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Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend (double bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar). The three core members are also joined by various guest musicians and vocalists on different records.

Stylistically, Red Snapper’s music contains elements of jazz, funk, jungle, trip-hop, hip-hop and breakbeat, as well as references to early psychedelic and progressive rock.

The band released three EPs before signing to Warp Records for their debut LP Prince Blimey (1996). The band were a somewhat unusual feature of Warp Records’ 1990s roster: in contrast to the studio-oriented idm the label primarily dealt in, the band had a very live and organic sound: a smoky mixture of dub, jazz and all tempos of breakbeat from trip hop to drum and bass.

For their follow-up Making Bones they were joined by jungle MC Det and singer Alison David. The latter was replaced by Karim Kendra by their third album, Our Aim is to Satisfy Red Snapper (2000).

In early 2002, Red Snapper announced its dissolution, but the band reunited the following year.

In 2002 was released It’s All Good compilation, that included previously unreleased track “Ultaviolet”. The next year (2003) was released remix-album Redone, which included 2 tracks remixed by former members of Red Snapper (Rich Thair and Ali Friend, credited as The Creation).

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Add this track to your playlist Keeping Pigs Together	0:30	12,221	Buy mp3
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–	1	Add this track to your playlist Keeping Pigs Together	5,459
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Cortina	5,213
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Don't Go Nowhere	5,100
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Hot Flush	4,880
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Shellback	4,661
–	6	Add this track to your playlist Bussing	4,560
2	7	Add this track to your playlist Snapper	4,354
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Thomas the Fib	4,338
2	9	Add this track to your playlist Some Kind of Kink	4,333
2	10	Add this track to your playlist Crusoe Takes a Trip	4,218
3	11	Add this track to your playlist Get Some Sleep Tiger	4,172
1	12	Add this track to your playlist Alaska Street	4,067
3	13	Add this track to your playlist Belladonna	4,054
1	14	Add this track to your playlist I Stole Your Car	3,947
4	15	Add this track to your playlist The Paranoid	3,696
–	16	Add this track to your playlist The Rake	3,686
–	17	Add this track to your playlist Moonbuggy	3,664
3	18	Add this track to your playlist They're Hanging Me Tonight	3,647
1	19	Add this track to your playlist Gridlock	3,601
–	20	Add this track to your playlist The Rough and the Quick	3,576
–	21	Add this track to your playlist Lobster	3,571
–	22	Add this track to your playlist The Last One	3,503
1	22	Add this track to your playlist Swank	3,503
–	24	Add this track to your playlist Space Sickness	3,451
2	25	Add this track to your playlist Lo-beam	3,331
1	26	Add this track to your playlist Digging Doctor What What	3,327
1	27	Add this track to your playlist Wesley Don't Surf	3,310
–	28	Add this track to your playlist In Deep	2,867
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1	30	Add this track to your playlist Last One	2,619
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–	32	Add this track to your playlist The Sleepless	2,162
2	33	Add this track to your playlist Image of You	2,155
3	34	Add this track to your playlist Thomas The Fib (Mr Scruff Mix)	2,004
–	35	Add this track to your playlist Bogeyman	1,787
–	36	Add this track to your playlist Crease	1,730
3	37	Add this track to your playlist Seeing Red	1,724
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