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Music Instructor
Music Instructor was a German electro-dance music project. The producers and songwriters of Music Instructor were Mike Michaels, Mark "MM" Dollar, and Mark Tabak, also known as Triple-M Crew. Triple-M has also produced other artists and bands such as Brainbug, Flying Steps, Mystica, Highland, The Boyz, Overground, Before Four, US5 and Ayman. Music Instructor often worked with many other artists, especially a group Lunatics and a breakdance crew Flying Steps, and was most active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Beginnings At first, the group made dance music similar to happy hardcore with the singer Holly Trance. Their first single was a cover of "Hymn", originally performed by Ultravox. It was released in 1995, and was followed by the album ''The World of Music Instructor'' in 1996 with three more singles – "Hands in the Air", "Dream a Little Dream" and "Dance". They also released the single "Friends Will Be Friends", which was a cover of Queen's song of the same title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakdancing
Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance originating from the African American and Puerto Rican communities in the United States. While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, breakdancing mainly consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes. Breakdancing is typically set to songs containing drum breaks, especially in hip-hop, funk, soul music and breakbeat music, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns. The modern dance elements of breakdancing originated among the poor youth of New York during the early 1970s, where it was introduced as breaking. It is closely attributed to the birth of hip-hop, as DJs developed rhythmic breaks for dancers. The dance form has since expanded globally, with an array of organizations and independent competitions supporting its growth. Breaking will now be feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Recording Sales Certification
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units. The threshold quantity varies by type (such as album, single, music video) and by nation or territory (see List of music recording certifications). Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after precious materials (gold, platinum and diamond). The threshold required for these awards depends upon the population of the territory where the recording is released. Typically, they are awarded only to international releases and are awarded individually for each country where the album is sold. Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times greater than others, may exist for different music media (for example: videos versus albums, singles, or music download). History The original gold and silver record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize their sales ach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Burke
Kenneth Dean Burke (born September 7, 1957) is a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate in the 152nd Georgia General Assembly from Bainbridge, Georgia.. Senate.ga.gov. Retrieved June 28, 2013. Burke was first elected Senator in the 2012 general election, and serves Georgia's 11th district—a constituency which includes Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, and Seminole counties—with portions of Mitchell and Thomas counties as well.. Senate.ga.gov. Retrieved June 28, 2013. Early life and education Dean Burke graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Southwestern State University—going on to graduate from the Medical College of Georgia. He then trained in specialized medicine at Mercer University's School of Medicine. Burke is board certified and has been a practicing physician in Georgia for the past 28 years. Political career Senator Burke was elected in 2012 and sworn into the Senate in 2013. He sits on the Senate Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Education and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon (American Singer)
Brenda Shannon Greene (born May 2, 1958), known professionally as Shannon, is an American singer and songwriter of freestyle and dance-pop music. She is best known for her single " Let the Music Play", which topped the '' Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart in 1983 and was certified gold. Her studio albums include '' Let the Music Play'' (1984), followed by '' Do You Wanna Get Away'' (1985) and ''Love Goes All the Way'' (1986). In 1999, Shannon appeared in a segment of VH1's '' One-Hit Wonders'', and returned to music with her fourth studio album ''The Best Is Yet to Come'' (2000). Her most recent studio album, ''A Beauty Returns'', was released in 2006. Career Shannon was born in Washington, D.C., United States. In 1983, she was enrolled at York College in New York City and toured with the New York Jazz Ensemble. Quintin Hicks, an associate of the production team of Mark Liggett and Chris Barbosa, saw Shannon singing with a live band in her cousin's recording studio. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonzun Crew
