More Info on Urban Dance SquadSimilar Undetermined MusicSearch Artistopia
Biography
Refimprove|date=October 2007Infobox musical artist| name = Urban Dance Squad| image = Urban Dance Squad.jpg| caption = Urban Dance Squad, 2006.| image_size =| background = group_or_band| origin = Utrecht (city)|Utrecht , Netherlands | genre = Rap rock | years_active = 1986–2000 2006| label = Arista Records|Arista Sony BMG Triple X Records|Triple X | associated_acts =| website = http://www.uds.nl www.uds.nl| current_members = Rudeboy Remmington ( Patrick Tilon ) Tres Manos ( René van Barneveld ) Silly Sil ( Silvano Matadin ) Magic Stick ( Michel Schoots ) DJ DNA (DoNotAsk) ( Arjen de Vreede ) Urban Dance Squad was a Netherlands|Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht (city)|Utrecht on December 20, 1986.cite web | url= http://www.uds.nl/biography.htm| title=Urban Dance Squad | date=November 17, 2008 The band consisted of a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, a rapper and a DJ. Their music is described as a blend of genres, including funk , Soul music|soul , Heavy metal music|heavy metal , Hip hop music|hip hop , reggae , jazz and ska and is often compared to that of Rage Against the Machine , the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone . Urban Dance Squad were one of the most successful Dutch bands of the nineties, releasing five studio albums.
Career
Urban Dance Squad first got together in 1986, at a jam session in De Vrije Vloer, a club in Utrecht, a jam which resulted in the first Dutch rock band with a rapper (they borrowed the name from Parliament-Funkadelic 's Urban Dancefloor Guerillas ); a song, "Struggle for Jive"; and the blending of white and black music in the Netherlands, at the same time that Fishbone, Living Colour , and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were doing the same in the United States.cite news|url= http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2676/Cultuur/article/detail/764904/2006/07/25/Zo-goed-zo-nieuw-zo-fris.dhtml|title=Zo goed zo nieuw zo fris|last=Baartman|first=Nicoline|date=25 July 2006|work= de Volkskrant |accessdate=24 February 2012 The band recorded its first album, Mental Floss for the Globe , in Brussels in 1989 (produced by Jean-Marie Aerts , of TC Matic ), and came to instant success. It won an Edison Award , and the single " Deeper Shade of Soul " was a hit in Europe and even in the United States, where it charted at number 21 in the United States on Billboard Hot 100 . Two more singles were released from the album, and Urban Dance Squad toured the US in 1991, opening up for Living Colour-- The Pittsburgh Press described their music as "refried Zeppelin riffs and neo-Hendrix guitar solos complete with sound effects and old soul records to produce an exceedingly loud, densely packed, dissonant garage-rock stew."cite news|url= http://news.google.com/newspapers? id=ZoFhAAAAIBAJ& sjid=32MEAAAAIBAJ& pg=4396,4358857& dq=mental-floss-for-the-globe& hl=en|title=UDS, Living Colour bring new hues to rock|last=King|first=Peter B.|date=24 January 1991|work= The Pittsburgh Press |page=D7|accessdate=24 February 2012
In the middle of the band's career, to capitalize on the success of grunge and alternative rock , Urban Dance Squad released Persona Non Grata in January 1994. All of the tracks feature heavy use of distortion and guitar. In particular, the singles "No Honestly" and "Candy Strip Exp." were released. The latter single features a radio edit that cuts most of the pre-song noise.
Artantica saw release in 1999, and was a return to the band's hip-hop roots, and received critical acclaim. Urban Dance Squad disbanded the following year, though they did perform together again as late as 2006.
Beograd live (Urban Dance Squad album)|Beograd Live (1997)
Artantica (1999)
The Singles Collection (Urban Dance Squad album)|The Singles Collection (2006)
Other media
Film
"Fast Lane" appears in the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume (film)|Pump Up the Volume but does not appear on the soundtrack album.cite web | url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100436/soundtrack| title=Pump Up the Volume Soundtrack| date=November 17, 2008
The song "Good Grief" appears on the soundtrack of the 1995 film Hackers (film)|Hackers , and the band has a cameo appearance in the film with the same song.cite web | url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/soundtrack| title=Hackers Soundtrack| date=November 17, 2008
The song "Demagogue" appears on the soundtrack of the 2001 film Crazy/Beautiful cite web | url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250224/soundtrack| title=Crazy/Beautiful| date=November 17, 2008 and in 2003 on Gigli (film)|Gigli .cite web | url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299930/soundtrack| title=Gigli| date=November 17, 2008
Documentary
5 jaar wanorde ( 5 years of mayhem ) is a two-part documentary about Urban Dance Squad by director Bram van Splunteren for VPRO 's Onrust , originally broadcast in 1992.
References
reflist
Frans Steensma (ed), "OOR's Eerste Nederlandse Pop-encyclopedie" (12th edition, Amsterdam, 2000)
Urban dance squad Category:Dutch dance music groups Category:Dutch rock music groups Category:Dutch hip hop groups Category:Rap rock groups Category:Reggae rock groups Category:Dutch ska groups Category:Musical groups established in 1986
