Deep Blue (musician)
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Deep Blue is the alias of electronic
Electronic music
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 and drum and bass
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...

 musician
Musician
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, Sean O'Keeffe.

O'Keeffe started producing
Record producer
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 music in 1991 with the hardcore
Breakbeat hardcore
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 band 2 Bad Mice
2 Bad Mice
2 Bad Mice formed in England in 1991, and was composed of Sean O'Keeffe, Simon Colebrooke, and Rob Playford, the latter the owner of the Moving Shadow record label. 2 Bad Mice were credited as among the first UK hardcore acts to begin incorporating breakbeats into their style...

, co-writing
Songwriter
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 their hit
Hit record
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, "Bombscare". In 1993 he began to write and release under the alias Deep Blue, producing "Helicopter Tune" (also heard in the PSP
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 and PlayStation 2
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 game GTA Liberty City Stories in 2006 and in the game Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition in 2005) for the Moving Shadow
Moving Shadow
Moving Shadow was a UK-based jungle/drum and bass record label that was started in 1990 by Rob Playford. Alongside such labels as Suburban Base, Formation Records, D-Zone, Reinforced, and Metalheadz, Moving Shadow grew to become one of the best-regarded and longest-lived labels in its genre,...

 record label
Record label
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. The track reached number 68 in the UK Singles Chart
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 in April 1994.

In 1997, Deep Blue was one of several Moving Shadow artists which left the label to form their own imprint entitled Partisan Recordings.

O'Keeffe colloborated with Rob Haigh
Rob Haigh
Rob Haigh, also known as Omni Trio, is a British electronic, ambient and experimental musician.In the early eighties he released a series of experimental ambient albums under the names Robert Haigh and Sema - the most notable being ‘Three Seasons Only’ and ‘Notes From Underground’...

, who recorded for Moving Shadow as Omni Trio, to record a joint album under the pseudonym Black Rain in 2003, on a new label they created called Scale. In 2005 he released his first solo album for the label under the Deep Blue guise, entitled Metropolitan Chic.
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