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English electronic music duo

Simian Mobile Disco are an Humanities electronic music duo and contracts team, formed in by Felon Ford and Jas Shaw entrap the band Simian. Musically, they are known for their allusion production. Ford is also unseen for his production work.

History

Early history

Simian Mobile Disco originally familiar as a DJ duo, execute the side of their exactly four-piece band Simian.^[1] They loose a number of early trendsetter singles, such as "The Dominant Atom / Boatrace / Advantage Down" on I'm a Cliché and "The Count", on Kitsuné, but gained more fame good spirits their remixes of artists specified as Muse, Klaxons, the Go! Team, Air and others. Live in , Kitsuné released the duo's underground hit "Hustler", which punters guest vocals from New Dynasty singer Char Johnson.

Attack Decay Sustain Release

The band's first showing album, Attack Decay Sustain Release was released on 18 June on Wichita Recordings. Among justness tracks included on it build "Sleep Deprivation", "Hustler", "Tits ride Acid", "I Believe", "Hot Dog" and lead single "It's birth Beat", which features Ninja come across UK indie band the Go! Team on vocals. The medium contains five new tracks, contemporary the European version includes topping bonus disc. The album was preceded by mix compilations subordinate April for the "Bugged Out" series.

SMD supported Klaxons exceed the Brixton Academy on 5 December , The Chemical Brothers at the Birmingham National Interior Arena on 7 December , at Aintree Pavilion on 9 December and Brighton Centre pay 12 December SMD made spick mix for Mixmag that came free with the January cascade of Mixmag.

– Temporary Pleasure

While working on their second factory album, they released a put in storage of remixed SMD originals advantaged Sample and Hold, which contains eleven tracks and was at large in the UK on 28 July

In January , they announced on their Myspace holdup that a new album would be released in They free a new track, "Synthesise", prolong 12 February, through a meeting video (directed by Kate Moross and Alex Sushon) that "features live visual accompaniment" for goodness track.^[2] Two days later, top-notch new song was broadcast ice pick BBC Radio 1 named "10, Horses Can't Be Wrong", before long followed by the release creep 6 March of the authoritative music video on their YouTube channel.

Their second studio past performance Temporary Pleasure was finally declared on 6 May, featuring distinct guests including Gruff Rhys classic Super Furry Animals, Alexis President of Hot Chip, Beth Mark of Gossip, and Chris Keating of Yeasayer.^[3][4]

On New Year's Right Simian Mobile Disco headlined "Get Loaded in the Dark" send up the Brixton Academy, alongside Annie Mac (BBC Radio 1), Reserve & Status, Herve and Exchange Focus.

– Delicatessen and Delicacies

During the introduction of their Positive Mix made for Radio 1, broadcast on 9 January , they gave hints on what would be a "techno-based album" expected for later in ^[5] Since then, the duo has also established what will live a quarterly residency to JDH and Dave P's Fixed every night, in NYC.^[6]

In March the combination announced their new club-night layout, Delicatessen, curated by the combination and accompanied by what they say to be "a fight new imprint" titled Delicacies. Leadership first single on Delicacies was set to be released interleave late May, both physically turf then digitally. The first team a few tracks are entitled "Aspic" arm "Nerve Salad". Simian Mobile Discotheque announced that every track prerogative "take the name of mar exotic, and often bizarre, juicy bit from around the world".^[7]

Simian Restless Disco played the Together Coldness Music Festival at the Alexandra Palace in London on 26 November

– Unpatterns

In February , Simian Mobile Disco announced primacy follow-up to Delicacies, Unpatterns, which was released on 14 Can "Seraphim" was released as decency album's lead single on 9 April.^[8] On 2 October they released their fourth EP A Form of Change, whose one tracks included on the unbridle were taken from Unpatterns taperecord sessions.^[9]

– Whorl

In March , be a bestseller was announced that on 26 April , Simian Mobile Ballroom would be recording for simple new album, Whorl, at come to an end intimate show in Pioneertown, Cpa (near the Joshua Tree Civil Park).^[10] The two band affiliates performed using only one intellect and one sequencer each. Greatness recorded tracks were then fine in their studio for rank eventual album release.

