I've been pretty anxious to hear the album version of "House Jam ," the first single from Gang Gang Dance 's upcoming Saint Dymphna LP, since hearing what xxxchange did with the song a few weeks back. I mentioned then that this is what it might sound like if Timbaland produced the Knife , and I'm happy to report that the original is just as danceable (and immediately infectious and access...
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Saint Dymphna is the adventurous, genre-spanning new LP from Gang Gang Dance. "Princes," featuring East London's illest MC, Tinchy Stryder, is perhaps the most arresting, out of left field, interstellar-dancefloor-ready track on an album full of kaleidoscopic jams. Tinchy's "trying to get mainstream money," which would explain the urgency with which he attacks this insane Gang Gang beat. GGD's ...
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I like just about everything Gang Gang Dance has done, though before a couple weeks ago, 2005's God's Money made me rave the most ... kind of a long time to find more pay dirt. I got excited about some (though, not all) of the EP teasers that came in its wake, but they did ultimately feel like teasers, and not a jump to something else equally transcendent. Enter their excellent new album Saint ...
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--- - |- Photos by Drew KatchenWith 176 drummers spread across two coastal hotspots, Boredoms' 88BoaDrum bonanza succeeded in one-upping last year's 77BoaDrum spectacle in pretty much every way. The New York City edition kicked off at precisely 8:08 p.m. local time on August 8 (08/08/08!), with Gang Gang Dance at the helm and 88 drummers in all doing their drummy thing. Check back soon for sho...
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--- - |- Friday was 8/8/8, a day I and many other slaves to the freakish rhythm had been waiting for for a year and a month - the sequel to Boredoms' 77BOADRUM, 88BOADRUM. 88 drummers performing in a spiral around a psychedelic center stage: this year, Boredoms held court at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles while Brooklyn's Gang Gang Dance did their own version on the Williamsburg waterf...
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Gang Gang Dance have long flirted with ideas of populist structures and hip-hop rhythms but on their latest record they have successfully channelled those previous experiments with free-form percussion and texture into their most focussed, coherent record to date.
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As my birthday week comes to a close, a busy weekend awaits me. I've got a packed mix of work and social gatherings, so the entertainment options of concerts and film will have to wait another week.***If you are in LA or New York, you can see 88 drummers play for 88 minutes starting at 8:08 PM. 88 Boadrum was conceived by The Boredoms from Japan, who hosted a similar event (77 Boadrum ) in Ne...
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If you like Deerhoof, the stakes are high that you’ll be into Brooklyn’s Gang Gang Dance. Take some un-syncopated structure, add some energy and you got yourself some Gang Gang Dance art-rock or is it post- experimental rock. (I get those confused.) Frontwoman Liz Bougatsos‘ nymph-like singing will most likely open up most shows on the group’s upcoming summer tour, kicking off June 8th in
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Gang Gang Dance have changed the location of their one-off UK show in London on Saturday. Also, get a look at a live performance of 'House Jam'.
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Much thanks to Steve Simon for his "post with the excellent TV On The Radio Article":http://mog.com/steve_simon/blog_post/15377#write-comment.In the article was a referent to a band called Gang Gang Dance. Don't know much outside of some excellent mp3s of "Nomad For Love (Cannibal)":http://www.thesocialregistry.com/_mp3/mp3/ggd/ggd_nomadforlove.mp3 and "North Sixth 05.01.04":http://www.thesoc...
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The music of Gang Gang Dance is a close relative of religion. Wild chanting and ritualistic drumming. Kate Bush and Grime and Oliver Messiaen. Every note used in a sort of ceremonial function. Song structures induce blurry meditation and psychedelic dance. There are no choruses, just sounds, flowing violently into each other. Every song feels like the golden moments hidden inside fourteen-hour,...
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I've tried to do a few things today that just haven't come off, like:a) Listen to the new Kings of Leon albumb) Write a blog post that could lead to great thingsc) Write something else that I can't comment about here (yet)I have however received an XXXChange remix of a new Gang Gang Dance track, who I've been assured "are in for a big Autumn". I did go through a phase a few years ago where I th...
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So here's the drill. Gang Gang Dance's Saint Dymphna is out on October 21st on Social Registry. I have an advance copy and am going to sit down, listen, and blog my review/experience live, and hopefully, won't have the egregious grammatical errors that plagued the Deerhunter real time review. As far as the music that [...]
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The Social Registry is recapping their stellar showing in 2008 with a couple of free, highly recommended mixtapes, featuring the likes of Gang Gang Dance, Growing, Blood on the Wall , and others. Here's one track from the label's bonus "leaked tape ", which features some of the unreleased stuff that the label "leaked' this year, including "live tracks, remixes, things of that ilk..." You ca...
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"House Jam" is one of many standouts on Gang Gang Dance's forthcoming Saint Dymphna. As mentioned, the new album builds on what they were doing in the past, clarifies and tightens: Dymphna works separately (there are true pop nuggets) and as a twisting-turning/percussive/spaced-out whole. It's not as sprawling their earlier work, Lizzie Bougatsos's vocal parts are often more obviously catchy/le...
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