Double Trouble (Dance Project)

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Double Trouble were successful producers , artists, and remixers in the dance , hip house , and house scenes of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Band history

Double Trouble initially consisted of Mike Morrison, Leigh Guest and Damon Rochefort. In this composition, the three worked as producers and remixers, u. a. they made new versions of the 1988 track Give It to Me by Chris "Bam Bam" Westbrook. After Morrison and Rochefort left the team, Guest formed a new line-up with Karl "Tuff Enuff" Brown and Michael Menson .

The trio celebrated their first successes as interpreters in 1989 with the singles Just Keep Rockin ' and Street Tuff , both in collaboration with Rebel MC , who later popularized the jungle genre . In addition to the singles Don't Give Up and Talk Back , the 1990 album As One also contained a cover version of the 1979 Rose Royce classic Love Don't Live Here Anymore , which was able to place in the German and English charts .

Michael Menson died in February 1997 after being set on fire by 3 men in North London a few weeks earlier . After that, Leigh Guest worked with Andrew Peach under the name Airheadz and reached in 2001 with Stanley (Here I Am) number 50 in the German and number 36 in the English charts.

Members

  • Leigh Guest
  • Damon Rochefort - until 1988
  • Mike Morrison - until 1988
  • Michael Menson (* 1967 in London, as Michael Tachie-Menson, † February 13, 1997 in London) - from 1988
  • Karl "Tuff Enuff" Brown (* Carl Brown) - from 1988

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK
1990 As One
Desire Records 		UK73 (1 week)
UK
First published: July 23, 1990
Recording and mix: Noisegate Studios, London

more albums

  • 1989: Twenty One Mixes (with Rebel MC ; Desire Records)

DJ mixes

  • 1988: The Todd Terry Megamix
  • 1988: Acid Trax Megamix Volume 1

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1989 Just keep rockin '
as one 		- - - UK11 (12 weeks)
UK
First published: May 15, 1989
with Rebel MC
Authors: Leigh Guest, Michael Menson, Michael West
1989 Street Tuff
As One 		DE12 (19 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH10 (17 weeks)
CH 		UK3 (16 weeks)
UK
First published: September 25, 1989
with Rebel MC, Vocals: Janette Sewell
Authors: Leigh Guest, Michael Menson, Michael West
1990 Talk back
as one 		- - - UK71 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: April 30, 1990
Vocals: Janette Sewell, Fiona Goffe
Authors: Leigh Guest, Michael Menson, Fiona Goffe
1990 Love Don't Live Here Anymore
As One 		DE35 (12 weeks)
DE 		- - UK21 (6 weeks)
UK
First published: June 18, 1990
Vocals: Janette Sewell, Carl Brown
Writer: Miles Gregory
Original: Rose Royce , 1978
1990 Celebrate
 - - - UK77 (3 weeks)
UK
First published: November 26, 1990
as Double Trouble's Collective Effort
Vocals: D. Marcus C., Little Michie
Authors: Kool & the Gang, Ronald Bell, Leigh Guest,
Michael Menson, D. Marcus C., M. Charles
Original: Kool & the Gang - Celebration , 1980
1991 Rub-a-Dub
 - - - UK66 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: June 3, 1991
Vocals: Little Michie
Authors: Leigh Guest, Michael Menson, M. Charles

more singles

  • 1988: Feel the Music (Feel the Bass)
  • 1990: Life '90 (as David Grant feat. The Original Double Trouble)
  • 1990: Don't Give Up
  • 1991: Give Me Some More
  • 1991: Dread at the Controls
  • 1998: I Won't Stop Rockin '

Remixes (selection)

swell

  1. ↑ Michael Menson's death on BBC News (English)
  2. ↑ Chart discography UK - Airheadz
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE, AT, CH UK

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