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Transglobal Underground (sometimes written as Trans-Global Underground or simply as TGU) is a London-based music collective who specialize in a fusion of western, Asian and African music styles (sometimes labelled world fusion and ethno techno). Their first four albums featured Natacha Atlas as lead singer and their single "Temple Head" was used in a Coca-Cola advertising campaign for the 1996 Olympic Games.〔(World Music Central article )〕 In 2008 they won the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music after the release of their seventh official album, ''Moonshout''. Their most recent release is a collaboration with Albanian brass band entitled 'Kabatronics' which was released on World Village Records in February 2013. () Their work has been described as "a collision of tradition and innovation." ==Membership and pseudonyms== Although Transglobal Underground has always had a fluid line-up, the two core members of the group are Tim Whelan (keyboards, guitar, flute, melodica, programming, vocals) and Hamilton Lee (percussion, drums, keyboards, programming). Throughout the group's history, Whelan and Lee have deliberately clouded their identities via multiple pseudonyms and obscure credits - Whelan generally operating under the alias of "Alex Kasiek" and Lee under the alias of "Hamid Mantu" (also "Hamid Man Tu"). Whelan has also used his "Alex Kasiek" pseudonym outside TGU work (sometimes combining it with his real name, as he did for his guest appearance on the 2002 Project Dark album ''Gramophone De Luxe'') and has sometimes implied that Kasiek is a separate person. (For the purposes of this article, Whelan and Lee will be predominantly referred to by their main pseudonyms of Alex Kasiek and Hamid Mantu.) Other musicians who have been long-time TGU members or associates include: *Natacha Atlas (vocals) *Count Dubulah (real name Nick Page - bass, sampler) *Neil Sparkes (percussion) *Johnny Kalsi (dhol) *Coleridge (rapping) *Gurjit Sihra (dhol) *TUUP (an acronym for "The Unorthodox Unprecedented Preacher", real name Godfrey Duncan - vocals, percussion) *Sheema Mukherjee (sitar) *Larry Whelan (saxophone, clarinet, ney, shenai, string arrangements) Artists who have made guest appearances on TGU albums include:〔(Review from inthemix.com.au )〕 *Aki Nawaz (of Fun-Da-Mental) *Heitham Al-Sayed (of Senser) *British alternative jazz guitarist Billy Jenkins *Amanda de Grey (former Transmitters keyboard player) *Bulgarian harmony singing group Trio Bulgarka Transglobal Underground tracks have been remixed by Dreadzone, Lionrock and Youth and they in turn have remixed tracks for Warsaw Village Band, Banco de Gaia, Fun-Da-Mental, Transjoik, Pop Will Eat Itself and Tragic Roundabout. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Transglobal Underground」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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