The Shamen

The Shamen formed in Aberdeen, SCOTLAND, in 1986 originally comprising singer+guitarist Derek McKenzie, bass player Colin Angus, keyboardist Peter Stephenson and drummer Keith McKenzie.

The next year the quartet released the debut album "Drop".
In 1988 multi-instrumentalist William Sinnott replaced Derek McKenzie who had left the band; largely influenced by the nascent Techno Rave movement, the new line-up recorded the second LP, "Strange Day Dreams"; that same year Peter Stephenson and Keith McKenzie departed.
Angus and Sinnott continued to perform as a duo, the two relocated in London and set the 1989's "In Gorbachev We Trust" which contained the single "Jesus Loves Amerika".
Followed, a year later the fourth album "En-Tact" and its single "Progen"; unfortunately, just as they inexorably toppled towards commercial riches, Will Sinnott tragically drown in the Canary Islands, on 23 May of 1991.
After his death, "Move Any Mountain", broke into the top 10 of The Official U.K. Singles chart; in America became a huge club hit, reached the #4 slot on Modern Rock Tracks chart and eventually cracked the top 40 of The Billboard Hot 100, pushing "En-Tact" to #138 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums list.
In 1992 The Shamen's line-up comprised the founder member Colin Angus, DJ-rapper Mr. C, real name Richard West and vocalist Jhelisa Anderson, they released "Boss Drum" which spawned two major U.K. hit singles: the #1 "Ebeneezer Goode" and the top 10, "LSI (Love Sex Intelligence)", the latter of which topped the Billboard's Hot Dance charts Stateside.
During the second half of the '90s, The Shamen released three more full-length discs to little attention.

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Drop

(1987)

1. Something About You
2. Passing Away
3. Young Till Yesterday
4. World Theatre
5. Through With You
6. Where Do You Go
7. Happy Days
8. Through My Window
9. Velvet Box
10. I Don't Like
11. the Other Side
12. Four Letter Girl

 

Strange Day Dreams

(1988)

1. Do What You Will
2. It's All Around
3. Grim Reaper of Love
4. Long Gone
5. Something About You
6. Strange Days Dreams [live]
7. Golden Hair
8. Christopher Mayhew Says a Lot
9. Fire Engine
10. Knature of a Girl (Submission)
11. Darkness in Zion
12. Strange Days Dream

 

In Gorbachev We Trust

(1989)

1. Synergy
2. Sweet Young Thing
3. Raspberry Infundibulum
4. War Prayer
5. Adam Strange
6. Jesus Loves Amerika (Fundamental)
7. Transcendental
8. Misinformation
9. Raptyouare
10. In Gorbachev We Trust
11. Yellow Cellophane Day
12. Mayhew Speaks Out

 

En-Tact

(1990)

1. Move Any Mountain
2. Human NRG (Massey)
3. Possible Worlds
4. Omega Amigo
5. Evil Is Even
6. Hyperreal Orbit
7. Lightspan
8. Make It Mine
9. Oxygen Restriction
10. Hear Me
11. 666 Edit
12. Make It Minimal
13. Hyperreal Selector
14. Lightspan Soundwave
15. Progen 91 (I.R.P. In the Land of Oz)

 

Boss Drum

(1992)

1. Boss Drum
2. L.S.I. (Love Sex Intelligence)
3. Space Time
4. Librae Solidi Denari
5. Ebeneezer Goode
6. Comin' On
7. Phorever People
8. Fatman
9. Scientas
10. Re: Evolution

 

Axis Mutatis

(1995)

1. Destination Eschaton
2. Transamazonia
3. Conquistador
4. Mik2a
5. Neptune
6. Prince of Popocatapetl
7. Heal (The Separation)
8. Persephone's Quest
9. Moment
10. Axis Mundi
11. Eschaton Omega

 

Hempton Manor

(1996)

1. Freya
2. Urpflanze
3. Cannabeo
4. Khat
5. Bememe
6. Indica
7. Rausch
8. Kava
9. El-Fin
10. The Monoriff

 

UV

(1998)

1. Mercury
2. Universal [187 B.P. metamix]
3. Palen
4. Beamship
5. I Do
6. Pop
7. Universal [1999 dance vocal]
8. Sativa '98
9. Serpant
10. U-Nations
11. Marca Huasi
12. Sfynx
13. Metatron

 

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