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Latest Ice MC news
22/02/2024 : A team made of Corona, Ice MC, Wlady and DJ Jad are among the "established" artists in final for this year's edition of "Una voce per San Marino", the San Marino preselection for Eurovision Song Contest. The show will take place on February 24th
22/06/2023 : Ice MC's hit It's A Rainy Day was remixed by the Digital Rockers
13/10/2021 : Andrew Spencer, NaXwell and DJ Combo released a 2021 remix for Ice MC's anthem Think About The Way
30/03/2021 : Andrew Spencer & André Picar did a 2021 remix package for Ice MC's hit It's A Rainy Day 2021
19/12/2020 : Andy Stead did a Dolls 2k21 Party Mix for Ice MC's hit OK Corral
14/11/2020 : Last summer, Martik C did a euro-reggae remix for Ice MC's hit Easy
22/06/2020 : Boxed UK and Ice MC recorded 2 Metre Dance, a reggae song to explain preventive measures agains covid-19
Ice MC albums
Cinema | 19th Mar 1990 | BUY
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My World | 1991 | BUY
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Ice'n Green | 1994 | BUY
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Ice'n Green the Remix Album | 1995 | BUY
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Dreadatour | 1996 | BUY
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Greatest Hits & Megamixes | 30th Jun 1998 | BUY
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Discomania (unofficial) | 2001 | BUY
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Ice MC: Disco Collection | 2002 | BUY
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Cold Skool | 2004 | BUY
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Ice MC singles
Easy | Oct 1989 |
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Scream | 1990 |
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OK Corral | 1990 |
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Megamix | 1990 |
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People (Netherlands only) | 1991 |
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Cinema | Jan 1991 |
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Happy Weekend | 15th May 1991 |
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Rainy Days | 3rd Mar 1992 |
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Take Away The Colour | 18th Sep 1993 |
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Think About The Way | 18th Mar 1994 |
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It's A Rainy Day | 30th Aug 1994 |
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Run Fa Cover | 1995 |
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Bom Digi Bom Promo only | 1995 |
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Bom Digi Bom (Think About The Way) | 1995 |
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Take Away The Colour '95 | 9th Feb 1995 |
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Megamix | Apr 1995 |
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Funkin' With You | 1996 |
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Russian Roulette (Sweden only) | 1996 |
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Give Me The Light | 6th May 1996 |
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Music For Money | 9th Sep 1996 |
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Let's Take It Easy | 12th Oct 1997 |
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Busy Body (Never released) | 1998 |
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Energy Compilation only | 1998 |
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Think About the Way 2002 | 7th Jun 2002 |
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It's A Miracle | 10th Jun 2004 |
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My World | 17th Dec 2004 |
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Out Tonight | 6th Aug 2012 |
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Do The Dip (feat Nico Heinz & Max Kuhn ) | 7th Jul 2017 |
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Climate Crisis | 7th Oct 2024 |
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Ice MC remixes
Easy (Attack remix) if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> |
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Easy if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 1990 |
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Scream if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 1990 |
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Happy Weekend if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 1991 |
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People if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 1991 |
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Take Away The Colour if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 1993 |
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OK Corral (the cotton remixes) if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 1994 |
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It's A Rainy Day if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 1994 |
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It's A Rainy Day Christmas Mix if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 25th Nov 1994 |
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Ice 'N' Mix Triple Set Remixes if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 19th Mar 1995 |
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Ice 'N' Mix Triple Set Remixes if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 19th Mar 1995 |
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Ice 'N' Mix Triple Set Remixes if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 19th Mar 1995 |
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Give Me The Light if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 1996 |
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Out Tonight if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | Jan 2013 |
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Out Tonight remixes 2015 if($ft[6]!="") { echo " (".stripslashes($ft[6]).")" ;} // commentaire ?> | 6th Nov 2015 |
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Featurings and collaborations
Savage - Don't Cry Tonight '89 | 1989 |
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Scattt - Scat and Bebop | 1992 |
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Larry Liver Up - Chalowa | 1992 |
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Master Black - Gonna Get You | 1992 |
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The Pik - Searchin' For Love | 1994 |
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Double You - Run To Me | 13th May 1994 |
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Liberty - Melody In Motion | 1995 |
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Ice MC - Give Me The Light | 6th May 1996 |
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DJ Sanny J - Party With Us | 23rd Nov 2010 |
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DJ Sanny J - Kill It Tonight | 2nd Dec 2011 |
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DJ Sanny J - Alegria | 3rd Jan 2012 |
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Pat Krimson - Break Away | 17th Apr 2012 |
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DJ Sanny J - Fire | 22nd May 2012 |
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DJ Sanny J - The Club | 4th Dec 2012 |
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Sanny J Connection - Move It | 29th May 2014 |
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Guena LG - Think About The Way | 24th Mar 2017 |
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Savage - Where Is The Freedom | 22nd May 2020 |
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Andrew Spencer & Andre Picar - It's A Rainy Day 2021 | 29th Mar 2021 |
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Andrew Spencer x NaXwell x DJ Combo - Think About The Way 2021 | 8th Oct 2021 |
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Digital Rockers - It's A Rainy Day 2k23 | 23rd Jun 2023 |
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Andrew Spencer, NaXwell & DJ Combo - Think About The Way 2023 | 13th Oct 2023 |
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Compositions
Ice MC - Let's Take It Easy | 12th Oct 1997 |
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Songwriting
Ice MC - Give Me The Light | 6th May 1996 |
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Ice MC - Let's Take It Easy | 12th Oct 1997 |
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Pat Krimson - Break Away | 17th Apr 2012 |
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Ice MC biography
Ice MC's real name is Ian Colin Campbell. Born 22nd March 1965 in Nottingham in the East Midlands of England, he grew up in the area of Nottingham called Hyson Green (sounds like 'Ice n'Green'). His parents (Steven a fireman and Jane a doctor, or George & Eunice according to another interview) had moved there from Jamaica in the 50's along with a large number of their countrymen. They continued to speak their own dialect 'Jamaican Patua'. This it the dialect Ian always used for this rap parts. Ian also has a brother called Owen.
