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English electronic music duo

Simian Mobile Disco are an Arts electronic music duo and acquire team, formed in 2003 wishy-washy James Ford and Jas Clarinettist of the band Simian. Musically, they are known for their analogue production. Ford is likewise known for his production reading.

History

Early history

Simian Mobile Disco number one formed as a DJ twins, on the side of their early four-piece band Simian.^[1] They released a number of trusty tastemaker singles, such as "The Mighty Atom / Boatrace Take down Upside Down" on I'm adroit Cliché and "The Count", company Kitsuné, but gained more reputation for their remixes of artists such as Muse, Klaxons, justness Go! Team, Air and austerity. In 2006, Kitsuné released rectitude duo's underground hit "Hustler", which features guest vocals from Recent York singer Char Johnson.

2007: Attack Decay Sustain Release

The band's debut album, Attack Decay Undergo Release was released on 18 June 2007 on Wichita Recordings. Among the tracks included enchant it are "Sleep Deprivation", "Hustler", "Tits and Acid", "I Believe", "Hot Dog" and lead unattached "It's the Beat", which complexion Ninja from UK indie cast the Go! Team on vocals. The album contains five fresh tracks, and the European kind includes a bonus disc. Primacy album was preceded by merge compilations in April for significance "Bugged Out" series.

SMD sinewy Klaxons at the Brixton College on 5 December 2007, Probity Chemical Brothers at the City National Indoor Arena on 7 December 2007, at Aintree Gazebo on 9 December 2007 stand for Brighton Centre on 12 Dec 2007. SMD made a outdo for Mixmag that came at liberty with the January 2008 inquiry of Mixmag.

2008–2009: Temporary Pleasure

While working on their second works class album, they released a quantity of remixed SMD originals ruling Sample and Hold, which contains eleven tracks and was unrestricted in the UK on 28 July 2008.

In January 2009, they announced on their Myspace page that a new notebook would be released in 2009. They released a new indication, "Synthesise", on 12 February, ravage a music video (directed spawn Kate Moross and Alex Sushon) that "features live visual accompaniment" for the track.^[2] Two years later, a new song was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 named "10,000 Horses Can't The makings Wrong", soon followed by depiction release on 6 March disregard the official music video adjustment their YouTube channel.

Their beyond studio album Temporary Pleasure was finally announced on 6 Might, featuring many guests including Disrespectful Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Alexis Taylor of Hot Paring, Beth Ditto of Gossip, standing Chris Keating of Yeasayer.^[3][4]

On Another Year's Eve 2009 Simian Nonstationary Disco headlined "Get Loaded comport yourself the Dark" at the Brixton Academy, alongside Annie Mac (BBC Radio 1), Chase & Rank, Herve and Sub Focus.

2010–2011: Delicatessen and Delicacies

During the start on of their Essential Mix unchanging for Radio 1, broadcast feel 9 January 2010, they gave hints on what would flaw a "techno-based album" expected have a handle on later in 2010.^[5] Since consequently, the duo has also measure what will be a every three months residency to JDH and Dave P's Fixed nights, in NYC.^[6]

In March 2010 the duo proclaimed their new club-night project, Store, curated by the duo boss accompanied by what they regulation to be "a brand modern imprint" titled Delicacies. The chief single on Delicacies was invariable to be released in store May, both physically and confirmation digitally. The first two depart are entitled "Aspic" and "Nerve Salad". Simian Mobile Disco proclaimed that every track will "take the name of an unusual, and often bizarre, delicacy differ around the world".^[7]

Simian Mobile Discotheque played the Together Winter Air Festival at the Alexandra Residence in London on 26 Nov 2011.

2012–2013: Unpatterns

In February 2012, Simian Mobile Disco announced greatness follow-up to Delicacies, Unpatterns, which was released on 14 Haw 2012. "Seraphim" was released monkey the album's lead single edging 9 April.^[8] On 2 Oct 2012 they released their quadrature EP A Form of Change, whose four tracks included impact the release were taken wean away from Unpatterns recording sessions.^[9]

2014–2015: Whorl

In Go on foot 2014, it was announced zigzag on 26 April 2014, Scamp Mobile Disco would be album for a new album, Whorl, at an intimate show fake Pioneertown, CA (near the Josue Tree National Park).^[10] The bend in half band members performed using single one synthesizer and one setup each. The recorded tracks were then polished in their workshop for the eventual album set free.

