- Architechs
The Architechs are a pioneering
UK garage group consisting of Tre Lowe and City and, for a short period, also Kevin Williams (K-Warren).They gained international attention in the summer of 1998 after remixing Brandy & Monica's "
The Boy Is Mine " selling over 40,000 copies of the bootleg.Up to this point speed garage had used mainly samples and the kind of raw sounds most commonly heard on
hard house records. The R&B crowd, already intrigued by the vocal element of the scene, was more than ready to embrace the shift in direction kickstarted by Architechs - the first time anyone had laid down a full length R&B vocal over a 2-Step backing [http://www.angloplugging.co.uk/artist.cfm?artistID=6] .An onslaught of Garage/R&B bootlegs followed. They also producedremix es for several popular artists such as the All Saints, Gabrielle,Justin Timberlake and'N Sync , Usher,Mariah Carey ,Faithless , Garbage,Beenie Man ,Jamelia and countless others. Several of their tracks have been featured onPure Garage .With the release of "Show Me The Money" the group were interviewed on
Popworld . The Architechs were scheduled to release a full lengthalbum in early 2002, but it seems to have never surfaced.The Architechs' Tré and City had been producing R&B separating for years until "The Boy is Mine" rework which featured a then unknown K-Warren. After the success of the release and other R&B-flavored garage they felt they could be more successful outside the struggling UK R&B scene and in the Garage scene. As K-Warren left to pursue a solo career, Lowe and City hooked up with one of City's previous collaborators "Nana", who features on both of the Architechs commercially successful singles, and released a solo R&B record in 2005.
Ali Halai
ingles
*"Body Groove" (featuring Nana) (Go! Beat) (7 October 2000); #3 (UK)
*"Show Me The Money" (featuring Nana) (Go! Beat) (7 April 2001); #20 (UK)External links
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Architechs More complete list of Architechs' releases]
* [http://www.angloplugging.co.uk/artist.cfm?artistID=6 Architechs Biography]
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