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Groove Armada is the collaboration between two London-based disc-jockeys,
Tom Findlay and Andy Cato who debuted with the
single At The River (that uses a Patti Page vocal sample)
and the album Northern Star (Tummy Touch, 1998).
Vertigo (Pepper, 1999) better defined their style: atmospheric
dance music for funk guitar, dub bass, jazz horns and house keyboards,
all wrapped up in a slick production, that is both
refreshingly retro` and romantically perverted.
Chicago is an apt manifesto: samples, acid-jazz, downtempo, hip-hop,
soul. Dusk You And Me and Private Interlude apply that formula
to the sentimental sphere.
However, the hits will be If Everybody Looked The Same and
I See You Baby, i.e. two joyful exceptions to the rule, two novelties
that that offer a melange of house and techno, grounded in the old-school
tradition of disco and funk.
Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub, 2001), featuring cameos by
Richie Havens, Nile Rogers, Tim Hutton and Jeru Tha Damaja, sticks to the
same paradigm: an infectious dance ditty (Superstylin) and
several pensive ballets (Little By Little).
The album is perhaps more mature than the previous ones, and it includes the
joyful synthetic romp of My Friend.
Lovebox (Jive, 2002), on the other hand, is a very weak work, a
collection of sterile repetition of their cliches. No matter how well
packaged, very few songs (the unusually rocking Madder,
the downtempo shuffle Think Twice, sexy opener Purple Haze)
stand out. The disco-pop numbers (The Final Shakedown, Easy)
are beginning to sound a little dated.
Soundboy Rock (2007) opted for upbeat dancefloor anthems such as
Get Down.
Late Night Tales (2008) collects covers and remixes.
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