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The Shamen were an British electronic music group that was most active during the early and mid-1990s.
Initially formed in Scotland by Colin Angus, Keith McKenzie, Derek McKenzie and Peter Stephenson in the 1980s as an psychedelic-influenced indie rock act, they debuted with the 1987 album Drop.
Eventually Derek McKenzie, Keith McKenzie and Stephenson left and Angus was joined by William Sinnot, and by the time they released the 1989 album In Gorbachev We Trust, they were already flirting with the indie dance formula popular in the Madchester era. When En Tact was released in 1990, they had completed the transformation to a rave act. This album was perhaps their most popular, spawning several hit singles such "Move Any Mountain" and "Make It Mine".
Sinnott drowned in an accident just following the release of En Tact, but Angus continued on, recruiting the rapper Mr C. (real name Richard West). Boss Drum followed in 1992 and featured a noted spoken-word collaboration, "Re:Evolution" with Terence McKenna and one major hit "Ebenezeer Goode" (a UK Number 1 single for four weeks). Axis Mutatis in 1995 did not make as much of an impact in the charts, but The Shamen continued into the late 1990s releasing several LPs with an increasingly experimental bent.
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