acoustic electronica downbeat band, best known for their first album Becoming X released in 1996, and particularly its highest charting single "6 Underground". As line of flight and Frisk, DJs and childhood friends Chris Corner and Liam Howe (from Middlesborough and Hartlepool in the NE of England) released two EPs: "Soul of Indiscretion" and "World as A Cone" in the early 1990s. While not nearly as complex as the song-based material they would produce, these bedroom-recorded mixes of sampled beats and folk sounds would form the blueprint for the later sound. While at art college in Reading, Liam met David Westlake and Joe Wilson, who would both contribute to the first album and join the band on tour. When Frisk performed a gig with this line-up they later recorded some demos with Chris singing - these were considered the next stage in the evolution of Chis and Liam's professional partnership; another in an ever-improving set of smaller projects intended for a few thousand records at most. Drafting in Ian Pickering in 1995 to help with lyrics, they recruited Kelli Dayton (aka Kelli Ali) for vocal duties after seeing her singing in a pub in Reading. The name 'Sneaker Pimps' itself was taken from a
Álbumes
1 | Blue Movie | Bloodsport |
2 | Ten to Twenty | Splinter |
3 | M'aidez | Bloodsport |
4 | Half Life | Splinter |
5 | 6 Underground | Becoming X |
6 | Wife by Two-Thousand | Splinter |
7 | spin spin sugar | Back to the Old Skool Ibiza |
8 | 6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit) | Becoming X |
9 | Loretta Young Silks | Bloodsport |
10 | Roll On | Becoming X |
11 | Small Town Witch | Bloodsport |
12 | How Do | Becoming X |
13 | Bloodsport | Bloodsport |
14 | Flowers and Silence | Splinter |
15 | Black Sheep | Bloodsport |
16 | Tesko Suicide | Becoming X |
17 | Lightning Field | Splinter |
18 | Spin Spin Sugar | Becoming X |
19 | Unattach | Splinter |
20 | Post-Modern Sleaze | Becoming X |