A.R. Kane (sometimes
AR Kane or
A.R.Kane) were a British musical duo formed in 1986 by Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala. In the late 1980s, they pioneered a genre that would become known as
dream pop, integrating
guitar feedback, studio experimentation, and elements of
house,
jazz, and
dub music into an amorphous whole. Despite fairly limited commercial success—the group did score a surprise worldwide dance hit with 1987's "
Pump Up the Volume" as part of the one-off collaborative project
MARRS—they have been characterized as among the most innovative groups of their era.