the album was listed in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list. Entertainment Weekly described the album as helping the band turn out gritty organic grooves with enthusiasm, when You Gonna Learn was released as the lead single from the album on 19 October 1992 via Acid Jazz Records, and secured them a later deal with Sony Records. The lyrical themes, like many of Jamiroquais early songs, speak of environmental awareness, Too Young to Die was released as the second single from the album on 1 May 1993. The original version of the runs at 10,18, however. The commercial single included all three versions of the track, the original vinyl version of the album includes the full 10,18 version of the song. The songs lyrics are about the fear of war and death due to political machinations, the music video for Too Young to Die was directed by W. I. Z. and consisted mainly of Jay Kay singing in what appears to be a desert military installation. Blow Your Mind was released as the single from the album on 4 June 1993. The single peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart, the single was also featured on the groups Greatest Hits album, however, in a substantially edited form. Two versions of the song exist, a heavily edited radio edit, running at 3,51, the latter version has only ever been included on the groups debut album release. All other releases include the track include the radio version. Emergency on Planet Earth was released as the single from the album on 2 August 1993. The song was written by Jay Kay, and has a marked environmentalist tone, the track peaked at #32 on the UK Singles Chart and at #4 on the U. S. A new recording of the song, which uses a different bass track and intro. This version was released on the groups Greatest Hits compilation. When You Gonna Learn was re-released by Sony Records as the fifth, the re-release was slightly more successful than the original, peaking at #28 on the UK Singles Chart. The re-release was backed with a music video to the original
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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CD single
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This article is about the 12cm single. Not to be confused with 8cm single, the standard in the Red Book for the term CD single. A CD single is a single in the form of a standard size compact disc. It is not to be confused with the Mini CD single, the format was introduced in the mid-1980s but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s. With the rise in digital downloads in the early 2010s, sales of CD singles have decreased, commercially released CD singles can vary in length from two songs up to six songs like an EP. Some contain multiple mixes of one or more songs, in the tradition of 12 vinyl singles, depending on the nation, there may be limits on the number of songs and total length for sales to count in singles charts. Containing four tracks, it had a limited print run. CD singles were first made eligible for the UK Singles Chart in 1987, the Mini CD single format was originally created for use for singles in the late 1980s, but met with limited success, particularly in the US. The smaller CDs were more successful in Japan and have become more common in Europe. By 1989, the CD3 was in decline in the US and it was common in the 1990s for US record companies to release both a two-track CD and a multi-track maxi CD. In the UK, record companies would also release two CDs but, usually, these consisted of three tracks or more each. Pressure from record labels made singles charts in some countries become song charts, allowing album cuts to chart based only on airplay, without a single ever being released. At the end of the 1990s, the CD was the single format in the UK, but in the US. In Australia, the Herald Sun reported the CD single is set to become extinct, while CD singles no longer maintain their own section of the store, copies are still distributed but placed with the artists albums. That is predominantly the case for popular Australian artists such as Jessica Mauboy, Kylie Minogue and, most recently, Delta Goodrem, the ARIA Singles Chart are now predominantly compiled from legal downloads, and ARIA also stopped compiling their physical singles sales chart. On a Mission by Gabriella Cilmi was the last CD single to be stocked in Kmart, Target and Big W, sanity Entertainment, having resisted the decline for longer than the other major outlets, has also ceased selling CD singles. In Greece and Cyprus, the term CD single is used to describe a play in which there may be anywhere from three to six different tracks. These releases charted on the Greek Singles Chart with songs released as singles, in September 2003, there was talk of ringtones for mobile phones outstripping CD singles sales for the year 2004
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Compact Cassette
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The Compact Cassette or Musicassette, also commonly called cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. It was released by Philips in 1962, having developed in Hasselt. Compact cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a cassette, or as a fully recordable blank cassette. Its uses ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers, the first cassette player designed for use in car dashes was introduced in 1968. Between the early 1970s and the early 2000s, the cassette was one of the two most common formats for prerecorded music, first alongside the LP record and later the compact disc. Compact Cassettes contain two miniature spools, between which a magnetically coated, polyester-type plastic film is passed and wound and these spools and their attendant parts are held inside a protective plastic shell. This reversal is achieved either by flipping the cassette, or by having the machine itself change the direction of tape movement. In 1935, decades before the introduction of the Compact Cassette, AEG released the first reel-to-reel tape recorder and it was based on the invention of the magnetic tape by Fritz Pfleumer, which used similar technology but with open reels. These instruments were expensive and relatively difficult to use and were therefore used mostly by professionals in radio stations. In 1958, following four years of development, RCA Victor introduced the stereo, quarter-inch, reversible, however, it was a large cassette, and offered few pre-recorded tapes. Despite the