MARRS

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MARRS (or M/A/R/R/S or M|A|R|R|S) was a one-off recording act from 1987, which was a collaboration between the groups A R Kane and Colourbox, with additional input from DJs CJ Mackintosh and Dave Dorrell. MARRS' sole release was the single "Pump up the Volume", which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom and a significant milestone in the development of British house music and sampling culture.

"Pump up the Volume" is considered to have been the first U.K. number one to contain samples from other songs. "Pump Up the Volume" is widely credited with giving Israeli Eurovision Song Contestant, Ofra Haza, a worldwide audience for her interpretive modern renditions of traditional Yemenite sprituals and folk songs. Also of note is that M/A/R/R/S were successfully sued in Great Britain by Stock Aitken Waterman for the use of a 7 second vocal element taken from the latter's "Roadblock" and used in "Pump Up the Volume'"s early pressings. By the time the single saw U.S. release, the offending warble (and a few other sounds of dubious ) had been edited out or replaced with other elements. The original British version is widely considered the best by fans and collectors alike.

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