Description
Rockers Hi-Fi – Mish Mash / WEA Audio CD 1996 / 0630 15795 2
UPC 70630-15795-27
Rockers Hi-Fi were an electronic dub/dance outfit formed in Birmingham, England in 1991 as Original Rockers. In 1994 they changed their name to Rockers Hi-Fi. Their music was quite popular across Europe as an extension and continuation of the dub music genre.
Their first success came with a few tracks on the Beyond Records Ambient Dub series of compilations, and "Push Push" became a dancefloor hit at the beginning of the 90s.
They released four studio albums and also mixed and compiled an album for Studio !K7's DJ-Kicks series.
Their urban sound was created by Richard "DJ Dick" Whittingham who began his DJ career in Duran Duran's Rum Runner nightclub, he now hosts Leftfoot at the Medicine Bar, and Glyn "Bigga" Bush who continues to produce music as BiggaBush and Lightning Head on his own Lion Head label.
Their song "What a Life!" was part of the soundtrack for the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries, and "Going Under (Love & Insanity Dub) (K&D Sessions)" featured in the 2000s film Traffic, as well as in the mid-season finale to the first season of the television series The O.C.
In 1992, Richard Whittingham and Glyn Bush founded the label Different Drummer, releasing music from both Original Rockers/Rockers Hi-Fi and others.
Tracklist:
| 1 | The 8th Shade | 11:01 | |
| 2 | Theme From Mish Mash | 2:17 | |
| 3 | Now I Deliver
Lyrics By – Phoebe Esprit
Lyrics By – Phoebe Esprit
|
4:41 | |
| 4 | Uneasy Skanking
Written-By – Bacharach, Gounod, David, Bach
Written-By – Bacharach, Gounod, David, Bach
|
6:47 | |
| 5 | Fling Mi Ting | 7:36 | |
| 6 | Mish Mash Episode One | 2:03 | |
| 7 | 90º Fuzzwalk
Lyrics By – Phoebe Esprit
Lyrics By – Phoebe Esprit
|
4:14 | |
| 8 | Mish Mash Episode Two | 2:14 | |
| 9 | Going Under
Lyrics By – Patrick Plummer
Lyrics By – Patrick Plummer
|
7:37 | |
| 10 |
Paths Of Life | 6:29 | |
| 11 | One With Another | 7:43 | |
| 12 | Mish Mash Episode Three | 4:02 | |
| 13 | Copycat (Follafashiondropoffaconkatree) | 7:09 |
- Art Direction, Design, Artwork By [Model Making] – Tim Vary
- Photography By [Photography & Rayograms] – Dominic Davies
- Written-By – Bush*, Plummer (tracks: 9, 13), Esprit (tracks: 3, 7), Whittingham
