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Artist Biography For Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps Is An English Downtempo/trip-Hop Band Initially Active From 1995 To 2006 And Working Together Again Since 2019. As Line Of Flight And Frisk DJs And Childhood Friends Chris Corner From Middlesbrough And Liam Howe From Hartlepool Released Two EPs "Soul Of Indiscretion" And "World As A Cone" In The Early 1990s. While Not Nearly As Complex As The Song-Based Material They Would Produce These Bedroom-Recorded Mixes Of Sampled Beats And Folk Sounds Would Form The Blueprint For The Later Sound. The Band Is Best Known For Their 1996 Album Becoming X And Particularly Its Highest Charting Single "6 Underground". While At Art College In Reading Liam Met David Westlake And Joe Wilson Who Would Both Contribute To The First Three Albums And Join The Band On Tour. When F.R.I.S.K. Performed A Gig With This Line-Up They Later Recorded Some Demos With Chris Singing - These Were Considered The Next Stage In The Evolution Of Chis And Liam's Professional Partnership Another In An Ever-Improving Set Of Smaller Projects Intended For A Few Thousand Records At Most. Drafting In Ian Pickering In 1995 To Help With Lyrics They Recruited Kelli Dayton For Vocal Duties After Seeing Her Singing In A Pub In Reading. The Name 'Sneaker Pimps' Itself Was Taken From A Beastie Boys Article About A Man They Hired To Track Down Classic Shoes. The First Single Roll On Preceded The First Album Followed By Spin Spin Sugar Post-Modern Sleaze 6 Underground And Tesko Suicide. The Album Contains A Myriad Of 90s Pop-Culture References Such As Film Thelma And Louise Coupled To Dark Double Entendres And Puns On Drug Taking And Suicide. It Was Wildly Successful Everywhere In America It Remains Their Only Real Hit. In 2005 The Song "Post-Modern Sleaze" From The Becoming X Album Was Used As The Theme Song For Matroesjka's An Acclaimed Flemish Drama Series About Eastern European Prostitutes And Belgians Involved In The Related Sex Trade. Becoming X Was "toured To Death" Over Two Years Particularly In America Where The Toll On Chris Led To Mental Instability Chronicled In The Song Low Five. Depending On Who You Believe Kelli Dayton Left The Band In 1998 Or Was Sacked Going On To A Solo Career As Kelli Ali. The Band Trialled New Vocallists Demoing Some New Songs With Icelandic Chanteuse Emilíana Torrini But Coupled With The Feeling That These Demos Fit Corner's Voice Better And The Fear Of Being Identified With The Fad For Trip-Hop Acts Corner Became The Singer. The Line Of Flight Studio Was Moved From Hartlepool To London And Production On The Next Album Started Immediately. 1999's Splinter Features The Back Of Chris' Head Symbolizing The Break With Kelli And His Not Feeling Up To The Responsibility Of Being A 'front Man'. Dayton's Departure While Lamented By Many Was Positively Received By Some Critics Who Felt That It Gave The Band A More Honest Emotional Timbre And A More Uniquely Identifiable Sound Especially With Regard To The Rawer And More Personal Quality Of The Lyrics. The Album's Production Retains The Sampled Style Of Becoming X While Being Edgier Less Beat-Driven And At Times More Psychedelic. Due To Wrangles With Virgin Records The Album Was Self-Released On Their Own Clean Up Label And Not Released In The US. Without Significant Promotion And The Lack Of Obvious Singles That Becoming X Had Shown The Album Was Not As Successful But The Favourable Critical Response Led The Band To Set Up Their Own Club Night In London. Called 'Home Taping' And Hosted At The Venue ICA /venue It Invited Celebrities And Musicians To Submit Their Own Cassette Mixes For The Night's