multiple versions, it failed, consumer use of tape only took off in the early 1960s, after playback machines reached a comfortable, user-friendly design. This was achieved primarily by the introduction of transistors which replaced the bulky, fragile, reel-to-reel tape then became more suitable to household use, but still remained an esoteric product. The team at Philips was led by Lou Ottens in Hasselt, Philips was competing with Telefunken and Grundig in a race to establish its cassette tape as the worldwide standard, and it wanted support from Japanese electronics manufacturers. However, the Philips Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips decision to license the format free of charge, Philips also released the Norelco Carry-Corder 150 recorder/player in the US in November 1964. By 1966 over 250,000 recorders had been sold in the US alone, by 1968,85 manufacturers had sold over 2.4 million players. By the end of the 1960s, the business was worth an estimated 150 million dollars. In the early years sound quality was mediocre, but it improved dramatically by the early 1970s when it caught up with the quality of 8-track tape, the Compact Cassette went on to become a popular alternative to the 12-inch vinyl LP during the late 1970s. The mass production of blank Compact Cassettes began in 1964 in Hanover, prerecorded music cassettes were launched in Europe in late 1965
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Disco
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Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa. It achieved popularity during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. It was popular with men and women, from many different backgrounds. The disco sound often has several components, a beat, an eighth note or 16th note hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers, particularly in the late 1970s, well-known 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Boney M. KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Sylvester, Village People, Gloria Gaynor and Chic. While performers and singers garnered much attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the disco sound. Many non-disco artists recorded songs at the height of discos popularity. Disco was the last mass popular movement that was driven by the baby boom generation. Disco was a phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1980. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on 12 July 1979, is thought of as a factor in discos fast. By the late 1970s most major U. S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, Studio 54, a venue popular amongst celebrities, is a well-known example of a disco club. Popular dances included the Hustle, a suggestive dance. Discotheque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions, Disco clubs were also associated with promiscuity. Disco was a key influence on the 1980s electronic dance style called house. The term is derived from discothèque, by the early 1940s, the terms disc jockey and DJ were in use to describe radio presenters. During WWII, because of restrictions set in place by the Nazi occupiers, eventually more than one of these jazz venues had the proper name discothèque. By 1959, the term was used in Paris to describe any of these type of nightclubs and that year a young reporter named Klaus Quirini started to select and introduce records at the Scotch-Club in Aachen, West Germany
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Acid jazz
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Acid jazz, also known as club jazz, is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, soul, funk, and disco. Acid jazz originated in the London club scene of the mid-1980s in the rare groove movement and spread to the US, Japan, Eastern Europe, and Brazil. Major acts included Brand New Heavies, Incognito, Us3, and Jamiroquai from the UK and Buckshot LeFonque and Digable Planets from the US. The rise of club music in the mid to late 1990s led to a decline in interest, and in the twenty-first century. Many acts that might have been defined as acid jazz are now seen as jazz-funk, neo soul, various origins have been attributed to the name of the genre, including claims to have coined the term by DJs Gilles Peterson and Chris Bangs. The name is a play on the house genre, which was flourishing in the UK club scene in the 1980s. Acid jazz consisted of two related movements, the second were groups influenced by these recordings and who emphasised a groove-based approach to music. Acid jazz uses elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, the style is characterised by danceable grooves, and long, repetitive compositions. Typical ensembles include horns, a rhythm section, a vocalist that may sing and rap. Acid jazz originated in the London club scene of the mid-1980s, with DJs of the rare groove movement and their main interests were in the fringe of jazz fusion, jazz funk, and with lesser input from soul jazz of the 1950s and 1960s. Particularly significant were records from the Blue Note catalogue and these DJs included Gilles Peterson, who had residencies at several London clubs in the 1980s, began in his own small pirate radio station and then moved to the much larger Kiss-FM. In 1988 with producer Eddie Piller he formed the label Acid Jazz Records, the first release from the company was the compilation Totally Wired, which contained obscure jazz funk tracks from the 1970s with updated new tracks. In 1990 Peterson left to found his own label Talkin Loud at Phonogram, the company signed acts such as Galliano, Young Disciples and Urban Species. Another British record label, Fourth And Broadway Records, was formed in 1990, artists included Pharoah Sanders, Stereo MCs, the French rapper MC Solaar, Japanese production team United Future Organization and saxophonist Courtney Pine. In 1991 the genre broke into the mainstream with the success of Brand New Heavies, after one eponymous album with Acid Jazz Records the group moved on to FFRR Records for their hit singles Never Stop and Dreams Come True. Other bands included Incognito and Us3, whose Cantaloop was the biggest hit in the genre, other live acts included Stereo MCs and the James Taylor Quartet. The initial mainstream success of acid jazz was followed by a number of compilations that left the public confused as to the nature of. In the early 1990s local acid jazz scenes developed in the US, from this Groove Academy developed into a record label and media company
