2013.01.30 - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO @ MINISTRY OF SOUND

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James and Jas of Simian Mobile Disco, though quite different in personality, are both modest fellows. In conversation each of them, more than once, puts the success of SMD down to sheer luck – however, this is not really true. Yes, they were in the right place at the right time in some senses, but it takes an awful lot more than that to bring an album as sonically glorious and ambitious as Unpatterns to as broad an audience as they are managing to reach. And as you get deeper into the details of their career to date, it becomes very clear how much tenacity, scholarship, imagination and sheer love for what they do, as well as good fortune, has got them to where they are today.
Never ones to fit in unnecessarily, however, Jas and James made damned sure they didn't just take this success and run with it. Associated with “the electro thing” along with the likes of DFA Recordings, Ed Banger and Erol Alkan, they deliberately shied away from the noisiness and rockism of that scene, always keen to achieve something much deeper and more cosmic in line with their love of a long line of strange electronic music running through 90s techno and back to avant-garde experimenters of the more distant past.




m geddes gengras - air solo
harmonia - watussi
oppenheimer analysis - radiance
kraftwerk - franz schubert
tevo howard - content (dawn mix)
footprintz - the favourite game (ivan smagghe mix)
juju and jordash - loosey goosey
storm queen - let's make mistakes (dub)
barker and baumecker - schlang bang
micheal mayer - voight kampf test
steffi - schraper
falling acid - Tin Man
levon vincent - speck's jam
kounka - Chateau Flight
mm/km - end to funk
Lindstrom - eggedosis
Makam - What ya doin'
pachanga boys - legs
peace division - blacklight sleaze (gerd's acid mix)
chicago damn - i really do believe (chicago danm bassline presure dub)
cobblestone jazz - before this (edit)
legowelt - clap your hands
roman flugel - cookie dust
peter dundov - lily wasp
luke abbot - brazil (slow)
bill wyman - nuclear reactions

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