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about|the British music group|the horror film|I, MonsterRefimprove|date=October 2010Infobox musical artist | name = I Monster| image =| caption =| image_size = | background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Sheffield , England | genre = Electronic music , psychedelic pop , electropop , trip hop | years_active = 1997& ndash;present| label = Cercle Records Instant Karma (record label)|Instant Karma Twins of Evil| associated_acts =| website = http://www.imonstermusic.com| current_members = Dean Honer Jarrod Gosling| past_members = I Monster are an England|English electronic music musical ensemble|group , composed of the Sheffield based record producer s Dean Honer and Jarrod Gosling. They formed in 1997, and released their debut album These Are Our Children in 1998.
However, due to Honer being involved with hitmakers All Seeing I , it was not until 2001 that they released their first single (music)|single , "Daydream in Blue", a remix of The Gunter Kallmann Choir's version of The Wallace Collection's " Daydream (Wallace Collection song)|Daydream ". The song was originally released on 7" on Honer's own record label Cercle Records, which he founded with Add N to (X) 's Barry Seven. It was later re-released with a new mix on Instant Karma (record label)|Instant Karma (in association with their own label Twins of Evil); which has also released material from Kings Have Long Arms and Mu Chan Clan. The song also featured on episode 3 of season 1 in the BBC Television television drama Hustle (TV series)|Hustle . The track peaked at #20 in the UK Singles Chart in June 2001.cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 265
They released their acclaimed second album Neveroddoreven (I Monster album)|Neveroddoreven in 2003, which was re-released with a new sleeve in 2004. The band are regular guest Disc jockey|DJ s across the country, and have played live shows in London and at various Europe an music festival s. Part of their live band is made up of Fred de Fred and Marion Benoist from The Lovers (band)|The Lovers , on guitar and human voice|vocals respectively.
In 2007, I Monster started collaborating with Finnish pop artist, HK119 , for her second album. The resulting project, Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control (album)|Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control was released in September 2008 on One Little Indian Records , and saw I Monster co-write and co-produce over three quarters of the album. This collaboration came from Dean Honers previous role as a remixer for HK119's debut single, "Pick Me Up", from her debut eponymous album in 2006.
I Monster and their label, Twins of Evil, are both named after Horror film|horror film s.
Their music also been used in a number of films such as Shaun of the Dead , Riders (Steal) , the snowboard video "From _ with Love" (Mack Dawg Productions), and has been sampled by hip hop artist Lupe Fiasco on his second single, " Daydreamin' ". It was also used in the Ford Focus (International)|Ford Focus ST advertisement in the UK, and was also translated into other languages (for example, Turkish) for use in other European countries. The "Glamour Puss" remix of their song "Hey Mrs." was used in television commercials for Absolut Vodka and television series Eureka (TV series)|Eureka . As well as this, their song "These Are Our Children" was used several times on the Australian television series Underbelly (series)|Underbelly ; and was subsequently released as part of the Underbelly (soundtrack)|Underbelly soundtrack . It was also used as background music in episode 5 of the ITV drama Married Single Other . Their song "Heaven" was used in the introduction to the TV show Numb3rs in episode 21, season 5.
In 2009, they released the follow-up to Neveroddoreven , titled A Dense Swarm of Ancient Stars . http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dense-Swarm-Ancient-Stars/dp/B001R6TSXG/ Released on Amazon MP3 Download Store on 16 March 2009
In 2011, they produced The Human League 's Credo (The Human League album)|Credo , the band's first album in 10 years. http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/the-human-league-credo The National reviews The Human League's Credo
Discography
These Are Our Children (1998)
Neveroddoreven (I Monster album)|Neveroddoreven (2003)
A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars (2009)
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External links
I Monster http://www.imonstermusic.com/ Official Site
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=user.viewprofile& friendid=41482961 I Monster MySpace page
http://www.discogs.com/artist/I+Monster I Monster at Discogs
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