Editing Goldfrapp (section)

===1999: Formation===
[[Alison Goldfrapp]] began her musical career performing with Dance Company Catherine Massin throughout the Netherlands during her early twenties. Afterwards, she attended [[Middlesex University]], where she studied fine art and started creating live performance pieces.  In the early 1990s, Goldfrapp served as a guest vocalist with the electronic band [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]] and [[trip hop]] artist [[Tricky (musician)|Tricky]].<ref name="yahoo1">{{cite web|url=http://uk.music.yahoo.com/read/interview/12027442 |title=Whips, Wolves, & Tricky |last=Micallef |first=Ken |publisher=[[Yahoo! Music]] |date=17 December 2000 |access-date=25 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718135127/http://uk.music.yahoo.com/read/interview/12027442 |archive-date=18 July 2011 }}</ref> In 1999, she was introduced to composer [[Will Gregory]] after he listened to an early version of the song "[[Human (Goldfrapp song)|Human]]". Gregory and Goldfrapp felt a mutual connection and wrote the track "[[Lovely Head]]". Following several months of phone calls, they decided to form a band and began performing under the name Goldfrapp.<ref name="cholermag"/>

In August 1999, Goldfrapp signed a recording contract with London-based [[record label]] [[Mute Records]].<ref name="guardian1">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2001/may/04/artsfeatures|title=The Mercury prize? Oh God, that would be great. I deserve something|last=Simpson|first=Dave|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=4 May 2001|access-date=25 March 2013}}</ref> They recorded their debut album over six months, beginning in September 1999, in a rented [[bungalow]] in the [[Wiltshire]] countryside.<ref name="guardian1"/> The recording process was difficult, as they were disturbed by the mice and insects in the bungalow.<ref name="guardian1"/>