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CHE-FU: HIGH-SCORE
New Zealand Hip Hop icon Che-Fu
released an album of his greatest hits and new material on August
28.
Hi-Score:The Best Of Che-Fu features
singles from Ches three solo albums - 2b
S.Pacific, Navigator, & Beneath
The Radar including Misty
Frequencies, Fade Away, Scene
III,Waka, Random,
Lightwork and more.
The album will also feature four new tracks. The first to be
serviced to media will be Chains Reloaded
a remix of his #1 hit single Chains
featuring P-Money & Savage. Chains Reloaded
will impact at radio in July, marking the 10 year anniversary of
when the original Chains debuted at
#1 in 1996.
On release in 1996, Chains went
straight to #1 on the NZ Singles charts, and stayed there for 5
consecutive weeks. Chains reached
Platinum and was the landmark single that brought NZ Hip Hop to mass
attention.
Other new material on the album will include a Duet with Dawnraid
signing Aaradhna, and two other new
tracks.
Che-fu was a founding member of legendary local band Supergroove.
Responsible for a string of what have gone on to become classic kiwi
anthems, Supergroove generated a staggering 6 Top 10 hits throughout
the 90s. Amongst them the gold singles Scorpio
Girls & Sitting Inside My Head,
platinum-selling Cant Get Enough & You
Gotta Know, live standouts Next Time,
You Freak Me & Here
Comes The Supergroove, and many more.
Ches debut solo album 2b S.Pacific
was released in 1997. It launched 4 Top 10 singles (Chains,Scene
III, Without A Doubt and Waka),
charted at #1, and sold 2 x Platinum - a landmark for a local urban
record at the time.
In 2001, Che released the follow-up album Navigator.
Navigator debuted at #1 and stayed
there for 3 successive weeks, going on to generate close to 4 x
platinum in sales. It featured the singles Fade
Away, Random, and the APRA
Silver Scroll winning Misty Frequencies.
Ches latest solo album Beneath The Radar
was released in 2005 and includes the singles Lightwork
and Mysterious Vibe.
Hi-Score: The Best Of Che-Fu is OUT
NOW.
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