Zki & Dobre

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Zki & Dobre
Also known as The Good Men (or The Goodmen)
Chocolate Puma
Klatsch!
Rhythm Killaz
Tomba Vira
Riva
Jark Prongo
F-Action
René et Gaston
Origin Haarlem, Netherlands
Genres House, dance, electronic
Years active 1991present
Labels Fresh Fruit, Hooj Choons, Parlophone, Incentive Records, VC Recordings, Spinnin' Records, Mixmash Records
Members Gaston Steenskist ("Dobre")
René ter Horst ("DJ Zki")

Zki & Dobre, known by many aliases, but currently most well known as Chocolate Puma (alternatively as The Good Men and as The Goodmen), are a Dutch house music duo from Haarlem, Netherlands. They comprise Gaston Steenkist ("Dobre") and René ter Horst ("DJ Zki"). They have produced multiple dance hits under various group names since the early 1990s. Their biggest international hits remains "Give It Up in 1993 credited as The Good Men and "Who Do You Love Now?" in 2001 credited to Riva featuring Dannii Minogue. They also founded their own record label Pssst Music.

Career

As the Goodmen, their biggest hit was "Give It Up", a 1993 house music track based upon samba styled percussion and the simple, repeating vocal line of the song title. The percussion for the release was inspired by an earlier recording by Sérgio Mendes.

The song hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1993 and made a brief appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #71. After being re-released in late 1993, it reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart.[1]

Various monikers

Horst and Steenkist are also known under many aliases including:

They also created JP Records and psst Records and finally Groove Alert founded by Dobre.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, they appeared in a new set of projects and monikers

Their best known monikers besides the early years' The Goodmen were Riva and Chocolate Puma:

In popular culture

In 1994, Gaston Steenkist (Dobre), one half of the duo Zki & Dobre was instrumental in discovering Filipino-Dutch DJ Laidback Luke after the latter forwarded a demo tape to him. Laidback Luke was signed to a recording contract by the management of Dobre. At the end of the year he has already released two albums on the label Groove Alert newly established by Dobre.[3] Laidback Luke went on to have a prosperous DJ and producing career.

In 1995, Simply Red sampled The Good Men's hit "Give It Up" for their UK #1 hit "Fairground". The Good Men were credited for the sample, and Mendes was also given credit as the performer of "Fanfarra", the original source of the Goodmen's track.

The duo's work has been featured on many DJ mixes from Hooj Choons, Global Underground, and Ministry of Sound.

Discography

As The Good Men

Studio albums

Year Album Peak chart positions
NLD
[4]
1994 Father in the Bathroom

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
NLD BEL
[5]
GER
SWI UK
[2]
US US
Dance
1993 "Give It Up" 6 18 17 33 5 71 1 Father in the Bathroom
1994 "Damn Woman" 36
1995 "Huh!"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

As Chocolate Puma

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
NLD BEL
[6]
FRA
[7]
UK
2001 "I Wanna Be U" 65 6
2008 "Sexy Girl"
2008 "Disco Electrique"
(Bingo Players vs. Chocolate Puma)
"Always and Forever" 33 56 50
"Touch Me"
(Bingo Players vs. Chocolate Puma)
73
2012 "Gimme Sum"
"Just One More Time Baby" (with Firebeatz)
2013 "2000 People"
"Sausage Fest" (with Firebeatz)
2014 "Step Back" (featuring Kris Kiss) 48 83
"I Can't Understand" (with Firebeatz) 116
2015 "Lost Your Groove" (with Junior Sanchez featuring Arama)
"I Could Be Wrong"
"The Max" (featuring Kris Kiss)
"Scrub The Ground" (with Tommie Sunshine featuring DJ Funk)
"Popatron"
"Jegog" Free download
2016 "Listen to the Talk"

Under other aliases

Singles

Year Single Credited to Peak chart positions Album
NLD BEL UK
1993 "Oh Boy" Klatsch! 25
"Vallée de larmes" René et Gaston 41
1994 "God Save the Queer" Klatsch! 42
1995 "Let's Get Closer Baby" F-Action
1999 "Movin' Thru Your System" Jark Prongo 58
2001 "Sweet Little Thing" Jark Prongo 87
"Wack Ass MF" Rhythm Killaz 32
"The Sound of: Oh Yeah" Tomba Vira 51
"Who Do You Love Now?"
(Riva featuring Dannii Minogue)
Riva 26 10 3[8]

References

  1. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 231. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. 1 2 Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  3. Muziekencyclopedie.nl: Biography of Laidback Luke
  4. DutchCharts.nl: The Good Men discography
  5. Ultratop.be/nl/ The Good Men discography
  6. Ultratop.be/nl/ Chocolate Pums discography
  7. lescharts.com Chocolate Pums discography
  8. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. various. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.


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