Description
The Very Best Of Deee-Lite / Rhino Records Audio CD 2001 / 8122-78389-2
UPC 081227838928
Deee-Lite was an American house and dance music group formed in New York City. The group's best-known single is "Groove Is in the Heart", which was released in 1990 from their debut studio album World Clique (1990), and was a top-ten hit in multiple countries. In December 2016, Billboard ranked them as the 55th most successful dance artists of all time.
Deee-Lite's music has been featured on soundtracks for many television shows and movies, including Party Girl, Britain's Got More Talent, The Voice, RuPaul's Drag Race, American Crime Story, Coronation Street, Transparent, Misfits, Hello Ladies, The Heat, New Girl, How I Met Your Mother, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Private Practice, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, License to Wed, Dancing with the Stars, What Love Is, Charlie's Angels, Down to You, Lost & Found, Can't Hardly Wait, Dumb and Dumber, The Heat, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Kill the Mob, The War Room, Bob's Burgers, and Beavis and Butt-Head.
In 2018, the Netflix series Big Mouth released a Planned Parenthood- and Deee-Lite-themed episode—it is noteworthy Kier has been a longtime abortion rights advocate.
| Label: | Rhino Records – 8122-78389-2 |
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| Format: |
CD, Compilation
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
Nov 2001 |
| Genre: | Electronic |
| Style: | House |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Deee-Lite Theme | 2:09 | |
| 2 | Good Beat | 4:38 | |
| 3 |
Groove Is In The Heart |
|
3:52 |
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| 4 | What Is Love? | 3:39 | |
| 5 | E.S.P. | 3:44 | |
| 6 | Power Of Love | 4:40 | |
| 7 | Who Was That? | 4:34 | |
| 8 | I Had A Dream I Was Falling Through A Hole In The Ozone Layer |
|
5:38 |
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| 9 | Heart Be Still |
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4:10 |
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| 10 | Pussycat Meow | 3:49 | |
| 11 | Love Is Everything |
|
5:27 |
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| 12 | Say Ahhh... |
|
4:10 |
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| 13 | Somebody |
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3:29 |
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| 14 | Bring Me Your Love |
|
3:37 |
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| 15 | Mind Melt |
|
0:33 |
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| 16 | Apple Juice Kissing |
|
3:13 |
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| 17 | Picnic In The Summertime |
|
3:31 |
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| 18 | Stay In Bed, Forget The Rest |
|
3:09 |
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| 19 | Bittersweet Loving |
|
3:42 |
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| 20 | Party Happening People |
| 3:59 |
- A&R [Direction] – Hillary Bratton
- Arranged By – Ani* (tracks: 14, 16 to 18), Lady Miss Kier (tracks: 12 to 14, 16 to 20), Supa DJ Dmitry (tracks: 12 to 14, 16 to 20)
- Art Direction – Hugh Brown (3)
- Artwork [Front Cover Collage] – Lady Miss Kier
- Backing Vocals – Gary "Mudbone" Cooper (tracks: 8, 9, 11)
- Bass [Additional] – Bootsy Collins (tracks: 7, 9, 10)
- Bass, Drum Programming, Loops [Loop Scooping] – Ani (tracks: 12 to 20)
- Clavinet – Bernie Worrell (tracks: 8, 9)
- Compiled By – Lady Miss Kier, Supa DJ Dmitry, Jungle DJ Towa "Towa" Tei (tracks: 1 to 11)
- Coordinator [Project Assistance] – Amy Utstein, Craig DeGraff (2), Craig Gates, Gladys Sanchez (2), Kathy Sirchia, Malia Doss, Randy Perry, Steven Gorman, Virginia Haverick
- Design – Nancy L. Hopkins
- Engineer – Bob Power (tracks: 1 to 7)
- Engineer [Assisted By] – Dante DeSole (tracks: 8 to 11), Derek Lategan (tracks: 1 to 7), Eddie Sancho (tracks: 1 to 7), Rob Kempner (tracks: 8 to 11), Shannon Carr (tracks: 8 to 11)
- Engineer [Digital Editing] – Dennis Mitchell (tracks: 8 to 11)
- Engineer, Mixed By – Mark "Keep Going" Plati (tracks: 8 to 11)
- Guitar – Bootsy Collins (tracks: 9, 11)
- Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Bass, Drum Programming, Loops [Loop Scooping] – Super DJ Dmitry Brill (tracks: 1 to 7, 12 to 20)
- Human Beatbox [Human Beats] – Chillblast (tracks: 12, 13)
- Keyboards, Bass, Drum Programming, Loops [Loop Scooping] – Jungle DJ Towa "Towa" Tei (tracks: 1 to 11)
- Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – The Lady Miss Kier Kirby (tracks: 1 to 7, 12 to 20)
- Liner Notes [Coordination] – Shawn Amos
- Liner Notes [Discographical Annotation] – Reggie Collins
- Liner Notes [Editorial Supervision] – Sheryl Farber
- Liner Notes [Essay] – Kurt B. Reighley
- Mixed By – Deee-Lite, Fernando "Super Tweak" Aponte (tracks: 12 to 20), Mike "Tweekin'" Rogers (tracks: 1 to 11), Steve Barkan (tracks: 12 to 20)
- Mixed By [Assisted By] – Brian Miller (3) (tracks: 12 to 20), Dana Vlcek (tracks: 8 to 11), Fernando Aponte (tracks: 8 to 11), Jimmie Lee (tracks: 12 to 20), John Parthum (tracks: 8 to 11), Michael White (4) (tracks: 8 to 11), Phil Pagano (tracks: 12 to 20), Robert Rives* (tracks: 12 to 20), Rob Vaughan Merrick* (tracks: 12 to 20)
- Photography By [Booklet] – Frank Micelotta, Gary Gershoff, Josef Astor, Michael Halsband, Michael Lavine, Mick Hutson
- Photography By [Front Cover] – Simon Fowler (2)
- Producer – Ani* (tracks: 12 to 18, 20), Lady Miss Kier (tracks: 12 to 20), Supa DJ Dmitry (tracks: 12 to 20)
- Producer [Additional Background Vocal Production], Arranged By, Engineer – Mike "Tweekin'" Rogers (tracks: 1 to 7)
- Producer, Arranged By – Deee-Lite (tracks: 1 to 11)
- Product Manager – Marc Salata
- Programmed By – Supa DJ Dmitry (tracks: 12 to 20)
- Remastered By [Remastering] – Pat Kraus
- Saxophone – Maceo Parker (tracks: 3, 8, 9)
- Scratches [Scratching] – Ani* (tracks: 12, 14)
- Trombone – Fred Wesley (tracks: 3, 8, 9)
- Written-By – Dmitry Brill, Kier Kirby, Towa Tei (tracks: 1 to 11)
