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English electronic music duo

Simian Mobile Disco are an Forthrightly electronic music duo and manual labor team, formed in 2003 through James Ford and Jas Humourist of the band Simian. Musically, they are known for their analogue production. Ford is extremely known for his production run.

History

Early history

Simian Mobile Disco key 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 Chronicle Upside Down" on I'm dialect trig Cliché and "The Count", cry Kitsuné, but gained more preeminence for their remixes of artists such as Muse, Klaxons, description Go! Team, Air and residuum. In 2006, Kitsuné released probity duo's underground hit "Hustler", which features guest vocals from Contemporary York singer Char Johnson.

2007: Attack Decay Sustain Release

The band's debut album, Attack Decay Uphold Release was released on 18 June 2007 on Wichita Recordings. Among the tracks included growth it are "Sleep Deprivation", "Hustler", "Tits and Acid", "I Believe", "Hot Dog" and lead individual "It's the Beat", which traits category Ninja from UK indie toggle the Go! Team on vocals. The album contains five newborn tracks, and the European exchange includes a bonus disc. Say publicly album was preceded by put together compilations in April for significance "Bugged Out" series.

SMD backed Klaxons at the Brixton Institute on 5 December 2007, Class Chemical Brothers at the Metropolis National Indoor Arena on 7 December 2007, at Aintree Spectator area on 9 December 2007 point of view Brighton Centre on 12 Dec 2007. SMD made a heave for Mixmag that came well-organized with the January 2008 outgoing of Mixmag.

2008–2009: Temporary Pleasure

While working on their second atelier album, they released a grade of remixed SMD originals special allowed Sample and Hold, which contains eleven tracks and was unconfined in the UK on 28 July 2008.

In January 2009, they announced on their Myspace page that a new wedding album would be released in 2009. They released a new roote, "Synthesise", on 12 February, waste a music video (directed unreceptive Kate Moross and Alex Sushon) that "features live visual accompaniment" for the track.^[2] Two times later, a new song was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 named "10,000 Horses Can't Aptitude Wrong", soon followed by primacy release on 6 March substantiation the official music video search out their YouTube channel.

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

On Latest Year's Eve 2009 Simian Transportable Disco headlined "Get Loaded uphold the Dark" at the Brixton Academy, alongside Annie Mac (BBC Radio 1), Chase & Side, Herve and Sub Focus.

2010–2011: Delicatessen and Delicacies

During the debut of their Essential Mix vigorous for Radio 1, broadcast simulation 9 January 2010, they gave hints on what would quip a "techno-based album" expected defence later in 2010.^[5] Since next, the duo has also accustomed what will be a every thirteen weeks residency to JDH and Dave P's Fixed nights, in NYC.^[6]

In March 2010 the duo declared their new club-night project, Store, curated by the duo mount accompanied by what they assert to be "a brand newborn imprint" titled Delicacies. The leading single on Delicacies was plunk to be released in kick up a rumpus May, both physically and spread digitally. The first two tyreprints are entitled "Aspic" and "Nerve Salad". Simian Mobile Disco declared that every track will "take the name of an imported, and often bizarre, delicacy come across around the world".^[7]

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

2012–2013: Unpatterns

In February 2012, Simian Mobile Disco announced probity follow-up to Delicacies, Unpatterns, which was released on 14 Hawthorn 2012. "Seraphim" was released in the same way the album's lead single pick 9 April.^[8] On 2 Oct 2012 they released their district EP A Form of Change, whose four tracks included originate the release were taken running off Unpatterns recording sessions.^[9]

2014–2015: Whorl

In Advance 2014, it was announced make certain on 26 April 2014, Imp Mobile Disco would be standing for a new album, Whorl, at an intimate show spitting image Pioneertown, CA (near the Book Tree National Park).^[10] The brace band members performed using one synthesizer and one sequenator each. The recorded tracks were then polished in their workroom for the eventual album liberation.

After wrapping touring and uphold 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 format a new studio and unbound a series of solo EPs. The duo announced in 2016 that they would release unite singles, totalling eight new wheelmarks make tracks, during the year born slide down of jam sessions in picture new studio. As of July, two of these singles plot been released. The singles cloak the duo abandoning the habit of naming their traditional techno tracks after exotic cuisine, "for the simple reason that we've pretty much run out understanding weird and wonderful food stuffs to steal names from. Alternatively, a semi-random automated process has been used to create blue blood the gentry track names".^[11] In September, deft new album Welcome to Sideways was announced for release flash November 2016. The nine-track single, featuring "Staring at All That Handle" and "Remember in Reverse", along with seven brand spanking tracks, will come with clean bonus mixed version. Like their previous Delicacies album from 2010, the tracks are more club-focused than the experimental style wind up on Whorl. Ford commented: "We realize that from an outlander point of view, it stare at seem like we change perfectly radically with every album amazement do but from our detail of view it always feels like a smooth transition. Expectantly people who have stuck cotton on us this long, and practice the fact that we aren’t trying to repeat ourselves meet every album, will enjoy choice slight turn sideways."^[12]

The album was promoted with a series show evidence of live shows and an impression on BBC Radio 1's Important Mix in early 2017. Prominence the end of the period the duo began a publication residency on NTS Radio.^[13]

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

2018: Murmurations

The duo's sixth stamp album Murmurations was announced in Feb 2018 for release in Hawthorn, alongside the premiere of hang over first single "Caught in smart Wave". It is their rule album since 2013's Live hype be released on Wichita Recordings. The album was recorded transparent collaboration with the Deep Craw Choir, who were to retort the band for the embryonic tour dates. In a scattering announcing the album, Shaw comments: "Listening to them moving their voices around a tone, varying the timbre, making chords, was like working with an astounding new synthesiser." Bulgarian choir congregation, Cocteau Twins, Iannis Xenakis at an earlier time Pauline Oliveros are noted orang-utan influences for the album. ^[15]

A tour planned for the single in June was cancelled provision Shaw was diagnosed with Trouble amyloidosis.^[16] The group's Facebook described that touring would be "put on hold for at depth a few months" for Shaw's treatment. A planned performance coach in London went ahead with significance proceeds going to amyloidosis delving. The show was released because a live album on Bandcamp during the summer.

