CHOCOLATE
PUMA :
Also known as The Good Men (or
The Goodmen)
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.
Contents [hide]
1
Career
2
Various monikers
3
In popular culture
4
Discography
4.1 As The Good Men
4.
1.1 Studio albums
4.
1.2 Singles
4.2 As Chocolate Puma
4.2.1 Singles
4.3 Under other aliases
4.
3.1 Singles
5 References
Career[edit]
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[edit]
Horst and Steenkist are also known under many aliases including:
The Good Men (alternatively The Goodmen) with a string of hits that started with the hit "Give It Up" in 1993 making it to number 5 on the
UK Singles Charts, number 1 on the
US Dance charts and number 71 in the
US Hot 100. The follow-up "
Damn Woman" charted in the
Dutch charts in
1994. The Good Men also released the 1994
album Father in the Bathroom.
René Et Gaston (based on their given names René ter Horst and Gaston Steenskist) with the hit "Vallée de larmes" in 1993
Klatsch! (with the hits "
Oh Boy" in 1993 and "God
Save the
Queer" in 1994
F-Action, a musical project in cooperation with
Ramon Zenker from
Hardfloor, the best known hit being "
Let's Get Closer Baby".
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
Basco, a
Big Beat musical project resulting in the album
High Involvement
Jark Prongo, with success in the UK in
1999 with "
Movin'
Thru Your
System" accompanied by a similar titled 14-track album released on March 22, 1999 on Pssst Music. The releases stretched from 1999 to 2004.
Locally in the
Netherlands, Jark Prongo had success with the single "
Sweet Little Thing". Most materials of this period including additional EPs
Shake It,
Rattlesnake and No Api were released on Pssst Music and
Hooj Choons.
Tomba Vira, a project from
2000 to
2002 that started with the EP
Down the
Park, the hits "
Shriek" in 2000, "
The Sound of:
Oh Yeah" in 2001 followed by "
Dynamite" in 2002
Rhythm Killaz, an electronic formation created mainly for the release of the
March 2001 hit single/EP "Wack Ass MF"
Their best known monikers besides the early years' The Goodmen were Riva and Chocolate Puma:
Riva, was a name best known for the international hit "Who Do You Love Now?".
Originally a Dutch local music hit "Stringer uit", it was adapted into a vocal version for
Danni Minogue at the height of her sister
Kylie Minogue who was having a massive hit with "Can't Get You
Out of My Head". Riva's "Who Do You Love Now?" went on to reach number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 2001. An EP Who Do You Love Now? was also released in
November 2001 through
Alien/
United Recordings, exclusively licensed to
London Records 90 Ltd. The EP contained 9 various remixes of the song featuring Dannii Minogue.
Chocolate Puma, thus far the moniker used more consistently by the duo particularly after the hit "
I Wanna Be U", yet another big UK hit for them in 2001 that made it to UK Singles Chart' peaking at number 6.[2] 2008 was a very active year with the release of "
Always and Forever" that was a hit in the Netherlands,
Belgium,
France and many
European night venues. Also in 2008 came cooperation with the
Bingo Players (Maarten Hoogstraten and
Paul Bäumer) in two releases being "
Disco Electrique" and "
Touch Me".
In popular culture[edit]
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
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