Smoke City - Underwater Love (1997)

The Brazilian inspired track was written by two of the band members who were admirers of 1970s funk, Santana and Gilberto Gil.[4] The song is built upon a gentle, constant guitar strum, drums and samples, some of which are rainforest noises, others are from "Bahia Soul" by Luiz Bonfá and "Mother Popcorn" by James Brown.[5] The song's writers were credited as former school friends Miranda and programmer Marc Brown. Miranda and Brown were again credited as producers together with Mike Peden and band member Chris Franck. It was first recorded in 1994,[2] and released in 1995 via Ritas Records,[6] the song became a hit after being used in a commercial for Levi's jeans.[1][2] Prior to this, it had been featured on the Fourth & Broadway/Island compilation "The Rebirth Of Cool Six".[7] Lead singer Nina Miranda, who was living in Brazil at the time, was asked to return to London to discuss signing the project.[2] Miranda and Smoke City were later based in London, but their interests were in Brazil. Miranda was proud that they had success in Portugal as that country was "in the middle of what we're about".[8] Upon release, in 1997,[1] the song made the charts in ten countries. Underwater Love was included on the band's debut album which was titled "Flying Away"