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Epic Records
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Epic Records is an American record company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. Epic was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 and it later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of musical genres, including pop, R&B, rock and hip hop. Historically, the label has housed popular acts such as Boston, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Shakira, Anastacia, and Sly & the Family Stone. Along with Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainments three main record labels, L. A. Reid has served as chairman and CEO of Epic since July 2011. Sylvia Rhone was appointed president in March 2014, Epic Records was launched in 1953 by Columbia Records for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe, pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records were transferred to Epic which made Okeh a rhythm and blues label. Epics bright-yellow, black, and blue became a familiar trademark for many jazz. By 1960, the musical base had been expanded to include all genres. This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records from being overstuffed with newer artists, subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. By the end of the 1960s, Epic earned its first gold records and had evolved into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll, R&B and country music. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton, Bobby Vinton, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Tammy Wynette, Donovan, The Yardbirds, Lulu, July, Helen Shapiro and Jeff Beck. Also during the 1960s, Epic oversaw the smaller subsidiary CBS labels including Okeh Records, in 1968, Epic recordings began being distributed in the UK by CBS after the distribution deal with EMI expired that year, Epic itself launched in England around 1971. Epic was involved in a trade of artists. Graham Nash was signed to Epic because of his membership in The Hollies, when the newly formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegün worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furays new band Poco would sign with Epic. Also contributing to the success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987, and the company was renamed Sony Music in 1991. In 2004, Sony merged with another powerhouse music distributor, BMG, bringing labels such as RCA, Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, in February 2009, singer and songwriter Amanda Ghost was appointed president of Epic Records. Later in the year, Sony BMG Music merged Epic and Columbias operations, Sony BMGs Legacy Recordings reissues the companys classic and catalog titles
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Jay Kay
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Jay Kay is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the acid jazz band Jamiroquai. Kay was born in Stretford, Greater Manchester, on 30 December 1969 and his mother, Karen Kay, is a former cabaret singer and television personality. His biological father is Luís Saraiva, a Portuguese former guitarist, Kays identical twin, David, died some weeks after they were born. It is stated in the 1997 Lancashire Evening Telegraph article that Kay moved with his mother and step-father Mervyn Kay to Manchester as a youngster, james Royal—often misidentified as Kays stepfather—is his mothers former manager with whom she had a relationship during Kays childhood years. Royal had stated in his 2002 interview in News of the World that he never married Karen Kay, Kay attended Oakham School in Rutland. He also, when moved to Ealing in his years, attended Twyford High School. Jamiroquai has sold over thirty albums, and has spent a collective 162 weeks on the UK singles chart between 1992 and 2006, with Kays personal wealth said to be around £40 million. He appeared on the Sunday Times Rich List 2004 at joint-950th, the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 has him tied for #1,794, with £40 million. After the huge success of Jamiroquais first single, When You Gonna Learn, the bands first album was Emergency on Planet Earth. The relationship with Sony ended in 2007, the bands third album, Travelling Without Moving, generated international attention with the ground-breaking video of Virtual Insanity, which earned Jamiroquai four MTV Video Music Awards. Since then, their album, Synkronized, has done just as well, it was recorded in Kays home studio located in the garden of his 500-year-old. Kay is occasionally referred to as Jamiroquai, with a misconception existing that the band is actually a solo artist, Kay is well known for his array of elaborate hats and headgear. When appearing professionally he has referred to as the mad hatter for his love of headgear. It is said that he has many different hats that he wears at concerts, some Native American groups and their supporters have criticized him for wearing sacred regalia. Kay appeared in an episode of the BBC series The Naked Chef alongside chef Jamie Oliver and he has also performed on the series Strictly Come Dancing singing Canned Heat. He also appeared four times in the BBC car show Top Gear and his second appearance was in series 3, episode 4, where Kay drove his Lamborghini Miura with Richard Hammond as a passenger. The third appearance was in series 11, episode 6, where he came in to beat the top time held by Simon Cowell and he succeeded with a lap time of 1,45.8. Kay won Top Gears John Sergeant Award for the best dance, when have you ever done anything
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Toby Smith
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Toby Smith is a musician, most famous for being the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Jamiroquai from 1992 until his departure in 2002. Smith left Jamiroquai on 29 April 2002 during the Funk Odyssey tour due to family commitments, fatigue and he is the current music producer and manager for the English indie pop band, The Hoosiers. In 2013, Smith co-produced Matt Cardles third album, Porcelain, Smith now owns Angelic Recording Studios based near Banbury
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Blow Your Mind (Jamiroquai song)
