Morcheeba are an English electronic band formed in the mid-1990s with founding members vocalist Skye Edwards and the brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey.

[7] Originally from the small village of Saltwood,[8] just north of Hythe, Kent, the Godfrey brothers—DJ/producer/engineer Paul and multi-instrumentalist Ross—moved to London when they were gaining traction from A&R people.

[9][10][11][12] Sometime in the mid 1990s, at a party in Greenwich, the brothers met Skye Edwards, who was singing backup in a funk band, and also played guitar; before too long the three began recording songs together, and formed the trio Morcheeba.

[17] At this point, the band had outgrown the home recording set-up and the brothers were renting their own studio in Battersea as Paul was heavily influenced by the Beastie Boys and wanted total creative freedom, having engineered many different styles in Kent before starting the project and being a sample seeker he felt he knew the versatile way to keep albums interesting.

[18] In 1997, After a mind blowing phone call Paul had with a family hero they contributed to the David Byrne album Feelings, participating in the recording and production of the release when they weren't on the road.

[12][19][20] With a more high end analogue recording set-up, and the fact the brothers had written most of "Big Calm" in an evening in 1995 before the release of their debut, they began developing their ideas for the second album, with Norris involved again, the band moved towards a more varied sound with Ross' skills and collaborators brought in by Paul.

Despite achieving success in Europe including their home country of the U.K. the band didn’t find as much in the United States where their sound appealed more to the cooler cities on the coasts.

Although Fragments of Freedom was high charting in several European countries, some of the fans felt disappointed but the band's fourth album, Charango, released in 2002 saw a return to their roots.

The lyrics for "Undress Me Now" and appearance on "What New York Couples Fight About" were written with Lambchop's Kurt Wagner, other collaborators on the album were with rappers Pace Won and Old School Legend Slick Rick.

[27] The two brothers reunited the year after, leaving Paul to explain that "Ross and I realised that Morcheeba was kind of our family company, and that we wanted very much to keep it going, hence the change".

On this album, Paul Godfrey fell back into his role as producer collaborating with Dan Goldman on most tracks (as Ross had moved to L.A.) and selecting five vocalists to perform the songs.

[36] In 2014, the band toured Australia,[37] with a line-up consisting of Skye Edwards (vocals), Ross Godfrey (guitars), Steve Gordon (bass), Richard Milner (keyboards), Martin Carling (drums) and James Anthony (decks).

[43] The band started as an acoustic duo but soon included Edwards' son Jaega (drums), her husband Steve Gordon (bass) and Godfrey's wife Amanda Zamolo (backing vocals).

[47] Skye Edwards revealed in a June 2023 interview that the band had begun working on their eleventh album with ten tracks in the demo phase.

[48] From June to October 2024 the band licensed the name from Paul and toured European festivals, including the 2024 Meltdown at London's South Bank Centre curated by Chaka Khan.

[49] The name "Morcheeba" comes from the initials "MOR" (indicating Middle of the Road) as a joke and needing more "cheeba", a slang term used by Paul's hero Sckoolly D for cannabis.