Fats Comet was a British/American

industrial hip hop Industrial hip hop is a fusion genre of industrial music and hip hop. History 1980s The origins of industrial hip hop are in the work of Mark Stewart, Bill Laswell, and Adrian Sherwood. In 1985, former The Pop Group singer Mark Stewart relea ...

group formed by

Adrian Sherwood Adrian Maxwell Sherwood (born 20 January 1958) is an English record producer specialising in the genre of dub music. He has created a distinctive production style based on the application of dub effects and dub mixing techniques to other forms ...

, Keith LeBlanc, Skip McDonald and

Doug Wimbish Douglas Arthur Wimbish (born September 22, 1956) is an American bassist, primarily known for being a member of rock band Living Colour and funk/dub/hip hop collective Tackhead, and as a session musician with artists such as Sugarhill Gang, G ...

. The band was known for producing dance tracks that were densely layered in samples and ahead of their time. In a 1987 article in ''

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'', Scott Burlingham commented that "songs like "Bop Bop" and " Stormy Weather" are three years old and they still don't fit in." The members eventually shifted their focus to another project

Tackhead Tackhead (styled TACK>>HEAD, sometimes known as Fats Comet) is an industrial hip-hop group that was most active during the 1980s and early 1990s, and briefly reformed in 2004 for a tour. Their music occupies the territory where funk, dub, ind ...

, under which they continue to produce music.

History

British music producer

first met American percussionist Keith LeBlanc in 1984 while working on a remix for the reggae group Akabu. They were joined by guitarist Skip McDonald and bassist

in London. Fats Comet was originally conceived to be a studio-only project. A change in musical direction led the members to focus their attention on another project called

, which aimed at having a less commercial sound compared to Fats Comet. Sherwood explains, "the masterplan ..was for Tackhead to take dub/funk on a journey through leftfield and into the unknown to God knows where, and then for Fats Comet to pilot the mothership smoothly back from this alternative dimension to a safe earthly landing with sounds that you would recognize instantly without ever having heard before." Although they never released a full-length album, the group's final single, " Rockchester", was a modest success in the UK.

Discography

Chart placings shown are from the

UK Indie Chart The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom. Originally published in January 1980, and widely known as the indie chart, the ...

Singles

*"Bop Bop" (World, 1985) *"Dee Jay's Dream" (World, 1985) *"Don't Forget That Beat" (World, 1985) *" Stormy Weather" ( Rough Trade, 1985) *"King of the Beat" ( On-U Sound, 1986) *" Rockchester" (World, 1987) (#6)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fats Comet Tackhead Alternative hip-hop groups American electronic music groups American funk musical groups American industrial music groups British electronic music groups British funk musical groups Musical groups established in 1984 Musical groups disestablished in 1987 American dub musical groups British dub musical groups On-U Sound Records artists