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Faithless are a British band whose music is described by the band as a cross between hip-hop and dance. While they are mostly famous for their dance songs ("Insomnia" "God Is A DJ" and "We Come 1"), they try to produce albums which offer a blend of styles.

History

The three principal members of Faithless are Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo. Jazz acts as a vocalist in mostly rap format with lyrics that have strong spiritual or socio-political intent. Bliss constructs most of the music herself electronically, but is talented in playing the piano, violin, saxophone and bass. Rollo heads and produces the band. Lead female vocals for many of their songs are performed by Pauline Taylor, who also performed lead vocals for singles Rollo released under his monikers Rollo Goes Mystic and Rollo Goes Spiritual.

As well as these three members, Faithless have employed a guest member for each album. Jamie Catto was an original member of the band, but left after their second album, Sunday 8PM. On their third album, Outrospective, Zoë Johnston joined the lineup while their fourth album, No Roots saw LSK as Faithless member number four. The band often has various people do one-off features on their tracks, though one artist has managed to make a regular feature of her appearances. Singer Dido, who is Rollo's sister, recorded her first studio track with Faithless, "Salva Mea", and was reportedly paid with a curry. She has since featured on one track on each album, in order: "Flowerstand Man", "Hem Of His Garment", "One Step Too Far", "No Roots" and finally "Last This Day".

It was reported that Faithless were to split up after their latest tour in mid-2005. Speculation started after Rollo wrote in the liner notes of the No Roots booklet "We set out thinking it would be our last album, feeling maybe we have had our time in the sun".[1] However, a fresh clutch of live dates meant the tour actually lasted until December 2005. The band then released a greatest hits compilation, called Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits, which reached number one in the UK.

Following the release of their greatest hits album, Faithless released a new studio album on 27th November 2006. The album, To All New Arrivals, from which the first single released was Bombs. The new album was followed by a major tour, The Bombs Tour.

Music

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Faithless at the Orange Music Experience Festival, Haifa, 2005-06-27
Faithless have released five albums of their own work, the first four gaining successively higher positions on the album charts. The albums are called Reverence (which reached number 26), Sunday 8PM (reaching number 10), Outrospective (peaking at number 4) and No Roots (which debuted at number 1) between 1996 and 2004, with a greatest hits album out in 2005. In light of their dance roots, each of the four studio albums has been followed with a subsequent bonus disc of remixes. Their fifth album, To All New Arrivals, was released in 2006.

As well as their own studio albums, all three members actively engage in other people's work as solo figures. Sister Bliss, as previously mentioned, is a prominent dance DJ and has for a long time toured the circuit on her own, remixed others' albums and even appeared in music videos, such as Paul Oakenfold's "Weekend". Maxi Jazz brought out an album before the formation of Faithless and also worked on pirate radio and would later work on the digital music project album 1 Giant Leap guesting on a song with Robbie Williams. Finally, Rollo founded the label Cheeky Records and has produced the music of other artists, most notably his sister's two albums, as well as using various monikers to create popular dance music under the names Rollo Goes ... (Camping, Mystic and Spiritual), Felix, Our Tribe (with Rob Dougan), and Dusted.

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As well as this other work, the band collectively indulge in mixtapes of other musicians' work, either mixed by the group or merely selected by them. This includes the long running Back To Mine sessions, of which they are the fifth of over 20 people selected to choose the music, as well as The Bedroom Sessions and more recently the Renaissance 3D music project, in conjunction with the Renaissance nightclub.

On September 29, 2006, the first single Bombs from their latest studio album To All New Arrivals made its debut on BBC Radio 1's Pete Tong show. The album was released on November 27, 2006. "Bombs" generated moderate controversy with its music video, as demonstrated by MTV's refusal to air it[2]. The music video featured interchanged clips of war scenes and daily life; symbolizing the presence of war all around us. As said by the director of the music video Howard Greenhalgh, "War infects all our lives; recently it feels that this has increasingly become 'our way of life'".