Entertainment And The Odd Live Set By The Band. Allegedly One Was Even Received By Madonna. For 2002's Bloodsport The Band Decamped To France And Germany Recording In A Farmhouse While Capturing The Trans-European Essence Of Berlinesque "new-Wave Punk". Liam Howe Was Unavailable So Long-Term Associate And Friend Chris Tate Was Brought In For Synthesizer Duties. The Album Was A Glossier Affair Than Before And Included Flood On Production Duties Rather Than The Band. On Bloodsport's Release Including This Time The US Via Tommy Boy Records The Album Was A Comparative Flop But Made The Austrian Top Twenty. Its Singles Were More Successful In Both The UK And Europe. Sneaker Pimps Recorded Demos Previewed Live In Russia And On European Radio In 2003 For An Unknown Movie Soundtrack And A Fourth Album Tentatively Titled 'Recall' Or 'Songs Of Imaginary Beings'. The Album Was Never Released Chris And Liam Purportedly Shelved The Tracks As A Sneaker Pimps Album For Several Reasons. One They Contained Some Very Emotional Songs Penned By Corner That Were Felt To Be More Suitable For A Solo Project And Two In Some Cases Were Simply Not Being Good Enough To Be Released. The Band Eventually Drifted Apart During Protracted Sessions For The 4th Album Many Of The 'SP4' Demos Leaked And Have Been Rereleased By Chris Corner's Solo Project IAMX On 2004's Kiss And Swallow And 2006's The Alternative. Another Solo Project Not Including Corner Or Howe Was The Nu-Rave And Madchester Influenced Trash Money. In Late 2006 It Emerged That Seven New Demos Had Been Found And Leaked From A Portable Music Player Left In A Russian Bar. The Demos Including "Rush" "Samaritan" "Sun Ate The Moon" "The Shutdown" And "Satellite" All Sung By A New Female Singer Believed To Be Paris Hampton And Referred To By Fans As 'SP5. The Band Did Not Comment On The Leaking Of This Material Until 2015 When Liam Howe Confirmed That "the Magnificent 7" Had Been Recorded By Sneaker Pimps Exploring A New Poppier Sound. Joe And David Left The Band To Work In Film Production And Academia. Liam Howe Went On To Have A Successful Career In Music Production While Chris Moved To Berlin And Later Los Angeles As IAMX Enjoyed A Sustained Alternative Career Releasing Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction In 2009 Dogmatic Infidel Comedown Ok In 2010 Volatile Times In 2011 The Unified Field In 2013 Metanoia In 2016 Everything Is Burning In 2017 Unfall In 2018 Alive In New Light In 2019 And Echo Echo In 2020. Ian Pickering Launched His New Project The Noise Who Runs In 2020. Chris And Liam Continued To Tease Working Together On New Projects Throughout Various IAMX Eras Including A Session Initially Planned As Sneaker Pimps Material Becoming The Liam-Produced IAMX Mini-Album "Everything Is Burning". In 2019 Singer Simonne Jones Was Confirmed As The New Featured Singer Of Sneaker Pimps Which Then Began Recording Their New Album Together In Earnest. Finally In May 2021 18 Years After Their Last Album Was Released The Squaring The Circle Era Was Announced With Two New Singles "Fighter" And "Squaring The Circle " Which Were Released In July. A Remix Album 'Rework Collection 1' Was Released In August And Their Fourth Full Studio Record 'Squaring The Circle' Was Released On September 10th 2021 On Chris Corner's Label UNFALL Productions. 'Squaring The Circle' Features Material Recorded With Both Simonne And Chris On Lead Vocals. More Remix Albums And A Re-Release Of The Band's Older Records Is Also Planned With The Band Regaining Copy And Distribution Rights Of 'Becoming X' And 'Splinter' Via One Little Independent Records And The Ongoing Negotiations Of A Re-Release Of 'Bloodsport' With Tommy Boy Records.
