Southend is an Australia

Australia

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n house

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

-techno band formed around 1992. Based in Sydney and formed around synthesiser/keyboardists Stuart McCarthy, Steve Younan, Sameer Sen-Gupta and vocalist Melinda Page, they had a number of hits in the mid-1990s, most notably "The Winner Is...", released in June 1994 which reached the national ARIA Top 10. "The Winner Is..." was based around a sample

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

 of the then International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee

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 chairman Juan Antonio Samaranch

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Don Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquis of Samaranch, Grandee of Spain , known in Catalan as Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló , was a Catalan Spanish sports administrator who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001...

 announcing that the winner of the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

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 was "Syd-er-ney". They were signed to the Volition Records

Volition Records

Volition Records was a Sydney, Australia-based record label specialising in electronic music styles such as house, techno, synthpop and trance. It was founded by Andrew Penhallow in the late 1980s, but folded in the late 1990s....

 label and performed regularly at the Big Day Out

Big Day Out

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 from 1993 to 1996.

Sen-Gupta left the band in 1995 to pursue a solo career, and was replaced with guitarist Justin Frew who would go on to form Antenna with McCarthy, Dave Faulkner

Dave Faulkner (musician)

Dave Faulkner is an Australian rock musician who also performed as Dave Flick. Faulkner is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist; he has performed with several bands, but is best known as a member of Hoodoo Gurus...

 (Hoodoo Gurus) and Kim Salmon

Kim Salmon

Kim Leith Salmon is an Australian indie rock musician and songwriter, who attained fame in June 2004, when he was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame....

 in 1998. Antenna’s Installation album was the first ever release on Mushroom International.

On the production side, Southend have produced local and international releases for Hoodoo Gurus

Hoodoo Gurus

Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner and later joined by Richard Grossman , Mark Kingsmill , and Brad Shepherd...

, Paul Holden, Acid Babies, The Whitlams

The Whitlams

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, Kim Salmon

Kim Salmon

Kim Leith Salmon is an Australian indie rock musician and songwriter, who attained fame in June 2004, when he was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame....

 and Michal Nicholas as well as a remix collaboration with Sasha Vatoff of Vagen’s track "Buggin" and a cover of Bronski Beat

Bronski Beat

Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit "Smalltown Boy". All members of the group were openly homosexual and their songs reflected this, often containing political commentary on gay-related issues...

's "Smalltown Boy" which appeared on Groovescooter Records’ Re:fashioned 2.

Southend performed at Utopia on Near Years Eve in Sydney in 2004. They were then invited to be the first band to appear live on Channel V’s "Room 208". After having three tracks licensed by Ministry of Sound

Ministry of Sound

Ministry of Sound London, commonly referred to as simply Ministry of Sound or MoS, is a nightclub based in London, United Kingdom and an associated record label. It was ranked fourth in the 2010 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2010. As well as the nightclub in London, there is another in Egypt and...

 Australia in 2009, Undercover Music's Yep! Records has released Southend's entire back catalogue (including previously unreleased material) through MGM Distribution & iTunes.

Discography

• "600 Miles From a Nowhere" (1992)
• "Fanatical" (EP) (1993)
• "Get Down" (12-inch single
  12-inch single
  The 12-inch single is a type of gramophone record that has wider groove spacing compared to other types of records. This allows for louder levels to be cut on the disc by the cutting engineer, which in turn gives a wider dynamic range, and thus better sound quality...
  
  ) (1993)
• "The Winner Is..." with Nik Fish (1994) AUS#9
• "If You Believe (single)" (double) (1994)
• "Fanatically Remixed" (1994)
• "Confession" (single) (1995)
• "Skylark" (12-inch single
  12-inch single
  The 12-inch single is a type of gramophone record that has wider groove spacing compared to other types of records. This allows for louder levels to be cut on the disc by the cutting engineer, which in turn gives a wider dynamic range, and thus better sound quality...
  
  ) (1996)
• "The Winner Is..." (2000 Remix) with Nik Fish (2000)
• "Compilation" (2000)
• "Buggin'" (single) (2003)
• "To Deserve You" feat. Michal Nicolas (single) (2004)
• "Der Grun Apfel" (single) (Southend & Eddie Bech) (2009)

External links

• Southend page on Undercover Music (Australian distribution label)