Core:Rudy Tambala and Alex Ayuli
passing thru ... Russel Smith and Colin Cairns on bass, Richie Thomas and Benny DiMassa on drums, Maggie on backing vocals - and many more, too numerous to eat ...
And our spiritual compass with the bullshit-o-meter, producers Ray Shulman and Tan, and Robin Guthrie.
Influences
Dub, Soul, Club, Rock, Punk, Jazz, Folk, Classical, Funk, House
Dreams ...
From Allmusic.com:
Arguably the most criminally under-recognized band of their era, the British duo A.R. Kane anticipated virtually all of the key musical breakthroughs of the 1990s a decade before the fact, with the roots of everything from shoegazing to trip-hop to ambient dub even those of post-rock lying in their dreamy, oceanic sound. Formed in London in 1986, A.R. Kane were essentially the partnership of Alex Ayuli and Rudi Tambala; hailed in the press as "the black Jesus and Mary Chain" upon debuting the following year on One Little Indian with the single "When You’re Sad," they moved to 4AD later in 1987 to release the follow-up EP Lollita, an impressively eclectic blend of gorgeous dream pop bliss and nightmarish squalls of feedback produced by the Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie.
While at 4AD, label chief Ivo Watts-Russell suggested that Ayuli and Tambala team with roster mates Martyn and Steven Young of Colourbox, champion mixer Chris "C.J." Mackintosh, and London DJ Dave Dorrell to record a single fusing the rhythms and beats of classic soul recordings with state-of-the-art electronics and production. Dubbing the collaboration M/A/R/R/S, the resulting single, "Pump Up the Volume" a breakthrough effort heralding sampling’s gradual absorption from hip-hop into dance music and ultimately the pop mainstream soon topped the British charts, the first 4AD release ever to accomplish the feat. Plans for a M/A/R/R/S follow-up never materialized, however, and A.R. Kane again picked up stakes, moving on to Rough Trade to begin work on their much-anticipated full-length debut.
The resulting album, 1988’s 69, fulfilled all the promise of A.R. Kane’s earlier work and more; cosmic yet funky, its liquid grooves immersed in waves of ecstatic noise, the record’s mastery of atmosphere and mood in tandem with its nearly formless songs establish it as a clear antecedent not only of the nascent shoegazer sound but also much of the underground dance music to emerge in the years to follow. The duo’s double-LP follow-up, 1989’s i, was even more impressive in its scope, breathlessly veering from melodic dance-pop to eerie drone-rock to epic dub mosaics. And then...nothing: only three years later did the next A.R. Kane LP, Americana -- a handful of new tracks combined with past highlights -- appear on the Luaka Bop label. By the time of a proper follow-up, 1994’s New Clear Child, the moment had clearly passed.
-Jason Ankeny Also see a mixed biog/review on stylus magazine at http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=339"
(You can find A.R Kane’s first two albums, 69 and i for sale at the One Little Indian online store. You’ll need to scroll down a bit to find it.). There’s some stuff on iTunes nowadays too.
Video for Green Hazed Daze on Rough Trade, fet’ Alex on Vox and Rudy on Guitars
A.R. Kane Discography from http://www.maymarch.com/arkane/arkane.txt
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Compiled by David McCallum
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You push a knife (into my womb) Single [1986]
12: 1986 UK (One Little Indian; 12 TP 2)
When You’re Sad
So Far Away
When You’re Sad (long version)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lollita Single [1987]
12: 1987 UK (4AD Records; BAD 704)
Lollita
Sado-masochism Is A Must
Butterfly Collector
Produced by Robin Guthrie (of Cocteau Twins).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Up Home! Single [1988]
12: 1988 UK (Rough Trade; RTT 201)
Baby Milk Snatcher
W.O.G.S.
One Way Mirror
Up
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 69 Album [1988]
LP: 1988 UK (Rough Trade; Rough 119)
CD: 1988 UK (Rough Trade; Rough CD 119)
LP: 1988 US (Rough Trade; Rough US 45)
3:25 Crazy Blue
3:36 Suicide Kiss
3:16 Baby Milk Snatcher (version)
3:25 Scab
6:23 Sulliday
3:47 Dizzy
4:39 Sperm Whale Trip Over
5:46 The Sun Falls Into the Sea
3:48 The Madonna Is With Child
2:07 Spanish Quay (3)
[unlisted instrumental]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listen Up! Single [1988]
12: 1988 UK (Rough Trade; RTT 229)
Listen Up! (pulsar mix)
Listen Up! (quasar mix)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Love-sick Single [1988]
12: 1988 UK (Rough Trade; RTT 231)
Green Hazed Daze
Sperm Travels Like Juggernaut
Is This Is?
