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Praga Khan (real name: Maurice Engelen) is an early techno music musician. His Belgian New Beat style stems back to the 1980s when techno came out of the Belgian underground.

Overview

Praga Khan teamed up with Jade 4U and Oliver Adams to form Lords of Acid (also known as "Digital Orgasm") in the late 1980s. Praga Khan's most famous solo work is the rave anthem "Injected with a Poison".

Khan is one of the pioneers of the acid house/rave sound and has contributed to the theatrical scene with his musical collaborations in The Next Dimension and Code Red. A lucky break also happened when Paul Verhoeven, during the shooting of Basic Instinct, walked into 'The Limelight' disco in New York, looking for a song for his movie. When the track "Rave the Rhythm" was played, he stepped up to the DJ and asked who that was. The song was included on the soundtrack, after which other movies followed including Sliver, Virtuosity, Strange Days and Bad Lieutenant. He also composed the soundtrack for the video game Mortal Kombat with Oliver Adams as The Immortals.

With the release of the CD 21st Century Skin, Praga Khan became a major music act in his home country, with singles such as "Breakfast in Vegas", "Luv U Still" and "Lonely". The album sold 25,000 copies. This earned him a place at Rock Werchter, where they played in the tent.

At the end of 1999 Praga Khan performed in the United States for the first time (as an opener for Lords of Acid, with the same musicians), and they released the album Mutant Funk in the same year. The album went up the charts in no time (two weeks at #2 in the Belgian album chart). The band performed at Werchter again and this time as headliners on the big stage of the first day. They were the first Belgian band to achieve this. The album was a big success including hits like "Power of the Flower", "Sayonara Greetings" and "Love".

Praga Khan also appeared as a judge on X Factor (Belgium)

Discography

Albums

  • 1993 - A Spoonful of Miracle
  • 1996 - Conquers Your Love
  • 1998 - Pragamatic
  • 1999 - 21st Century Skin
  • 2000 - Mutant Funk
  • 2001 - Falling OST
  • 2002 - Freakazoids
  • 2003 - Not Strictly Rubens OST
  • 2003 - Fantastic (A Fest of Album)
  • 2004 - Electric Religion
  • 2006 - Soundscraper

Singles

  • "Bula Bula" (House Records, 1988)
  • "Out of Control" (Beatbox, 1989)
  • "Rave Alarm" (Beatbox, 1991) # 27 Netherlands
  • "Free Your Body" (Sonic Records, 1992) # 21 US Dance
  • "Injected with a Poison" (Beatbox, 1992) # 16 UK
  • "Rave Alert" (Beatbox, 1992) # 39 UK
  • "A Spoonful of Miracle" (RCA, Avex, 1993)
  • "Phantasia Forever" (RCA, 1993)
  • "Begin to Move" (Avex, 1994)
  • "Gun Buck" (Jive, 1995)
  • "Love Me Baby" (Never Records, 1996)
  • "Jazz Trippin" (Never Records, 1996)
  • "Injected with a Poison" '98 Remixes (Never Records, 1998)
  • "Lonely" (Antler-Subway, 1999)
  • "Luv U Still" (Antler-Subway, 1999)
  • "Breakfast in Vegas" (Antler-Subway, 1999)
  • "Visions & Imaginations" (Antler-Subway, 1999)
  • "The Power of the Flower" (Antler-Subway, 2000)
  • "Love" (Antler-Subway, 2000)
  • "Sayonara Greetings" (Antler-Subway, 2000)

References

Maurice Engelen is a Belgian dance musician and producer who usually works under the pseudonym of Praga Khan and who has been in several bands such as Lords of Acid, Shakti, The Immortals and Channel X. He is the son of an award-winning mathematician and astrophysicist.[1]

Pseudonyms and bands

Pseudonyms

Bands

  • 101
  • 2Body's
  • Alpha Beta
  • Angel Ice
  • Anthony Prince
  • Babe Instinct
  • Boy Toy
  • Bullet
  • Channel X
  • Code Red
  • Digital Orgasm
  • Dirty Harry
  • E-Angel
  • Electric Shock
  • The Executive Board
  • Groove Reactor
  • Heaven Is Venus
  • Heavenly Bodies
  • The Immortals
  • JK Magick
  • Kamak-X
  • Kaotix
  • Lina
  • Lords of Acid
  • Major Problem
  • MNO
  • Moments of Ecstacy
  • Nasty Thoughts
  • Overnight Sensations
  • Phantasia
  • Praga Khan
  • Quinine
  • Rhythm Kings
  • Save Sex
  • S.B.E.
  • Science Lab
  • Shakti
  • Subtrance
  • Tattoo Of Pain
  • Time Zone
  • Tribe 22
  • Wild Girls
  • Zsa Zsa Deluxe

Hit singles

  • 1988 - Rock To The Beat (with 101)
  • 1988 - I Sit On Acid (with Lords of Acid)
  • 1991 - Rave The Rhythm (with Channel X)
  • 1991 - Rave Alarm (as Praga Khan)
  • 1992 - Injected With A Poison (as Praga Khan)
  • 1993 - Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) (as The Immortals)
  • 1996 - Pussy (with Lords of Acid)
  • 1997 - Disco Babes From Outer Space (with Babe Instinct)
  • 1998 - Luv U Still (with Praga Khan)
  • 1999 - Breakfast In Vegas (with Praga Khan)
  • 2000 - The Power Of The Flower (with Praga Khan)
  • 2002 - Tausend Sterne (with Praga Khan)
  1. ^ http://www.lordsofacid.com/biography

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