Quando Quango was a British electronic music group, formed by the DJ of which nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England, which became famous in the Madchester years of the 1980s and early 1990s, and Factory Records A&R man Mike Pickering
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Quando Quango Quando Quango was a British electronic music group, formed by The Haçienda DJ and Factory Records A&R man Mike Pickering, Hillegonda Rietveld and Reinier Rietveld. Their unique sound influenced the underground dance music scenes in New York and Chicago in the 1980s. Their first release was the "Go Exciting" twelve-inch single on Factory Records in 1982, and their last release of new music was the 1985 full-length album "Pigs + Battleships" (reissued on CD in 2003 and 2013).
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The Haçienda The Haçienda was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England, which became famous in the Madchester years of the 1980s and early 1990s. The Haçienda opened in 1982, and despite considerable and persistent financial troubles survived until 1997 – the club was mainly supported by record sales from New Order. The Haçienda is associated with the rise of acid house and rave music.
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Mark Moore Mark Moore (born 12 January 1965) is a British dance music record producer and DJ. He was founder of the dance/sampling pioneers S'Express, and runs the London nightclubs, 'Electrogogo' and 'Can Can'.
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The Four Aces Club The Four Aces Club was a pioneering music and recreational space in Dalston, London, that in the 1960s and '70s was one of the first venues to play black music in Britain, being credited with a significant "role in the evolution of reggae into dance music, from ska, to rocksteady, to dub, to lovers, to dancehall and the evolution of jungle." A host of notable Afro-Caribbean musicians appeared at the Four Aces – often referred to as "the jewel in Dalston's crown" – as well as soul and R&B artists, its clientele over the years including stars such as Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder and Jimmy Cliff. With the Thatcher era came more divisionist politics; racial tensions built in the area and the club was a target for police raids. In the early 1990s, its character changed as it became home to the early indoor "rave scene", featuring drum & bass and acid house, and appealing to a new, predominantly white audience, under the name , where The Prodigy made their first live public appearance.
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Alfasound Alfasound was a radio jingle production company based in Manchester from late 1970s to mid-1990s founded by Alan Fawkes and ex-Piccadilly Radio DJ Steve England.
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Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro is a project of musician and DJ, Will Holland. Holland has recorded under several names, most notably Quantic.
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Music Factory Music Factory, (as known as The Music Factory Entertainment Group), is a UK promotional remix service that started in 1985. To this day provides monthly Mastermix albums with exclusive mixes to qualified disc jockeys, as well as a number of spinoff services over the years (some remixed, some not). Also responsible for the popular Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers releases that were made commercially available.
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Sneaker Pimps Sneaker Pimps are a British trip hop band formed in Hartlepool, England, in 1994. They are best known for their first album, "Becoming X" (1996), and the singles "6 Underground" and "Spin Spin Sugar". They took their name from an article the Beastie Boys published in their "Grand Royal" magazine about a man they hired to track down classic sneakers.
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Daniel Miller (music producer) Daniel Otto Junius Miller (born 14 February 1951 in Marylebone, London) is a British music producer and founder of Mute Records.
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Stereo MCs Stereo MCs are a British hip hop/electronic dance group which formed in Clapham, London, in 1985. They had a transatlantic Top 20 with their single "Connected". After releasing eight albums for Island Records, K7, Graffiti Recordings, and Pias, they formed the label Connected with Terranova to release their own material and that of other artists within the house/techno/electronic medium.
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Gqom Gqom /ᶢǃʱòm/ isiJokojoko is a style of house music music that emerged a decade into the 21st century from the townships of Durban and small towns in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The style features minimalistic and dark beats produced with software such as FruityLoops, and has gained prominence in London. The word "gqom", sometimes expressed as "qgom", "igqom", "gqomu" or variants thereof, derives from an onomatopoeic combination of click consonants from the Zulu language that represents a drum.
