Artist: Gang Gang Dance: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Gang Gang Dance's discography: God's Money Year: 2005 Tracks: 9 Since their geological formation in New York City's Brooklyn borough in 2001, Gang Gang Dance has earned an enthusiastic underground cult following by providing experimental, left-of-center music that uses a set of electronics only is likewise very percussion-minded; percussion, in fact, is a prime ingredient of their sound. The group's type figure out (which favors justify form structures and has ne'er adhered to a standard verse/chorus/verse/chorus format) has been described as van rock, experimental stone, and artistic product rock, all of which ar applicable. Gang Gang Dance draws on a multifariousness of direct or indirect influences, ranging from Brian Eno to ambient electronica to psychedelic rock to world euphony (elements of Indian, Middle Eastern, Arabic, Asian, and African music receive base their way to GGD's live performances and recordings). Electronic music is a stiff influence, and even GGD's music is not dance-oriented or club-oriented per se and is non aimed at the gush subculture; their audience is more of an avant-rock audience, and they are as well known for their live shows as for their studio recordings. Although 2001 has much been cited as the yr in which GGD formally got started, some of their members had been operative together on various projects long in front that. Keyboardist Brian DeGraw (world Health Organization oversees GGD's electronics and freelances as a optical originative person in New York City) and GGD drummer Tim DeWitt first met in Washington, D.C., in 1993 and played together in a banding called the Cranium; during a Cranium turn, DeGraw and DeWitt first gear met vocaliser Liz Bougatsos (world Health Organization went on to get office of GGD) at a show in the Big Apple (where she had been playacting in a group called Russia). The Cranium did some recording; their album, A New Music for a New Kitchen, was released on the Slowdime tag in 1998, just the mathematical group broke up not long subsequently that -- and DeGraw and DeWitt stirred on to former projects in N.Y.C. (where they had relocated). In the recent '90s and other 2000s, DeGraw and guitarist Josh Diamond (reality Health Organization became a GGD member) performed in film director Harmony Korine's experimental envision SSAB Songs. It was likewise around that time that DeGraw, DeWitt, and Diamond had a ephemeron group called Death and Dying, which evolved into GGD with the addition of Bougatsos (world Health Organization DeGraw and DeWitt had stayed in rival with since their Cranium days) and singer Nathan Maddox (world Health Organization, sadly, was killed in August 2002 at the historic period of 25 afterwards being smitten by lightning during a violent electrical storm he was observation from the rooftop of the building where his girl lived in Manhattan's Chinatown). After Maddox's death, GGD's leftover members carried on as a foursome consisting of DeGraw, DeWitt, Bougatsos, and Diamond -- and in 2004, the group was sign-language to The Social Registry. Their albums for that independent Brooklyn-based tag receive included Revivification of the Shittiest in 2004 and God's Money in 2005. In 2007, The Social Registry consecrate out GGD's DVD/CD button Retina Riddim. |