Deee-Lite

Deee-Lite single-handedly changed club music in the 90’s. The eclectic trio released a trilogy of albums, World Clique, Infinity Within, and Dewdrops in the Garden, spearheading a digital assault on the senses that mixed, funk, trance, house, soul, jazz, and a laser-beam social conscious with a refreshing eccentricity that influenced a generation of club-goers.

Their underground anthems stirred the soul, with the group becoming a kind of collective entity in the process that included not only bandmembers, but re-mixers, guest-vocalists and musicians who added to the communal formula of global groove-and-mind-melding that sparked the music world.

Their newest release, Sampladelic Relics & Dancefloor Oddities – Deee-Remixes brilliantly encapsulates the Deee-Lite magic of the 90’s. The album is sure to have added historic signifigance for club music fans because founding members of Deee-Lite, Miss Lady Kier, Dimitry and Towa Tei have also decided that the LP will be their final project together as a group. The 19 track compilation includes classic Deee-Lite remixes as well as suped up nuggets from production legends like Todd Terry, adding his touch to “Bittersweet Loving,” Ian Pooley re-working “Power Of Love,” and Deee-Lite co-founder Supa DJ Dimitry, whose collaboration with DJ Silver blows out “Music Selector Is The Soul Reflector.”

The disk is also packed with historic dancefloor gems like Pal Joey’s 1990 remix of “How Do You Say…Love,” The Masters At Work 1992 classic, “Runaway,” and of course Deee-Lite’s own extended jam of their 1990 groundbreaking treasure, “Groove Is In The Heart.” Ani, who became a floating member of Dee-Lite on the World Clique album, is represented in mesmerizing fashion on a soaring update of “I Dreamed I Was Falling Thru A Hole In The Ozone Layer.”

Deee-Lite themselves supervised the production of the album, one of the most comprehensive compilations of any dance group within the past decade. Sampladelic Relics & Dancefloor Oddities is a testament to a group who not blazed their own dancefloor path, but continue to inspire artists, musicians, re-mixers and funked-up club-kids from around the globe.