Praga Khan
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Praga Khan (real name: Maurice Engelen) is an early techno music musician. His Belgian New Beat style stems back to the 1980s when techno came out of the Belgian underground.
Praga Khan teamed up with Jade 4 U and Oliver Adams to form Lords of Acid (also known as "Digital Orgasm") in the late 1980s. Praga Khan's most famous solo work is the rave anthem "Injected with a Poison".
Khan is one of the pioneers of the acid house/rave sound and has contributed to the theatrical scene with his musical collaborations in The Next Dimension and Code Red. A lucky break also happened when Paul Verhoeven, during the shooting of Basic Instinct, walked into "The Limelight" disco in New York, looking for a song for his movie. When the track "Rave the Rhythm" was played, he stepped up to the DJ and asked who that was. The song was included on the soundtrack, after which a whole bunch of other movies followed including Sliver, Virtuosity, Strange Days and Bad Lieutenant. He also composed the soundtrack for the video game Mortal Kombat with Oliver Adams as The Immortals.
With the release of the CD 21st Century Skin, Praga Khan became a major music act for the first time in their homecountry, pulled by more melodic singles such as Breakfast in Vegas, Luv U Still and Lonely. The album was sold at about 25,000 copies. This earned them even a place at Rock Werchter, where they played in the tent.
At the end of 1999 Praga Khan performed in the USA for the first time (as an opener for Lords of Acid, with the same musicians), and they released the album Mutant Funk in he same year. The album went up the charts in no time (2 week at n°2 in the Belgian album charts). The band performed at Werchter again and this time as headliners on the big stage of the first day. They were the first Belgian band to achieve this. The album was a big success including hits like Power of the flower, Sayonara Greetings and Love.
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[edit] Discography
- 1993 - A Spoonful of Miracle
- 1996 - Conquers Your Love
- 1998 - Pragamatic
- 1999 - 21st Century Skin
- 2000 - Mutant Funk
- 2001 - Falling OST
- 2002 - Freakazoids
- 2003 - Not Strictly Rubens OST
- 2003 - Khantastic (A Best of Album)
- 2004 - Electric Religion
- 2006 - Soundscraper
[edit] The Singles
- Bula Bula (House Records, 1988)
- Out of Conrol (Beatbox, 1989)
- Rave Alarm (Beatbox, 1991)
- Free your body (Sonic Records, 1992)
- Injected with a poison (Beatbox, 1992)
- Rave Alert (Beatbox, 1993)
- A spoonful of Miracle (RCA, Avex, 1993)
- Phantasia Forever (RCA, 1993)
- Begin to move (Avex, 1994)
- Gun Buck (Jive, 1995)
- Love me baby (Never records, 1996)
- Jazz Trippin (Never records, 1996)
- Injected with a poison '98 Remixes (Never Records, 1998)
- Lonely (Antler-Subway, 1999)
- Luv U Still (Antler-Subway, 1999)
- Breakfast in Vegas (Antler-Subway, 1999)
- Visions & Imaginations (Antler-Subway, 1999)
- The Power of the Flower (Antler-Subway, 2000)
- Love (Antler-Subway, 2000)
- Sayonara Greetings (Antler-Subway, 2000)
[edit] Trivia
- A remix of 'Injected with a Poison' was the background music in the "It is light Show!" German disco sketch by Conan O'Brien.