Is This Dub?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "i" Album [1989]
LP: 1989 UK (Rough Trade; Rough 139)
CD: 1989 UK (Rough Trade; Rough CD139)
0:27 Hello *
5:08 A Love from Outer Space
4:11 Crack Up
0:15 Timewind *
4:03 What’s All This Then
4:47 Snow Joke
0:04 Off Into Space *
2:42 And I Say
0:11 Yeti *
2:31 Conundrum
3:20 Honeysuckleswallow
1:21 Long Body *
4:37 In a Circle
0:27 Fast Ka *
3:01 Miles Apart
3:40 Pop
0:20 Mars *
3:09 Spook
3:37 Sugarwings
0:07 Back Home *
5:14 Down
5:40 Supervixens
2:51 Insect Love
0:05 Sorry *
5:40 Catch my Drift
0:05 Challenge *
* -short instrumental tracks and samples listed separately on the
sleeve.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rem"i"xes Remix Ep [1989]
12: 1989 UK (Rough Trade; RTD 171)
CD: 1989 UK (Rough Trade; RTD CD 171)
2:57 Miles Apart (remix)
3:44 Sugarwings (remix)
3:41 Crack Up (remix)
5:14 A Love from Outer Space (remix)
5:43 Catch My Drift (remix)
3:29 Crack Up (space mix)
Tracks 2,4,5 remixed by A.R.Kane.
Tracks 1,3,6 remixed by Robin Guthrie (of Cocteau Twins).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pop Single [1989]
12: 1989 UK (Rough Trade; RTT 239) [omits Snow Joke]
CD5:1989 UK (Rough Trade; RTT 239 CD)
3:57 Pop (long version)
4:05 What’s All This Then (dub version)
4:47 Snow Joke
3:07 Pop (short version)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Americana Comp. Album [1992]
LP: 1992 US (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.; 9 26669-1)
CD: 1992 US (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.; 9 26669-2)
CA: 1992 US (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.; 9 26669-4)
4:18 A Love From Outer Space (edit)
4:05 Snow Joke (edit)
3:16 Baby Milk Snatcher (version)
3:54 The Madonna Is With Child
4:37 In a Circle
3:01 Miles Apart
3:20 Green Hazed Daze
2:50 Water
1:20 Long Body
6:06 Up
5:39 Supervixens
3:08 Spook
4:11 Crack Up
2:41 And I Say
4:40 Sperm Whale Trip Over [mislabeled at 4:21]
0:30 [unlisted instrumental from album 69]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Love From Outer Space Single [1992]
CD5:1992 US (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.; 9 40373-2)
4:01 A Love From Outer Space (solar equinox mix)
7:18 A Love From Outer Space (lunar eclipse mix)
3:37 Sugarwings
7:00 A Love From Outer Space (venusion dub)
4:18 A Love From Outer Space (edit)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sea Like a Child Single [1994]
CD5:1994 UK (Third Stone; Stone 009CD)
3:10 Sea Like a Child
3:10 Sea Like a Child (in the sky)
2:30 Water
3:27 Sea Like a Child (underwater) (radio mix)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Clear Child Album [1994]
CD: 1994 UK (Third Stone)
CD: 1994 US (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
4:56 Deep Blue Breath
3:25 Grace
3:33 Tiny Little Drop of Perfumed Time
2:36 Surf Motel
4:28 Gather
3:32 Honey Be (for Stella)
3:44 Cool As Moons
4:52 Snow White’s World
4:34 Pearl
3:10 Sea Like a Child
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Collaborations
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[with members of Colourbox]
M/A/R/R/S: Pump Up The Volume Single [1987]
7: 1987 CA (4AD/Vertigo; SOV 2400)
Pump Up The Volume
Anitina (version)
12: 1987 CA (4th & Broadway/Island; B’Way 452) [omits radio edit]
CD5:1987 US (4th & Broadway/Island; CCD 452)
7:10 Pump Up the Volume
4:49 Pump Up the Volume (bonus beat)
5:04 Pump Up the Volume (instrumental)
4:06 Pume Up the Volume (radio edit)
4:20 Anitina
CD5:1993 UK (4AD Records; BAD M 707 CD)
5:05 Pump Up the Volume (version)
6:27 Pump Up the Volume (version) (remix)
6:40 Anitina (version 2)
[Rudy with Allison Shaw of Cranes]
In Rain: Grow
7:1991 UK (Rough Trade; RT no. 7, dec.)