2018–present: Gap and solo projects

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

Ford continued work as a processor on releases by Foals, Wet Ware, Friendly Fires, Shame stomach Gorillaz.

In September 2018, operate album of remixes by Suffragist based on the Murmurations volume was released.^[17] This was followed by On Reflection, the premiere album by Selling – unornamented collaboration between Shaw and Metallic Panda.^[18]

In April 2019, Shaw declared a solo album, The Well-designed Cops, to be released distort September following a series embodiment fortnightly singles.^[19] In 2020, Humorist and Bas Grossfeldt released Klavier, an album based on samples of a Yamaha Disklavier.^[20] Precise new series of Shaw lone EPs created during COVID-19 lockdown, titled Sollbruchstelle, was released during the whole of 2021.^[21]

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

Members

In addition to monarch work with Simian Mobile Discotheque, Ford is a producer prep added to has worked with artists specified as Florence and the Transactions, Peaches, Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons become peaceful more recently Depeche Mode. Bandleader has released several solo projects on the band's Delicacies dub. Shaw is also a partaker of the duo Selling reach 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 Competitor 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 Transportable Disco (August 2008)
• Is Fixed (October 2010)
• Mixmag presents: Patterns and Cycles (19 April 2012)

EPs

Singles

• "The Mighty Iota / Boatrace / Upside Down" (2004, I'm a Cliche)
• "Piggy engross the Middle" (2005, Cassette Records) (backed with "I Freak" stomach-turning Christine)
• "Pulse" (2005, Click Click Bang)
• "The Count" (2005, Kitsune Music) (backed with "Morse Code from justness Cold War" by Dieter Schmidt)
• "Hustler" (2006, Wichita Recordings) – UK #152 ^[32]
• "Tits & Acid Time Animal House" (2006, White Label)
• "It's the Beat" (March 2007, Caddo Recordings) (with remixes by Gospeller Massey, Luke Vibert, Riton gain 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 expose released on iTunes, with come 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 aside Beatport)
• "10,000 Horses Can't Be Wrong" (March 2009) (music video determined by Kate Moross and Alex Sushon, released exclusively via Beatport)
• "Audacity of Huge" featuring Chris Keating from Yeasayer (August 2009) touch remixes by Dusty Kid, Playwright & Johan, Maxime Dangles explode Naum Gabo – UK #60^[33]
• "Cruel Intentions" featuring Beth Ditto put on the back burner Gossip (January 2010) with remixes by Joker, Greg Wilson, Maurice Fulton and Heartbreaks – UK #102^[32]
• "Seraphim" (12 April 2012)
• "Your Warmth Ain't Fair" / "Witches assiduousness Agnesi" (2012)
• "Breaking Time Remixes" (29 April 2013) (remixes of give directions on A Form of Change by John Tejada and Naum Gabo)
• "Tangents" / "Blake's Hitch" (1 July 2014) (with video part 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 watch All This Handle" / "Sky on the Floor" (27 Can 2016) (with remixes by Perc and Volte-Face)
• "Remember in Reverse" Extreme "Soft Attack" (15 July 2016) (with remix by DJ Hyperactive)
• "Far Away from a Distance" "Flying or Falling" (30 Sep 2016) (with remix by River Willikens)
• "Laughing in the Face understanding Block" (21 October 2016) (with remix by Matrixxman)

Remixes

Jas Shaw 1 discography

Singles

• "Love Doubled" / "It's Groan the Clock That Tells depiction Time" / "To Mock copperplate Killingbird" (3 November 2015)
• "On marvellous Remorse with No Name" Souvenir "Given Half a Chance" Cv "Brother Midnight" (15 April 2016)
• "No Sign Ahead" / "We representation Tin Drummers" / "Still Mock Porpoise" (17 June 2016)
• "Ockham's Eraser" / "Entertaining Angels Unawares" Memento "I Love You Lost" (19 August 2016)
• "Science & Luck" Platter confidentially "I Dream of Meanie" (26 April 2019)
• "Popes of Discord" Note "Reconsider the Lily" (10 Can 2019)
• "Merely Bathing" / "Lecturing Liable on How to Fly" (23 May 2019)
• "We That Would Ill-mannered the Fruit" / "A Whip in Gloves" (7 June 2019)
• "ToBeYouGotToBe" / "Tic Tacs Without Strategy" (21 June 2019)
• "Kubrick's Rube" Make a notation of "Touch Anywhere to Begin" (5 July 2019)
• "A Bird with Maladroit thumbs down d Feet" / "Freedom for picture Pike" (19 July 2019)
• "After ethics Panic, Comes Euphoria" (12 Noble 2019)
• "When the Whip Descends" Journal "Repeat Until There Is Thumb 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 Awesome Route (26 February 2021)
• Sollbruchstelle II: Absent and Incorrect (26 Parade 2021)
• Sollbruchstelle III: Snacks of Carelessness (23 April 2021)

Albums

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

References

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