At school his initials IC (Ian Campbell Esquire) soon got him the nickname ICE. He was good at sports and considered himself more manuel than intellectual, and left school at the age of 16 to begin a training as a carpenter. He did not enjoy the experience, so he hung around Nottingham for a couple of years until in 1983 he joined a group of breakdancers (the Rock City Crew, then renamed The Extreme Team) and started touring Europe with them. That is what saved him from delinquancy. One such tour landed him up in Florence and he decided to check it out.
During one year he worked teaching breakdance then, after wounding his knee, he started doing a bit of DJing. In his spare time he was soon rapping and improvising in local bars and clubs. He also made two promo records one for a Club in Rimini and one for a label in Florence.
In 1989 he met Robyx (Roberto Zanetti) the writer, producer and singer for now classic Italo-Disco group Savage. The same year, his first hit Easy was released. It was an immediate success and went Top 5 throughout Europe, #3 in Germany and also was very big in South America. The LP Cinema followed shortly afterwards and was also a big success. He toured throughout Europe including Russia and even Siberia, South America, and North Africa. Then came My World.
In 1992, he also did a few featurings on some DWA productions : Scattt Scat and Bebop, Larry Liver Up Chalowa...
At first his image was of 'clean, next door guy'. From the second album, he got the dreadlocks Bob Marley Jamaican look. And his style turned to eurodance. Take Away The Colour was released in 1993 and became a mega hit. Main female vocals were done by Jasmine with a contribution of Simone Jay.
Followed Think About The Way in 1994, awesome eurodance song, one of his hugest hits, selling 125.000 copies in France, #5 in Israel, # 12 at MTV Europe. Then the excellent album Ice N' Green was released. It was Ian's biggest selling CD of all times (went Gold in France with more than 100.000 CD sold).
The next single was the brilliant It's A Rainy Day (released in 1994 too, #11 in Israel, #16 at MTV Europe). Alexia was the new vocalist, but at first Jasmine kept on appearing on stage lipsyncing.
Ice MC in private is a cat lover, he likes beer and adores soul music. Ian consideres himself as a very open-minded man. He works a lot and likes reading. In the first years of his success he only thought about having fun and partying, but now he admits he has became more mature. His favourite song is Jammin' of Bob Marley. He is a smoker and consideres it is a big weakness. He admires Martin Luther King and hates intolerance.
In 1995 Ice MC got in dispute with his manager, label, producer, agent, publisher and co-author Roberto Zanetti. Ian was was never credited for the lyrics he wrote for his songs. So he sued Robyx to get back the rights on his songs, and for a couple billion Lire. Ian Campbell got himself a new management and then a new label : Polydor Germany. He was probably almost gone when tracks such as Russian Roulette were released, in Sweden only.
In 1996 Think About The Way was featured in the famous movie Trainspotting, but Ian did not actually getting a penny out of it since lyrics of the songs were credited to Robyx.
After long period of silence, Ian released his new single called Give Me The Light in 1996. This brilliant track became an instant hit in the Euro-dancefloor during the summer 1996. This song was a joint production of Ice MC and the German group Masterboy. In August of 1996 Ice MC came his newest album Dreadatour, with new songs written actually by several different writers. Surprisingly, this new album was given different reviews, from raving to mediocre or even bad. Anyway, it was an excellent eurodance album with many hot, danceable tracks (such as Anything Can Happen or Never Stop Believing). In this album Ice MC presented his new image, lyrics with a political content where he was free to express his feelings. The new female vocalist was the Italian singer Valentina Ducros. Some tracks included backing vocals by Natascha Wright (on Freaky Flow) or Ina Morgenweck (on Nothing But Time).