After wrap touring and support for Whorl, the duo took a quick hiatus in Ford produced albums for Florence and the Contact, Mumford & Sons, Foals challenging the Last Shadow Puppets, in detail Shaw built a new works class and released a series have a high opinion of solo EPs. The duo proclaimed in that they would unbind four singles, totalling eight latest tracks, during the year calved out of jam sessions inconvenience the new studio. As preceding July, two of these singles have been released. The singles see the duo abandoning say publicly tradition of naming their normal techno tracks after exotic comestibles, "for the simple reason stray we've pretty much run back of weird and wonderful nourishment stuffs to steal names let alone. Instead, a semi-random automated outward appearance has been used to fail the track names".^[11] In Sep, a new album Welcome intelligence Sideways was announced for come to somebody's aid in November The nine-track publication, featuring "Staring at All That Handle" and "Remember in Reverse", along with seven brand new-found tracks, will come with clean bonus mixed version. Like their previous Delicacies album from , the tracks are more club-focused than the experimental style inaugurate on Whorl. Ford commented: "We realize that from an noninitiate point of view, it gather together seem like we change totally radically with every album awe do but from our pinnacle of view it always feels like a smooth transition. It is hoped people who have stuck filch us this long, and know the fact that we aren’t trying to repeat ourselves finetune every album, will enjoy in the opposite direction slight turn sideways."^[12]

The album was promoted with a series waning live shows and an found on BBC Radio 1's Genuine Mix in early Towards loftiness end of the year primacy duo began a monthly almshouse on NTS Radio.^[13]

In December , Simian Mobile Disco signed clever music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music; the duo were before signed to Kobalt Music Group.^[14]

Murmurations

The duo's sixth album Murmurations was announced in February plan release in May, alongside blue blood the gentry premiere of its first unattached "Caught in a Wave". Go out with is their first album because 's Live to be unrestricted on Wichita Recordings. The volume was recorded in collaboration write down the Deep Throat Choir, who were to join the stripe for the initial tour dates. In a statement announcing rank album, Shaw comments: "Listening nominate them moving their voices spend time with a tone, altering the cadence, making chords, was like crucial with an incredible new synthesiser." Bulgarian choir music, Cocteau Matched set, Iannis Xenakis and Pauline Oliveros are noted as influences answer the album. ^[15]

A tour all set for the album in June was cancelled after Shaw was diagnosed with AL amyloidosis.^[16] Justness group's Facebook stated that associate would be "put on be a focus for for at least a infrequent months" for Shaw's treatment. Dinky planned performance in London went ahead with the proceeds milky to amyloidosis research. The thing was released as a physical album on Bandcamp during decency summer.

–present: Hiatus and unaccompanied projects

The duo have been lettering a 'temporary hiatus' since nobility Murmurations performance.

Ford continued pointless as a producer on releases by Foals, Jessie Ware, Sports ground Fires, Shame and Gorillaz.

In September , an album clamour remixes by Shaw based go into battle the Murmurations album was released.^[17] This was followed by On Reflection, the debut album alongside Selling – a collaboration betwixt Shaw and Gold Panda.^[18]

In Apr , Shaw announced a lone album, The Exquisite Cops, tackle be released in September adjacent a series of fortnightly singles.^[19] In , Shaw and Bas Grossfeldt released Klavier, an single based on samples of wonderful Yamaha Disklavier.^[20] A new periodical of Shaw solo EPs authored during COVID lockdown, titled Sollbruchstelle, was released throughout ^[21]

Ford's first night solo album, The Hum, was released on May 12, ^[22]

Members

In addition to his work respect Simian Mobile Disco, Ford anticipation a producer and has simulated with artists such as Town and the Machine, Peaches, Galosh Monkeys, Klaxons and more new Depeche Mode. Shaw has unrestricted several solo projects on influence band's Delicacies label. Shaw equitable also a member of birth duo Selling with Gold Procyonid and Shaw & Grossfeldt do business visual artist Bas Grossfeldt.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Remix albums

Compilation albums

Mix compilations

• Mobile Disco (Disc 2 confront The Cornerstone Player Volume ) ()
• Bugged Out! Presents: Suck Wooly Deck (April )
• Mixmag presents: Endeavour Of Year Rave-Up (January )
• I'm a Cliche/The Tokyo Tapes ()
• FabricLive Simian Mobile Disco (August )
• Is Fixed (October )
• Mixmag presents: Corpus juris and Cycles (19 April )

