Name: World Clique
Brand: Deee-Lite

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GET52729-LP

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Black

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-17

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Traff­ic

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Sales:8.875

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664425272918

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Black LP

MOVLP1540

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180 Gram Vinyl. Import

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2023-06-02

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Artist

Deee-Lite

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

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Deee-Lite was an American house and club/dance group formed in Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York. Led by vocalist Lady Miss Kier, the trio fused various genres like house, techno, rap, ambient, and funk music. Their outrageous visual flair, influenced by the Lower East Side's drag-queen community, earned them a following that transcended racial and sexual boundaries.
In 1990, Deee-Lite debuted with their album "World Clique", featuring their best-known single "Groove Is in the Heart". The album became a crossover smash with hits like "What Is Love?" and "Power of Love". They toured extensively opening for artists such as Grace Jones and Prince.
Their 1992 follow-up album titled "Infinity Within" showcased openly political songs about the environment, safe sex, and democracy. Lady Miss Kier won the Environmental Media award in 1992 for her contributions to raising awareness. DJ Ani joined the group for their sensual third album "Dewdrops in the Garden" released in 1994.

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Sometimes a single is released that reaches such dizzying heights of success that it becomes a pinnacle of the decade they're indelibly tied to. "Groove Is In The Heart" by dance-house trio Deee-Lite is one such single. The infectiously quirky, and eminently danceable track is prominently based around samples of "Bring Down The Birds" by Herbie Hancock, and "Get Up" by Vernon Burch, among many others, (Courtesy of dual producers DJs Dmitry and Towa Tei) paired with top-tier guest contributions from JB's veterans Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, background vocals from Parliament-Funkadelic's own Bootsy Collins, and even a guest rap from Q-Tip, not to mention frontwoman Lady Miss Kier's own siren-like vocals.

All disparate and disconnected elements, but ones that would come together to form dancehall greatness, and chart-topping success worldwide for Deee-Lite. "Groove Is In The Heart" managed to reach #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but excelled at its best on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, where it reached to the #1 spot. On top of its success in America it was a smash internationally, climbing the heights of the charts in the UK, Canada, Australia, and a vareity of other countries. It remained in heavy rotation for much of 1990 on MTV as well. As the decades went on, "Groove Is In The Heart" would be ranked among the greatest dance tracks of all time, as well as one of the greatest songs of the 1990s by VH1, Pitchfork, Buzzfeed, and many more. "Groove Is In The Heart" was a potent single for Deee-Lite to lead with, but the album bearing it was nothing to slouch at either. The group's debut record, 1990's World Clique was released to major commercial and critical success, owing just as much to its addictive hybrid of seductive retro aesthetics, modern dancefloor flair, and esoteric, socially conscious messaging, on the back of celebratory club staples like "Power Of Love", "Good Beat", "E.S.P.", and of course "Groove Is In The Heart." World Clique would reach top 20 charts in the US, UK, and Canada in sales, as well as earn rave reviews from NME, Chicago Sun-Times, Rolling Stone, and Slant Magazine, who called it an "essential pop album."

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