James Ford and James Shaw twist and turn together ornate vases topped with delicate bordering outerweaving the inner rims of a thin and susceptible frame of reference. That didn’t make sense for the same reason that their music makes you dance.
Simian Mobile Disco really does care about its mobility; even though there’s enough action in the audience to distract even the most avid dancer, nothing can compare to watching the duo unfold electronic rhythms in a symphony of knob turning and wire plugging, looking strikingly similar to a 70’s operator.
They kept the tempo of the show well in the sinusoidal-fun type fashion of a graph, their low points never reaching far below normal yet soaring high above expectations.
Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions
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It’s Thanksgiving break for some people right now, and if you’re like me you either:
A) Plan on spending a lot of time on the couch
B) Plan on no-stop-till-you-drop party –
Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler (A-trak Remix)
C) Combination of A/B –
Simian Mobile Disco – I Believe
D) Don’t plan that far ahead
Here’s an options for B:
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June 29, 2009 --
show reviews.
Tags: Cosmic Gate, Diplo, EDC, Groove Armada, Infected Mushroom, Major Lazor, Paul Van Dyke, review, Saturday, simian mobile disco, the Crystal Method.
The fire hath cometh – thronging crowds of people lined up to a day which was suppose to have double the attendance of the previous day. I was prepared to hack my way through bros and e-tards like Marlow through the dank and desolate jungle of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. I had gotten to Exposition Park right as Cosmic Gate was starting at 6pm and then left the place when Paul Van Dyk closed the main stage at 4 am. Ten hours of joyful electronica seeping through my skin and tickling every organ in my tired body with the bellowing bass of decrepit drums, the dissonant distortion of house and hardstyle, and the temporal tenderness of trance. Can’t you understand that we’ve almost made it to the promise land?
Pictures after the jump…
Continue reading ‘edc – take two – saturday 6/27/09′
Considering that many members of the FMLY are in college and we’re nearing finals, it’s important to create a playlist to keep you up during those all-nighters. I won’t divulge what is on my personal playlist coughfalloutboycough, but here are some excellent tunes to keep you up and atom for whatever it is you’re up studying for…not like it’s 2:00pm here or anything and I still haven’t passed out. Instead of going way of posting awesome sleep related tunes like Grouper, Bonobo or early Arcade Fire, this is more of an uptempo grouping of songs to pass the time until sunrise.
We Never Sleep, We’re Not Weak Mixtape
Matt & Kim – Don’t Slow Down
Flying Lotus – Sleepy Dinosaur
Height With Friends – Standing Up Asleep
The Joggers – Wicked Light Sleeper
Milk – The Battle of Sleeping Tonics
No Age – I Wanna Sleep
of Montreal – At Night Trees Aren’t Sleeping
Rafter – Sleazy Sleepy
Santo and Johnny – Sleepwalk
Simian Mobile Disco – Sleep Deprivation
Voxtrot – Fast Asleep
Snakes Say Hiss!!! – Turn Me On
Rumspringa – Minds Awake
Volcano, I’m Still Excited! – Two Exclamation Points