Jonzun Crew was an American electro and early funk– hip hop group that was active in the 1980s. The group was led by Michael Jonzun, his brothers Maurice Starr and Soni Jonzun, and Carl (Captain Fingers). Overview The Jonzun Crew was formed by Florida-born brothers Michael, Soni, and Larry Johnson (also known as Maurice Starr) in Boston in 1981, with Gordy Worthy and Steve Thorpe filling out the lineup. The group carried its spin on Parliament-Funkadelic's loopy sci-fi themes of Afro-futurism throughout the 1980s and early 1990s for several albums. The group's most famous tracks, “Pack Jam (Look out for the OVC),” “Space is the Place,” and “Space Cowboy” were featured on the group's debut album, ''Lost in Space'' (1983). Other notable tracks included “We Are the Jonzun Crew” and “Ground Control.” The group's sound was particularly unique because all of the synthesizer parts were played live as opposed to sequenced, and despite using drum-machine hits in it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcleus
Newcleus was an American electro and old school hip hop group that gained popularity in the early 1980s. The group is primarily known for its 12-inch single "Jam-On's Revenge" (re-released as "Jam on Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)" (1983)) and "Jam on It" (1984), which began as an anti-rap joke, according to founding member DJ and producer Ben Cenac. At the time (1981) we were going by the name Positive Messenger and were making music that had a purpose, either messages of love or faith or talking about the conditions of the world. However, we were still doing lots of Hip-Hop jams with our DJ crew Jam-On Productions. So, one of our DJs, Salvador Smooth, kept nagging me to do a Rap song. Having come out of Hip-Hop street battles in Brooklyn in the ’70s, I didn't really think much of the Rap records that were playing on the radio, so I figured as a joke I would make a parody jam ... I threw in an idea from an ventthat actually had happened in the ’70s, when a DJ who we had ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oddworld
''Oddworld'' is a video game series and fictional universe, created by developers Oddworld Inhabitants under the direction of Lorne Lanning. The series has been released on various platforms such as PlayStation, Xbox, PlayStation 3, Game Boy, Windows and Wii U. Throughout games set in the ''Oddworld'' universe, the player's character goes on a quest to defend Oddworld's ecosystem from endangerment by industrial corporations. Oddworld planet Oddworld is the name of the planet on which all five Oddworld Inhabitants games are based, extant in another dimension. The planet was originally described as ten times the size of Earth; but Oddworld Inhabitants' president and creative developer Lorne Lanning has since explained that Oddworld's surface area is ten times the size of Earth's, given that Oddworld is predominantly a dry-land planet and Earth is predominantly water-covered. It has its own sun and thus its own orbit resulting in a unique clock and calendar. At some point, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe (Oddworld)
Abraham Lure is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ''Oddworld'' video game series, created by Oddworld Inhabitants. Abe was introduced in the 1997 game '' Abe's Oddysee'' and his character has changed and developed throughout the subsequent games, '' Abe's Exoddus'' and '' Munch's Oddysee''. Abe, a creature known as a Mudokon, initially works as a slave for the meat-processing plant RuptureFarms until his eventual escape. An atypical video game character, he usually does not fight directly and rarely uses any weapons, instead employing stealth and various psychic powers in addition to using the environment against his enemies. The character was well received by critics. Along with Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot, Abe was one of the unofficial mascots of the PlayStation and was an example of the PlayStation's more mature style of platformers. Character conception and development Abe is the most strongly developed central character of the ''Oddworld'' series. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric City Of Music Instructor
''Electric City of Music Instructor'' is German group Music Instructor's second album, released in 1998. The album's style is electro/ hip hop, unlike their first album '' The World of Music Instructor'', which was mostly techno/ happy hardcore. Four tracks from this album have been released as singles - ''Super Sonic'', ''Rock Your Body'', ''Get Freaky'' and ''Electric City'' and all sound the same - the each track resembles the other three. Earlier edition of ''Electric City of Music Instructor'' is titled ''Electro City'' and one song on it are different (Get Freaky). All original songs are written and produced by Mike Michaels, MM Dollar, Mark Tabak and Dean Burk aka. Superfly. The album features many guests, such as the Songwriter and Rapper Superfly (Dean Burk), Lunatics and Flying Steps The Flying Steps is a B-boy crew formed in 1993 by Kadir Memis ("Amigo") and Vartan Bassil in Berlin. The crew has nine members. They specialise in B-boying (breakdance), popping and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals) and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass). Their earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works by incorporating further styles, such as arena rock and pop rock. Before forming Queen, May and Taylor had played together in the band Smile. Mercury was a fan of Smile and encouraged them to experiment with more elaborate stage and recording techniques. He joined in 1970 and suggested the name "Queen". Deacon was recruited in February 1971, before the band released their eponymous debut album in 1973. Queen first charted in the UK with their second album, '' Queen II'', in 1974. '' Sheer Heart Attack'' later that year and '' A Night at the Opera'' in 1975 brought them international success. The latter featured " Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