Albums

Compilations:

DVDs

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Faithless Live at Alexandra Palace DVD Cover
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Faithless Live at The Melkweg Amsterdam DVD Cover
  • Live at The Melkweg Amsterdam (2001)
  • Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits (16 May 2005)
  • Live at Alexandra Palace (October 2005)

Singles

From Reverence:
  • "Salva Mea (Save Me)" - 1995 #30 UK, #1 US Dance/Club Play
  • "Insomnia" - 1995 #27 UK, #1 US Dance/Club Play, #62 US Hot 100
  • "Don't Leave" - 1996 #34 UK
  • "Insomnia" - 1996 re-release #3 UK
  • "Salva Mea" - 1996 re-release #9 UK
  • "Reverence" - 1997 #10 UK
  • "Don't Leave" - 1997 re-release #21 UK
  • "Insomnia" - 2005 re-entry #48 UK
From Sunday 8PM:
  • "God Is a DJ" - 1998 #6 UK, #1 US Dance/Club Play
  • "Take The Long Way Home" - 1998 #15 UK, #5 US Dance/Club Play
  • "Bring My Family Back" - 1999 #14 UK, #17 US Dance/Club Play
  • "God Is A DJ" - 2005 re-entry #66 UK
From Outrospective: From No Roots: From Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits:
  • "Salva Mea 2005 - 2005 #101 UK
  • "Why Go?" (featuring Estelle - 2005 remix) - 2005 #49 UK
  • "Insomnia 2005" - 2005 #17 UK
  • "Reasons (Saturday Night)" (2005) - #225 UK
From To All New Arrivals:

Other appearances

Note: This list is probably incomplete and not in chronological order.

See also

Notes

1. ^ Quotation from album inlet, Outrospective (2001)
2. ^ BOMBS AWAY. Shots. www.shots.net (1 November 2006). Retrieved on 2006-11-28.

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Current Members: Sister Bliss | Maxi Jazz | Rollo
Previous Members: Jamie Catto
Discography
Studio albums: Reverence | Reverence / Irreverence | Sunday 8PM | Sunday 8PM / Saturday 3AM | Outrospective | Outrospective / Reperspective | No Roots | Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow | To All New Arrivals
Compilation Albums: | The Bedroom Sessions | Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits | Renaissance 3D
DVDs: Live at The Melkweg Amsterdam | Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits | Live At Alexandra Palace
Singles: Salva Mea | Insomnia | Don't Leave | If Lovin' You is Wrong | Reverence | God Is A DJ | Take the Long Way Home | Bring My Family Back | Why Go? | We Come 1 | Muhammad Ali | Tarantula / Crazy English Summer | One Step Too Far | Dub Be Good to Me | Mass Destruction | I Want More | Miss U Less, See U More | No Roots | Why Go? 2005 | Insomnia 2005 | Fatty Boo | Reasons (Saturday Night) | Bombs | Music Matters | Hope & Glory
Collaborating Artists
Ken Boothe | Boy George | Rachael Brown | Cat Power | Harry Collier | Dido | Ian Dury | Cass Fox | The Hiites | Zo Johnston | Jimmy Jones | LSK | One Eskimo | Steve Rowland | Penny Shaw | Nina Simone | Robert Smith | Estelle Swaray | Pauline Taylor
Faithless is an adjective denoting a lack of faith. It may refer to:
  • Faithless - The English Dance Group
  • The Faithless - the debut 2006 album by Nights Like These
  • Faithless (2000 film) - A Swedish film directed by Liv Ullman

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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Hip hop (also spelled hip-hop or hiphop) is both a music genre and a cultural movement developed in New York City starting in the 1970s, predominantly by African Americans and Latinos.
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Released November, 1995
Format CD single
Genre Trip-hop/Dance
Length 10:55
Label Cheeky Records/BMG
Producer(s) Rollo
Peak chart positions
  • #27 UK (1995)
  • #3 UK (1996)
  • #1 US Dance/Club Play
  • #1 Finland

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Released 24 August 1998
Format CD single
Genre Trip-hop/Dance
Length 08:01
Label Cheeky Records/BMG
Producer(s) Rollo, Sister Bliss
Peak chart positions
  • #6 UK (1998)
  • #1 US Dance/Club Play
  • #1 NL

