Original Soundtrack is the debut album by English dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 act S'Express

S'Express

S'Express were a British dance music act from the late 1980s, who had one of the earliest commercial successes in the acid house genre."Theme from S'Express", based on Rose Royce's "Is It Love You're After", was also one of the earliest recordings to capitalize on a resurgence of sampling culture...

. It was predominantly written and produced by S'Express mastermind Mark Moore

Mark Moore

Mark Moore is a British dance music record producer and DJ. He was founder of the pop/sampling pioneers S'Express, and runs the London nightclubs, 'Electrogogo' and 'Can Can'.-Biography:...

 along with Mark McGuire. Musician Pascal Gabriel

Pascal Gabriel

Pascal Richard Marcel Gabriel is a Belgian-born musician based in London. His musical career began in 1977 in the punk rock band The Razors...

 co-produced the album's two biggest hits, "Theme from S'Express

Theme from S'Express

"Theme from S-Express" is an acid house song by English dance music band S'Express from their album Original Soundtrack. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in dance music history and is notable for introducing acid house culture to the UK's charts....

" and "Superfly Guy".

Released after the number-one UK success of "Theme from S'Express", Original Soundtrack contained two additional hit singles ("Superfly Guy" and "Hey Music Lover") which charted well in the UK and on the US dance chart. The album was a top-five success on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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.

The tracks on Original Soundtrack are heavily influenced by Acid house

Acid house

Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed around the mid-1980s, particularly by DJs from Chicago who experimented with...

 and utilize many samples

Sampling (music)

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. Although many of the vocals on the album are from samples, S'Express was presented at the time as a group consisting of producers Moore and Gabriel with singers Michellé and Jocasta and musician Mark D. Additional vocals were provided by Billie Ray Martin

Billie Ray Martin

-Career:Billie Ray Martin has had dance and pop hits in various collaborations and as a solo artist. Initially a guest singer for S'Express , she went on to work with the electronic/pop/house-music group Electribe 101. The group's only album was Electribal Memories because it disbanded...

.
In addition, the CD included a small card insert (in the form of a cigarette card

Cigarette card

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) that also credited Chilo and Linda Love (see 'Personnel').

Track listing

1. "Overture" (Moore) / "Theme from S'Express
   Theme from S'Express
   "Theme from S-Express" is an acid house song by English dance music band S'Express from their album Original Soundtrack. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in dance music history and is notable for introducing acid house culture to the UK's charts....
   
   " (Moore, Gabriel) - 6:02
2. "L'age du Gateau" (Moore) - 5:02
3. "Can You Feel Me" (Moore, E. Mix) - 4:34
4. "Superfly Guy" (Moore, Gabriel) - 3:31
5. "Blow Me Another Lollypop" (Moore, Gabriel) - 3:54
6. "Hey Music Lover" (Sly Stone
   Sly Stone
   Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...
   
   ) - 4:30
7. "Pimps, Pushers, Prostitutes" (Moore, Merlin, McGuire) - 5:56
8. "Special and Golden (Parts I & II)" (Moore, B. Beal) - 8:06
9. "Coma II (A.M./O.K.)" (Moore) - 4:56
10. "Pimps, Pushers, Prostitutes" (Instrumental) - 5:37

2010 re-release track listing

1. "Overture" (Moore) / "Theme from S'Express
   Theme from S'Express
   "Theme from S-Express" is an acid house song by English dance music band S'Express from their album Original Soundtrack. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in dance music history and is notable for introducing acid house culture to the UK's charts....
   
   " (Moore, Gabriel) - 6:02
2. "L'age du Gateau" (Moore) - 5:02
3. "Can You Feel Me" (Moore, E. Mix) - 4:34
4. "Superfly Guy" (Moore, Gabriel) - 3:31
5. "Blow Me Another Lollypop" (Moore, Gabriel) - 3:54
6. "Hey Music Lover" (Sly Stone
   Sly Stone
   Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...
   
   ) - 4:30
7. "Pimps, Pushers, Prostitutes" (Moore, Merlin, McGuire) - 5:56
8. "Special and Golden (Parts I & II)" (Moore, B. Beal) - 8:06
9. "Coma II (A.M./O.K.)" (Moore) - 4:56
10. "Pimps, Pushers, Prostitutes" (Instrumental) - 5:37
11. "Theme From S-Express" (12” Mix) - 6:01
12. "The Trip" (Microdot House 12” Mix) - 5:43
13. "Superfly Guy" (The Fluffy Bagel Mix) - 7:02
14. "Hey Music Lover" (Miller Mash Glass Smash Mix) - 5:27

Personnel

Starring

• Mark Moore - Keyboards & drum patterns & noise & electric doormat & analogue organ rotorvator.
• Michellé - Vox & B-vox & orgasmatron.
• Chilo - Sampled vox & guitar & sampled guitar chords & percussion.
• Linda Love - Keyboards & Baby Baby Grand & Great Semprini.

Also Starring

• Mark McGuire - Drum patterns & programming.
• Brendan Charles Beal - Keyboards & flute & sax & tremolo modulation & analogue organ rotorvator.

With Special Guests

• Billie Ray Martin - Vox & B-vox.
• E. Mix - Vox.
• Eric Robinson - Vox & B-vox.
• Steam - Vox.
• Suzanne Rhatigan - B-vox.

Also

• Annie Stephenson - Strings.
• Gordon M - Brass.

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1989	Official UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	5

External links

• http://www.discogs.com/SExpress-Original-Soundtrack/master/92291 Worldwide releases