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 dance band, for the American Indoor Football Association team, see Utah Saints (AIFA)
Utah Saints (AIFA)

The Utah Saints was a team of the American Indoor Football Association that played in 2008. They played their home games at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah....
.


Utah Saints are a dance
Dance music

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 band
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 based in Leeds
Leeds

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, England
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. The music
Music

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 is produced
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 by Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt, who are joined on-stage by other musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s whenever the band plays live. The band had a string of hit singles in the British pop charts in the 1990s, and were notable for their extensive use of sampling
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
 technology — in particular, their practice of manipulating samples from mainstream pop and rock songs and combining them with contrasting dance beats.






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This page is for the English
England

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 dance band, for the American Indoor Football Association team, see Utah Saints (AIFA)
Utah Saints (AIFA)

The Utah Saints was a team of the American Indoor Football Association that played in 2008. They played their home games at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah....
.


Utah Saints are a dance
Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
 band
Band (music)

In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:...
 based in Leeds
Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
, England
England

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. The music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 is produced
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 by Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt, who are joined on-stage by other musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s whenever the band plays live. The band had a string of hit singles in the British pop charts in the 1990s, and were notable for their extensive use of sampling
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
 technology — in particular, their practice of manipulating samples from mainstream pop and rock songs and combining them with contrasting dance beats. The name "Utah Saints" as told by Willis is a play on the fact that when the New Orleans Jazz
Utah Jazz

The Utah Jazz is a professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are currently members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
 moved to Utah
Utah

The State of Utah is a western United States U.S. state of the United States. It was the List of U.S. states by date of statehood admitted to the United States on January 4, 1896....
 they kept their name "the Jazz". But as Willis put it in an interview once, "what if the New Orleans Saints
New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the NFC South of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
 moved to Utah?" A common misconception is that the band based their name on the fact that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are headquartered in Utah.

History

They were described as "the first true stadium house band" (by Bill Drummond
Bill Drummond

William Ernest Drummond is a Scotland musician, media personality, record producer, writer and artist. He is best known as co-founder of The KLF, the avant-garde "pop group" of the late eighties, the K Foundation, its nineties "avant-art" media-manipulating successor, and for K Foundation Burn a Million Quid in 1994....
), though their music is difficult to place into one particular genre and they have been compared to Underworld
Underworld (band)

Underworld is an English electronic music group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1980. The band is perhaps best known for "Born Slippy .NUXX", a track made popular in the hit 1996 Danny Boyle film Trainspotting ....
, Fluke
Fluke (band)

Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier with Julian Nugent as the band's manager....
, The KLF
The KLF

The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu , The Timelords and other names, were one of the seminal bands from the Music of the United Kingdom acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
, and even Ministry
Ministry (band)

Ministry was an United States industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s....
 or Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock music group, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. As its main Producer , singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction....
.

They first had chart success with the single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
s "What Can You Do For Me" (UK #10), "Something Good" (their biggest UK success at #4) and "Believe In Me", a UK #8 chart hit, which they described as their vocal sample
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
 trilogy as those singles sampled Gwen Guthrie
Gwen Guthrie

Gwen Guthrie was an United States singer and songwriter, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, and Madonna , among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E....
, Kate Bush
Kate Bush

Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
 and Human League respectively ("What Can You Do For Me" also features a sample from Eurythmics
Eurythmics

Eurythmics are a United Kingdom musical duet, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous awards, and have undertaken several successful world tours....
). Contrary to one rumour, the band were not sued by Kate Bush over the use of a sample from Bush's track "Cloudbusting
Cloudbusting

"Cloudbusting" is a song that was written, produced and performed by the British singer Kate Bush. It was the second single released from her no.1 1985 album Hounds of Love....
" in the Utah Saints track "Something Good" - the sample was legally cleared before use. Additionally, Bush sold Utah Saints footage from the video of her original song . This track is, with new vocals by West End singer/actress Davina Perera
Davina Perera

Davina Perera, was born 31 Mar, Wilmington, Kent to an Irish mother and Sri Lankan father. Her exotic appearance goes beyond her Irish/Ceylon mix and incorporates Indian, Portuguese, German and Jewish roots and a distant, but direct, bloodline to the Spanish Royal Family....
, currently experiencing a revival in the clubs in 2008 with new remixes by Van She, High Contrast
High Contrast

High Contrast is the stage name of Wales drum and bass Disc jockey and record producer Lincoln Barrett. He was born in Cardiff, Wales on 18 September 1979....
, Prok & Fitch, eSquire, Ian Carey and more.

Utah Saints then moved away from vocal
Human voice

The human voice consists of sound Voice production by a human being using the vocal folds for Speech communication, singing, Laughter, crying, screaming, etc....
 samples with singles such as "I Want You" and "I Still Think Of You" (Jez Willis providing original vocals on each). Utah Saints also had three songs Hands Up, Techknowledgy and sick starring on the hit game Carmageddon.