Grow
...And Julie Rose
Sleep
[with Butterfly Child?]
[with Papa Sprain?]
[with Bark Psychosis?]
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Remixes
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Rudy Tambala remixes and production
[David Byrne: Forestry]
[On David Byrne: Forestry]
CD5:1991 US (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.; 9 40177-2)
4:47 Ava (less space dance mix edit)
9:03 Ava (space dance mix)
Remix and add’nl production by Rudy Tambala
Co-creative force: Anthony Capel
[Saint Etienne: Avenue]
[On Saint Etienne: Avenue]
CD5:1992 UK (Heavenly; HVN 23CDR)
6:27 Avenue (martial mix)
5:19 Avenue (venusian mix)
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Solo projects from Alex (as Alex!) and Rudy (as Sufi and
musicone) - soon come
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Working only with Viveka Eriksson voice on Forecast Proof, I saved a lot of energy by not singing. In two takes, she can nail down an abstract melody and almost nothing will sound out of place !
Because I went for a straight forward approach with Viveka, everything vocal on Forecast Proof sounds more cool, emotionally urgent and less stretched by the intellect.
Wow what a dope event, it was so much fun!! Here is the 1st part of the video from the "Hip Hop Meets Couture" Ed Hardy Fashion show inside the beautiful San Francisco City Hall. Thee most incredible venue to perform in especially alongside a runway of gorgeous models struttin the hotest fashion!! You can watch all 4 parts on YouTube :-)
Yoooo check this...I'm featured in XXL Magazine this month!! Wow and to be blessed to also be in The Source Magazine in December. Say what?! Yup, we've recently been interviewed by The Source as new up and coming artists and the exclusive interview is available now at www.thesource.com/2009/10/sihhn-j-rocka-saria-knowledge/ It's such an honor to have this opportunity....thanks to the hip hop community for your support! Now "Bump The Beat" and let conscious independent hip hop flow through you blastin loud through your speakers!
Thank you very much for the Link Up & Sharing Your Music
Nice to meet you through cyberlink!
Keep up the Great Work!
Wishes you All the Best in 2009!
Enjoy your Weekend!
HAAALLL0000!,Hi outthere! Here comes a brand new Live Video by NACHLADER (title:SOLL/HABEN) - Live in Berlin - Maria / OstBHF 09 09 16 - What do you think? Feel free to leave a comment. DANKE!
COME OUT AND PARTY WITH ME!!! J RockA and Sarai Knowledge performing live! The must be at spot... definitely an event you won't wanna miss!!!
Friday, November 6, 2009 7pm-11pm City Hall, San Francisco "Where Hip Hop Meets Couture" A historical evening of high couture fashion show infused with hip-hop,live performances, and music/fashion professionals...
Meet in greets with the likes of Ed Hardy, The Source Magazine, Warner Bros., Interscope Records, and more...
$40 / $100 VIP includes admission to the official afterparty at Club 525 11:30pm - 2:30pm 525 Howard St., San Francisco
Limited presale tickets available online at airbornetickets.com Or if you're a local,tickets are available at Gussie's Chicken & Waffles 1521 Eddy St. in the heart of the historical Fillmore jazz district... Come down for some good ol' soul food!
Would love to see your beautiful faces :-) Hit me up if your going!! And if you're not in the SF area, check out show updates on my website at www.justbetrue.com for live events at a town near you!!!
Give thanks for your support xoxo Sending love and wishing you infinite abundance... Sarai
Soooo excited to share with you the new record about the drop, JUST BE The EP. I just posted the featured single "Bump The Beat" produced by 2009 Grammy winning producer for Lil Wayne's "Mr.Carter", Drew Correa. Track is fiyah!!! Check out my website at www.justbetrue.com to sample/buy the EP and for shows, photos, and updates.
Give thanks for your friendship and support and for letting conscious independent hip hop flow through you blastin loud through your speakers!
Hey Rudy, thanks man! 