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: 6 Underground
Sneaker-Pimps - Becoming X
"6 Underground" Is A Song By The English Band Sneaker Pimps From Their Debut Studio Album Becoming X. First Released As A Single In The United Kingdom In September 1996 The Song Reached Number 15 On The UK Singles Chart And Had Moderate Radio Airplay In The United States Where It Was Shipped To Modern Rock And Dance Stations In February 1997. After The Song Was Used In The 1997 American Film The Saint Radio Stations Began Playing "6 Underground" More Frequently. The Single Was Re-Released In May 1997 When It Peaked At Number Nine On The UK Singles Chart. In The United States The Song Peaked At Number 45 On The Billboard Hot 100 And At Number Seven On The Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Chart. The Cover Artwork Of The Single Uses A Photograph Of A Lego Space Moonscape. The Piece Is From The Command Centre Playset Marketed By The Lego Group From 1978 To 1988. After The Commercial Success And Popularity Of The Album Version Of The Song The Group Released Several Remixes Some Of Which Became Hits In Dance Clubs And Radio Stations With A Dance Format. The Version Most Frequently Heard On Radio Was The Remix By Nellee Hooper Which Appeared As A Hidden Track On The Album . The Intro To This Song Uses A Sample From John Barry's "Golden Girl" A Track On The Soundtrack For The James Bond Movie "Goldfinger". The Drums Are Sampled From "Sorcerer Of Isis" By Power Of Zeus. Additionally The Nellee Hooper Remix Samples The "a-One Two A-One Two" From De La Soul's "Breakadawn" And Also Uses The Famous Drum Break From The Fatback Band's "Put Your Love In My Tender Care ". The Music Video For The Song Was Directed By Toby Tremlett And Made Its Debut On 14 January 1997. Throughout The Video Which Gives Off A Dark Atmosphere The Camera Focuses On Kelli Dayton Singing In The Middle Of A Dark Room Sitting In A Dentist Chair That She Spins Around. The Camera Follows Dayton As She Slowly Walks Around The Darkened Room Singing The Song. There Are Also Several Smaller Lit Rooms With Oval Windows Within The Larger Dark Room Depicting Different Scenes Such As A Man Dressed In Black Practicing Various Poses A Woman Dressed In A Nightgown Who Is Vacuuming The Floor A Young Woman Posing Around A Chair In A Red Tie Shirt And Black Skirt A Toddler Dressed In A Costume Pouring Spaghetti From A Jar And Tossing It Around The Room And An Overweight Man Eating Spaghetti While Sitting In A Recliner. The Small Rooms With The Oval Windows Could Depict A View Into People's Private Lives And Even A View Into Their Souls. A Can Of Worms Is Poured Out By A Band Member. The Other Band Members Are Usually Seen Lurking Behind Dayton In This Video Including In Some Scenes Where The Band Is Standing In One Of The Small Brightly Lit Rooms. At The End Of The Video The People In The Smaller Rooms Seem To Freeze In Place And In The Big Room The Band Poses At Dayton's Dentist Chair And Then The Lights Go Out. The Video Uses The Nellee Hooper Edit Of The Song. Laura Prepon Of That '70s Show Was Also Featured In The Video.
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Sneaker Pimps Is An English Downtempo/trip-Hop Band Initially Active From 1995 To 2006 And Working Together Again Since 2019. As Line Of Flight And Frisk DJs And Childhood Friends Chris Corner From Middlesbrough And Liam Howe From Hartlepool Released Two EPs "Soul Of Indiscretion" And "World As A Cone" In The Early 1990s. While Not Nearly As Complex As The Song-Based Material They Would Produce These Bedroom-Recorded Mixes Of Sampled Beats And Folk Sounds Would Form The Blueprint For The Later Sound. The Band Is Best Known For Their 1996 Album Becoming X And Particularly Its Highest Charting Single "6 Underground". While At Art College In Reading Liam Met David Westlake And Joe Wilson Who Would Both Contribute To The First Three Albums And Join The Band On Tour. When F.R.I.S.K. Performed A Gig With This Line-Up They Later Recorded Some Demos With Chris Singing - These Were Considered The Next Stage In The Evolution Of Chis And Liam's Professional Partnership Another In An Ever-Improving Set Of Smaller Projects Intended For A Few Thousand Records At Most. Drafting In Ian Pickering In 1995 To Help With Lyrics They Recruited Kelli Dayton For Vocal Duties After Seeing Her Singing In A Pub In Reading. The Name 'Sneaker Pimps' Itself Was Taken From A Beastie Boys Article About A Man They Hired To Track Down Classic Shoes. The First Single Roll On Preceded