After their debut album, the self-titled Utah Saints, and one further single "Ohio", Utah Saints seemed to disappear for several years, though they were still busy doing remixes (for a diverse range of artists including Blondie
Blondie (band)

Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
, Human League, Hawkwind
Hawkwind

Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
, Simple Minds
Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a rock music band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and critically praised work....
, James
James

James is a common English surname and given name:* James , the typically masculine first name James* James , various people with the last name James...
, Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox is a British musician, vocalist and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by members of the rock industry on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999....
 and The Osmonds
The Osmonds

The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career that took them from singing barbershop music as children, to achieving success as teen-music idols, to producing a hit television show, and to continued success as solo and group performers....
 and the theme to the 1995 Movie Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat (film)

Mortal Kombat is a 1995 in film action film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson that was based on the popular Mortal Kombat series of fighting games....
), and producing tracks for other artists such as Terrorvision
Terrorvision

Terrorvision are an England rock band. They were formed in 1987 in music in Keighley, disbanding in 2001 in music. The band used Bradford as a base after the name change to Terrorvision, by which time the band members had left home and all moved there....
. During this time, they recorded an album that was to be called "Wired World" but was never released, and produced a handful of Utah Saints tracks that to date have never had a proper release either, with titles such as "Star", "Train" and "Rock".

They eventually re-appeared in late 1999 with charting singles "Love Song", "Funky Music" (featuring Edwin Starr
Edwin Starr

Edwin Starr was an United States of America soul music singer. Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield record producer Motown single of the 1970s, most notably the Chart topper hit "War "....
 on guest vocals), "Power To The Beats" and "Lost Vagueness" (featuring Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde

Chrissie Hynde is an American rock musician, best known as the leader of the band The Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history....
), by releasing the album Two. Also in 2000, Utah Saints did the soundtrack for the video game Carmageddon TDR2000
Carmageddon TDR2000

Carmageddon: Total Destruction Racing 2000, more commonly known as Carmageddon TDR 2000, was an action game-racing game-vehicular combat game....
. In 2001 they supported Feeder
Feeder

Feeder may refer to:*Feeder , the Welsh rock group*Feeder , someone who gains sexual pleasure from helping another gain weight*Feeder, a regional term for frontage road, or other small road eventually delivering traffic to a larger one...
 on the second leg of their UK tour, but only played a DJ set. In 2002 they went back into hibernation only to surface again in 2008 with a single release. The band are notorious amongst their fans and the dance music community for taking a long time in between their releases - their first album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 Utah Saints and follow-up album Two were released seven years apart.

They have also been working on projects under other names, such as BeatVandals, as well as developing their regular Leeds
Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....
 and Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
-based club night SugarBeatClub. They opened a new recording studio on the outskirts of Leeds with fellow Leeds DJs and producers Riley & Durrant
Riley & Durrant

Riley & Durrant are an electronic music production and DJ duo based in Leeds, UKAndi Durrant and Nick Riley met whilst DJing together at Sheffield super-club Gatecrasher in 2002 and have been producing music since 2003....
 in 2008.

Released on iTunes on 11 January 2009 is the Utah Saints' Club Mix of Girls Aloud's "The Loving Kind".

Personal details

  • Tim Garbutt - born 6 January 1969, London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    .
  • Jez Willis - born 14 August 1963, Brampton
    Brampton, Cumbria

    Brampton, Cumbria may refer to:*Brampton, Carlisle, Cumbria, a town*Brampton, Eden, Cumbria, a village...
    , Cumbria
    Cumbria

    Cumbria is a non-metropolitan county in the North West England of England. Cumbria came into existence as a county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
    .


Discography


Albums

  • Utah Saints
    Utah Saints (album)

    Utah Saints, a self-titled first album by British electronic band Utah Saints, was originally released in the United States in 1992, and a version with a different cover and two extra tracks was released in the United Kingdom in 1993, reaching number 10 on the UK Albums Chart....
     (1992
    1992 in music

    This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992....
    ) #10 UK
  • Two
    Two (Utah Saints album)

    Two is the second album by British electronic band Utah Saints....
     (2000
    2000 in music

    See also:* 2000 in music * :Category:Musical groups established in 2000* :Category:Record labels established in 2000...
    )
  • Freshtraxxx vol 3 (mix album) (2008
    2008 in music

    Events...
    )


Singles

  • "What Can You Do For Me" (featuring samples of Eurythmics
    Eurythmics

    Eurythmics are a United Kingdom musical duet, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous awards, and have undertaken several successful world tours....
    ' "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)
    There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)

