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Other usesInfobox musical artist | name = Faithless| image = Faithless Orange Music Haifa 2005 01.jpg| caption = Faithless at the Orange Music Experience Festival, Haifa , 27 June 2005| image_size = | background = group_or_band| landscape = yes| origin = London , England | genre = Anthem housecite web|url= http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ |title=Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music |publisher=Techno.org |date=2007-11-16 |accessdate=2011-09-15 Trip hop Trance music|Trance | years_active = 1995–2011| label = Sony | associated_acts = Dido (singer)|Dido | website = URL|www.faithless.co.uk| current_members = Maxi Jazz Sister Bliss Rollo Armstrong|Rollo | past_members = Jamie Catto Faithless were a British electronica musical ensemble|band consisting of Maxi Jazz , Sister Bliss and Rollo Armstrong|Rollo .cite book | first= Martin C. | last= Strong | year= 2000 | title= The Great Rock Discography | edition= 5th | publisher= Mojo Books | location= Edinburgh | page= 335 | isbn= 1-84195-017-3 The group is best known for their electronic dance music|dance songs (" Insomnia (Faithless song)|Insomnia ", " God Is a DJ (Faithless song)|God Is a DJ " and " We Come 1 "). Faithless recorded six album s. During their career they sold over 15 million records worldwide.cite web |title= Faithless - The Dance album review |work= musicOMH |url= http://www.musicomh.com/albums/faithless-4_0510.htm |accessdate=13 September 2010 The band have now officially split up after the climax of their Passing The Baton dates at Brixton Academy which were on the 7th and 8th April 2011. cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12769080 |title=Newsbeat - Dance act Faithless to split up after a 15-year career |publisher=BBC |date=2011-03-17 |accessdate=2011-09-15
Career
The band was formed in early 1995, and their debut single (music)|single "Salva Mea (Save Me)" was released in July that year. Jazz acted as a vocalist, whilst Bliss constructed most of the music herself electronically, but also played the piano, violin, saxophone and bass guitar. Rollo frontman|heads and record producer|produces the band. Lead female vocals for many of their songs are performed by Pauline Taylor , who also performed lead vocals for singles by Rollo released under his monikers Rollo Goes Mystic and Rollo Goes Spiritual. listen|filename=Faithless Insomnia.ogg|title="Insomnia" excerpt|format= Ogg cite book| first= David | last= Roberts | year= 80000008364873 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | pages= 1936-194 <-- impossible page range --> In light of their dance roots, each of the four studio albums has been followed with a subsequent bonus disc of remix es. Their fifth album, To All New Arrivals , was released in 2006. Album number six, The Dance , was released on 16 May 2010, after a four year recording break for the band.
listen|filename=Faithless - God Is A DJ.ogg|title="God Is a DJ" excerpt|format= Ogg The band also collectively indulge in mixtapes of other musicians' work, either mixed by the group or merely selected by them. This includes the long running Back to Mine sessions as well as The Bedroom Sessions and more recently the Faithless – Renaissance 3D|Renaissance 3D music project, in conjunction with the Renaissance (club)|Renaissance nightclub.
On 29 September 2006, the first single (music)|single " Bombs (single)|Bombs " from their album To All New Arrivals made its debut on BBC Radio 1 's Pete Tong show. The album was released on 27 November 2006. "Bombs" generated moderate controversy with its music video , as demonstrated by MTV 's refusal to air it.cite web | url= http://www.shots.net/article_detail.asp? atype=1& id=3368 | title=BOMBS AWAY | work=Shots | publisher=www.shots.net | accessdate=2006-11-28 | date=1 November 2006 The video featured interchanged clips of war scenes and daily life. As said by the director of the music video Howard Greenhalgh, "War infects all our lives; recently it feels that this has increasingly become 'our way of life'".Citation needed|date=July 2010
Final album and retirement
On 7 August 2009, a dub mix of the track "Sun to Me" from their latest studio album, The Dance (Faithless album)|The Dance , made its debut on BBC Radio 1 's Pete Tong show. "Sun to Me" has been given as a free download to all users that have registered on the new Faithless site, or subscribed to their newsletter. The track has been released on the band's Myspace page as well. On 12 February 2010, the first official single from the next Faithless album was played on Pete Tong's show. The single, "Not Going Home", was released on 4 May 2010, whilst the latest album The Dance (Faithless album)|The Dance , was issued on 16 May 2010. The album is available only in Tesco (3 month exclusive contract) and via iTunes in the UK. Since 2009, their track "Drifting Away" has been the theme tune for the BBC Television 's http://www.bbc.co.uk/chelsea RHS Chelsea Flower Show website In 2010, they returned to the Glastonbury Festival after eight years, playing on the Pyramid Stage. They performed many of their most popular songs including "Insomnia", "God is a DJ", and "We Come 1".
On 16 March 2011, Maxi Jazz announced on his website that Faithless would cease to be, commenting "But, like when writing a song, you always just know when it’s finished… this is and was the Thank YOU And Goodbye tour."cite web|url= http://inlog.org/2011/03/16/faithless-is-calling-it-quits/ |title=Faithless is calling it quits & #124; Incubate Blog |publisher=Inlog.org |date=2011-03-16 |accessdate=2011-09-15
They played two nights at Brixton Academy on 7 and 8 April 2011. The latter date would be the last ever Faithless show and was transmitted live via satellite to cinemas across Europe. However, the Faithless Sound System (a stripped down version of Faithless consisting of Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Sudha Kheterpal ) gave final shows on 22 July 2011 at the Tomorrowland festival in Belgium, at the Waterford Music Fest in Ireland on 30 Julycite web|url= http://www.faithless.co.uk/gig_details.php? id=131 |title=New Album Out Now |publisher=Faithless |date= |accessdate=2011-09-15 and in Split, Croatia|Split at the Riva Discotheque on 12 August.cite web|url= http://www.faithless.co.uk/gig_details.php? id=133 |title=New Album Out Now |publisher=Faithless |date= |accessdate=2011-09-15
Other work
As well as their own studio albums, all three members actively engage in other people's work as solo figures. Sister Bliss is a prominent dance DJ and has for a long time toured the circuit on her own, remixed others' albums and even appeared in music video s, such as Paul Oakenfold 's "Weekend". Maxi Jazz brought out an album before the formation of Faithless and also worked on pirate radio. He also collaborated with Faithless founding member Jamie Catto on his new project 1 Giant Leap guesting on a song with Robbie Williams . Finally, Rollo founded the label Cheeky Records and has produced the music of other artists, most notably his sister Dido (singer)|Dido's albums, as well as using various monikers to create popular dance music under the names Rollo Goes … (Camping, Mystic and Spiritual), Felix (musician)|Felix , Our Tribe (with Rob Dougan ), and Dusted (band)|Dusted .
Discography
Main|Faithless discography
Reverence (Faithless album)|Reverence (1996)
Sunday 8PM (1998)
Outrospective (2001)
No Roots (2004)
To All New Arrivals (2006)
The Dance (Faithless album)|The Dance (2010)
See also
List of number-one dance hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart
Faithless Category:English dance music groups Category:English electronic music groups Category:English house music groups Category:British techno music groups Category:Trip hop groups Category:British trance music groups Category:Remixers
