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Chains (DLT Song)
"Chains" is a hip hop song by New Zealand DJ DLT (musician), DLT featuring singer Che Fu. The song reached number one on the New Zealand charts. It was Che-Fu's first song after leaving Supergroove and marked the beginning of his solo career. Development Che-Fu had been asked to feature on the song before his departure from Supergroove. He came to the recording unaware that he needed to write a chorus as well as a verse, and came up with the memorable hook "Come break my chains/Come help me out/Living in the city ain't so bad" on the spot. The lyrics indirectly address the French nuclear testing at the Moruroa, Mururoa islands. Chart performance The song debuted on the New Zealand charts at number two, then rose to number one where it remained for five weeks. Year-end charts Awards At the 1997 New Zealand Music Awards "Chains" won Best Single, and Che-Fu was awarded Best Male Vocalist for the song. In 2001 it was listed at number 21 on the APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DLT (musician)
DLT or Darryl Leigh Thomson, is a New Zealand hip hop DJ, music producer and composer as well as a visual artist. He was a founding member of Upper Hutt Posse (UHP). As a solo artist DLT issued two albums, ''The True School'' (1996) and ''Altruism'' (2000) – both peaked on the Recorded Music NZ, New Zealand albums chart top 20. His most successful single, "Chains (DLT song), Chains" (1996), featuring vocals by Che Fu, reached number one on the New Zealand singles chart. Biography Darryl Leigh Thomson, was born in Maraenui, New Zealand. DLT was inspired by an article about rap and break dancing in ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine when he was 16 years of age; he moved to Wellington in the early 1980s and established himself as a Graffiti, graffiti artist known as Slick (1983) before co-founding Hip hop music, hip hop group Upper Hutt Posse (UHP). UHP released New Zealand's first hip hop recording, "E Tū", in 1988, with DLT "the first ever DJ to scratch on a local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Che Fu
Che Kuo Eruera Ness (born 1974), better known by his stage name Che Fu, is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and producer. A founding member of the band Supergroove, as a solo artist he has gone on to sell thousands of albums both in New Zealand and internationally. Che Fu is considered a pioneer of hip hop and Pasifika music in New Zealand. Early life Che Fu was born Che Ness in Auckland. His mother, Miriama Rauhihi Ness is of Māori descent and his father Tigilau Ness is Niuean. Fu's parents are well-known political activists, notably as members of the Polynesian-rights group, the Polynesian Panthers, and founding members of Rastafarian movement '' 12 Tribes of Israel''. Tigilau is a musician and part of the band Unity Pacific as well as his son's band, ''The Krates''. The Ness family are Rastafarians. Career Supergroove (1994–1996) While a student at Western Springs College, Fu and a group of friends formed the Low Down Dirty Blues Band, who later became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2b S
B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' bee'' (pronounced ), plural ''bees''. It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants. History The Roman derived from the Greek capital beta via its Etruscan and Cumaean variants. The Greek letter was an adaptation of the Phoenician letter bēt . The Egyptian hieroglyph for the consonant /b/ had been an image of a foot and calf , but bēt (Phoenician for "house") was a modified form of a Proto-Sinaitic glyph adapted from the separate hieroglyph Pr meaning "house". The Hebrew letter bet is a separate development of the Phoenician letter. By Byzantine times, the Greek letter came to be pronounced /v/, so that it is known in modern Greek as ''víta'' (still written ). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hip Hop Music
Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music Music genre, genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African Americans, African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip-hop includes rapping often enough that the terms can be used synonymously. However, "hip-hop" more properly denotes an entire hip-hop culture, subculture. Other key markers of the genre are the disc jockey, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and hip hop production, instrumental tracks. Cultural interchange has always been central to the hip-hop genre. It simultaneously borrows from its social environment while commenting on it. The hip-hop genre and culture emerged from block parties in ethnic minority neighborhoods of New York City, particularly The Bronx, Bronx. DJs began expanding the instrumental Break (music), breaks of popular records when they noticed how excited it would make the crowds. The extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitting Inside My Head
"Sitting Inside My Head" is a song by New Zealand funk rock band Supergroove from their debut studio album, '' Traction'' (1994). Released through BMG in 1994 as the album's fourth and final single, the track peaked at No. 6 on the New Zealand singles chart and became the 34th best-selling single of 1994 in the country. Composition and development "Sitting Inside My Head" is a funk rock song written in the key of E major, incorporating distorted horns and lead vocals by Che Fu. Karl Steven, the song's co-writer and co-producer, has described its initial form without Che Fu's contribution as "quite bad." However, after the latter successfully asked to contribute to the song during its recording session, it grew to become Steven's favourite Supergroove song. Band member Joe Lonie directed a music video to accompany the track, which includes footage of Che Fu (and the rest of the band) recorded on a North Shore beach, as well as walking down Queen Street. Track listing New Zea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supergroove