    "There Must Be an Angel " is a song written and recorded by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart for Eurythmics' fifth studio album Be Yourself Tonight ....
    ", Gwen Guthrie
    Gwen Guthrie

    Gwen Guthrie was an United States singer and songwriter, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, and Madonna , among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E....
    's "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent" and KISS
    KISS (band)

    Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
    '     Alive II album) (1991
    1991 in music

    See also:* 1991 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 1991...
    ) #10 UK
  • "Something Good
    Something Good (Utah Saints song)

    "Something Good" is a house music song released by Utah Saints in 1992. It was first included as the lead song on a seven-track EP titled Something Good, then later included on the Utah Saints album....
    " (featuring a sample of Kate Bush
    Kate Bush

    Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
    's "Cloudbusting
    Cloudbusting

    "Cloudbusting" is a song that was written, produced and performed by the British singer Kate Bush. It was the second single released from her no.1 1985 album Hounds of Love....
    ") (1992) #4 UK
  • "Believe In Me" (featuring samples of Human League's "Love Action (I Believe in Love)
    Love Action (I Believe in Love)

    "Love Action " is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League, released as a single in the UK in July 1981. It peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart, the band's first Top 10 success....
    ",Crown Heights Affair
    Crown Heights Affair

    Crown Heights Affair was an Rhythm and blues / funk / disco musical ensemble from New York City, founded in the early 1970s....
    's "You Gave Me Love" and Sylvester's "Do Ya Wanna Funk?") (1993
    1993 in music

    This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993....
    ) #8 UK
  • "I Want You" (1993) #25 UK (featuring a sample of Slayer
    Slayer

    Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
    's "War Ensemble
    Seasons in the Abyss

    Seasons in the Abyss is the fifth studio album by the thrash metal band Slayer. It was released in 1990 through Def American, and later through American Recordings after the company changed its name....
    ") (1993
    1993 in music

    This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993....
    )
  • "I Still Think Of You" (1994
    1994 in music

    This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994....
    ) #32 UK
  • "Ohio" (1995) #42 UK
  • "Love Song" (2000
    2000 in music

    See also:* 2000 in music * :Category:Musical groups established in 2000* :Category:Record labels established in 2000...
    ) #37 UK
  • "Funky Music (Sho Nuff Turns Me On)" (featuring Edwin Starr
    Edwin Starr

    Edwin Starr was an United States of America soul music singer. Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield record producer Motown single of the 1970s, most notably the Chart topper hit "War "....
    ) (2000) #23 UK
  • "Power To the Beats" (featuring Chuck D
    Chuck D

    Carlton Douglas Ridenhour , better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the leader of the rap group, Public Enemy ....
    )
  • "Lost Vagueness" (featuring Chrissie Hynde
    Chrissie Hynde

    Chrissie Hynde is an American rock musician, best known as the leader of the band The Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history....
    )
  • "Something Good '08" (2008) #8 UK


Genre

  • Electronic music
    Electronic music

    Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
  • Sampling
    Sampling (music)

    In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....


Artists

  • The Chemical Brothers
    The Chemical Brothers

    The Chemical Brothers are the English electronic music duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons . Initially they called themselves "The Dust Brothers", after the noted United States Dust Brothers, but the threat of legal action from the originals led them to change their name in 1995....
  • Fluke
    Fluke (band)

    Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier with Julian Nugent as the band's manager....
  • The KLF
    The KLF

    The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu , The Timelords and other names, were one of the seminal bands from the Music of the United Kingdom acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  • Leftfield
    Leftfield

    Leftfield was a duo of electronica artists and record producers Paul Daley and Neil Barnes, formed in 1989 in London, England. The name Leftfield was originally used simply by Neil Barnes for its first single, "Not Forgotten ," but after this, Paul Daley was involved first in remixing songs and then in the creation of following music....
  • Overseer
    Overseer

    Rob Overseer is an England DJ/Record producer, born in Leeds whose works have been included in soundtracks for Animatrix, Snatch , Any Given Sunday and The Girl Next Door , as well as video games like Need for Speed: Underground, NFL Gameday, several Matchstick Productions ski films, and Stuntman , among others....
  • Underworld
    Underworld (band)

    Underworld is an English electronic music group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1980. The band is perhaps best known for "Born Slippy .NUXX", a track made popular in the hit 1996 Danny Boyle film Trainspotting ....
  • Future Sound of London
  • U.S.U.R.A.
    U.S.U.R.A.

    U.S.U.R.A. was an Italy electronic dance music group active from 1991-1998....
  • The Cassandra Complex
    The Cassandra Complex (band)

    The Cassandra Complex are an influential rock group formed by Rodney Orpheus and Paul Dillon in 1980 in Leeds, England, later expanding to a trio with the addition of Andy Booth in 1984....
     - in which Jez Willis formerly played


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