Heatseeker

Description

Hip to Manchester's red-hot club kids, the U.K.'s World Wide Message Tribe has become the holy herald in the burgeoning Christian dance scene with both street-cred and Jesus testimony. Coupled with their service work at schools and their outreach organization, the Message, WWMT has cultivated a hybrid of house, techno, hip-hop, and rap with the idea that if the booty shakes, the soul will follow. Adding a touch of ambient along with a disco streak to its glorious mess of praise, the Tribe (catalyst for the popular and critically acclaimed Jumping in the House of God compilations) took the 1999 Dove Award for Rap/Hip-Hop/Dance Album of the Year with Heatseeker. While not the caliber of, say, Photek or Roni Size, these soldiers of faith step to a buzzy break beat and provide an alternative to Goldie, Prodigy, and sexually explicit dance divas, giving young Christians something to rave about. --Paige La Grone