|
Groove Terminator
Simon Jude Lewicki (born ), who performs as Groove Terminator or GT, is an Australian electronic artist. Originally a hip-hop DJ, Lewicki began spinning house music. He was featured on the 2000 Australian edition of Ministry of Sound's ''Club Nation'' series. His song "Here Comes Another One" was the theme of the popular Australian reality TV-show '' The Block'' (2003). Groove Terminator's debut studio album, '' Road Kill'' (February 2000), reached the ARIA albums chart top 40. It provided the single, " One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" (2000), which peaked at No. 25 on the related singles chart. Career Simon Jude Lewicki was born in in Adelaide. His parents helped found Adelaide's first community radio station, where his mother was a presenter. His first concert attendance was Ramones at Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, as an eight-year-old in July 1980. Lewicki's DJing began from age 13, with the creation of mix-tapes on weekends for community radio. He later recall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Losing Ground (song)
"Losing Ground" is a song by Australian electronic music group, Groove Terminator. It was released in 1997 on 12" vinyl and in May 1998 on CD single. A remixed version is included on the band's debut studio album '' Road Kill''. The song peaked at number 64 on the Australian ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1998 The 12th Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) was held on 20 October 1998 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. Presenters, including Democrats deputy l ..., the song was nominated for Best New Talent and Best Video (Chris Bently). Track listings 12" Vinyl (Interdance – ID 005) # "Losing Ground" (Original mix) - 5:52 # "Losing Ground" (Johnny Lisbon remix) - 6:05 # "Losing Ground" (Coursey & Duane's Mirrorball remix) - 8:05 # "Losing Ground" (Code Warrior remix) - 6:27 CD single (Interdance – 724388518420) # "Losing Ground" (Radio edit) - 3:27 # "Losing Ground" (O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One More Time (The Sunshine Song)
"One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" is a song by Australian electronic music group Groove Terminator. It was released in May 2000 as the second official single from the band's debut studio album, '' Road Kill''. The song contains an exploration of " Let the Sunshine In" and peaked at number 25 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici .... Track listings CD single (Interdance/Virgin – 724389663426) # "One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" – 3:23 # "One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" (Killers on the Loose remix) – 5:26 # "One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" (extended mix) – 5:20 # "Afraid of the Dark Part 1" – 5:09 # "Give It Up" (Force Mass Motion mix) – 7:14 Charts References 2000 songs 2000 singles {{2000s-Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Kill (Groove Terminator Album)
''Road Kill'' is the debut studio album by Australian dance musician Groove Terminator. It was released in February 2000 and peaked at number 39 on the ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000, the album was nominated for Best Male Artist and Best Cover Art. Reception The Age said "''Roadkill'' mashed up punky guitar riffage, groove-laden hip-hop, pogoing choruses, rough breaks and anthemic big-beat." Track listing # "What's Your Name?" - 4:21 # "One More Time (The Sunshine Song)" - 4:07 # "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?" - 3:20 # "Yo Baby" - 4:16 # "You Can't See" (featuring Kool Keith) - 6:37 # "The Human Beatbox" - 4:24 # "Here Comes Another One" (featuring Basshoppa) - 3:30 # "I've Got It in for You" - 8:02 # " Notorious" - Duran Duran Duran Duran () are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor (bass guitarist), John Taylor. After several early changes, the band's lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APRA AMCOS
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The two organisations work together to license public performances and administer performance, communication and reproduction rights on behalf of their members, who are creators of musical works, aiming to ensure fair payments to members and to defend their rights under the '' Australian Copyright Act (1968)''. APRA, which formed in 1926, represents songwriters, composers, and music publishers, providing businesses with a range of licences to use copyrighted music. This covers music that is communicated or performed publicly including on radio, television, online, live gigs in pubs and clubs etc. APRA distributes the royalties from these licence fees back to their composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bexta
BeXta is the performance name of Rebecca Elizabeth Poulsen, a trance and hard dance, DJ and producer. She studied classical music and music technology before turning to electronic dance music from 1992. BeXta established her own label, Mixology Digital, in 2000. Biography Rebecca Elizabeth Poulsen studied at Queensland Conservatorium of Music for a Bachelor of Sonology. She started creating her own music using keyboards and computers in 1992 and started performing live as BeXta in 1993. BeXta extended her talents to DJing in 1997 and her first weekly residency was Plastic in Sydney in 1998. In 1995 she released her first single, "Lunar Tango", on an independent label in Melbourne. She supported shows by Björk and by Prodigy. Her debut album, ''beXtaIsm'', was issued on a music cassette in that same year. Bexta has several single releases currently, after the release of the EP - Skirmish LIVE, this was received well entering the ARIA singles charts in 1999. One album, Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Skitz
