Greater Than One
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Techno / electronica |
| founding | 1985 |
| resolution | 1995 |
| Founding members | |
| Lee Newman († Aug. 4, 1995) | |
| Michael Wells | |
Greater Than One was a British music production team that operated between 1985 and 1995 and consisted of Michael Wells and Lee Newman . They also released under a variety of other project names such as Technohead, Church of Extacy, GTO, John & Julie, LED, Signs Of Chaos, Stoned Heads, TD5, The Invisible People, The Salami Brothers, and Tricky Disco. Both also appeared as a DJ team, u. a. at Mayday 1992.
The production team lasted until Newman's death in August 1995.
Chart successes as a technohead
One of her most famous tracks was the 1995 single I Wanna Be A Hippy on Mokum Records , which Wells and Newman released under the project name Technohead . They had used the name for their hardcore techno pieces before . The piece is based on a high pitched sample of the song I like Marijuana by David Peel and the lower east side from 1968. The text of the sample reads “ I want to be a hippie and I want to get stoned on Marihuana […] I want to get high, but I never knew why "(German:" I want a Hippie be and I want to be stoned by marijuana [...] I want high are, but I never know why ").
I Wanna Be A Hippy became a European hit in 1995. The single reached u. a. First place in Germany , Austria and the Netherlands , as well as fifth place in Switzerland and sixth place in Great Britain. A video clip was released for the track in which three bald gabber fans were chasing a long-haired hippie through a park.
The duo's success was controversial in the gabber scene. The trendy Flamman & Abraxas radio mix contributed significantly to the success of the single . Due to the success of the Party Animals project and the single Have You Ever Been Mellow, the duo Flamman & Abraxas produced a spin-off that was unable to match the sales figures for I Wanna Be A Hippy . The successor singles Headsex and Happy Birthday produced by Technohead itself , which also came up with radio mixes in the same style, did not succeed either. Happy Birthday and another single, Banana-na-na DumB DiddY DumB, hit the UK charts in 1996. Wells published both alone after Newman died of cancer in the summer of 1995.
Discography as a technohead
Studio albums
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| 1995 | Head sex | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: 1995
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Singles
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| 1995 | I wanna be a hippy headsex |
DE1  (19 weeks)DE |
AT1 (13 weeks) AT |
CH5 (15 weeks) CH |
UK6th  (14 weeks)UK |
NL1 (13 weeks)NL |
First published: July 9, 1995
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| 1996 | Happy Birthday single track |
DE100 (1 week) DE |
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UK18 (5 weeks) UK |
NL37 (3 weeks) NL |
First published: 1996
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| Banana Na Na (Dumb Bi Bumb) single track |
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UK64 (1 week) UK |
NL30 (5 weeks) NL |
First published: 1996
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More singles
- 2004: I Wanna Be Hippy (I Wanna Get Stoned 2004 Remix)
literature
- GTO. In: Sven Schäfer, Jesper Schäfers, Dirk Waltmann: Techno-Lexikon. Edited by Raveline Magazine . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-142-7 , p. 161.
- GTO. In: Philipp Anz, Patrick Walder: techno. Ricco Bilger publishing house, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-908010-14-4 , p. 263.
- Frank Laufenberg: Hit Lexicon of Rock & Pop. Ullstein, 2002, ISBN 3-548-36372-5 .
Web links
- Greater Than One at Discogs (English)
- Technohead at Discogs (English)
- GTO at brainwashed.com (with sound samples)
- The Brainwashed DataFlow Archive. Page about the Dataflow label by Newman and Wells, with information about their projects
- MySpace