Itch-E & Scratch-E

<a href="spotify:artist:2ZW29i2YE4YDQf6WemPJ4W">Paul Mac</a> and Andy Rantzen had been members of a Sydney ambient group called <a href="spotify:artist:4WFi9Fy9vufLxCNG91Y0vF">Pelican Daughters</a> before splitting off to form Itch-E & Scratch-E, allegedly as a joke. The <a href="spotify:artist:7r0Otd9dEStSVIxJ02ml5a">Simpsons</a>-referencing and ecstasy-punning name certainly suggests that the idea of forming a techno duo started as a laugh, but <a href="spotify:artist:2ZW29i2YE4YDQf6WemPJ4W">Mac</a> and Rantzen found themselves gaining mainstream recognition and suddenly acting as representatives of the Australian dance music scene when their tracks, several of them reworkings of <a href="spotify:artist:4WFi9Fy9vufLxCNG91Y0vF">Pelican Daughters</a> numbers, became popular. In 1994 the single "Sweetness and Light" from their album Itch-E Kitch-E Koo made a dent in the charts and then won the ARIA award for best dance single, a new category at the time. Their acceptance speech was censored when they thanked Sydney's ecstasy dealers for doing their part. They quickly followed with their second album, Itch-E and Scratch-E...and Friends. Under the alternative name Boo Boo & Mace they recorded a 1998 album called Sublimely Pointless before returning to their original name for 2001's It Is What It Isn't. <a href="spotify:artist:2ZW29i2YE4YDQf6WemPJ4W">Paul Mac</a> later went on to find fame as a solo artist and a member of <a href="spotify:artist:4pY0JqyYvUpzaQDfcq127r">the Dissociatives</a>. ~ Jody Macgregor, Rovi

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