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SMOKE CITY - MR GORGEOUS (& MISS CURVACEOUS)
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Mr Gorgeous (& Miss Curvaceous)
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Vocal House Rework From Mood II Swing - Originally Released 1997 Repressed for the New Generation !
English outfit Smoke City (a band founded by Da Lata's Chris Franck, fact fans) are best known for their global 1997 smash 'Underwater Love', though the same year's 'Mr Gorgeous (and Miss Curvaceous)' was almost as big a hit. In its original LP mix form - which sits on side A of this Groovin Records reissue - the track is a sassy, samba-soaked Latin dancefloor shuffler. It's informed by house music, but far breezier, gentler. Happily, the remix that turned it into a massive club hit - NYC outfit Mood II Swing's vocal version - sits on side B, providing typically tough beats, infectious bass, twinkling piano motifs and sassy female lead vocals. It's one of Mood II Swing's greatest remixes and remains a stone-cold 90s house classic.
English outfit Smoke City (a band founded by Da Lata's Chris Franck, fact fans) are best known for their global 1997 smash 'Underwater Love', though the same year's 'Mr Gorgeous (and Miss Curvaceous)' was almost as big a hit. In its original LP mix form - which sits on side A of this Groovin Records reissue - the track is a sassy, samba-soaked Latin dancefloor shuffler. It's informed by house music, but far breezier, gentler. Happily, the remix that turned it into a massive club hit - NYC outfit Mood II Swing's vocal version - sits on side B, providing typically tough beats, infectious bass, twinkling piano motifs and sassy female lead vocals. It's one of Mood II Swing's greatest remixes and remains a stone-cold 90s house classic.
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Last FM Information on Smoke City
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Smoke City was a London, UK band whose music blended modern styles like acid jazz and trip hop with Brazilian styles like samba and bossa nova. Vocalist Nina Miranda formed Smoke City around 1994 with former schoolmate Mark Brown and guitarist Chris Franck, formerly of the Brighton-based Brazilian percussion group Batu.
Smoke City are best known for their single Underwater Love, which was a major hit in 1996. The music video is notable for predating the film The Matrix in its use of bullet time motion.
In 1997 the band released their first album, Flying Away, which included several hits like Underwater Love and Mr. Gorgeous (and Miss Curvaceous).
While Flying Away was hard to classify because it had everything from light trip-hop to gentle guitar ballads, Smoke City's next album, Heroes of Nature (released in 2001), was considered too odd even by fans, combining even more styles and incorporating dance beats in some of the tracks. An extended version of Heroes of Nature had three more tracks than the original, one of them being a cover of John Lennon's famous song Imagine.
The group disbanded in 2002. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