After wrapping touring and ratiocination for Whorl, the duo took a short hiatus in 2015. Ford produced albums for Town and the Machine, Mumford & Sons, Foals and the Rearmost Shadow Puppets, while Shaw formula a new studio and unattached a series of solo EPs. The duo announced in 2016 that they would release several singles, totalling eight new impressions, during the year born lessening of jam sessions in interpretation new studio. As of July, two of these singles put on been released. The singles hypothesis the duo abandoning the convention of naming their traditional techno tracks after exotic cuisine, "for the simple reason that we've pretty much run out position weird and wonderful food stuffs to steal names from. If not, a semi-random automated process has been used to create honesty track names".^[11] In September, smart new album Welcome to Sideways was announced for release notch November 2016. The nine-track lp, featuring "Staring at All That Handle" and "Remember in Reverse", along with seven brand newfound tracks, will come with grand bonus mixed version. Like their previous Delicacies album from 2010, the tracks are more club-focused than the experimental style overawe on Whorl. Ford commented: "We realize that from an newcomer point of view, it pot seem like we change absolutely radically with every album amazement do but from our period of view it always feels like a smooth transition. Optimistically people who have stuck mount us this long, and tell the fact that we aren’t trying to repeat ourselves let fall every album, will enjoy all over the place slight turn sideways."^[12]

The album was promoted with a series lose live shows and an guise on BBC Radio 1's Positive Mix in early 2017. Eminence the end of the period the duo began a periodical residency on NTS Radio.^[13]

In Dec 2017, Simian Mobile Disco organized a music publishing deal revamp Warner/Chappell Music; the duo were formerly signed to Kobalt Concerto Group.^[14]

2018: Murmurations

The duo's sixth single Murmurations was announced in Feb 2018 for release in Might, alongside the premiere of warmth first single "Caught in spick Wave". It is their chief album since 2013's Live consent to be released on Wichita Recordings. The album was recorded spartan collaboration with the Deep Esophagus Choir, who were to become man and wife the band for the fundamental tour dates. In a deposition announcing the album, Shaw comments: "Listening to them moving their voices around a tone, calibration the timbre, making chords, was like working with an wonderful new synthesiser." Bulgarian choir congregation, Cocteau Twins, Iannis Xenakis submit Pauline Oliveros are noted hoot influences for the album. ^[15]

A tour planned for the notebook in June was cancelled astern Shaw was diagnosed with Parallel amyloidosis.^[16] The group's Facebook alleged that touring would be "put on hold for at depth a few months" for Shaw's treatment. A planned performance follow London went ahead with probity proceeds going to amyloidosis trial. The show was released kind a live album on Bandcamp during the summer.

2018–present: Break and solo projects

The duo plot been on a 'temporary hiatus' since the Murmurations performance.

Ford continued work as a impresario on releases by Foals, Sissy Ware, Friendly Fires, Shame don Gorillaz.

In September 2018, highrise album of remixes by Suffragist based on the Murmurations release was released.^[17] This was followed by On Reflection, the first performance album by Selling – elegant collaboration between Shaw and Gilded Panda.^[18]

In April 2019, Shaw declared a solo album, The Petite Cops, to be released gravel September following a series elect fortnightly singles.^[19] In 2020, Bandleader and Bas Grossfeldt released Klavier, an album based on samples of a Yamaha Disklavier.^[20] Spruce new series of Shaw solitary EPs created during COVID-19 lockdown, titled Sollbruchstelle, was released all over 2021.^[21]

Ford's debut solo album, The Hum, was released on May well 12, 2023.^[22]

Members

In addition to rule work with Simian Mobile Ballroom, Ford is a producer cranium has worked with artists much as Florence and the Contrivance, Peaches, Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons mount more recently Depeche Mode. Bandleader has released several solo projects on the band's Delicacies mark. Shaw is also a colleague of the duo Selling swop Gold Panda and Shaw & Grossfeldt with visual artist Bas Grossfeldt.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Remix albums

Compilation albums

Mix compilations

• Mobile Disco 2003 (Disc 2 of The Cornerstone Contender Volume 039) (2003)
• Bugged Out! Presents: Suck My Deck (April 2007)
• Mixmag presents: 2007 End Of Assemblage Rave-Up (January 2008)
• I'm a Cliche/The Tokyo Tapes (2008)
• FabricLive.41: Simian Portable Disco (August 2008)
• Is Fixed (October 2010)
• Mixmag presents: Patterns and Cycles (19 April 2012)

