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Archive are a music-collective, originating from London, UK, but based in Paris, France for many years where they enjoy a much bigger following. They are signed to Warner Music France.
Archive was formed by Londoners Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths in 1994 and began as an electronica project. At the beginning, they mixed Bristol-style, Massive Attack, Portishead with rap. The first album of the band, Londinium released in 1996 (with Roya Arab and Rosko John as guest vocalists). The second album, Take my Head, (which the band hates) was released in 1999 (with a new guest vocalist Suzanne Wooder), it is much more melodic than Londinium. The first song of the album, You Make Me Feel, illustrates this change in the Archive’s music. After being dropped by their label and more changes in the lineup, the band seemed to hit its stride on the third album You All Look The Same To Me (2002), featuring singer Craig Walker (formerly of Power of Dreams), which took a decided turn toward more progressive music (with some Progressive Rock influences, notably Pink Floyd whose indelible influence is audible on tracks such as ‘Finding it so Hard’ and ‘Again’), while still maintaining electronic elements. The band saw growing popularity and critical acclaim, especially in France, Greece, Germany and Poland. After recording two more artistically -but not too commercially- successful albums, Michel Vaillant (2003) and Noise (2004), Walker left the band for reasons the band and he will not talk about. The project continued on as a Collective, with new vocalists, Pollard Berrier and Dave Peny.
Archive was formed by Londoners Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths in 1994 and began as an electronica project. At the beginning, they mixed Bristol-style, Massive Attack, Portishead with rap. The first album of the band, Londinium released in 1996 (with Roya Arab and Rosko John as guest vocalists). The second album, Take my Head, (which the band hates) was released in 1999 (with a new guest vocalist Suzanne Wooder), it is much more melodic than Londinium. The first song of the album, You Make Me Feel, illustrates this change in the Archive’s music. After being dropped by their label and more changes in the lineup, the band seemed to hit its stride on the third album You All Look The Same To Me (2002), featuring singer Craig Walker (formerly of Power of Dreams), which took a decided turn toward more progressive music (with some Progressive Rock influences, notably Pink Floyd whose indelible influence is audible on tracks such as ‘Finding it so Hard’ and ‘Again’), while still maintaining electronic elements. The band saw growing popularity and critical acclaim, especially in France, Greece, Germany and Poland. After recording two more artistically -but not too commercially- successful albums, Michel Vaillant (2003) and Noise (2004), Walker left the band for reasons the band and he will not talk about. The project continued on as a Collective, with new vocalists, Pollard Berrier and Dave Peny.
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You All Look The Same To Me
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Londinium
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Noise
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munnamama wrote:
Again...aaaah pure solitude...
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Kenji-Saneatsu wrote:
właśnie zabieram się za słuchanie nowej płytki xD
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Karol2307 wrote:
NUMB! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTg9bYuuS4
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nawigator86 wrote:
one of the best bands
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Oz_Alchemist wrote:
ABSTRACT AND TRIP-HOP ARTIST, COME CHECK THIS PAGE : http://www.last.fm/music/Oz+Alchemist
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Rolek6 wrote:
kilka słów o Controlling Crowds Part IV http://tsor.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/archive-controlling-crowds-part-iv/
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Like_a_mad wrote:
The awesomest music ever!
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thekillingspree wrote:
lol, I was thinking the exact same thing.
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streetjunkie wrote:
ITS A KIND OF MAGIC
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forsaken666 wrote:
it's magic
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Saspens wrote:
I put Archive on equal footing with Massive Attack. They had left far behind the rest trip-hop bands.
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thekillingspree wrote:
Ah! It arrived today. I guess all that whining about it did pay off in the end. With such a crappy service like this it's no wonder that people prefer to pirate albums these days. Anyway, finally got my Controlling Crowds Complete Edition, so I'm happy now ^^
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thekillingspree wrote:
Still waiting for my pre-order copy of Controlling Crowds Part IV to arrive... Thank you so much for failing on me when I try to do things the legal way. Wankers! >:(
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Lyona_Kor wrote:
Live in the Zenith is sooooo great...
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jakeironmaiden wrote:
Controlling Crowds is fantastic, but sadly the vocals aren't up to the standard of the music.
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adam_wrong wrote:
Controlling Crowds, Londinium, Noise.
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Vanitass wrote:
Magnificent. I've been listening Archive first time today and... Oh my God... great.
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sirang wrote:
@Ajronek : 1- [2002] You All Look The Same To Me ..... 2- [2007] Live in the Zenith .... 3- [2009] Controlling Crowds Part IV .... 4- All Albums !
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ridderbanaan wrote:
You all look the same to me is the most n00b friendly if you ask me. Controlling crowds is a big pill to swallow if you don't know what you can expect and Live at the Zenith is way too awesome to begin with.
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froeken wrote:
...or Noise. It'd be easier if there were some kind of 'the best of'. So yeah, my voice goes also for Live at the Zenith
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Jan
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Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Zeche, Bochum, Germany
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Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
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News
Archive to play private acoustic show for FNAC in Paris
26 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/archiveuk
Archive to play private acoustic show at Le Geode, Paris, France on Friday 6th November.To find out how to win tickets via the competition go to http://www.fnaclive.com. …
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