Music of Life

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Music of Life was a groundbreaking British independent dance music label formed in 1986 by two influential DJ remixers, Froggy and Simon Harris. Following several successful productions, one of which reached No3 in the UK pop music charts (The Real Thing’s ‘You to me are Everything’) Harris and Froggy decided to launch their own label, they were offered a label deal by Morgan Khan (Streetwave) and the first release was a remix by the duo of Cerrone’s ‘Supernature’ (his ‘Music of Life song was the inspiration for the label name). Within a few months Froggy left the label and Streetwave went out of business. Harris decided to re-launch as a British rap music label. Music of Life opened an office in London’s Soho and Harris financed the label with his remix income.

At first the label licensed new rap music from US production company Powerplay for the first compilation album ‘Def Beats 1’ but as an addition to the US material Harris produced an extra track, recorded in London by the label’s A&R man Derek Boland. ‘Rock the Beat’ by Derek B created a demand for British hip-hop and the demo tapes started to arrive, Music of Life signed the best artists instead of licensing more US material and Harris would produce many new songs featuring artists including M.C Duke, The Demon Boyz (Million Dan), Thrashpack, Asher D and Daddy Freddy, CJ Macintosh & Einstein, She Rockers (Betty Boo), Hijack and many more.
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