The duo of Dingley and Jenks formed Alpha in 1996 they were originally called Ariel after working on various projects in the Bristol area. Alpha recruited singers Wendy Stubbs, Martin Barnard, Helen White and Kelvin Swaby now of The Heavy to add vocals to their downtempo, beat-driven compositions of the late 1990s, which led to them being included in the category of “Post Trip-Hop”. “ComeFromHeaven”, their debut LP was the first release on Massive Attack’s Melankolic label in 1997 and departed in 2001 after the release of ‘The Impossible Thrill’. They are currently on Don’t Touch Recordings, a label they founded and have released a further nine albums to date including the very exciting collaboration with Horace Andy ’ Two Phazed People’ which is getting outstanding reviews. This is a special ep release at the end of 2012 .