Deee-Lite
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Deee-Lite: Multi Cultural Delight
Profile and Interview by Steven Daly, Spin, June 1990
What will happen to dance music in a decade slated to make the '60s look like the '70s? Deee-Lite is what will happen. ...
Interview by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 25 August 1990
A Russian, a go-go dancer and a Japanese DJ is hardly the combination you'd expect to be making the most exciting dance sounds around but, as ANDREW ...
Deee-Lite: World Clique (Elektra)
Review by John Robb, Sounds, 1 September 1990
OUTRAGEOUS, COLOURFUL, Deee-Lite's tacky funky mush is a breathtaking pysche trip at the tail end of a summer that's been disappointing in terms of excess ...
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 1 September 1990
New York City, 1990, and a head-on culture collision has thrown up one of the hottest, sweatiest groove machines since P Funk. It's a crayzee, ...
Deee-Lite: Accentuating the Positive
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 9 September 1990
Simon Reynolds on '90s Zeitgeist with love from NY. ...
Interview by Frank Owen, Spin, January 1991
...is on the psychedelic tip, on the one-world tip, and on the conscious tip. But most of all, the group's on the making-house-music-intelligible-to-the-masses tip. ...
Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 9 February 1991
Pop music isn't all lying around the pool with GUNS N'ROSES, frugging with PRINCE and getting pissed (on) with the MONDAYS. Except, that is, in ...
Deee-Lite: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 July 1991
LAST YEAR, Deee-Lite's fusion of hip-hop beats and hippy good vibes supposedly presaged a kinder, gentler era in pop. Nothing much changed, but Deee-Lite still ...
Deee-Lite: Infinity Within (WEA/All formats)
Review by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 20 June 1992
LYCRA DISNEY ...
Report and Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 27 June 1992
DEEE-LITE are daffy, kooky, Day-glo disco dollies who put the fun into funk. Or are they? PAUL LESTER finds out. ...
Deee-Lite: The Message "Within"
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 30 June 1992
There's a means in Deee-Lite's madness. Their new album, Infinity Within aims to touch hearts and minds whilst keeping their feet firmly on the dancefloor ...
Deee-Lite: Dew Drops in the Garden (Elektra) ****
Review by Amy Linden, New York Daily News, 31 July 1994
New growth in Deee-Lite's Garden Downtown trio gets back in the groove with third album ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
Lady Miss Kier, b. Kieren Kirby, Youngstown, Ohio, USA; Super DJ Dimitry, b. Dimitry Brill, Kiev, Ukraine; DJ Towa Tei, b. Doug Wa-Chung, Tokyo, Japan ...
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