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And year later, he released another single, called "Guide My Soul" on the New York-based label, Nervous, this time as "The Messenger". This one was closer to his usual sampling style.
A year after ''that'', he released the single "The Praise", [[I Have Many Names|now as]] "The Sample Choir". The same year, he made many tracks for [[Excited Show Title!|i!]] Records, a then new New Jersey-based label. One of them, "Saved My Life", became a huge club hit, and gave him his place in the [[Electronic Music]] world. He has made remixes for a large pool of artists, such as St. Germain, [[Daft Punk|Daft Punk,]] (also provided the vocals and co-produced their song "Face To Face") Justice (as Sunshine Brothers), The Superman Lovers, [[Beyonce]], ''[[Kraftwerk]]'' and '''''[[Enya]].'''''
[[He Also Did|He has also]] [[Something Completely Different|dabbled in other genres,]] such as Smooth Jazz ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJH7vnxOk3E under the name Clever]), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf5ekzq1YGM Funk,] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbNiA1VPVRU Disco.]
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* [[I Have Many Names]]: The Sunshine Brothers, the Sample Choir, the Messenger, and the Todd Edwards Project are all aliases of which he as released songs under.
* [[Mondegreen]]: It's fun trying to interpret his sample-chopping as actual lyrics. "I'm Hopeful" alone gives us, "[[Toilet Humor|I made a poopie]]" (alternatively, [[Pokémon|Caterpie]]) "at the movies", and. during the B-Section you can hear someone shouting what sounds like "NIGGA". There's also a [[Title Drop]] manufactured with the vocal samples, but seeing as how that's most likely intentional, that's not this trope.
* [[Sampling]]: If he isn't the [[Trope Codifier]], no one is.
* [[Signature Style]]: Most of his songs follow this pattern: opening drumbeat, usually with lots of shuffling snares, remove drumbeat to let the samples play, bring drumbeat back in along with a bassline, play a different sample pattern, go back to the previous one/introduce a new one, repeat previous step, remove some samples, remove all samples so only the bassline and drums are heard, take out bassline, start from step 3.
* [[Subliminal Seduction]]: Being Christian, he tends to insert Christian messages in his songs (sometimes via [[Manipulative Editing]]). Aside from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQU1cxzGLK4&feature=channel&list=UL this], in his dub mix of St. Germain's Alabama Blues, you can hear the words "Jesus loves you" throughout the song, "Incidental" has the words "I follow God" and "I surrender", and his dub mix of Lonyo's "In Ayia Napa" has the lyrics, "Perfect paradise... it's Jesus. Where all the people go to Jesus, Jesus." Other times, he's less subtle. ''Other'' times, his songs are just straight-up Gospel songs.
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