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Released 28 May, 2001 International
4 June, 2001 UK
Format CD single
Genre Trip-hop/Dance
Length 17:12 (CD1)
17:34 (CD2)
Label Cheeky Records/BMG
Producer(s) Rollo
Peak chart positions
  • #3 UK (2001)

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Sister Bliss (real name Ayalah Bentovim, Hebrew אילה בן-טובים [frequently misspelled Bentovin] - born December 30 1970) is a British musician, producer and DJ.
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Rollo Armstrong (born 1967 in London[1]) is one half of the music producers/remixers team Rollo and Sister Bliss, and is older brother to Dido, with whom he helped to write and produce the multi-million selling albums No Angel and Life For Rent.
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Pauline Taylor is a female recording artist, who came to recognition as the lead vocalist on the singles "Love Love Love, Here I Come" by Rollo Goes Mystic, and "Let This Be A Prayer" by Rollo Goes Spiritual.
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Jamie Catto (born in London, United Kingdom; 14 August, 1968) is a former and founding member of Faithless. He was the ballad singer/songwriter, and became Art Director and Video Director of the band before leaving in 1999 to form the double-Grammy nominated, global music and film
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Sunday 8PM is Faithless' second album, released on September 18 1998. The album contains the hit singles "Bring My Family Back", "Take The Long Way Home", and "God Is A DJ". The album reached #10 place in the UK charts.
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Outrospective is the third album by Faithless, released on 18 June 2001 it was the follow up to Sunday 8PM and the predecessor to No Roots. The Single "We Come 1" had the most success charting at no.
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No Roots
(2004) Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow
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No Roots is a music album by Faithless, released in 2004. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart that year, giving them their first number one album in their career.
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LSK (born Leigh Stephen Kenny on 9 August, 1977 in Leeds, United Kingdom) is a singer, songwriter and record producer based in Leeds who uses a mix of reggae, punk rock and UK garage.
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Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong,[1] (born December 25, 1971), better known by the stage name Dido, is an English BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter who performs under a nickname her mother gave her in childhood.
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Curry (from Tamil: கறி) is the English description of any of a general variety of spicy dishes, best-known in Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Thai, and other South Asian and Southeast Asian cuisines, though curry has been
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greatest hits album (sometimes referred to as a "best of" album) is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band.
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Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits
(2005) Renaissance 3D (2006)|

Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits is a greatest hits compilation album from the dance music group Faithless.
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To All New Arrivals is the 5th studio album by dance music act Faithless. The album was created after the positive response to the Faithless Greatest Hits tour, originally described as their "final tour".
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1 Giant Leap is a concept band and media project consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto (Faithless founding member) and Duncan Bridgeman.

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Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is a Grammy Award-nominated, 15 time BRIT Award-winning English artist.
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Cheeky Records was founded in 1991 by the producer/remixer Rollo Armstrong, brother of Dido.

After releasing Frankë's - "Understand This Groove" and Gloworm's "I Lift My Cup" the label collapsed due to Rollo's incompetence but was rescued in 1994 by Champion Records and was
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Rob Dougan, also known as Rob D (born in Sydney, Australia in 1965) is a genre-blending music composer. Mixing elements of orchestral music, trip hop, and bluesy vocals, his work is only tangentially relatable to electronic music.
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For other uses, see Dusted.
Dusted is the joint venture of two producers, Rollo Armstrong (New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Faithless, and brother of the singer Dido) and Mark Bates (Guy Ornadel).
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Back to Mine is a series of mix albums, usually (though not always) mixed by renowned DJs or composers of electronic music. The compilations usually feature artists other than the artist compiling the album, and are based on what the artist would play at home after a night
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Renaissance 3D by Faithless is a 3-Compact Disc Box Set, of which each CD has a different theme. The first CD, Studio, includes remix of both songs by Faithless (of which several were previously unreleased) and others.
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Renaissance is one of the longest running electronic dance music scenes in the in the world. Started by Geoff Oakes in Mansfield, UK in 1991, the club became famous for its high standards of visual production and the best DJs in the world.
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