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Blow Your Mind is the third overall single to be released from British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquais debut studio album, Emergency on Planet Earth. The single was released on 24 May 1993 on Sony Soho Square in the United Kingdom and 1 July 1993 on Epic Records in Japan, peaking at #12 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was featured on the groups Greatest Hits compilation, High Times, The Singles 1992-2006, however. Like both of the previous singles, two versions of the song exist, a heavily edited radio edit, running at 3,51. The latter version has ever been included on the groups debut album release. All other releases include the track include the radio version. The b-Side of the single is a version of the popular Emergency on Planet Earth track Hooked Up. The music video for the shows a group of people dancing in a 1970s club
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When You Gonna Learn
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When You Gonna Learn is the debut single released by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. It was originally released in 1992 by Acid Jazz Records, then re-released on Sony Records in 1993 as the single from the bands debut studio album. The lyrical themes, like many of Jamiroquais early songs, speak of environmental awareness, the demo was recorded without didgeridoo player Wallis Buchanan. While the most commonly known version of the song lasts for 3,50, and can be found on the bands album, another, longer version exists. Known as the J. K. mix, it lasts for 6,28 and appears on the version of the Emergency on Planet Earth album as well as on the When You Gonna Learn. When You Gonna Learn was not the first single written and issued by Jay Kay, kays first single was actually a white label acetate called Natural Energy, which was pressed only in three copies. Kiss 100 FM was the first radio station to play the single, the chord progressions of the song bear a striking resemblance to the chord progressions of a Johnny Hammond Smiths track called Los Conquistadores Chocolatés, taken from his 1975 album Gears. The booklet of the Acid Jazz Records release of the bears a special thanks note to Smith. It is unknown whether Hammond received any royalties, the chord progressions of the Cantè Hondo Mix of the song bear even more resemblance to Los Conquistadores Chocolatés. The Cantè Hondo Mixes also uses the sound effect from Hammonds song. The cover used by Acid Jazz Records is completely different from the cover on Sonys release, there have been legal disputes between Acid Jazz Records and Epic Records because Epic re-released the single without Acid Jazz Records consent. A music video was shot for When You Gonna Learn and it was directed by Morgan Lawley and interspersed artistic shots of lead singer Jay Kay, footage of the band playing and graphic stock footage of animals being experimented on and whaling operations. The original version was banned from MTV because of this imagery, the uncut video can be viewed on YouTube. Well, because I just went to Greenpeace and just took loads of footage of stuff, stuff I just didnt think was right. So they said to me We cant play that, its got the Nazi party in there -- we cant play that, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Funk
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Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid- 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues. Like much of African-inspired music, funk typically consists of a groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves. Funk uses the same richly-colored extended chords found in jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths. Other musical groups, including Sly and the Family Stone and Parliament-Funkadelic, soon began to adopt, Funk samples have been used extensively in genres including hip hop, house music, and drum and bass. It is also the influence of go-go, a subgenre associated with funk. The word funk initially referred to a strong odor and it is originally derived from Latin fumigare via Old French fungiere and, in this sense, it was first documented in English in 1620. In 1784 funky meaning musty was first documented, which, in turn, in early jam sessions, musicians would encourage one another to get down by telling one another, Now, put some stank on it. At least as early as 1907, jazz songs carried titles such as Funky, as late as the 1950s and early 1960s, when funk and funky were used increasingly in the context of jazz music, the terms still were considered indelicate and inappropriate for use in polite company. According to one source, New Orleans-born drummer Earl Palmer was the first to use the word funky to explain to other musicians that their music should be made more syncopated, the style later evolved into a rather hard-driving, insistent rhythm, implying a more carnal quality. This early form of the set the pattern for later musicians. The music was identified as slow, sexy, loose, riff-oriented, a great deal of funk is rhythmically based on a two-celled onbeat/offbeat structure, which originated in sub-Saharan African music traditions. New Orleans appropriated the bifurcated structure from the Afro-Cuban mambo and conga in the late 1940s, New Orleans funk, as it was called, gained international acclaim largely because James Browns rhythm section used it to great effect. Funk creates an intense groove by using strong guitar riffs and bass lines, like Motown recordings, funk songs used bass lines as the centerpiece of songs. Slap basss mixture of thumb-slapped low notes and finger popped high notes allowed the bass to have a rhythmic role. In funk bands, guitarists typically play in a style, often using the wah-wah sound effect. Guitarist Ernie Isley of The Isley Brothers and Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic were notably influenced by Jimi Hendrixs improvised solos, Eddie Hazel, who worked with George Clinton, is one of the most notable guitar soloists in funk. Ernie Isley was tutored at an age by Jimi Hendrix himself. Jimmy Nolen and Phelps Collins are famous funk rhythm guitarists who both worked with James Brown, on Browns Give It Up or Turnit a Loose, Jimmy Nolens guitar part has a bare bones tonal structure
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Environmentalism
