M/A/R/R/S

M | A | R | R | S ( as it appears on the record covers ) or M / A / R / R / S ( a graphical variant) was a British house music project from 1987, which has only one single (" pump Up the Volume ") published. This piece reached number 1 in the UK charts and top 10 finishes in the sales charts of other European countries and is considered insofar as groundbreaking as it was the first commercially successful sampling plate. She pulled the first plate such disputes as to the legality of sampling by itself.

Band History

M | A | R | R | S was a unique collaboration of indie group AR Kane ( also AR Kane written ) (Alex Ayuli and Rudi Tambala ) and the electronic band Colourbox ( Martyn Young, Steve Young and Lorita Grahame ), which at the same record label ( 4AD ) were under contract. This was supplemented by the two DJs CJ Mackintosh and Dave Dorrell, who were responsible for the scratching passages, and John Fryer for sampling. In the final version of the board but the sound tracks of AR Kane were not mixed, which minimized the willingness of the band to a continuation of the project. Following Colourbox wanted alone under the M | S- publish names | A | R | R. Since they were not willing, AR Kane's naming rights to "M | A | R | R | S" to purchase for 100,000 pounds, it remained in Pump Up the Volume as the only factory.

Band name

The name M | A | R | R | S is composed of the initial letters of five of its members: Martyn Young ( Colourbox ), Alex Ayuli (AR Kane ), Rudi Tambala (AR Kane ), Russell (from the AR Kane - radius ), Steven Young ( Colourbox ).

Single Pump Up the Volume

The collaboration between the two bands resulted in two pieces: Pump Up the Volume, originally recorded as an instrumental by Colourbox and then supplemented by AR Kane (later deleted ) guitar riffs, and Anitina ( The First Time I See She Dance) by AR Kane, which highlighted Colourbox with drum machine rhythms. Although the single in the UK officially a double A - side was obtained only Pump Up the Volume, not least because of the associated video clips, the attention of the clubs, the media and the buyer.

Pump Up the Volume was enriched by the participating DJs with samples of various other pieces of music. These are the " Put the Needle on the Record" sample from the piece Put the Needle to the Record of Criminal Element Orchestra (No. 63 in the UK charts the same year ), the " You're Gonna Get Yours" Sample from a piece of Public Enemy, samples from "Holy Ghost" by the bar -Kays and a faster -made sample of Dunya Yusin. The " Pump Up the Volume" sample itself was borrowed from Eric B. and Rakim. In particular, Put the Needle on the Record, a sample of other artists like used in the sequence.

Another sample, from the play " roadblock " of the producer trio Stock Aitken Waterman, on the other hand took care of litigation because Aitken Waterman Stock not want to tolerate the unauthorized use of their intellectual property. Since sampling was not a common practice at that time, the legal situation was unclear. Delivery in UK record stores was stopped during the negotiations for the settlement of the conflict, what Pump Up the Volume for a week it prevented her from climbing the No. 1 position, which was occupied by Stock Aitken Waterman Artist Rick Astley. Critics suspected that the threat of legal action Astley's hit Never Gonna Give You Up another week should be allowed at the top of the charts. The compromise between M | A | R | R | S Aitken Waterman and Stock was that appeared in all countries outside the UK Pump Up the Volume without the Roadblock sample. Later released Stock Aitken Waterman a remix of one of their own pieces, in which they used the full instrumental track from Pump Up the Volume.

Music Historical Context

Although Pump Up the Volume was not the first plate, the edited or unedited excerpts has been used in other pieces of music, so it was the first such publication, which reached the Top 10 on the Billboard charts and thus the sampling technique a mainstream audience made ​​known. At the same time, it was the first record where the legal significance of the sampling was discussed. Earlier sampling plates as All You Need Is Love by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (later known as The KLF successful) or Say Kids, What Time Is It? by Coldcut were indeed made ​​a positive impression with plate critics, but they were not commercially successful enough for the jump in the British charts.

Apart from the sampling sets of instrumental track from Pump Up the Volume a number of successful hits House in 1986 and extended in 1987, especially Love Can not Turn Around by Farley " Jackmaster " Funk (No. 10 in the fall of 1986 in the UK charts ) and Jack Your Body by Steve " Silk" Hurley (No. 1 in early 1987 ).

Pump Up the Volume paved the way for further sampling plates in the following years, which were very successful in part: Beat Dis by Bomb the Bass ( # 2 in February 1988), Doctorin 'the House by Coldcut (No. 6 in the March 1988), Theme from S'Express S'Express of (No. 1 in April 1988).

The title found its way into the musical setting of the film My Stepmother Is an Alien with Dan Aykroyd and Kim Basinger in the year 1988.

The music video was compiled from a variety of sequences of spaceflight related movies.

Discography

Single

  • Pump Up the Volume / Anitina ( The First Time I See She Dance ), 1987, 4AD Records AD 707 ( Single)
  • Pump Up the Volume / Anitina ( The First Time I See She Dance ), 1987, 4AD Records BAD 707 ( Maxi -Single)
  • Pump Up the Volume (Remix) / Anitina ( The First Time I See She Dance) (Remix ), 1987, 4AD Records BAD 707R ( Maxi -Single)
  • Pump Up the Volume (U.S. Remix ), 1987, 4th & Broadway Records BWAY 452

Cover versions

  • Greed feat. Ricardo Da Force, Pump Up the Volume, 1995 ( UK # 51)

Parodies

  • Star Turn, Pump Up the Bitter, 1988, Pacific Records
  • Harry Enfield, Loadsamoney ( Doin ' Up the House ), 1988, Mercury Records (UK # 4)
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