British Downtempo Music with an International Flavor
Zero 7 in concert with Australian trip hop vocalist Sia Furler
Fans of electronic music are probably well acquainted with the downtempo trip hop orientated sound of Zero 7. Since 2001 Zero 7 has had 4 best selling studio albums and have won several electronic and world music awards.
The founders Henry Binns and Sam Hardarker were a pair of sound engineers at Mickey Most's RAK studios in London in the early 90s and they began recording their own music between sessions in the mid 1990s. The vocal duties are handled by a revolving cast of singers who already have successful careers as vocalists including Sia, Tina Dico, Mozez, José González, Sophie Barker & Martha Tilston.
Pageant of the Bizarre is a song that has both acid jazz and Eastern European folk music influences.
The song
Swing is jazz in form but still has ethnic folk music influences.
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The duo's songs have appeared in many films and television shows such as Blue Crush, Raising Helen, Smallville, Roswell, Obsessed, and I'm with Lucy. Songs include "Give It Away" (Top Gear, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, I Give It a Year), "Polaris" (Sex and the City), "Pop Art Blue" "Waterloo Road", and "In The Waiting Line" (Garden State, Sex and the City, House and Numb3rs). Their song "Destiny" has appeared on the Lacoste website, SkyTV's broadcast of the Star Wars Saga and commercial. The song "In The Waiting Line" has also appeared in a 2006 HBO ad, NBC's profile of Olympic Swimmer Laure Manaudou, and is sampled in the hip hop song song "Nothing Iz Real" by Termanology.
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Songs by Zero 7 have also appeared on the lounge music compilations,
The Chillout Project by Filipino DJ Anton Ramos, and the
Hôtel Costes.