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Peter Harris (producer) Peter Harris (born 1961), popularly known as Blu Peter, is a British electronic dance music record producer and disc jockey from South Wales, who pioneered the nu-NRG music genre in the late 1990s. In the early 1990s he served as resident DJ at major London nightclubs Heaven and Turnmills. He has performed at raves and nightclubs around the world.
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Rave music Rave music may either refer to the late 1980s/early 1990s genres of house, breakbeat, acid house, techno and hardcore techno, which were the first genres of music to be played at rave parties, or to any other genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that may be played at a rave. The genre "rave", also known as hardcore by early ravers, first appeared amongst the UK "acid" movement during the late 1980s at warehouse parties and other underground venues, as well as on UK pirate radio stations. The genre would develop into oldschool hardcore, which lead onto newer forms of rave music such as drum and bass and 2-step, as well as other hardcore techno genres, such as gabber, hardstyle and happy hardcore. Rave music is usually presented in a DJ mix set, although live performances are not uncommon.
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Mighty Force Records Mighty Force Records was a record shop and techno label based in Exeter, Devon, South West England between 1990-1995. It was founded by ex-punk , free festival activist (having briefly worked with the Stonehenge Free Festival Campaign in 1983) and warehouse party organiser Mark Darby and his partner, journalist Jess Shortis, after they had visited visiting various club-based events in Plymouth and realised there was no focal point for the burgeoning rave scene in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.
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Positiva Records Positiva Records is a subsidiary of EMI Records and concentrates on releasing dance music in the UK. The record label was set up in 1993, by Nick Halkes, who previously ran XL Recordings. Its headquarters are at the EMI offices in Brook Green in West London, where it is currently the only large dance music label under the EMI banner.
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Greg Stainer Greg Stainer (born in London, England) is a British house music and electronic dance music DJ, producer and remix artist who now resides in Dubai. He is the owner of Stained Music and one half of electronic music duo Hollaphonic
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Pointy Records Pointy Records is a London-based independent record label, founded in 1998 by Andy Macleod. Largely focusing on new music, Pointy Records have been releasing albums and singles of cult indie bands, most notably The Clientele, Flotation Toy Warning and Yo Zushi, for a period of ten years. A live music promotion wing, Club Fandango, was started with the Fierce Panda label's Simon Williams in 2001. This was later expanded to include a singles-only record label, Label Fandango.
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The Sound Factory Bar The Sound Factory Bar was a nightclub at 530 West 27th Street in New York City's Manhattan. The club was originally called "Private Eyes" which was a very popular nightspot in the late 1980s and the early 1990s that for its time had an unusually advanced state of the art video and sound system. Private Eyes catered to a variety of growing underground music scenes in it heyday.
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Riley &amp; Durrant Riley & Durrant are an electronic music production and DJ duo based in Leeds, UK.
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Madchester Madchester is a music and cultural scene that developed in the Manchester area of the United Kingdom in the late 1980s, in which artists merged alternative rock with acid house culture and other sources, including psychedelia and 1960s pop. The label was popularised by the British music press in the early 1990s, and included groups such as Happy Mondays, the Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Northside, 808 State, James and The Charlatans, amongst others.
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Quo Vadis (restaurant) Quo Vadis is a restaurant and private club in Soho, London. It primarily serves modern British food. It was founded in 1926 by an Italian named Pepino Leoni and has passed through numerous owners since then, including celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, and is currently owned by Sam and Eddie Hart, also the owners of Barrafina. The restaurant is named after the Latin phrase "Quo vadis?", meaning "Where are you going?"
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UK hard house UK hard house or simply hard house is a style of electronic dance music music that emerged in the 1990s and is synonomous with its association to Trade club and the associated DJ's there that created the style. It often features a speedy tempo (around 150 BPM), offbeat bass stabs, hoovers, horns and crowd cheering samples. It usually contains a break in the middle of the track without drum. UK hard house often uses a long and sharp string note to create suspense. Most of the time, the drops are introduced by a drum roll.