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Shaft was an English electronic music group, scoring a top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart in December 1991 with "Roobarb & Custard". [1] It featured recreated vocal samples from the vintage children's television cartoon Roobarb, as well as a variety of sound effects. The main contributors were the British record producers Mark Pritchard and Adrian Hughes. [1]
Although the single reached the top 10 in 1991, it climbed to its highest position of No. 7 in January 1992. The follow-up track was "Monkey", which peaked at No. 61 in July 1992. [1]
The use of samples from children's television programmes was not unique to this hit within the genre, with Mark Summers having sampled The Magic Roundabout in his early 1991 hit " Summers Magic". However, Shaft was the first dance act to reach the top 10 with a track using this type of formula. Other groups who went on later in 1992 to repeat this success were Urban Hype, who reached No. 7 with " A Trip to Trumpton", and Smart E's, who achieved a No. 2 hit with " Sesame's Treet". The string of similarly created records were dubbed toytown techno.
References
- ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 491. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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Shaft was an English electronic music group, scoring a top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart in December 1991 with "Roobarb & Custard". [1] It featured recreated vocal samples from the vintage children's television cartoon Roobarb, as well as a variety of sound effects. The main contributors were the British record producers Mark Pritchard and Adrian Hughes. [1]
Although the single reached the top 10 in 1991, it climbed to its highest position of No. 7 in January 1992. The follow-up track was "Monkey", which peaked at No. 61 in July 1992. [1]
The use of samples from children's television programmes was not unique to this hit within the genre, with Mark Summers having sampled The Magic Roundabout in his early 1991 hit " Summers Magic". However, Shaft was the first dance act to reach the top 10 with a track using this type of formula. Other groups who went on later in 1992 to repeat this success were Urban Hype, who reached No. 7 with " A Trip to Trumpton", and Smart E's, who achieved a No. 2 hit with " Sesame's Treet". The string of similarly created records were dubbed toytown techno.
References
- ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 491. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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