Information:  - Becoming X is the debut album from Sneaker Pimps released in 1996. The album was successful in the United Kingdom, while "6 Underground" and "Spin Spin Sugar" would become hits in the US.  - London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom, as well as the most populous city proper in the European Union. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. It was founded by the Romans, who named it "Londinium". London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its medieval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which today largely makes up Greater London, governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.  - "Spin Spin Sugar" is a 1997 single released by Sneaker Pimps from their 1996 debut album "Becoming X". The album version is in true Sneaker Pimps style and format. There is a driving bass line produced by a synthesizer keyboard. As the bass drives, there is a second synth loop playing above. The track continues for approximately 3 minutes and 31 seconds. The song was featured in "The Girl Next Door" soundtrack in its radio edit form. A music video was made for the radio edit version and features the band mates in what appears to be a highly colorized motel room, with many references to the film "Psycho".   - Grand Royal was the Los Angeles, California-based vanity record label set up in 1992 by the Beastie Boys in conjunction with Capitol Records after the group left Def Jam Recordings.  - "6 Underground" is a song by the English band Sneaker Pimps, from their 1996 studio album "Becoming X".  - England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain (which lies in the North Atlantic) in its centre and south; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight.  - Hartlepool is a town in County Durham, England. The town lies on the North Sea coast, north of Middlesbrough and south of Sunderland. The Borough of Hartlepool includes outlying villages such as Seaton Carew, Greatham and Elwick.  - Sneaker Pimps are a British trip hop band formed in Hartlepool, England, in 1994. They are best known for their first album, "Becoming X" (1996), and the singles "6 Underground" and "Spin Spin Sugar". They took their name from an article the Beastie Boys published in their "Grand Royal" magazine about a man they hired to track down classic sneakers.  - The Beastie Boys were an American hip hop group from New York City, formed in 1980. For the majority of their career, the group consisted of Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass) and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (vocals, guitar).  - Chris Corner is an English record producer , songwriter , multi instrumentalist , singer and video artist . He was a founding member of the band Sneaker Pimps , and is now active with his solo project IAMX . He moved from London to Berlin in 2006 , where he set up his IAMX studio for music and visual work . To date , Corner has released nine studio albums , three with Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X ( 1996 ) , Splinter ( 1999 ) and Bloodsport ( 2002 ) and six as IAMX - Kiss and Swallow ( 2004 ) , The Alternative ( 2006 ) , Kingdom of Welcome Addiction ( 2009 ) , Volatile Times ( 2011 ) , The Unified Field ( 2013 ) and Metanoia ( 2015 ) . Corner composed and produced the soundtrack to the film Les Chevaliers du Ciel ( 2005 ) . It included Sue Denim and Placebo . Many of his songs have been used in film and TV productions .  - IAMX is the solo musical project of Chris Corner, formerly of the band Sneaker Pimps. Founded in 2004 in London, it is an independent music project which also focuses on and experiments with visual art. Musically, IAMX spans multiple genres from electronic rock and dance music to burlesque influenced songs and emotional ballads. Corner's striking and wide-ranging voice, and his way of programming sounds and beats is an obvious characteristic of the IAMX sound.  - Trip hop is a subgenre of electronic music that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. Deriving from later idioms of acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat emerging from the Bristol Sound scene, which contained influences of soul, funk and jazz. It has been described as "Europe's alternative choice in the second half of the '90s", and "a fusion of hip hop and electronica until neither genre is recognisable". Trip hop music fuses several styles and has much in common with other genres; it has several qualities similar to ambient music, and its drum-based breakdowns share characteristics with hip hop. It also contains elements of R&B, dub and house, as well as other electronic music. Trip hop can be highly experimental.    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'chris corner' exhibits the relationship of 'place of birth'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - angeles  - band  - bristol  - california  - centre  - county durham  - diamond  - england  - essex  - hartlepool  - hertfordshire  - isle of wight  - london  - los angeles  - made  - media  - middlesbrough  - most  - north sea  - of  - union  - united kingdom  - wales  - york
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