Nicholas Agamalis, better known as Nick Skitz (born 1968 in Sydney, Australia), is an Australian DJ and dance music producer. His career in dance music started in the early 1990s. Since 1995, his ''Skitzmix'' series of compilations have become well known in Australian dance circles for featuring remixes and megamixes of well-known dance songs and are the best selling DJ compilations in Australia. Biography In 2004, he collaborated with Tony Le Rhodes, who is his brother Tony Agamalis. He was the ex-drummer for the "Choirboys", which than linked up with Mark Gable, lead singer of Australian rock band The Choirboys to rework their 1987 Australian hit "Run to Paradise" as a dance track. The song, billed as "Nick Skitz vs. the Choirboys", debuted in the top 20 of the Australian pop charts in July 2004, and was the 17th biggest selling dance single of that year. In 2009 Central Station Records folded and Skitz started his own labels LNG Music and Homebrew Records. July 2011 saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cut (2000 Film)
''Cut'' is a 2000 Australian slasher film directed by Kimble Rendall and starring Kylie Minogue, Molly Ringwald, Jessica Napier, and Tiriel Mora. Plot In 1988, while filming a scene for the slasher movie ''Hot Blooded'' where Scarman slits a girl named Chloe in the throat, Scarman's actor Brad (Frank Roberts) accidentally stabs Chloe's actress Vanessa Turnbill ( Molly Ringwald) non-fatally in the breasts, causing the movie's director Hilary Jacobs (Kylie Minogue) to yell at him. Later on, Brad, still in his costume, confronts Hilary in her office, who fires him. Enraged, Brad puts on the Scarman mask, cuts off his own pinky finger with his shears and murders Hilary by cutting off her tongue. Vanessa comes in and finds Hilary dead before Brad attacks her, which they both struggle over the shears. Vanessa's personal assistant Lossman (Geoff Revel) comes in just as Vanessa grabs the shears and stabs Brad through the neck, killing him. 12 years later in 2000, Lossman is now a col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grinspoon
Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales, which formed in 1995 by Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar, Kristian Hopes on drums and frontman Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar. Also in that year, Grinspoon won the national youth radio, Triple J–sponsored Triple J Unearthed#Talent competition (1995–2005), Unearthed competition for Lismore, with their post-grunge song "Grinspoon (EP), Sickfest". The band's name references Lester Grinspoon, an associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who supported marijuana for medical use. All eight of Grinspoon's studio albums have reached the ARIA Charts, ARIA albums chart top 10. Their sound changed to mainstream rock with the release of their third studio album, ''New Detention'' (2002), which peaked at No. 2; likewise, their fifth studio album ''Alibis & Other Lies'' (2007) also reached No. 2. The 2004 fourth album, ''Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills'', peaked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisborne, Victoria
Gisborne () is a town in the Macedon Ranges, located about north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the largest town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges, Macedon Ranges Shire, with a population of 14,432 as of June 2021 in the Gisborne district region. Gisborne is known for its country homesteads, tree-lined streets, restaurants and cafes. The town has become a popular 'tree change' destination for Melbourne residents seeking large leafy blocks and a quiet lifestyle within easy commuting distance from the city. As such, the town has grown substantially over the past 5–10 years, with an increase of almost 2,600 residents since 2011, although planning controls have been implemented to protect the character and "outstanding natural beauty" of the region. History The Gisborne town site was first settled on the 24 March 1837 by George Hamilton (Australian police officer), George Hamilton. The area further south of Gisborne had been settled earlier by John Aitken (pioneer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Of Australian Rock And Pop
''The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop'' or ''Rock and Pop'' by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s. The book has a similar title to the 1978 work by Noel McGrath, '' Australian Encyclopaedia of Rock and Pop'', but is not otherwise related. Publishers, Allen & Unwin described McFarlane's encyclopedia as containing over 870 entries and an "essential reference to the bands and artists who molded the shape of Australian popular music ..in an A-to-Z encyclopedia format complete with biographical and historical details. Each entry also includes listings of original band lineups and subsequent changes, record releases, career highlights, and cross-references with related bands and artists." The first edition is out of print, but was for a time available on the whammo.com.au online record store, and is still in the Internet Archive. In 2017 a second edition was published by Third Stone Press. Revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turntablism
Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating new music, sound effects, mixes and other creative sounds and beats, typically by using two or more Phonograph, turntables and a cross fader-equipped DJ mixer. The mixer is plugged into a PA system (for live events) or broadcasting equipment (if the DJ is performing on radio, TV or Internet radio) so that a wider audience can hear the turntablist's music. Turntablists typically manipulate records on a turntable by moving the record with their hand to cue the stylus to exact points on a record, and by touching or moving the platter or record to stop, slow down, speed up or, spin the record backwards, or moving the turntable platter back and forth (the popular rhythmic "scratching" effect which is a key part of hip hop music), all while using a DJ mixer's cross-fader control and the mixer's gain and equalization controls to adjust the sound and level of each turntable. Turntablists typically use two or more turntables and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
