Anyone who was a fan of any genre of pop music in the nineties will remember Deee-Lite. Yes, as far as the pop charts were concerned they were a one-hit house music relic from the New York club scene, but that one hit was pretty big in 1990. Keep in mind that they were big during hair-rock’s last hurrah and a couple of years before Kurt Cobain began his work of relegating the Skid Rows and Warrants of the world to the county fair circuit.

Deee-lite's big song, Groove is in the Heart was in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 at the same time as such other hits as Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby, Bette Middler’s Wind Beneath My Wings and Poison’s Something to Believe In. Groove is in the Heart was a trippy, hip, psychedelic amalgam of samples from Herbie Hancock and Billy Preston, among others, and included a rap by Q-tip from A Tribe Called Quest. Safe to say, it stood out from everything else on the charts at the time. Maybe that is why it is better remembered than pretty much every other club/dance hit from the same era.

The group, comprised of Lady Miss Kier, DJ Towa Tei, DJ Ani and DJ Dmitri, was unique in itself, being tri-national, but they also acquired a reputation for original fashion that may have changed the look of the nineties. Lady Miss Kier’s platform boots and updated sixties look soon found its way all over America and throughout American culture.