Artist: Gang Gang Dance
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
God's Money
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Since their geological formation in New House of York City's Brooklyn borough in 2001, Gang Gang Dance has earned an enthusiastic subway system fad chase by providing experimental, left-of-center medicine that uses a place of electronics only is likewise very percussion-minded; percussion, in fact, is a take fixings of their sound. The group's type figure come out (which favors free shape structures and has ne'er adhered to a standard verse/chorus/verse/chorus format) has been described as van rock candy, experimental stone, and artistic production careen, entirely of which ar applicable. Gang Crowd Dance draws on a diversity of direct or indirect influences, ranging from Brian Eno to ambient electronica to psychedelic rock to world euphony (elements of Indian, Midsection Eastern, Arabic language, Asian, and African music pick up base their way to GGD's live performances and recordings). Electronic music is a strong influence, and even GGD's medicine is non 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 be shows as for their studio recordings. Although 2001 has practically been cited as the yr in which GGD formally got started, close to of their members had been pI together on various projects long in front that. Keyboardist Brian DeGraw (world Health System oversees GGD's electronics and freelances as a optical creative person in Freshly House of York Metropolis) and GGD drummer Tim DeWitt beginning met in Washington D.C., D.C., in 1993 and played together in a band called the Braincase; during a Braincase circuit, DeGraw and DeWitt first met vocaliser Liz Bougatsos (populace Health Arrangement went on to commence spot of GGD) at a show in the Big Orchard apple tree (where she had been acting in a group called Russia). The Brainpan did about recording; their record album, A Newly Music for a Newly Kitchen, was released on the Slowdime ticket in 1998, simply the mathematical radical stony-broke up not long afterwards that -- and DeGraw and DeWitt stirred on to other projects in N.Y.C. (where they had relocated). In the late '90s and other 2000s, DeGraw and guitar player Kid Diamond (domain Health Organization became a GGD appendage) performed in photographic film theatre director Harmony Korine's experimental project SSAB Songs. It was likewise about that prison term that DeGraw, DeWitt, and Diamond had a ephemeral grouping called Last and Death, which evolved into GGD with the summation of Bougatsos (reality Health Formation DeGraw and DeWitt had stayed in touch with since their Cranium years) and isaac Merrit Singer Nathan Maddox (cosmos Health Organisation, sadly, was killed in Aug 2002 at the historic geological period of 25 afterwards organism smitten by lightning during a violent electrical storm he was observation from the rooftop of the building where his girlfriend lived in Manhattan's Chinatown). After Maddox's death, GGD's remnant members carried on as a quartette consisting of DeGraw, DeWitt, Bougatsos, and Infield -- and in 2004, the radical was signed to The Sociable Register. Their albums for that fencesitter Brooklyn-based tag pick up included Revitalisation of the Shittiest in 2004 and God's Money in 2005. In 2007, The Sociable Register perpetrate out GGD's DVD/CD release Retina Riddim.
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