Sunset Strippers were an
electronic music
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group
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from the
UK. They are best-known for their 2005 song "
Falling Stars", which
samples the 1988 hit song "
Waiting for a Star to Fall" by
Boy Meets Girl and was involved in a sampling battle with
Cabin Crew. "Falling Stars" reached number 3 on the
UK Singles Chart in March 2005.
History
Members Sergei Forster-Hall and Kieron McTernan met in
Northbrook College
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It currently has three campuses: Broadwater Campus and West Durrington Campus in Worthing and Shoreham Airport Campus in ...
.
In 2004, Sunset Strippers remixed the
top 25 hit "
Cry Little Sister", originally written by
Gerard McMahon (under the
pseudonym
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"Gerard McMann") as the
theme tune for the
film
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''
The Lost Boys''.
In 2005, they remixed
Planet Funk
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's song "The Switch", which featured in
Mitsubishi
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Founded by YatarÅ Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group traces its origins to the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company that existed from 1870 to 194 ...
television advertisements,
and in 2007 they remixed Irish pop band
Westlife
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's "
Total Eclipse of the Heart" for ''
The Love Album''. The group's last release under the Sunset Strippers name was "Step Right Up" in 2008, which appears on the downloadable version of ''Clubbers Guide '08'' by
Ministry of Sound
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.
Forster-Hall and McTernan began releasing remixes under the name My Digital Enemy in 2006, which continued until they renamed themselves MDE in 2017. They release mostly
tech house
Tech house is a subgenre of house music that combines stylistic features of techno with house. The term ''tech house'' developed as a shorthand record store name for a category of electronic dance music that combined musical aspects of techno, ...
and
deep house
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music.
"Falling Stars" music video
The music video for "Falling Stars" features choreographer Benji Weeratunge listening to the song in his headphones whilst washing his clothes in a
launderette. Three attractive young women enter the launderette and begin to dance all at once whilst washing their clothes as well. As they wait for their clothes, the women strike poses that they coordinate with the music while Harry tries to attract their attention. The women also dance around the launderette, until they are seen wearing white shirts and red shorts. They begin dancing with Benji while he sings into a microphone. An old woman and her dog arriving at the launderette see Benji singing (in lip-sync form) inside with a mop as a microphone. It turns out that the women are only a vision from his imagination. Unimpressed, the old woman and the dog leave the launderette. Benji still continues to sing the song (in lip-sync form), even though he pretends nothing has happened.
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English electronic music groups
English house music groups
Musical groups from Brighton and Hove
English musical trios