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Utah Saints are a British dance band from Leeds in West Yorkshire. The music is produced by Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt, who are joined on-stage by other musicians whenever the band plays live. Utah Saints were one of the early pioneers of bringing sampling technology into mainstream dance and pop music, and have also gained a certain notoriety for the long gap between releases - their follow-up, Two, came seven years after their debut.

They were described as the first true stadium house band (by Bill Drummond), though their music is difficult to place into one particular genre and they have been compared to Underworld, Fluke, The KLF, and even Ministry or Nine Inch Nails.

They first had chart success with the singles What Can You Do For Me, Something Good and Believe In Me, which they described as their vocal sample trilogy as those singles sampled Gwen Guthrie, Kate Bush and Human League respectively (What Can You Do For Me also features a sample from Eurythmics). Contrary to one rumour, the band were not sued by Kate Bush over the use of a sample from Bush’s track Cloudbusting in the Utah Saints track Something Good, the sample was legally cleared before use. Utah Saints then moved away from vocal samples with singles such as I Want You and I Still Think Of You (Jez Willis providing original vocals on each).

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  • Hexoctahedron

    Sorry for spamming, guys, but I started a blog recently devoted to downbeat chillout music and upbeat dance music. Some nice DJ mixes. It gets updated twice a day. Check it out here.

    September 2011
  • quiptiq

    It's time for THREE.

    September 2011
  • pompski

    Yeah but i cant find their other stuff anywhere!

    August 2011
  • THee-BeAtNiK

    :-)

    July 2011
  • honey88foru

    @MadCowDzz: For a moment, I honestly thought you were talking to me. I've been listening to Something Good '08 since 2008 and I have never tried their other stuff :P

    July 2011
  • MadCowDzz

    More people need to listen to songs other than Something Good... They have a fantastic catalog of tracks people!

    June 2011
  • Goblim

    Lost Vagueness

    June 2011
  • kraz4r

    Something Good '08 it's realy good

    June 2011
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