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Before Björk, Einar Örn and Sigtryggur Baldursson found commercial success with the Sugarcubes, they made two albums in a darker post-punk style with an earlier band, Kukl.
The video helped Björk to be known in North America where it received heavy rotation on MTV channels, with many noting that the video was more known in the country than the song: "Few people know how the melody for "Big Time Sensuality" starts, but anyone who watched MTV in the early '90s could cheerfully belt out the single measure when she ...
Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík. [12] She was raised by her mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (7 October 1946 – 25 October 2018 [13]), an activist who protested against the development of Iceland's Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, [14] having divorced from Björk's father, Guðmundur Gunnarsson, an electrician and union leader, after Björk was born.
Phonk took inspiration from trap roots in the Southern United States in the mid-1990s. [2] Artists or musical groups like DJ Screw, X-Raided, DJ Spanish Fly, [3] DJ Squeeky, [4] and the collective Three 6 Mafia all helped pioneer the foundations for the genre to emerge many years later, with the Houston chopped and screwed seen as the precursor to the genre. [2]
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In August 1998, a 12-inch single of "All Is Full of Love", containing a remix by German IDM duo Funkstörung, was released through FatCat Records as a limited release. [17] [18] This remix had been previously distributed as a B-side for "Hunter" (1998), [19] and another remix of the song had been released as a B-side of "Jóga" in 1998. [20]
The album spawned three top 10 singles in the UK, including "Army of Me", "Hyperballad" and "It's Oh So Quiet", which became her best-selling single and was certified gold by BPI. The album was followed by a companion remix album, called Telegram (1996).
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