Simian Mobile Disco overview
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Bad Blood(04:00)
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Audacity of Huge(03:46)
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Hustler(03:42)
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- I Believe(03:18)
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Tits & Acid(04:04)
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It's the Beat(03:22)
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Sleep Deprivation(04:59)
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I Got This Down(04:09)
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Hotdog(03:16)
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- Wooden(03:50)
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Love(03:02)
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Simian Mobile Disco bio
James Ford and Jas Shaw. Two men. Three letters. SMD. Electronic pioneers. DJs. Producers. They’ve been tearing up dance-floors around the world for the past few years, but how did their story begin, and where will it end…?
Back in the late ‘90s, James and Jas were studying folklore and physics respectively at Manchester University, while crafting strange electronic music in t... he spare room of their shared house. Although he eventually dropped out of his course, Jas’s grounding in quantum physics was to come in useful later: the drum pattern on SMD’s early white label Tits & Acid was based on matrix mechanics devised by Werner Heisenberg.
But before Simian Mobile Disco there was Simian, a four-piece band Jas and James formed at Manchester with singer-songwriter Simon Lord and bass-player Alex Macnaghten. Like contemporaries such as Broadcast and the Beta Band, Simian sought to combine traditional songwriting with electronic sounds, with one key difference – their name did not contain the letter ‘B’.
Simian did quite well, but James and Jas never set out to be a conventional rhythm section in a touring band, and even Full bioRead more
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