List of In the Groove musicians
This is a list of all of the musicians, artists, and bands who have songs featured in the In the Groove series of video games.
Kyle Ward
Kyle Ward, Roxor Games's in-house musician, provided a large quantity of the music for the In the Groove games, using a number of aliases:
- Banzai
- Inspector K
- KaW
- Kbit
- ☺ (Smiley)
- Symphonius
- ZiGZaG
(Although Ward claims not to be ZiGZaG, A different mix of ZiGZaG's song "VerTex" previously appeared on Ward's Ampcast page, credited to Ward's "KaW" pseudonym. The ZiG ZaG song 'Pandemonium', is also a remixed version of KaW's song 'Indulgence')
Ward has later on moved to Dutch game developer and Roxor's European distributor, Positive Gaming, to work on the dance steps for iDANCE
Pete Ellison
Portland, Oregon techno artist Pete Ellison also performed songs for In the Groove under multiple aliases: DJ Zombie, Kid Whatever and as Takyoaki in ITG2.
Crispy
Crispy was a Danish bubblegum group founded in 1997 consisting of producer Mads B.B. Krog, singer and keyboardist Christian Møller and lead vocalist Mette Christensen. In 2000, Mette died from cancer at the age of 23. Christian and Mads decided to discontinue the group, and in 2001, a new group was formed with the surviving members. It was called XPY, and it featured vocalist Gry Bay in place of Mette, but the group was short lived, as XPY was discontinued in the same year.
DAX
Digital Explosion
Digital Explosion was a Finnish techno band that was highly popular on MP3.com. Their lead singer is now working with Savino Beat.
Filo Bedo
Filo Bedo is a UK techno group made up of Daz Sampson, Ricardo Autobahn, and Jenny McLaren.
Indiggo
Indiggo is Romanian twins Mihaela and Gabriela Modorcea.
Jason Creasey
Jason Creasey is a techno producer in the UK.
Mind Reflection
Mind Reflection is a Swiss techno band.
Missing Heart
Missing Heart was a Eurodance project managed by German producers David Brandes, Felix Gauder and Domenico Labarile. They started in 1994. with a single "Wild Angels". Project continued in 1996. with single "Charlene". The third single was released in 1997. It was "Moonlight Shadow" originally recorded by Mike Oldfield. First and only album "Mistery" was made in 2000. After that, two more singles were released: "In Aeternum in 2000. and Tears In May in 2001. In 2002. D. Brandes announced that there would probably not be any other release for Missing Heart... Unlike E-Rotic, Missing Heart's songs are not related with such sexual topics, they are more romantic and energetic... A little bit about the origin of the project's name. There was a movie called "Missing"where Jack Raymonds and CC Spencer played leading characters. The theme of the movie was about finding a missing person, a direct meaning of the word. The project's name: MISSING HEART imply "disappeared" or "lost" from the title of their debut album "Mystery." However, word "miss" has another connotation like in "I miss you" which symbolizes a feeling of love. Its name suggests mysterious image overlapped with a soft mood of love.
Ni-Ni
Nynne Qvortrup (born 5 December 1974) is a bubblegum dance singer best known for being the vocalist of Ni-Ni. The project was formed by producer Michael Skouboe.
Nina Andersson
Nina Andersson, also known as "Nina of Dance" and "Nina - Goddess of Dance", is a Swedish eurodance artist.
Sammi Morelli
Spacekats
Spacekats is a solo venture by Daz Sampson.
Tekno Dred
Tekno Dred is Femi Olasehinde, a UK techno artist born in West Africa.
Vanilla Ninja
Yannis Kamarinos
Yannis Kamarinos is a French trance producer, also known as Jaïa. The French producers Yannis Kamarinos and Jean Michel Blanchet formed the trance and ambient act Jaïa in 1995. First Jaïa album "Blue Energy" (Cross/East West/Nova Tekk), was released in 1998, and re-released in 2000 as a double CD with a 6 tracks bonus CD under the name of "Blue Energy/Blue Synergy" (Dakini/Yellow Feather, Japan). Jaïa released several 12 inches too, as well as numerous tracks on various labels compilations, such as Island/Universal, Iboga, Wagram, Milan, Nova Tekk, T.I.P. World, or Flying Rhino ones. Since 2000 Yannis has worked alone under the Jaïa name. Today Jaïa's music is a crossover between progressive trance, progressive house, psy morning trance and electro. Jaïa is also still producing ambient and downtempo tracks.