The First Album Followed By Spin Spin Sugar Post-Modern Sleaze 6 Underground And Tesko Suicide. The Album Contains A Myriad Of 90s Pop-Culture References Such As Film Thelma And Louise Coupled To Dark Double Entendres And Puns On Drug Taking And Suicide. It Was Wildly Successful Everywhere In America It Remains Their Only Real Hit. In 2005 The Song "Post-Modern Sleaze" From The Becoming X Album Was Used As The Theme Song For Matroesjka's An Acclaimed Flemish Drama Series About Eastern European Prostitutes And Belgians Involved In The Related Sex Trade. Becoming X Was "toured To Death" Over Two Years Particularly In America Where The Toll On Chris Led To Mental Instability Chronicled In The Song Low Five. Depending On Who You Believe Kelli Dayton Left The Band In 1998 Or Was Sacked Going On To A Solo Career As Kelli Ali. The Band Trialled New Vocallists Demoing Some New Songs With Icelandic Chanteuse Emilíana Torrini But Coupled With The Feeling That These Demos Fit Corner's Voice Better And The Fear Of Being Identified With The Fad For Trip-Hop Acts Corner Became The Singer. The Line Of Flight Studio Was Moved From Hartlepool To London And Production On The Next Album Started Immediately. 1999's Splinter Features The Back Of Chris' Head Symbolizing The Break With Kelli And His Not Feeling Up To The Responsibility Of Being A 'front Man'. Dayton's Departure While Lamented By Many Was Positively Received By Some Critics Who Felt That It Gave The Band A More Honest Emotional Timbre And A More Uniquely Identifiable Sound Especially With Regard To The Rawer And More Personal Quality Of The Lyrics. The Album's Production Retains The Sampled Style Of Becoming X While Being Edgier Less Beat-Driven And At Times More Psychedelic. Due To Wrangles With Virgin Records The Album Was Self-Released On Their Own Clean Up Label And Not Released In The US. Without Significant Promotion And The Lack Of Obvious Singles That Becoming X Had Shown The Album Was Not As Successful But The Favourable Critical Response Led The Band To Set Up Their Own Club Night In London. Called 'Home Taping' And Hosted At The Venue ICA /venue It Invited Celebrities And Musicians To Submit Their Own Cassette Mixes For The Night's Entertainment And The Odd Live Set By The Band. Allegedly One Was Even Received By Madonna. For 2002's Bloodsport The Band Decamped To France And Germany Recording In A Farmhouse While Capturing The Trans-European Essence Of Berlinesque "new-Wave Punk". Liam Howe Was Unavailable So Long-Term Associate And Friend Chris Tate Was Brought In For Synthesizer Duties. The Album Was A Glossier Affair Than Before And Included Flood On Production Duties Rather Than The Band. On Bloodsport's Release Including This Time The US Via Tommy Boy Records The Album Was A Comparative Flop But Made The Austrian Top Twenty. Its Singles Were More Successful In Both The UK And Europe. Sneaker Pimps Recorded Demos Previewed Live In Russia And On European Radio In 2003 For An Unknown Movie Soundtrack And A Fourth Album Tentatively Titled 'Recall' Or 'Songs Of Imaginary Beings'. The Album Was Never Released Chris And Liam Purportedly Shelved The Tracks As A Sneaker Pimps Album For Several Reasons. One They Contained Some Very Emotional Songs Penned By Corner That Were Felt To Be More Suitable For A Solo Project And Two In Some Cases Were Simply Not Being Good Enough To Be Released. The Band Eventually Drifted Apart During Protracted Sessions For The 4th Album Many Of The 'SP4' Demos Leaked And Have Been Rereleased By Chris Corner's Solo Project IAMX On 2004's Kiss And Swallow And 2006's The Alternative. Another Solo Project Not Including Corner Or Howe Was The Nu-Rave And Madchester Influenced Trash Money. In Late 2006 It Emerged That Seven New Demos Had Been Found And Leaked From A Portable Music Player Left In A Russian Bar. The Demos Including "Rush" "Samaritan" "Sun Ate The Moon" "The Shutdown" And "Satellite" All Sung By A New Female Singer Believed To Be Paris Hampton And Referred To By Fans As 'SP5. The Band Did Not Comment On The Leaking Of This Material Until 2015 When Liam Howe Confirmed That "the Magnificent 7" Had Been Recorded By Sneaker Pimps Exploring A New Poppier Sound. Joe And David Left The Band To Work In Film Production And Academia. Liam Howe Went On To Have A Successful Career In Music Production While Chris Moved To Berlin And Later Los Angeles As IAMX Enjoyed A Sustained Alternative Career Releasing Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction In 2009 Dogmatic Infidel Comedown