Supergroove is a New Zealand funk rock music group. Their debut album '' Traction'' was released in 1994. The group disbanded in 1997 but reformed in 2007. History The band was founded on New Year's Eve 1989/1990, having previously been named the Low-Down Dirty Blues Band. Prior to Supergroove's second album ''Backspacer'', singer Che Fu and trumpeter Tim Stewart were fired from the band. Solo careers Notable former members include Che Ness, aka Che Fu, now with a successful solo career, Paul Russell, who still studio drums with Che Fu. Two other ex-members, Tim Stewart (trumpet) and Ben Sciascia (guitar) formed a new band in late 2005 called Svelte with Stewart on Lead vocals and Bass. Stewart went on to form Hopetoun Brown, a two-piece band, with fellow ex-Groover, Nick Atkinson - they released their first album in 2015 and also often appear together as the horn section for other performers including Tami Neilson, Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan. Reunions Supergroove co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moruroa
Moruroa (Mururoa, Mururura), also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is located about southeast of Tahiti. Administratively Moruroa Atoll is part of the Commune of France, commune of Tureia, which includes the atolls of Tureia, Fangataufa, Tematangi and Vanavana. France undertook nuclear weapon tests between 1966 and 1996 at Moruroa and Fangataufa, causing international protests, notably in 1974 and 1995. The number of tests performed on Moruroa has been variously reported as 175 and 181. History The first recorded visit this atoll was Commander Philip Carteret on HMS ''Swallow'' in 1767, just a few days after he had discovered Pitcairn Island. Carteret named Mururoa "Bishop of Osnaburgh Island". In 1792, the British whaler was wrecked here, and it became known as Matilda's Rocks. Frederick William Beechey visited it in 1826. Early European explorers found that the atoll w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs Of All Time
The APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time is a selection of New Zealand songs as voted in 2001 by members of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). The top 30 of this selection was used to create the '' Nature's Best'' CD and the rest of the list for follow-up compilations. A similar list was made in Australia of the top 30 Australian songs. Selection The list was created to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in New Zealand in 2001. Nine hundred candidate songs were chosen for APRA members to vote on. The top 30 songs were released on the '' Nature's Best'' CD. Commentary Some artists feature prominently in the list. These include: * Dave Dobbyn with the most songwriting credits (10) and second equal as an artist (6). * Neil and Tim Finn, with the second- and third-place songwriting credits (9 and 8, respectively). * Finn-related bands Split Enz and Crowded House, which have the two highest entries (8 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nature's Best
''Nature's Best'' is a two-disc compilation album of thirty New Zealand popular music songs, selected by a panel as the top thirty New Zealand songs of all time. Selection The genesis of the idea was the 75th anniversary of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in New Zealand in 2001 and the selection of the top 100 New Zealand songs of the past 75 years. A list of over 900 candidate songs was prepared, and voting was open to APRA members and an invited academy. The list of the top 100 songs was announced in stages in 2001, with the number one place going to the 1969 song "Nature" by Fourmyula. A collaborative effort by representatives of major record companies and APRA - most notably Mike Chunn - took place to produce an album of the top 30 songs from this selection. The resulting album was named ''Nature's Best'' after the title song, and was released in January 2002 on the Sony Music label. Sales were extraordinary - in the first four months after its relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Songs
1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, killing around 300 people. * January 9– 20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya. * January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan. * January 13 – Italy's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government. * January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected President of Portugal. * January 16 – President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. Bio promises to restore power following elections scheduled for February. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DLT (musician) Songs
DLT may refer to: Businesses * DLT (department store), Saint Petersburg, Russia * DLT Solutions, a software reseller in Virginia, US Music * DLT (musician), New Zealand hip-hop DJ * Dave Lee Travis (born 1945), British radio DJ * De La Tierra, an international Latin American metal band Science, technology and mathematics * Digital Linear Tape, a computer storage magnetic tape format * Direct linear transformation, an algorithm to solve systems of equations in projective geometry * Distributed Language Translation * Distributed ledger technology, a system for holding replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data spread across multiple sites * International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, a computer science conference * Dose limiting toxicity, in drug development; e.g. see Hydroxycarbamide Other uses * Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team (Union Cycliste Internationale abbreviation) * Donald L. Taffner Donald L. Taffner (November 29, 1930 - September 6, 2011) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
