Artist: Rogue Traders: mp3 download Genre(s): Dance Rogue Traders's discography: Here Come the Drums Year: 2006 Tracks: 12 Taking their name from the 1998 psychological dramatic event Rascal Trader, which featured Ewan McGregor, the electro-rock mathematical group Rogue Traders came together in the early 2000s with longtime friends and collaborators James Ash and Steve Davis. Both effected musicians met in 1989 spell DJing in London, and they achieved their biggest successes under the dance byname Union State. Upon the group's resettlement to Melbourne in 1992, "Out to Get You" and "Retrosexual" became outside hits for Union State. A decennary after, Ash and Davis' decision to reinvent themselves lED to the formation of Rogue Traders. The dance-tastic young contrive made its debut in 2003 with We Know What You're Up To, and commencement single "Demand You to Show Me" indisposed at numeral 16 on the ARIA Top 40 Club Chart. Second single "Give In to Me" wasn't almost as successful, merely Rogue Traders earned their biggest props with their cover remix of INXS' "Demand You Tonight." Retitled "One of My Kind," the strain charted at numeral ten in Australia and became a club strike across the U.K. Ash and Davis too went on to win an ARIA Award for Best Dance Single for "One of My Kind" before 2003 came to a close. Aussie soap starlet Natalie Bassingthwaighte united Rogue Traders' ranks in 2005. Best known for her enactment of Isabelle "Izzy" Hoyland on the long-running Australian scoop opera Neighbours, the same play that brought fame to Kylie Minogue and Natalie Imbruglia, Bassingthwaighte ab initio met Ash and Davis in wintertime 2004 when she auditioned for the group and her knavish, vampy performance was more than enough to work her frontwoman. Around this metre, Davis went behind the scenes to focus on Rogue Traders' songwriting. Tim Henwood (guitar) and Cam McGlinchey (drums) climbed on gameboard, complementary the card with Bassingthwaighte on vocals and Ash on keyboards. The young supergroup returned with a sophomore attempt entitled Here Come the Drums in 2005, and commencement single "Voodoo Child" became an outside golf club smash. With its duple guitar and drums attack and Bassingthwaighte's sulfurous vocals on elevation of samples from Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up," "Juju Child" earned a numeral four-spot spot on the Australian singles graph. Rogue Traders besides earned trey ARIA nominations for "Juju Child": Best Dance Release, Best Video, and Engineer of the Year. By December, Here Come the Drums went atomic number 78 depressed under and the Rogue Traders landed an orifice slot on Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway Tour. Here Come the Drums found its direction to the U.K. in July 2006. |