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While environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism. ‘Ecologism’ is more used in continental European languages while ‘environmentalism’ is more commonly used in English. For this reason, concepts such as an ethic, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology. The exact measures and outcomes of this balance is controversial and there are different ways for environmental concerns to be expressed in practice. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are represented by the color green. Environmentalism denotes a movement that seeks to influence the political process by lobbying, activism. The word was first coined in 1922, an environmentalist is a person who may speak out about our natural environment and the sustainable management of its resources through changes in public policy or individual behavior. In various ways, environmentalists and environmental organizations seek to give the world a stronger voice in human affairs. In general terms, environmentalists advocate the sustainable management of resources, in its recognition of humanity as a participant in ecosystems, the movement is centered around ecology, health, and human rights. A concern for environmental protection has recurred in diverse forms, in different parts of the world, for example, in Europe, King Edward I of England banned the burning of sea-coal by proclamation in London in 1272, after its smoke had become a problem. The fuel was so common in England that this earliest of names for it was acquired because it could be carted away from some shores by the wheelbarrow. Earlier in the Middle East, the Caliph Abu Bakr in the 630s commanded his army to Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, at the advent of steam and electricity the muse of history holds her nose and shuts her eyes. The origins of the movement lay in the response to increasing levels of smoke pollution in the atmosphere during the Industrial Revolution. An Alkali inspector and four sub-inspectors were appointed to curb this pollution, typically the highest priority went to water and air pollution. The Coal Smoke Abatement Society was formed in 1898 making it one of the oldest environmental NGOs and it was founded by artist Sir William Blake Richmond, frustrated with the pall cast by coal smoke. Although there were pieces of legislation, the Public Health Act 1875 required all furnaces and fireplaces to consume their own smoke. It also provided for sanctions against factories that emitted large amounts of black smoke, financial incentives were offered to householders to replace open coal fires with alternatives, or for those who preferred, to burn coke instead which produces minimal smoke. Smoke control areas were introduced in some towns and cities in which only smokeless fuels could be burnt, the act formed an important impetus to modern environmentalism, and caused a rethinking of the dangers of environmental degradation to peoples quality of life
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Dance Club Songs
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The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U. S. dance clubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply, the current number-one song on the Dance Club Songs chart for the issue dated April 15,2017, is Lick Me Up by Tony Moran and Dani Toro featuring Zhana Roiya. Dance Club Songs has undergone several incarnations since its inception in 1974, originally a top-ten list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques, the chart began on October 26,1974 under the title Disco Action. The chart went on to feature playlists from various cities around the country from week to week, Billboard continued to run regional and city-specific charts throughout 1975 and 1976 until the issue dated August 28,1976, when a thirty-position National Disco Action Top 30 premiered. During the first half of the 1980s the chart maintained eighty slots until March 16,1985 when the Disco charts were splintered and renamed, two charts appeared, Hot Dance/Disco, which ranked club play, and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, which ranked 12-inch single sales. Only Hot Dance Club Songs still exists today and these stations are also a part of the electronically monitored panel that encompasses the Hot 100. Radio airplay is not limited to that counted on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, during this time, Billboard rival publication Record World was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Noted Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since adopted Record Worlds chart data from the weeks between March 29,1975 and August 21,1976 into Billboards club play history. For the sake of continuity, Record Worlds national chart is incorporated into both Whitburns Dance/Disco publication as well as the 1975 and 1976 number-ones lists, with the issue dated August 28,1976, Billboard premiered its own national chart and their data is used from this date forward. For the full list of all 100 All Time Top Dance Club Artists, both Enrique Iglesias and Dave Aude are tied with 14 number-ones on the chart, the most among male artists. Iglesias, however, is the male vocalist to accomplish this feat, while Aude is the only producer to achieve this milestone. Four acts have attained thirteen number-one songs, Whitney Houston, Kylie Minogue, Yoko Ono, Kylie Minogue became the first act to have two songs in the top three on March 5,2011. Her song Better than Today was number-one while Higher, a song by Taio Cruz on which Minogue features, was number three, the first 12-inch single made commercially available to the public was Ten Percent by Double Exposure in 1976. The first number one on Billboards Disco Action chart was Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor in 1974, the first number one on Billboards National Disco Action Top 30 was You Should Be Dancing by the Bee Gees in 1976. Beginning with the February 23,1991 issue, the dance chart became song specific, in all scenarios this was due to the tracks being included in film soundtrack albums. In 1978, four tracks from Thank God Its Friday, in 1980, madonna holds the record for the most chart hits, the most top-twenty hits, the most top-ten hits and the most total weeks at number one. The Trammps are the act to replace themselves at number one. The longest running number-ones on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart are Bad Luck by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes2 in 1975, both entries spent eleven weeks in the top spot
