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aboutInfobox musical artist | name = Moloko| image = moloko2003.png| caption = Photo shoot in 2003. Left to right: Mark Brydon and Róisín Murphy| landscape = yes| background = group_or_band| origin = Sheffield , England | genre = Electronic dance music|Electronic dance Trip-hop Nu-Jazz | years_active = 1995–2006| label = Echo Records Warner Bros. Records | past_members = Róisín Murphy Mark Brydon Moloko (IPAc-en|icon|m|?|'|l|o?|k|o?) were an England|Anglo - Republic of Ireland|Irish electronica|electronic / pop music|pop duo consisting of Róisín Murphy from Wicklow , Republic of Ireland|Ireland and Mark Brydon , from City of Sunderland|Sunderland , England .
Origin of band name
The band's name originates from the Nadsat slang in the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess , in which it means " milk " (from the Russian language|Russian word for milk, ??????), actually the name of a milk drink that Alex (A Clockwork Orange)|Alex and his "droogs" consume mixed with "drencrom" .
History of band
Murphy, born in Arklow , Ireland, had no prior professional experience as a singer when Moloko was formed. Brydon, on the other hand, already had an extensive curriculum vitae within the dance music community as a remix er and member of Chakk , Krush and Cloud 9 (band)|Cloud 9 Disambiguation needed|date=June 2011. They met at a party in Sheffield, England, when Murphy approached Brydon using the chat-up line , "Do you like my tight sweater? See how it fits my body!" This line would later become the title of their debut album, recorded while the pair were dating. http://worlds-fair.net/moloko/ World's Fair: Moloko
The first two albums Do You Like My Tight Sweater? and I Am Not a Doctor gained notice in the underground dance scene. The band broke into the mainstream when " Sing It Back ", an album track from I Am Not A Doctor , was remixed by house music producer Boris Dlugosch . The track was a massive hit in Ibiza , and this remixed version broke into the top-five in both the Irish Singles Charts, and the UK Singles Chart|UK singles chart in 1999, and also, helped by a psychedelic video featuring Murphy in a very short metallic " flapper " dress and cap. "Sing It Back" has featured on over 100 music compilations. http://www.moloko.co.uk/ Moloko - Catalogue
In January and February 1999, Moloko supported Garbage (band)|Garbage on their Version 2.0 tour . This was not a successful liaison with the Garbage crowd particularly unwelcoming at the Wembley Arena date.
In 2000 Moloko started touring as a full band along with percussionist Paul Slowley , keyboardist Eddie Stevens , and guitarist Dave Cooke.
The band also had chart success with "The Time Is Now", the first single from the third album, Things to Make and Do . This album had relied less on the left field beats of the previous albums, and featured more organic instrumentation as well as musically more multifaceted arrangements by Eddie Stevens .
Murphy and Brydon ended their relationship in 2001. After their breakup, they recorded and released their fourth studio album, Statues (album)|Statues . Statues continued a segue into more traditional instrumentation, along with electronica elements from their earlier releases. Statues incorporated the theme of the couple's split: all of the songs deal with a troubled and/or ending romance.
In 2004 Moloko released a live DVD, 11,000 Clicks , recorded on stage at the Brixton Academy, England. It contained many of their well known songs including "Indigo", "Sing It Back", and "The Time Is Now".
After concluding the tour supporting Statues , Moloko mutually parted ways, with Murphy launching a solo career. However, in 2006 Murphy and Brydon, along with long-time Moloko guitarist Cooke, played a select number of acoustic radio performances to promote the Moloko best of album Catalogue (Moloko album)|Catalogue . While both currently pursue projects outside of Moloko and state that there are no plans for Moloko at the moment, Murphy has been keen to stress that the group are not necessarily defunct and that she has no interest in "burying" the project. http://www.roisinmurphy.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php? t=714
Róisín Murphy completed work on her second solo album Overpowered in 2007, released in October of the same year, while Mark Brydon is working on a number of smaller projects in his own studio.
Discography
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1995
Do You Like My Tight Sweater?