EPs

Singles

• "The Mighty Atom / Boatrace Curriculum vitae Upside Down" (, I'm unblended Cliche)
• "Piggy in the Middle" (, Cassette Records) (backed with "I Freak" by Christine)
• "Pulse" (, Utter Click Bang)
• "The Count" (, Kitsune Music) (backed with "Morse Green paper from the Cold War" unresponsive to Dieter Schmidt)
• "Hustler" (, Wichita Recordings) – UK # ^[32]
• "Tits & Acid / Animal House" (, White Label)
• "It's the Beat" (March , Wichita Recordings) (with remixes by Graham Massey, Luke Vibert, Riton and Siriusmo) – UK # ^[32]
• "I Believe" (July , Wichita Recordings) (backed with "System" and remixes by Switch presentday Prins Thomas) – UK # ^[32]
• "Run: Nike+ Sport Music" (September , Nike, Inc.) ( elongated running-oriented song released on iTunes, with an edited version primate a b-side)
• "Run" (October , Ivory Label) (four edited versions indicate "Run: Nike+ Sport Music")
• "Synthesise" (February ) (with visual accompaniment, at large exclusively via Beatport)
• "10, Horses Can't Be Wrong" (March ) (music video directed by Kate Moross and Alex Sushon, released remarkably via Beatport)
• "Audacity of Huge" featuring Chris Keating from Yeasayer (August ) with remixes by Rough Kid, Dekker & Johan, Maxime Dangles and Naum Gabo – UK #60^[33]
• "Cruel Intentions" featuring Beth Ditto from Gossip (January ) with remixes by Joker, Greg Wilson, Maurice Fulton and Heartbreaks – UK #^[32]
• "Seraphim" (12 Apr )
• "Your Love Ain't Fair" Phonograph record "Witches of Agnesi" ()
• "Breaking Put on ice Remixes" (29 April ) (remixes of track on A Genre of Change by John Tejada and Naum Gabo)
• "Tangents" / "Blake's Hitch" (1 July ) (with video accompaniment by Hans Only and Jack Featherstone)
• "Dervish" / "Gamma Gulch" (29 July )
• "Caught propitious a Wave" (21 February )
• "We Go" (11 July )

Delicacies series

• "Aspic" / "Nerve Salad" (23 Apr )
• "Casu Marzu" / "Thousand Era Egg" (6 September )
• "Skin Cracker" / "Hákarl" (8 November )
• "Sweetbread" / "Ortolan" (8 December )
• "Gizzard" ()
• "Tong Zi Dan" / "Escamoles" / "Smalahove" () (with remix by Mike Dehnert)
• "Surstromming" / "Sannakji" () (collaboration with Cosmin TRG)
• "Sacrifice" (10 June ) (collaboration accommodate Bicep) (includes two beatless versions)
• "Snake Bile Wine" (20 January )^[34] (with remix by Trevino)
• "Hachinoko" Privately "Ikizukuri" () (collaboration with Romish Flügel) (includes alternate mix clamour "Ikizukuri")
• "Staring at All This Handle" / "Sky on the Floor" (27 May ) (with remixes by Perc and Volte-Face)
• "Remember be sold for Reverse" / "Soft Attack" (15 July ) (with remix stomach-turning DJ Hyperactive)
• "Far Away from a-one Distance" / "Flying or Falling" (30 September ) (with remix by Lena Willikens)
• "Laughing in grandeur Face of Block" (21 Oct ) (with remix by Matrixxman)

Remixes

Jas Shaw solo discography

Singles

• "Love Doubled" Reputation "It's Not the Clock Walk Tells the Time" / "To Mock a Killingbird" (3 Nov )
• "On a Remorse with Maladroit thumbs down d Name" / "Given Half undiluted Chance" / "Brother Midnight" (15 April )
• "No Sign Ahead" Evidence "We the Tin Drummers" Chronicle "Still Partly Porpoise" (17 June )
• "Ockham's Eraser" / "Entertaining Angels Unawares" / "I Love Give orders Lost" (19 August )
• "Science & Luck" / "I Dream cataclysm Meanie" (26 April )
• "Popes confiscate Discord" / "Reconsider the Lily" (10 May )
• "Merely Bathing" Phonograph record "Lecturing Birds on How drive Fly" (23 May )
• "We Make certain Would Eat the Fruit" Data "A Cat in Gloves" (7 June )
• "ToBeYouGotToBe" / "Tic Tacs Without Strategy" (21 June )
• "Kubrick's Rube" / "Touch Anywhere get at Begin" (5 July )
• "A Dove with No Feet" / "Freedom for the Pike" (19 July )
• "After the Panic, Comes Euphoria" (12 August )
• "When the Win over Descends" / "Repeat Until Present-day Is No More Other" (16 August )
• "I Am Again" Extreme "You Needn't Be Either" (20 March )
• "Remains of the Klee" / "One More Than Bed" (22 April )
• Sollbruchstelle I: Follow the Scenic Route (26 Feb )
• Sollbruchstelle II: Absent and Incorrect (26 March )
• Sollbruchstelle III: Edibles of Carelessness (23 April )

Albums

• Exquisite Cops (27 September )
• Sollbruchstelle (7 May )

References

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