A R Kane

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A.R. Kane
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genre(s)	Dream pop Alternative dance Shoegazing
Years active	1987 - 1994
Label(s)	Rough Trade
Associated acts	M/A/R/R/S
Former members
Alex Ayuli Rudi Tambala

A.R. Kane were a 1980s and 1990s British indie band. They were respectively the A - Alex Ayuli and the R - Rudi Tambala from the East of London. After 2 singles on different labels and a surprise number one hit as part of M/A/R/R/S's "Pump Up the Volume", they made two ground-breaking albums that placed them precariously in the indie scene - however they preferred the term "dream pop". These albums were 69 in 1988 and i in 1989. Hard to place in terms of genre, 69 was more consciously indie, and its sound could be likened to the later shoegazer movement - i was clearly more slick and covered a wide variety of styles over twenty-six tracks (ten of which were short noise interludes). "i" also spawned A.R. Kane's best-known song in "A Love From Outer Space". Both albums achieved wide critical acclaim. Follow up album New Clear Child (1994) was not received as well, the reasons were the seeming lack of a coherent direction and a feeling that the ideas were merely re hashes of works that were completed more succinctly in the earlier 2 albums. Rudy Tambala made ambient and dub influenced music under the name Sufi. Neither is currently involved in the music industry to any great extent. Post-A.R. Kane, Alex Ayuli was (possibly still is) a museum curator in the U.S.