Released: November 1995
Label: Echo Records|Echo
92
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1998
I Am Not a Doctor
Released: 24 August 1998
Label: Echo
64
30
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45
2000
Things to Make and Do
Released: 31 October 2000
Label: Echo
3
21
6
26
66
25
British Phonographic Industry|BPI : Platinumcite web | title = Things to Make and Do British sales certification | url = http://www.bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinumright.asp? rq=search_plat& r_id=29112 | publisher = British Phonographic Industry |accessdate=16 December 2008 Dead link|date=November 2010|bot=H3llBot
2002
Statues
Released: 8 October 2002
Label: Echo
18
19
1
12
28
26
BPI: Silvercite web | title = Statues British sales certification | url = http://www.bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinumright.asp? rq=search_plat& r_id=30789 | publisher = British Phonographic Industry |accessdate=16 July 2008 Dead link|date=November 2010|bot=H3llBot
http://www.ultratop.be/nl/weekchart.asp? cat=d& year=2004& date=20040814 ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS
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2004
11,000 Clicks
9
Singles
singles discography | all_albums=yes | all_certs=yes | charts=9 | include_footnote = yes | title_width = 260| chartA = UK Singles Chart|UK | chartB = ARIA Charts|AUS | chartC = Ultratop 50|BE (FL) | chartD = Ultratop 40|BE (WA) | chartE = Media Control Charts|GER | chartF = Irish Singles Chart|IRL | chartG = Italian Singles Chart|ITA | chartH = Dutch Singles Chart|NLD | chartI = Swiss Singles Chart|SWI | title1 = Where Is the What If the What Is in Why? | album1 = Do You Like My Tight Sweater? | albumspan1 = 5 | year1 = 1995 | yearspan1 = 2 | title2 = The Moloko EP | title3 = Dominoid | year3 = 1996 | yearspan3 = 3 | peak3A = 65 | title4 = Fun for Me | peak4A = 36 | title5 = Day for Night | title6 = The Flipside | album6 = I Am Not a Doctor | albumspan6 = 3 | year6 = 1998 | yearspan6 = 2 | peak6A = 53 | title7 = Sing It Back | peak7A = 45 | title8 = Sing It Back (remix) | year8 = 1999 | peak8A = 4 | peak8B = 20 | peak8C = 31 | peak8D = 26 | peak8E = 47 | peak8F = 12 | peak8G = 35 | peak8H = 24 | peak8I = 18 | cert8 = UK: Silver http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_M.HTM | title9 = The Time Is Now (Moloko song)|The Time Is Now | album9 = Things to Make and Do | albumspan9 = 3 | year9 = 2000 | yearspan9 = 3 | peak9A = 2 | peak9B = 36 | peak9C = 15 | peak9D = 43 | peak9E = 49 | peak9F = 10 | peak9G = 30 | peak9H = 46 | peak9I = 41 |cert9 = UK: Silver | title10 = Pure Pleasure Seeker | peak10A = 21 | peak10C = 65 | peak10G = 48 | title11 = Indigo | peak11A = 51 | peak11C = 66 | title12 = Familiar Feeling | album12 = Statues | albumspan12 = 3 | year12 = 2003 | yearspan12 = 3 | peak12A = 10 | peak12B = 46 | peak12C = 29 | peak12D = 47 | peak12E = 72 | peak12G = 38 | peak12F = 26 | peak12H = 100 | peak12I = 84 | title13 = Forever More (song)|Forever More | peak13A = 17 | peak13C = 26 | peak13D = 50 | peak13E = 96 | peak13H = 77 | title14 = Cannot Contain This | peak14A = 97 | peak14C = 53 | title15 = A Style Suite (Farolfi & Gambafreaks vs. Moloko) |album15 = non-album release | year15 = 2005 |
Awards and honors
"Best International Live Act" - Belgian TMF Awards 2004
Moloko in other media
Moloko's music has appeared in several video games:
"Sing It Back (Can 7 Supermarket Mix)" appeared in the Konami music simulation games Beatmania (European PlayStation version) and Beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX 2 ~Going Global~.
"Sing it Back" has appeared in Rockstar Games ' Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and SCEE's Eye Toy: Play .
"Familiar Feeling" is one of the songs in the Konami dance simulation game Dancing Stage Fusion .
"Fun for Me" appears in the racing game " Dirt 3 ".
The song "The Time is Now" is also featured in the Ford Focus adverts for Sky Sports News in the UK as well as the channel's flagship live Premiership football programme Ford Super Sunday , since 2004. In 2009 it was used for the Australian advertisement for the updated BMW BMW 3-Series|3-Series range.
The song "The Time is Now" was performed by the Jabbawockeez and it was also imitated for their final performance " Redpill|The Red Pill " on the show Americas Best Dance Crew .
The song "Fun for Me" was featured in the motion picture Batman & Robin (film)|Batman & Robin , and is on the soundtrack to that film as well. It was also utilised in the advertisements for Dharma and Greg in Television syndication|syndication on American television featuring Jenna Elfman as Dharma, one of the main characters, dancing to the song.
The Only Ones from the Statues album was featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture "Johnny English".
Indigo was featured in the movie " Mystery Men ".
The Time is Now was featured also in the "Sex and the City" soundtrack and in the British television drama "Cold Feet".
The song Day For Night was a part of Chris Morris (satirist)|Chris Morris' BBC Blue Jam radio show and Jam (TV series) television show.
The album version of Sing It Back was featured in the 2010 feature film Repo Men . http://www.moviefone.ca/2010/03/22/repo-men-soundtrack/
The songs The Time Is Now (Moloko song)|The Time Is Now and Sing It Back were performed by Marta ( Gabriela Barros ) and Lourenço ( David Carreira ), the main characters of the Portuguese soap opera Morangos com Açúcar (8ª serie) - Agarra o Teu Futuro . The two songs are in the compilation Morangos com Açúcar - Escola de Talentos Vol.3 , tracks 2 and 17.
See also
List of number-one dance hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.roisinmurphy.com Official Róisín Murphy website
Use dmy dates|date=June 2011 Category:English dance music groups Category:English electronic music groups Category:Music in Sheffield Category:Electronic music duos Category:Trip hop groups
