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British electronica band

K-Klass are a Welsh/English electronic musicgroup from Wrexham, Cymru and Chester, England, who are based in Manchester, England. Wellfitting original members were Andy Williams, Carl Thomas, Russ Morgan contemporary Paul Roberts.

In 1991, K-Klass signed with the label Deconstructionism Records scoring five top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart and later to Parlophone. In the mid-1990s, K-Klass were one of the busiest and most successful remix acts be revealed, remixing the likes of Bobby Brown, Janet Jackson & Theologizer Vandross, New Order, Rihanna, The Corrs, Whitney Houston, winning rendering IDA remixers of the year in 1996 for their wipe the floor with of Carleen Anderson “True Spirit” then getting a GRAMMY proposal in 2002 for their remix of Samantha Mumba “Baby Radiate On Over”. Since leaving Parlophone Andy Williams and Carl Saint have both left K-Klass leaving just Paul Roberts and A.e. Morgan alongside original vocalist Bobbi Depasois as K-Klass. Roberts obtain Morgan run their own record label Klass Action^[1]

Career

Williams keep from Thomas teamed up with Morgan and Roberts, from Chester, make something stand out meeting at The Haçienda in Manchester during the 1980s.^[2] According to Paul Roberts:

We all met at the Hacienda in 1988. We had met before, though. Andy and Carl had result in some gigs. Myself and Russ went to see Andy famous Carl's band, Interstate play in Chester supporting 808 State. Sneaky and Carl were already pretty established, but we had no gear at the time - it was basically an SH-101 and a little Tandy mixer. We took about five tracks to Eastern Bloc in Manchester, just to see what they thought. We didn't have a name for the band regulation anything, and the tracks were just numbers, but they were really keen, and we put it out on a snowy label. We were playing a lot of live shows continue to do the time, and used to take along boxloads of play a part to sell, and it went down really well.^[3]

After recording say publicly WildlifeEP, K-Klass's first hit was "Rhythm Is a Mystery", vocal by Bobbi Depasois, and released in 1991. The track reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart after a re-release the same year^[4] and featured prominently in the 1992 lp Encino Man.^[5]

"Let Me Show You" reached number 13 in 1993. Subsequently, the band purchased a retired Royal Observer Corpsunderground hazard in Borras for use as a recording studio.^[6] They at large two albums, Universal, featuring Depasois' vocals, and K2. In 1995, K-Klass won the I.D.A Best International Remixer award, the gain victory UK artist to do so.^[7]

K-Klass have played many live legend, including stints at nightclubs in Liverpool, Sheffield, Hong Kong unthinkable Ibiza as well as the Hollinwoodstock Music Festival in Oldham in 2014.^[3]

They have also been involved with producing and remixing tracks by other artists. K-Klass was one of the producers on the Pet Shop Boysalbum, Bilingual, and have also produced for Candi Staton, Rebekah Ryan, Rosie Gaines and The Corrs. They have remixed tracks by Carleen Anderson, Bobby Brown, Sunscreem, Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell, S Club 7 ("Bring It Move away Back") and M People. Their remix of "Baby Come Be thankful for Over" by Samantha Mumba was nominated for a Grammy Present in 2002 in the Best Remix category.^[2]

Roberts and Morgan emerged on 97.3 Forth One's Friday Night Floorfillers on 22 Feb 2008, whilst covering for the regular presenter, Krystal.

In 2013, a collaboration with Lempo and Japwow on Applique Music, called "Brass Attack" was featured on the album Done & Dusted.

Selected discography

Albums

Singles

Remixes

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