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(2005 – present)
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 the 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 though they realised it would be a terrible cliché for Simian to split in the middle of a long, hot US tour, Simian split in the middle of a long, hot US tour.
But long before the split, Jas and James had already started indulging their passion for electronic party music by booking themselves DJ dates under the name Simian Mobile Disco. Early gigs were wildly experimental, James once spinning every record in a four hour set at 5/8 the correct speed, inadvertently creating the short lived slowcore scene.
Back in the late ‘90s, James and Jas were studying folklore and physics respectively at Manchester University, while crafting strange electronic music in the 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 though they realised it would be a terrible cliché for Simian to split in the middle of a long, hot US tour, Simian split in the middle of a long, hot US tour.
But long before the split, Jas and James had already started indulging their passion for electronic party music by booking themselves DJ dates under the name Simian Mobile Disco. Early gigs were wildly experimental, James once spinning every record in a four hour set at 5/8 the correct speed, inadvertently creating the short lived slowcore scene.
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Attack Decay Sustain Release
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Temporary Pleasure
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Audacity Of Huge
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Hustler
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Sleep Deprivation
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It's The Beat
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Tits & Acid
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I Got This Down
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Hotdog
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Love
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Cruel Intentions
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Wooden
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Synthesise
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10000 Horses Can't Be Wrong
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Scott
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Ambulance
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Shoutbox
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aya_edinburgh wrote:
Love SMD. Love new album. Love off the map<3
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adaam2 wrote:
i'm selling the hustler/clik single :) enjoy http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260513812265&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1116
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benthamand wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE
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healover wrote:
Cruel Intentions is amazing!
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fm_modulation wrote:
I think you guys are great and the profile is so funny.
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Corsnor wrote:
ADSR is incomparably better than Temporary Pleasure. [3]
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salimos wrote:
ADSR is incomparably better than Temporary Pleasure. [2]
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DDDiego wrote:
ADSR is incomparably better than Temporary Pleasure.
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tbsh wrote:
they re my new fav , love em!
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Johnnycakez0rz wrote:
call me up, we'll hang out - i'm down for whatever <3
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gimmeapaw wrote:
Love the new album!
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passarovski wrote:
new album is great, makes it more interessting and variable with the guest singers [2]
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itisthej wrote:
hate 'cream dream' and 'turn up the dial' but solid second outing i reckon
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TheWV wrote:
Join There's Always a Song Spinnin' Round in My Head
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NeonJunks wrote:
http://neonjunksattack.blogspot.com/
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LikeACarillon wrote:
BRAN NEW LINCOLN BUMPIN' P.M. DAWN!!!! with tha DAT PLAYER, MINI-DISC, CD-ROM (FUCK IT --> I GOT THAT!!!! x)
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LikeACarillon wrote:
BRAN NEW LINCOLN BUMPIN' P.M. DAWN!!!!
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johny2shoes wrote:
awsome! not long came accross Simian Mobile Disco
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LikeACarillon wrote:
I've only heard Audacity of Huge one time at one of my favorite bar nights, but I need to hear it more and more frequently.
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LikeACarillon wrote:
Their new last.fm pics are dope. But then again, a lot of their pics are dope. I GOT DAT :shakin: I GOT DAT *___&*
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Neumo's, Seattle WA, United States
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Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Vancouver BC, Canada
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HiFi Club, Calgary AB, Canada
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