Artist description SURGE are an electronic production duo with guest vocalistsand occasional live performances

Music Style Spook Pop, Trip-Hop, Ambient

Musical Influences Post Punk, Electronic Experimental, Progressive, Dub, Big Beat, Chill out, Hip Hop, Trip-Hop, Underground

Similar Artists THE ORB, ONE DOVE, Primal Scream, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Can, Coil, Future Sound of London, Hawkwind, Morcheeba, Massive Attack

Artist History SURGE formed in London at the beginning of 1994initially as an instrumental Dance Project.The band signed to Diversity Records in 1994 releasingseveral singles “Conscious Thought” and “Submerge”both of which entered the Independent Charts and finallyreleased the Album “Emergence” before the demise ofDiversity Records in 1996. During this time , they giggednationwide with well established artists such asAlex Patterson of THE ORB. In 1997, SURGE signedan exclusive 3 Album Deal with Millennium Records.After nearly two years and several singers later theirDebut Album "Wreckage" was released in October 2000.Surge have recently split from Millennium Recordsand will be recording more material soon.

Group Members Andy BellDave BellBecky KayeSally Strawberry

Instruments Guitars, Synths, Samplers, Computers

Albums Emergence 1996, Imperfection 1998, Wreckage 2000

Press Reviews "Wreckage"The Surge is on! Imagine a cross between classic ORB, the beautiful ONE DOVE, a hint of Dub Reggaeand haunting vocals by Becky Kaye and Sally Strawberry! SURGE`s Debut Album “Wreckage”is either a Chill Out Paradise or the new road to "Spook Pop"....one of these truly inspiredAlbums which will get stuck in your CD Player forever! Tracks like "Wreckage", "Falling Moment"and "Falling Down" manage to work in a new perspective on Big Beat Chill out! Their main skillseem to be mashing up Detroit Techno strings with funky irresistible beats! With track 8, "Falling Down", you are lying on your back wafting along with paradise flooding out of the speakers!"Be With You" and "Forever Dreaming" are hauntingly beautiful tracks while "She Brings The Rain" is up for a Hip Hop groove spiced up with impressive string arrangements! Finally, "Here And There" isprobably the closest thing you’ll hear to Primal Screams classic Screamadelica for years but with anevil edge! All these rather impressive ingredients are supported by SURGE`S strong ability to writeproper tunes, supported by the now finally announced new member and singer Becky Kaye!“What a debut! New Music is very hard to make but this has depth, soul and innovation!” - KRIS NEEDS January 2000

Location Guildford, Surrey - United Kingdom

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