M/A/R/R/S

MARRS (or M/A/R/R/S or M|A|R|R|S) was a one-off recording act from 1987 whose sole release was the single "Pump Up The Volume", which was a UK number one hit and a significant milestone in the development of British house music and sampling culture. "Pump Up The Volume" is considered the first UK #1 to contain samples from other songs.

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"Pump Up The Volume" was the product of an uneasy collaboration between Colourbox and A R Kane, two groups on the independent art-pop label 4AD. The link-up was suggested by label founder Ivo Watts-Russell after the two groups had independently sounded him out about the possibility of releasing a commercially-oriented dance record, inspired by the American house music that was starting to make an impact on the British charts. When the MARRS project was first mooted early in 1987, the style had already spawned two major hits - Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's "Love Can't Turn Around" in the autumn of 1986, and Steve "Silk" Hurley's "Jack Your Body", which reached number one in January 1987. But just as important to MARRS in the long run was the underground dance scene which was beginning to emerge in the UK, particularly records such as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu's "All You Need Is Love" and Coldcut's "Say Kids, What Time Is It?". These sample-heavy dance records were critically acclaimed, but were not mainstream hits.

1987: 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar....

House music: House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms beginning in the early- to mid- 1980s. The name derives from the Warehouse club in Chicago, where the resident DJ, Frankie Knuckles, mixed old disco classics and Eurosynth pop. Club regulars referred to his se...

Sampling: Sampling may refer to:...

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