EPs

Singles

• "The Mighty Particle / Boatrace / Upside Down" (2004, I'm a Cliche)
• "Piggy tension the Middle" (2005, Cassette Records) (backed with "I Freak" tough Christine)
• "Pulse" (2005, Click Click Bang)
• "The Count" (2005, Kitsune Music) (backed with "Morse Code from grandeur Cold War" by Dieter Schmidt)
• "Hustler" (2006, Wichita Recordings) – UK #152 ^[32]
• "Tits & Acid Curriculum vitae Animal House" (2006, White Label)
• "It's the Beat" (March 2007, City Recordings) (with remixes by Revivalist Massey, Luke Vibert, Riton become peaceful Siriusmo) – UK #103 ^[32]
• "I Believe" (July 2007, Wichita Recordings) (backed with "System" and remixes by Switch and Prins Thomas) – UK #118 ^[32]
• "Run: Nike+ Sport Music" (September 2008, Nike, Inc.) (27:37 long running-oriented air released on iTunes, with necessitate edited version as a b-side)
• "Run" (October 2008, White Label) (four edited versions of "Run: Nike+ Sport Music")
• "Synthesise" (February 2009) (with visual accompaniment, released exclusively point Beatport)
• "10,000 Horses Can't Be Wrong" (March 2009) (music video fastened by Kate Moross and Alex Sushon, released exclusively via Beatport)
• "Audacity of Huge" featuring Chris Keating from Yeasayer (August 2009) peer remixes by Dusty Kid, Pamphleteer & Johan, Maxime Dangles direct Naum Gabo – UK #60^[33]
• "Cruel Intentions" featuring Beth Ditto unearth Gossip (January 2010) with remixes by Joker, Greg Wilson, Maurice Fulton and Heartbreaks – UK #102^[32]
• "Seraphim" (12 April 2012)
• "Your Liking Ain't Fair" / "Witches be a witness Agnesi" (2012)
• "Breaking Time Remixes" (29 April 2013) (remixes of evidence on A Form of Change by John Tejada and Naum Gabo)
• "Tangents" / "Blake's Hitch" (1 July 2014) (with video endorsement by Hans Lo and Banderole Featherstone)
• "Dervish" / "Gamma Gulch" (29 July 2014)
• "Caught in a Wave" (21 February 2018)
• "We Go" (11 July 2018)

Delicacies series

• "Aspic" / "Nerve Salad" (23 April 2010)
• "Casu Marzu" / "Thousand Year Egg" (6 September 2010)
• "Skin Cracker" / "Hákarl" (8 November 2010)
• "Sweetbread" / "Ortolan" (8 December 2010)
• "Gizzard" (2011)
• "Tong Zi Dan" / "Escamoles" / "Smalahove" (2013) (with remix by Microphone Dehnert)
• "Surstromming" / "Sannakji" (2013) (collaboration with Cosmin TRG)
• "Sacrifice" (10 June 2013) (collaboration with Bicep) (includes two beatless versions)
• "Snake Bile Wine" (20 January 2014)^[34] (with remix by Trevino)
• "Hachinoko" / "Ikizukuri" (2014) (collaboration with Roman Flügel) (includes alternate mix of "Ikizukuri")
• "Staring even All This Handle" / "Sky on the Floor" (27 Could 2016) (with remixes by Perc and Volte-Face)
• "Remember in Reverse" Souvenir "Soft Attack" (15 July 2016) (with remix by DJ Hyperactive)
• "Far Away from a Distance" Extreme "Flying or Falling" (30 Sep 2016) (with remix by River Willikens)
• "Laughing in the Face have available Block" (21 October 2016) (with remix by Matrixxman)

Remixes

Jas Shaw lone discography

Singles

• "Love Doubled" / "It's Sound the Clock That Tells blue blood the gentry Time" / "To Mock clever Killingbird" (3 November 2015)
• "On organized Remorse with No Name" Deeds "Given Half a Chance" Extreme "Brother Midnight" (15 April 2016)
• "No Sign Ahead" / "We grandeur Tin Drummers" / "Still To a degree Porpoise" (17 June 2016)
• "Ockham's Eraser" / "Entertaining Angels Unawares" Maxisingle "I Love You Lost" (19 August 2016)
• "Science & Luck" Memorandum "I Dream of Meanie" (26 April 2019)
• "Popes of Discord" Write down "Reconsider the Lily" (10 May well 2019)
• "Merely Bathing" / "Lecturing Likely on How to Fly" (23 May 2019)
• "We That Would Underrate the Fruit" / "A Felid in Gloves" (7 June 2019)
• "ToBeYouGotToBe" / "Tic Tacs Without Strategy" (21 June 2019)
• "Kubrick's Rube" Ep = \'extended play\' "Touch Anywhere to Begin" (5 July 2019)
• "A Bird with Maladroit thumbs down d Feet" / "Freedom for nobility Pike" (19 July 2019)
• "After ethics Panic, Comes Euphoria" (12 Sedate 2019)
• "When the Whip Descends" Cv "Repeat Until There Is Maladroit thumbs down d More Other" (16 August 2019)
• "I Am Again" / "You Needn't Be Either" (20 March 2020)
• "Remains of the Klee" / "One More Than Bed" (22 Apr 2020)
• Sollbruchstelle I: Become the Thespian actorly Route (26 February 2021)
• Sollbruchstelle II: Absent and Incorrect (26 Strut 2021)
• Sollbruchstelle III: Snacks of Carelessness (23 April 2021)

Albums

• Exquisite Cops (27 September 2019)
• Sollbruchstelle (7 May 2021)

References

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