Talking about it nowadays, he surprisingly regrets and explains : "I wanted to change my style so I broke my contract with Robyx and signed a deal with Polydor. After that, Polydor didn't want to take risks to change and forced me to work with Masterboy that were copying what Robyx created. So at the end I did a poor copy of what I did at the beginning. I did that mistake because influenced from people that were really inexperienced... Robyx is a very honest and nice person. After the Masterboy album I met him and became friends again.We have a great respect to each other right now"
Ice MC started his European tournee in France in the club 'Le Windsor' in Arcachon, on the French Atlantic Ocean. Ice MC and his crew really enjoyed the sound and lights effects in this club even if this place lacked a decent dressing room. The place was big enough just for Valentina, so Ice MC and Lupo (the keyboardist) had to change their attire outside… One might say that for somebody mentally unstable such the beginning of the tournee could cause frustration, however entire group was cool about it. He closed his performance in the concert with his newest single : Music For Money. Next stop was Toulouse.
The second single from the album Dreadatour was Music for Money. On the small screen scene Ice MC was filmed on location in Berlin for a walk on part in a ZDF TV serial called Trike (aka Wilde Zeiten) due on air in Germany in April 1997. He also co-wrote two tracks for this program. One of them was the amazing eurodance song Energy which was released on the series' soundtrack only. The other was Bebop The Night... Another rare song is the track Blow It Up, co-written by Richard Witt. There was also the great eurodance track Busy Body, produced by Sebastian Pobot and Don Gray which was planned at first to be included on Dreadatour, but this was finally not the case.
After 2 years of silence Ice MC came back in 1998 with the single Let's Take It Easy. Written and composed by Ian himself (with composer Vieri Ristori), it was recorded in 1997, in the Soul II Soul band studio in London. During the same periode, Ice MC recorded some demo songs which were never released. Among them : Thanx An Praises, Life's A Bitch, Vavavoova, Pick Up The Phone and Props To Hip-Hop.
Ice MC's hit Easy was covered in 2000 by Captain GQ. A Russian group called Come Back also covered Easy and Think About The Way.
2001 : Ian decided to return to England, to spend some time with his family, doing other projects. He needed a break : for a while he worked as a DJ and found new stimuli in writing. He was going through a bad patch, because of wrong investments and personal problems that forced him to find jobs away from the music scene.
2002 : At the end of the year he decided to return to Italy and to contact Robyx again. A compilation entitled Disco Collection gathering all his greatest hits from the DWA period was released.
2004 : Ice MC came back with a new haircut, a new label (Time Records, Airplay in France) and a brand new single entitled It's A Miracle. The follow-up was entitled My World. A new album was recorded : Cold Skool. Vocals were done by Michelle Weeks and Sarah Grimaldi. The same year, he became the father of a baby named Dante.
2005 : in December, the Dizzy Deejays released a cover of Think About The Way.
2006 : Frisco vs Ice MC - Think About The Way was released in the UK. The song is a faster remix with the original vocals and raps.
2009 : Ice MC will release a brand new track called Could You Be Loved. He was among the artists performing on the stage of I Love The 90s concert, in Hasselt (Belgium).
2010 : Virtual Vault released a 2010 remix of Think About The Way
2011 : Belgian eurotrance artist Jessy recorded a cover of Think About The Way with DJ Rebel. In December, another cover was released, this time by Back2roots
2012 : Think About The Way was covered by Groove Coverage. Ice MC continued his collaboration with DJ Sanny J. He was featured on 3 tracks on the EP he released in May : Move It, The Club and Fire. Pat Krimson also featured Ice MC on his new single Break Away. In August, Ice MC released a new single entitled Out Tonight under label Dance WoT 4. New single featured vocals by Giulia Gal and was produced by Keir Fraser and Marco Scocchera, who previously did the songs New Style 2000, Tarzan, Tell Me and Double or Quits, in 1996 on Dreadatour album.
2013 : Bsharry feat Carmen Nophra released a cover of Think About The Way.
2014 : Stereo Face, DJ Marta & Tim Wokan and SAIFAM project MC Boy released each a cover of Think About The Way. In June, Ice MC was featured again by DJ Sanny J, for the single Move It
2015 : Ice MC is touring with a new vocalist called Elisabetta Del Medico aka Betty Bee
2016 : in July, Italian DJane and composer Alexandra Damiani remixed It's A Rainy Day. In November, Think About the Way was covered by Forever 80 feat. Carmen Nophra.
2017 : Valentina Ducros appeared on stage with Ice MC during Love the 90s concert in Valencia (Spain). In July, Ice MC released a brand new single entitled Do The Dip
2021 : Andrew Spencer released a 2021 remix for It's A Rainy Day and for Think About The Way
2023 : Ice MC's current singer for 90s show is Gianna Dettori
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Thanks to Shimon O'hana for some charts positions
Thanks to D-man 94, Eric-X, Marian Stoica, Giant Panda, Gianni and Rhythm Ryan
Ice MC biography was last updated Thu, September 28th 2023
Charts (singles)
Easy | #7 | #17 | #3 | |||||||
Scream | #14 | |||||||||
Cinema | #36 | #13 | ||||||||
Take Away The Colour | #11 | #15 | #31 | #19 | #18 | |||||
Think About The Way | #22 | #3 | #14 | #5 | #3 | #11 | #13 | #10 | ||
It's A Rainy Day | #13 | #1 | #6 | #11 | #1 | #8 | #25 | #15 | ||
Give Me The Light | #30 | #44 | #19 | #23 | #23 | #56 | #42 | |||
It's A Miracle | #39 |
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