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Sandals London-based acid jazz quartet the Sandals only lasted for one album, but their ability to sign with a major label and score a pop hit with their single "Feet" was an early indication that trendy club music could comfortably move from the hipster fringes into the mainstream. Naturally, some despise them for this, but the group's two releases, the full-length Rite to Silence and the EP Cracked, are superb early-'90s dance records. The roots of the Sandals are in the South London club scene of the mid-'80s. Ian Simmonds, Derek Delves, Will Blanchard, and John Harris were friends who...

http://spacetruckingmogul.com/socksandsandals Clark ov Saturn and Sean Smith (now known as Nicolas Sauser) started Socks and Sandals as a "live and laptopless" minimal techno band in the summer of 2002. After a few years of gigs throughout the bars, warehouses and boats of NYC and the Northeast, they started recording studio tracks for the Microcosm-Music label. They made a 7" on their now defunct Love and Cush label, then a 10" for Microcosm, and finally a 12" for Microcosm. Since there was nowhere to go from there, Socks and Sandals decided to give it up. After a yearlong hiatus, they went...

The Sandals, also known as the Sandells, were an early, influential surf rock band formed in 1964. The Sandals formed in San Clemente, California, in the early 1960s, and were the first surf group to score a major surf film. Originally called The Sandells, the band took a demo tape of their practice sessions to World Pacific Records in Los Angeles where they met filmmaker Bruce Brown. For several years, Brown had used light jazz music from the World Pacific catalog in the soundtracks to his surfing films, but when Brown heard the Sandals' demos, he felt their style and...