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Sneaker Pimps are an English electronic music band, formed in Hartlepool in 1994. [1] They are best known for their debut album, Becoming X (1996), and its singles "6 Underground" and "Spin Spin Sugar".
Sneaker Pimps were originally formed in the northern city of Hartlepool, in the United Kingdom. In around 1985, Liam Howe and his brother Miles, apart from the usual time-filling activities of hanging around school with friends or pedalling off to the sea-front, would make their own home-made music, in which they’d dub to a cassette tape to ...
"6 Underground" is a song by the English band Sneaker Pimps from their debut studio album, Becoming X (1996). First released as a single in the United Kingdom in September 1996 by Clean-up Records , the song reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart and had moderate radio airplay in the United States, where it was shipped to modern rock and ...
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Becoming X is an electronica and trip hop album, featuring alternative rock and orchestral elements and samples. The title comes from the fourth track on the album and, as explained by vocalist Kelli Dayton, "X meaning whatever you want it to mean. Also like generation X, X as a blank. It's a feeling. So it's really purposefully ambiguous, like the...
Various iterations of the record exist with different artwork and track mixes. The first version features a cover with an electronic printed circuit board (PCB) designed by Foxy Design and was released in UK and Europe on 19 August 1996, on vinyl, CD and cassette by Clean Up Records. The album was released in US on 25 February 1997 by Virgin Record...
Becoming X received mostly positive reviews from contemporary critics, who often compared Sneaker Pimps to trip hop artists like Portisheadand Tricky. AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised Becoming X as "one of the most engaging byproducts of post-Portishead trip-hop", while also noting Sneaker Pimps as being more guitar-driven than the...
"6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)" − 3:48 (US bonus track)"No More" – 4:15 (Japan bonus track)"Clean" – 5:17 (Japan bonus track)"Johnny" 4:14 (Japan bonus track)"6 Underground" sampled John Barry's track "Golden Girl" from the film Goldfinger(1964)"Becoming X" sampled Sandy Denny's track "Next Time Around" (1971)"Spin Spin Sugar" sampled Luciano Berio's "Visage" (1961)"Post-Modern Sleaze" sampled the ritual music from the final scenes of the film The Wicker Man(1973)Sneaker Pimps
1. Kelli Dayton− vocals, guitars 2. Chris Corner− guitars, keyboards 3. Liam Howe− production, keyboards, guitars, drums, samples, percussion, programming 4. Joe Wilson− bass, keyboards 5. Dave Westlake− drums, programming 6. Ian Pickering – lyrics, keyboards
Other personnel
1. Jim Abbiss, C. Goddard, Flood, Oggy AKA Augustus Skinner, Luke Gifford − engineering 2. Mark "Spike" Stent, Flood, Jim Abbiss, Line of Flight, Nellee Hooper, Luke Gifford − mixing 3. Andy Wright, Marius de Vries− additional programming and keyboards
Becoming X at Discogs(list of releases)Sneaker Pimps are an English electronic music band, formed in Hartlepool in 1994. They are best known for their debut album, Becoming X (1996), and its singles "6 Underground" and "Spin Spin Sugar". The band takes its name from an article the Beastie Boys published in their Grand Royal magazine about a man they hired to track down classic sneakers.
Formed in Hartlepool, UK in 1994, Sneaker Pimps immediately emerged as a musical force and pioneer of the trip-hop genre with their debut album, 'Becoming X' (1996). Known for clever sampling, bittersweet melodies and a moody sound which intricately combined organic & electronic production and morphed between femal.
Sneaker Pimps are a British trip-hop band formed in Hartlepool, England in 1994. They are best known for their first album Becoming X (released in 1996), particularly the singles “.
