Artist's albums
Electribal Memories
1998 · album
Electribal Soul
2022 · album
A Sigh Won't Do
2022 · single
Moving Downtown
2022 · single
Space Oasis
2022 · single
Insatiable Love
2022 · single
Heading for the Night (The Frankie Knuckles Mixes)
2021 · single
Heading for the Night (Classic 7" Mix)
2021 · single
Talking With Myself - Remixes
2007 · album
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Biography
UK based electronic group Electribe 101 and their one album, Electribal Memories hold a legendary place in the annals of house and dance music. The band met after vocalist and writer Billie Ray Martin had placed an ad in Melody Maker in 1988: “Soul rebel seeks musicians – genius only”. Billie headed to meet the four responding musicians at their studio in Birmingham. “I took three songs with me, one of were the lyrics and melodies to (Electribe 101’s first single) ‘Talking with Myself’, as well as a copy of Julian Jonah’s ‘Jealousy and Lies’,” says Billie. “I told the guys: “I’ve heard the future, and this is what I want to do.” Originally self-released on white label and championed by pirate radio, Talking With Myself caught the imagination of the UK club scene and saw the band sign to Phonogram Records. With the re-issue and its follow up, ‘Tell Me When the Fever Ended’, becoming bona fide pop chart hits, with daytime radio play, Top Of The Pops appearances, and magazine covers from Melody Maker to MixMag, i-D, the label were keen to galvanise the band’s success and for them to deliver an album quickly. The band had also found ardent fans in the US, with chart-topping success on the US club charts and mixes from some of the most in-demand remixers of the day, including Chicago House doyennes Frankie Knuckles and Larry Heard.