Brother Brown (founded 1995 and disbanded in 2004) was a Danish house duo, consisting of Atle Rønne Thorberg and Henrik Olsen. In the later half of the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s, Brother Brown made numerous remixes, most significantly of Madonna and Pet Shop Boys. Three of their remixes reached No. 1 on The Billboard Dance Chart: Die Another Day Madonna, Beautiful Christina Aguilera and When The Moneys Gone Cher. Their list of remixes includes such artists as Deep Dish, Danny Tenaglia, Delerium and Boomkat.
Brother Brown's most significant release was called Brother Brown feat. Frank'ee Under the water which featured the Danish female folk vocalist Marie Frank. "Under The Water" is considered a modern club classic. It reached No. 18 on the UK Singles Chart and won Brother Brown a Danish Grammy in the year 2000.
Through their own record label Brother Brown Records, they helped new Danish talents, the most significant being Artificial Funk aka Rune RK aka Rude Arkay, to develop and release their music.
Famous quotes containing the words brother and/or brown:
“I against my brother
I and my brother against our cousin
I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors
All of us against the foreigner.”
—Bedouin Proverb. Quoted by Bruce Chatwin in “From the Notebooks,” ch. 30, The Songlines (1987)
“The river’s tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf
Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)