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Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empires space station and this conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker, who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25,1977 and it earned $461 million in the U. S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws to become the film of all time until the release of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the film in North America. It received ten Academy Award nominations, winning seven and it was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, at the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2004, today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie-in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, the films success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a trilogy beginning in 2015. In 2016, Rogue One was released as a prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war, spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empires Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader, before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. R2-D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C-3PO, the droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leias message, the next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 searching for Obi-Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi-Wan. Contrary to his uncles statements, Luke learns that his father, Anakin, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Anakin. Obi-Wan then presents to Luke his fathers weapon – a lightsaber, Obi-Wan views Leias complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis
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The Return of the Space Cowboy
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The Return of the Space Cowboy is the second album by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 17 October 1994 in the United Kingdom under Sony Soho Square and it is usually classified under the funk and acid jazz genres. The album has sold 4,000,000 copies to date, the track Morning Glory was sampled in Bite Our Style, a track by Missy Elliott from her album Supa Dupa Fly. Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B- rating, claiming No idle nostalgia broker, Q magazine also gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, claiming An ebullient follow-up to his storming debut. Musician claimed. sounds like a bastard spawn of Stevie Wonder and Mandrill with its vintage keyboards, jazz harmonies and fondness for rambling, the Kids was released as the albums lead single on 30 June 1994, exclusively in Japan. The track was recorded shortly after the Emergency on Planet Earth sessions, the Kids was written and performed during the 1993 Emergency on Planet Earth tour. It may either have been an outtake from the album, or simply a song written after the album was produced and released. The live versions played during the tour had a different chorus when compared to the album version, the song was probably left to be as it was because of time constraints related to the mastering process, production and release. Space Cowboy was released as the international lead single on 26 September 1994. The single peaked at #17 on the UK Singles Chart and was their first #1 on the U. S, two very distinct versions of the song exist. One was recorded with Stuart Zender on bass, has a greater tempo and this version is commonly known as the Stoned Again Mix, even though it is the original version. The second version, the one appears on the album is considerably different, with a lower tempo. The bass on the version was not played by Zender. Half the Man was released as the third overall single on 7 November 1994. The track peaked at #15 on the UK Singles Chart, the song was featured on the soundtrack of cult British surf movie Blue Juice. The song gained recognition for its popular B-side, Space Clav, with the exception of its inclusion on both regular and deluxe Japanese pressings, it is one of nine singles that does not appear on the groups greatest hits album. Light Years was released as the fourth overall single on 2 May 1995. The song only peaked at #36 on the UK Singles Chart due to promotion of its release
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Travelling Without Moving
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The album features the international hit single Virtual Insanity. The album has a diverse sound than previous albums, with more instrumental tracks, a greater influence and evident in songs, such as Alright. It also entered the Guinness World Records as the funk album in history. This led some to him of selling out on the environmentalist message of his previous albums. The title track, Travelling Without Moving appropriately introduces a new sound which features strongly in later albums. This is also the last album with bassist Stuart Zender, the RIAA certified Travelling Without Moving Platinum on 3 November 1997, denoting 1 million shipments in the United States - this is the only RIAA certification the band has ever obtained. The name of the album seems to be a reference to the film Dune, the sales of Travelling Without Moving are estimated to about 11.5 million units sold worldwide. The large number of copies sold was helped by the success of Virtual Insanity, the album went 3× Platinum album in the United Kingdom, and was certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States. With the success of Travelling Without Moving, Jamiroquais popularity had increased considerably, Virtual Insanity became one of the first songs by Jamiroquai to reach America, and subsequently made Jamiroquai a household name there. Virtual Insanity is a song on the karaoke game for Xbox 360. Cosmic Girl appears in the European version of the GameCube game Donkey Konga, cosmic Girl was also used in the 2000 film Center Stage. Use The Force was used in the 1998 film Sliding Doors, Travelling Without Moving is used in the introduction video to the PlayStation game Speed Freaks. References to popular fiction and space travel concepts are found in the albums title. Cosmic Girl contains references to Star Trek, Barbarella, hyperspace, transporters, Alright contains references to Islands in the Sky and Use the Force contains references to Star Wars
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Synkronized
