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.