Ok In 2010 Volatile Times In 2011 The Unified Field In 2013 Metanoia In 2016 Everything Is Burning In 2017 Unfall In 2018 Alive In New Light In 2019 And Echo Echo In 2020. Ian Pickering Launched His New Project The Noise Who Runs In 2020. Chris And Liam Continued To Tease Working Together On New Projects Throughout Various IAMX Eras Including A Session Initially Planned As Sneaker Pimps Material Becoming The Liam-Produced IAMX Mini-Album "Everything Is Burning". In 2019 Singer Simonne Jones Was Confirmed As The New Featured Singer Of Sneaker Pimps Which Then Began Recording Their New Album Together In Earnest. Finally In May 2021 18 Years After Their Last Album Was Released The Squaring The Circle Era Was Announced With Two New Singles "Fighter" And "Squaring The Circle " Which Were Released In July. A Remix Album 'Rework Collection 1' Was Released In August And Their Fourth Full Studio Record 'Squaring The Circle' Was Released On September 10th 2021 On Chris Corner's Label UNFALL Productions. 'Squaring The Circle' Features Material Recorded With Both Simonne And Chris On Lead Vocals. More Remix Albums And A Re-Release Of The Band's Older Records Is Also Planned With The Band Regaining Copy And Distribution Rights Of 'Becoming X' And 'Splinter' Via One Little Independent Records And The Ongoing Negotiations Of A Re-Release Of 'Bloodsport' With Tommy Boy Records.
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"6 Underground" is a song by the English band Sneaker Pimps from their debut studio album Becoming X. First released as a single in the United Kingdom in September 1996, the song reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart and had moderate radio airplay in the United States, where it was shipped to modern rock and dance stations in February 1997. After the song was used in the 1997 American film The Saint, radio stations began playing "6 Underground" more frequently. The single was re-released in May 1997, when it peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, the song peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number seven on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
The cover artwork of the single uses a photograph of a Lego Space moonscape. The piece is from the Command Centre playset marketed by The Lego Group from 1978 to 1988. After the commercial success and popularity of the album version of the song, the group released several remixes, some of which became hits in dance clubs and radio stations with a dance format. The version most frequently heard on radio was the remix by Nellee Hooper (which appeared as a hidden track on the album).
The intro to this song uses a sample from John Barry's "Golden Girl", a track on the soundtrack for the James Bond movie "Goldfinger". The drums are sampled from "Sorcerer of Isis" by Power of Zeus.
Additionally, the Nellee Hooper remix samples the "a-one two, a-one two" from De La Soul's "Breakadawn", and also uses the famous drum break from The Fatback Band's "Put Your Love (In My Tender Care)".
The music video for the song was directed by Toby Tremlett, and made its debut on 14 January 1997. Throughout the video, which gives off a dark atmosphere, the camera focuses on Kelli Dayton singing in the middle of a dark room sitting in a dentist chair that she spins around. The camera follows Dayton as she slowly walks around the darkened room singing the song. There are also several smaller lit rooms with oval windows within the larger dark room, depicting different scenes such as a man dressed in black practicing various poses, a woman dressed in a nightgown who is vacuuming the floor, a young woman posing around a chair in a red tie shirt and black skirt, a toddler dressed in a costume pouring spaghetti from a jar and tossing it around the room, and an overweight man eating spaghetti while sitting in a recliner. The small rooms with the oval windows could depict a view into people's private lives, and even a view into their souls. A can of worms is poured out by a band member. The other band members are usually seen lurking behind Dayton in this video, including in some scenes where the band is standing in one of the small, brightly lit rooms. At the end of the video, the people in the smaller rooms seem to freeze in place, and in the big room, the band poses at Dayton's dentist chair, and then the lights go out.
The video uses the Nellee Hooper edit of the song. Laura Prepon of That '70s Show was also featured in the video. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.