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Synkronized is the fourth studio album released by funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. It was released on 8 June 1999 on Work Group in the United States, the album contains funk rock, acid jazz and disco elements. It is also known for being the last Jamiroquai album featuring the more traditional line-up. The album was intended to be titled Symphonized and recording sessions began at Jay Kays home studio in 1998 with Stuart Zender still on bass. About 9 tracks were written and recorded, but Zender left partway through the recording in late 1998 over a dispute of album credits, rather than credit Zender for the tracks he had played on, Jay Kay hired a replacement, Nick Fyffe. Kay decided to all the tracks and start the album over. The new project was called Synkronized and the album was finished and released within 6 months. Clips of two of the tracks from Symphonized which Zender played on were shown on MTV before the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards, prior to Zenders departure, the clips display a much more Latin and fusion sound than the songs that made it on the final album track listing. An outtake from Synkronized, Snooze, You Lose, was released on the mini-album An Online Odyssey. Where Do We Go from Here, was described as the point of change within the groups sound, using rocks with a leap-frogging blues piano and tangy bongos. The final song on the album, King For A Day, is a regal rock-operatic excursion embellished with fully orchestrated piano and strings and it is noticeable that there is no bass guitar or bass synth sound within the song. Didgeridoo player Wallis Buchanan made his last appearance on the song Supersonic, the UK version of the album includes the bonus track Deeper Underground, which was released as a single the previous year and became Jamiroquais only number one single in the UK. Rolling Stone gave the album 3 out of five stars, claiming Synkronized is fifty minutes of sleek, sexy fun and its not exactly irresistible, but, really, whats the point of resisting it. Entertainment Weekly claimed Imagine if Wonder had made an album in 1977. Synkronized is a hat trick done with the sharpest chapeau in the store. Q magazine claimed the album was one of the 50 Best Albums of 1999, in his consumer guide for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau gave the album a C– rating in his annual Turkey Shoot, indicating a bad record of some general import
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A Funk Odyssey
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A Funk Odyssey is the fifth studio album by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 3 September 2001 in the United Kingdom under Sony Soho Square and 11 September 2001 on Epic Records in the United States, initial critical response to A Funk Odyssey was generally mixed. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. Q magazine gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, claiming A certified thoroughbred and this time, theres a bankable chorus or barbed sentiment for every mirror-ball moment. demonstrating that no-one does sci-fi boogie quite as well as he does sci-fi boogie. They also listed it as one of the best 50 albums of 2001, CMJ described the album as The perfect mixtape to snap your fingers to on your way to another universe. Do It Like We Used To Do -6,4913, the track was scrapped from the project after Jay claimed that it wasnt even half complete at the time of going to press. The tracks introduction was re-used for Corner of the Earth, the albums title track, A Funk Odyssey, was performed by the group while on tour, however, it was not included on the album. It is unknown whether this track is an outtake from the album, shoot The Moon was a further outtake from the album, performed live at least twice, once at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2003, and once at a concert in Turkey. A widely circulated recording of the song being played at the festival exists, one interesting fact about the song is that it was intended to have a horn section. The band did not have a section at the time. A studio version was never recorded, the test pressing of the album also featured three interludes. The first features band frontman Jay in an electronically manipulated monologue, the second interlude is a beatbox track, which was later sampled in the single Feels Just Like It Should, while the third features Strauss The Blue Danube being faded in slowly at a low volume. A case of synchronicity occurs when the test pressing is played to Stanley Kubricks film adaptation of Arthur C, Jay Kay - vocals Rob Harris - guitar Derrick McKenzie - drums Toby Smith - keyboards Nick Fyffe - bass Sola Akingbola - percussion Paul Stoney - programming
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Dynamite (Jamiroquai album)
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Dynamite is the sixth studio album released by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 15 June 2005 in Japan,20 June 2005 in the United Kingdom,21 July 2005 in Australia and 20 September 2005 in the United States. Produced by Mike Spencer and Jay Kay, it is perhaps their most diverse work to date, featuring electronic, funk, disco, house, the album was released after the 2004 hit movie Napoleon Dynamite featured the Jamiroquai song Canned Heat in its climactic dance scene. Feels Just Like It Should was the first single, reaching No.8 in its first week on the UK charts and it has since become a No.1 hit on the Billboard dance charts in the United States. The single was also certified Gold in Japan for selling 100,000 copies, the second single, Seven Days in Sunny June, was released in the UK in August 2005, peaking at No.14 on the UK singles chart. The song also featured in the film The Devil Wears Prada, on 7 November 2005, Give Hate A Chance was released as the third single from the album. The clip helped the track score Top 20 showings in UK charts such as the Smash Hits and hit40uk charts, however, the track bowed meekly at No.27 on the official UK singles chart. The album was recorded in locations, including Jays personal Chillington Studios and Los Angeles. The album bowed at No.3 in the United Kingdom, uncut gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, claiming Jay Kay returns with another blast of super-slick soul. Vibe claimed The space cowboys return with a vengeance, sounding funky as ever, on most regions it was later added as a standard track. Additionally, all test pressings of the include the track Beatbox as Track 12
