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Members include RichardFearless (born c. 1971), DJ, artwork; SteveHellier (left band in 1998), production, engineering; TimHolmes (became a full-time member in 1998), production, engineering. Addresses: Record company--Time Bomb Recordings, 31652 2nd Ave., Laguna Beach, CA 92651.
Born out of the re-ignited dance club scene that swept through London, England, during the mid-1990s, Death in Vegas formed in 1994 and spent three years perfecting tracks for their debut album, Dead Elvis. Dubbed the next great big beat act by club enthusiasts and the British press, the band quickly gained acceptance in America, with their video for the single "Dirt" gaining regular airplay on MTV (Music Television) and a tour of the United States. But despite the group's success with dance music, Death in Vegas decided to dedicate their follow-up album, The Contino Sessions, issued in 1999 by Time Bomb/Concrete, to trance rock. Though the record, which featured a cast of well-known guests vocalists, including the legendary rocker Iggy Pop, failed to secure a home on night club dance floors, The Contino Sessions' more experimental British rock sound nonetheless captured the attention of both the music press and psychedelic rock enthusiasts. "Death in Vegas' quirky debut, Dead Elvis, was rather pretentious, a mish-mash of live instruments-play-techno big beat and youth/rave-nation trendiness," wrote Fred Mills of Magnet magazine. However, the group's follow-up, continued Mills, "is both diverse and intensely focused ... a rock `n' roll record through and through."
Death in Vegas began to take shape in the early 1990s when graphic artist, amateur photographer, and night club DJ Richard Fearless and producer Steve Hellier, at the time a BBC World Service engineer, started recording demo tapes. Fearless, a former member of bands such as Joy Club and Moral Panic and a resident spinner at the Heavenly Social in London (the same club made famous by the internationally successful techno duo the Chemical Brothers), pursued art as well as music throughout his life. At age 13, he won an art scholarship to attend a fine arts boarding school and later earned a graphic design degree from the London College of Printing. His creative aspirations seemed to run in the family and developed naturally; Fearless's mother made a living as an art teacher, while his sister designed shoes. His collaborator enjoyed a musical and artistic background as well. Hellier, the son of a painter, noted that his earliest memories consisted of jazz musicians dropping by the family home for impromptu jam sessions.
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