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| Bodyrox | |
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| Origin | London, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Electro house, house, Dance |
| Years active | 2005-present |
| Associated acts | Luciana, N-Dubz, Nick Clow |
| Members | |
| Jon Pearn Nick Bridges |
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Bodyrox is an electro house music duo consisting of Jon Pearn and Nick Bridges.
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[edit] Career History
"Yeah Yeah", Bodyrox's first commercial single was released in November 2006, featuring vocals by Luciana. The song was very successful, with high levels of play in clubs, radio, and music TV channels. "Yeah Yeah" reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart, also charting in a number of other countries including the Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. "Yeah Yeah" was used during a breakdancing competition in the 2007 Jamie Kennedy film Kickin' It Old Skool.
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Bodyrox's later released the follow up single to "Yeah Yeah", "What Planet You On?". The music video featured Luciana in space. The song charted lowly across Europe with the highest position being #54 in the UK. The song was later used on a Ford car TV commercial,[1] the popular game, FIFA 2008 [2] and the UK cult film Tormented.[3]
Since then Bodyrox have gone on to receive several nominations and awards including a prestigious Ivor Novello,[4] and nominations two years in a row at the IDMA's in Miami[5] and a MTV VMA nomination.[6]
Further releases such as "Brave new World" and "Shut your Mouth" were released in 2009 topping both the Cool Cuts and DMC Buzz Chart.
In 2010 Bodyrox produced the theme tune for UK Box office number 1 film StreetDance 3D featuring on the hip-hop trio N-Dubz song, "We Dance On" The song charted at number 6 in the UK and 9 in in Ireland. Log time collaborator, Luciana took part in writing the song.
In 2011, Bodyrox signed their debut album "Bow Wow Wow" to Transmission Records UK.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- 2007: Generationext
- 2012: Bow Wow Wow
[edit] Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [7] |
AUS | NLD | IRL [8] |
FIN | BEL | NZ | ||
| 2006 | "Yeah Yeah" (feat. Luciana) | 2 | 39 | 13 | 43 | 7 | 30 | 51 |
| 2008 | "What Planet You On?" (feat. Luciana) | 54 | 55 | 55 | — | — | 65 | — |
| "Brave New World" (feat. Luciana & Nick Clow) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2009 | "Shut Your Mouth" (feat. Luciana) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2010 | "Throw The Paint" (Bodyrox & Luciana) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "We Dance On" (N-Dubz feat. Bodyrox) | 6 | — | — | 9 | — | — | — | |
| 2012 | "Bow Wow Wow" (feat. Luciana) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 | "Rubba Dubba" (feat. Luciana) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
[edit] References
- ^ "Kanaal van officialbodyrox". YouTube. 2011-02-23. http://www.youtube.com/officialbodyrox#p/u/9/IqiDR8DApyI. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^ Česky. "FIFA 08 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". En.wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_08#Soundtrack. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100053/soundtrack
- ^ "Full list of nominations: Ivor Novello Awards | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. 2007-05-24. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-457348/Full-list-nominations-Ivor-Novello-Awards.html. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^ http://www.houseplanet.dj/index.php/March-2008/International-Dance-Music-Awards-IDMA-2008-Winners.html
- ^ "MTV Austrailian VMAs Nominations [Archive". ATRL. http://atrl.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-43236.html. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^ "Search for: bodyrox". Chart Stats. http://www.chartstats.com/search.php?q=bodyrox. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^ "GFK Chart-Track". Chart-track.co.uk. http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240001&arch=t&lyr=2006&year=2006&week=47. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