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Rock Dust Light Star
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Rock Dust Light Star is the seventh studio album released by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 1 November 2010 in the United Kingdom under Universal Music/Mercury Records, the album was recorded at Jay Kays home studio in Buckinghamshire, as well as Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire, and Karma Studios in Thailand. The album is entirely by the band, and produced by first time collaborators Charlie Russell. The band revealed that the style of the new album will be more centred on funk and rock, however, frontman Jay claimed that the tone. Promotion of the began in October 2010, with a press conference involving band members Jay Kay, Derrick McKenzie, Sola Akingbola, Matt Johnson, Paul Turner. They announced that the group were to two concerts, in Colombia and Brazil, to promote the album, before discussing plans for a possible world tour in 2011. In a review for The Daily Telegraph, the album was described as blistering, poetic, meaty, reflective, upon release, the album debuted at #7 on the UK Albums Chart with sales of less than 35,000 copies. As of December 2010, the album has sold 210,000 copies worldwide, less than half of the sales of their previous album, on 17 December 2010, the album was certified Gold in the UK for reaching sales of 100,000 copies. In June 2011, another string of dates were confirmed on the bands website for June. Although a total of 30 songs were recorded for the album, according to Kay, a video for the album, posted just before release, showed recording of the tracks Ive Been Working and Super Highway, however, none of these appeared on the final track listing. All Mixed Up in You appeared as a title for Angeline. Upon the album being available to pre-order, several retail websites listed the standard album containing thirteen tracks. However, upon the album appearing in stores, the track was nowhere to be seen, on 2 June 2011 a competition began to design artwork for a brand new Jamiroquai single, Smile, an out-take from Rock Dust Light Star. On 9 June the winner of the competition was announced, and the song was made available for download via SoundCloud and iTunes
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Too Young to Die (song)
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Too Young to Die is the second single taken from British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquais debut studio album, Emergency on Planet Earth. The original version of the runs at 10,18, however. The single peaked at #10 on the UK Singles Chart, the commercial single includes all three versions of the track. The songs lyrics are about the fear of war and death due to political machinations, a music video was shot for Too Young to Die. It was directed by W. I. Z. and consisted mainly of Jay Kay singing in what appears to be a military installation. This morphing happens as one moves his eyes from left to right over the cover of the single
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Kids (Jamiroquai song)
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The Return of the Space Cowboy is the second album by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 17 October 1994 in the United Kingdom under Sony Soho Square and it is usually classified under the funk and acid jazz genres. The album has sold 4,000,000 copies to date, the track Morning Glory was sampled in Bite Our Style, a track by Missy Elliott from her album Supa Dupa Fly. Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B- rating, claiming No idle nostalgia broker, Q magazine also gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, claiming An ebullient follow-up to his storming debut. Musician claimed. sounds like a bastard spawn of Stevie Wonder and Mandrill with its vintage keyboards, jazz harmonies and fondness for rambling, the Kids was released as the albums lead single on 30 June 1994, exclusively in Japan. The track was recorded shortly after the Emergency on Planet Earth sessions, the Kids was written and performed during the 1993 Emergency on Planet Earth tour. It may either have been an outtake from the album, or simply a song written after the album was produced and released. The live versions played during the tour had a different chorus when compared to the album version, the song was probably left to be as it was because of time constraints related to the mastering process, production and release. Space Cowboy was released as the international lead single on 26 September 1994. The single peaked at #17 on the UK Singles Chart and was their first #1 on the U. S, two very distinct versions of the song exist. One was recorded with Stuart Zender on bass, has a greater tempo and this version is commonly known as the Stoned Again Mix, even though it is the original version. The second version, the one appears on the album is considerably different, with a lower tempo. The bass on the version was not played by Zender. Half the Man was released as the third overall single on 7 November 1994. The track peaked at #15 on the UK Singles Chart, the song was featured on the soundtrack of cult British surf movie Blue Juice. The song gained recognition for its popular B-side, Space Clav, with the exception of its inclusion on both regular and deluxe Japanese pressings, it is one of nine singles that does not appear on the groups greatest hits album. Light Years was released as the fourth overall single on 2 May 1995. The song only peaked at #36 on the UK Singles Chart due to promotion of its release
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Half the Man (Jamiroquai song)
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Half the Man was released as the third overall single from British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquais second studio album, The Return of the Space Cowboy. The track peaked at #15 on the UK Singles Chart, the track was later featured on the soundtrack of cult British surf movie Blue Juice. The song gained recognition for its popular instrumental B-side, Space Clav, there are two different versions of the music video for the track. The first video features Jay Kay performing the song, intercut with footage of a couple kissing, the second video removes the footage of the couple kissing. The track was released as the double A-side to Light Years in the United States
