2009-10-15

Artist: Sneaker Pimps

Sneaker Pimps are a downtempo/trip-hop band which formed in Hartlepool, England in 1995. The band best known for their first album Becoming X released in 1996, and particularly its highest charting single "6 Underground". As Line of Flight and Frisk, DJs and childhood friends Chris Corner and Liam Howe (from Middlesborough and Hartlepool in the NE of England) released two EPs: "Soul of Indiscretion" and "World as A Cone" in the early 1990s. While not nearly as complex as the song-based material they would produce, these bedroom-recorded mixes of sampled beats and folk sounds would form the blueprint for the later sound.