A Man Called Adam (sometimes abbreviated to AMCA) are British electronic music artists Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones.
Recording with a ten piece Latin/jazz band for DJ Gilles Peterson’s fledgling Acid Jazz Records label, A Man Called Adam found that it was the remixed B-sides, "APB", "Techno Powers" and "Amoeba" - electronic versions of the A-side tracks, that became cult records, bridging the divide between the jazz, rare groove and acid house scenes.
By 1990 AMCA had moved to Big Life Records and released "Barefoot In the Head". Produced by Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones with Paul Daley and sound engineer Mat Clark, the track features choral pads and strings coupled with bouncing rhythm tracks created with Roland 909 and 727 drum machines and lyricist Rodgers cribbed the Pagan poetry translations of Robert Graves and explored her own experiments with ecstacy.
Although chart success eluded the band, they are regarded as pivotal in the development of the electronic music genres, acid jazz and Balearic House. Paul Daley left the band to form Leftfield and the harder edged sound he developed with collaborator Neil Barnes defined what became known as 'Progressive House' while Rodgers and Jones’ contributions to The Café del Mar series of compilation albums, helped shape a new genre, ‘Chill Out’
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