`DECKSANDDRUMSANDROCKANDROLL' KEEPS ON SPINNING.Byline: - Marla Matzer Propellerheads' ``Decksandrumsandrockandroll'' may be the most familiar album you don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. own and have never, or rarely, heard on radio. That's because its songs keep popping up on TV (``Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,'' ``Nash Bridges''), in movies (``The Matrix,'' ``There's Something About Mary'') and in commercials. The place you're most likely to hear the work of the English duo - whose name is slang for computer nerds computer nerd - computer geek - is in a current television commercial for the new Jaguar. That's the Props playing, as guest vocalist Shirley Bassey, she of the big ``Goldfinger'' voice, intones: ``They say the next big thing is here/That the revolution's near/But to me it seems quite clear/That it's all just a little bit of history repeating "History Repeating" is the 26th episode of the ABC television series, Brothers & Sisters. The episode is also the third episode for the show's second season. It aired on Sunday October 14, 2007[0]. .'' Cool, catchy and sexy, the song is likely to stay with you even when the program you're watching comes back on. ``This is like the record that won't go away,'' said Monica Mylod, marketing manager for Propellerheads at DreamWorks Records DreamWorks Records was an American record label active from 1996 to 2005. In 1996, six years after David Geffen sold Geffen Records to Mushroom Records, he joined Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg to form DreamWorks SKG, which included the subsidiary DreamWorks Records. . Mylod says though the record has sold only 200,000 copies, less than half the amount it takes to achieve gold record status, her phone is ``ringing off the hook'' with requests to use the music in movies, TV shows and commercials. She adds that she's nearing a deal to put another of the album's beat-driven cuts into a major commercial. Alex Gifford - half of Propellerheads, along with Will White - also wrote, produced and performed music for a big chase sequence in 1997's James Bond film, ``Tomorrow Never Dies.'' Two cuts on ``Decksandrums'' have a definite Bond-like quality; others range from hip-hop to techno techno electronic dance music that first appeared in the U.S. in the 1980s and became globally popular in the 1990s. It originated with Detroit deejay-producers who, inspired by European electro-pop, underlaid dreamy synthesizer melodies with rapid electronic rhythms. . With ``Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged shag 1 n. 1. A tangle or mass, especially of rough matted hair. 2. a. A coarse long nap, as on a woolen cloth. b. Cloth having such a nap. 3. A rug with a thick rough pile. Me'' at theaters, maybe it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to discover this year-old CD and give it a spin. For Propellerheads, who've been keeping busy with producing work, this renewed interest in their only full-length album is all just a little bit of history repeating. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Alex Gifford, left, and Will White of the Propellerheads keep cropping up on TV and movie soundtracks and commercials. |
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