Dada Life

Dada Life
Background information
Origin	Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Electro House
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Dim Mak, Breastfed, Ministry of Sound Australia, Pickadoll, Southern Fried, Prestel, Musical Freedom
Website	dadalife.com
Members
Olle Cornéer Stefan Engblom

Dada Life are a prominent Swedish electro house duo, consisting of Olle Corneer and Stefan Engblom. In 2010, Dada Life was voted #89 in DJ Magazine's annual Top 100 list of the most popular DJ's. Dada Life's popularity escalated significantly over the next year and in October 2011, they were voted #38 in DJ Mag's Top 100. Some of Dada's biggest hits to date include "Kick Out The Epic Motherf*cker", "Unleash the Fucking Dada", "White Noise / Red Meat", and their remixes of "Kaskade feat. Haley - Dynasty" and "Big Bad Wolf - Duck Sauce" . Dada Life frequently headlines at North America's two largest electronic dance festivals, at the Electric Daisy Carnival and Ultra Music Festival.

Live shows

Dada Life is known for their high energy live sets. Dada Life lets loose large inflatables in the shapes of bananas and champagne bottles, which have now become signatures in their live shows.

Dada Life had the honor of opening for the one of the world’s biggest DJ's, Tiësto, on select dates around the globe during his massively successful 2009-2010 Kaleidoscope World Tour.

At Electric Daisy Carnival 2011 in Las Vegas, Dada Life drew a massive crowd and surprised their fans with a live 25-piece marching band to accompany their DJ set. Fans have also been known to be pulled up on stage if they are wearing banana costumes.

Avalon Riot

Dada Life’s popularity has exploded across the globe in the past year, inciting riots at their show at Avalon in Los Angeles on November 5, 2010. People took to the streets when too many people showed up and the club couldn't handle the huge crowd. Bloggers after the show reported: “I even heard Dada Life was denied entrance, obviously in hindsight it was for a good reason. But you know what? Props to Dada Life for causing such a fucking ruckus by coming to Los Angeles, they deserve some points for this.”

Sausage Fattener Plugin

Dada Life premiered their first plugin in May 2011, appropriately titled the Sausage Fattener. After being grilled countlessly on how they get their greasy sounds, they came up with a plugin that hooks up to all formats, which works on a single channel with moderate settings as a musical compressor.

The Sausage Fattener is used by Tiësto, Kaskade, Diplo, Laidback Luke, Chuckie (DJ), Sebastian Ingrosso, Dirty South, Hardwell, Angger Dimas, Frank E, Zedd, Lazy Rich, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, Marcus Schossow, Adam K, John Dahlbäck and many other DJ/producers.^{[citation needed]}

The Dada Life Philosophy

Dada Life has their own philosophy: "We are Dada Life. Destroy dance music and have fun. Don’t look back in the past. Always go forward. Don’t think too much. Always follow the money. Do the Dada. The result? Big tunes, no frills."

THERULESOFDADA

THERULESOFDADA are part of the Dada Life philosophy. These appear in their facebook posts and in their tweets in the format: "rule #THERULESOFDADA". THERULESOFDADA are:

• Cheating is winning.
• If you're stuck, there's only one solution: go harder.
• If you only need one word to describe a song in the studio...then it's done!
• No bananas on the rider? Then we do our two hour deep/tech house set. Everything under 118 BPM.
• PLUR = Potassium Lust Unity Rage
• Arriving beautiful - leaving ugly.
• Beautiful music = boring music. At least today.
• Never BBQ before a gig.
• If you don't want to get wet, you don't want to have fun.
• Bass don't cry.
• Changing underwear at the club is cheating. Even for the members of Dada Life.
• Never bring your brain into the club.
• Art should be loud as fuck.

Singles

2006

• Big Time

2007

• The Great Fashionista Swindle
• This Machine Kills Breakfasts
• We Meow, You Roar

2008

• Sweeter Than Fever
• Your Favourite Flu
• Fun Fun Fun
• The Great Smorgasbord
• Cash In Drop Out

2009

• Happy Hands & Happy Feet
• Sweet Little Bleepteen
• Let's Get Bleeped Tonight
• Smile You're On Dada
• Love Vibrations

2010

• Just Bleep Me (Satisfaction)
• Cookies With a Smile
• Tomorrowland Anthem / Give In To The Night
• Unleash the F***ing Dada

2011

• White Noise / Red Meat
• Fight Club Is Closed (It's Time For Rock'n'Roll)
• Happy Violence
• Kick Out the Epic Motherf**ker

Remixes

2007

• Tonite Only - Where The Party's At (Dada Life Remix)
• Markus Lange & Daniel Dexter - Acidkids (Dada Life Remix)

2009

• Alex Gopher - "Handguns (Dada Life Remix)"
• Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - "Under The Water (Dada Life Remix)"
• Moonbootica - "The Ease (Dada Life Remix)"
• Moonflower & Abs - "Feel Free (Dada Life Remix)"
• Super Viral Brothers - "Hot Chocolate (Dada Life Remix)"
• Albin Myers - "Times Like These (Dada Life Remix)"
• Eric Prydz - "Pjanoo (Dada Life Guerilla Fart Edit)"
• Shark & Sylvain - "Call Me (Dada Life Remix)"

2010

• MVSEVM - "French Jeans (Dada Life Remix)"
• Young Rebels & Francesco Diaz - Damascus (Dada Life Remix)
• Erik Hassle - "Hurtful (Dada Life Remix)"
• Gravitonas - "Kites (Dada Life Remix)"
• Tim Berg - "Alcoholic (Dada Life Remix)"
• Kaskade - "Dynasty (Dada Life Remix)"
• Dan Black feat. Kid Cudi - "Symphonies (Dada Life Remix)"
• Chickenfoot - "Oh Yeah (Dada Life Remix)"
• Kylie Minogue - "All The Lovers (Dada Life Remix)"
• Gravitonas - "Religious (Dada Life Remix)"
• Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - "Hello (Dada Life Remix)"
• Bart Claessen - "Catch Me (Dada Life Remix)"
• Malente - "Music Forever (Dada Life Remix)"
• Boy 8-Bit - "Suspense Is Killing Me (Dada Life Guerilla Fart #5)"
• Staygold - "Video Kick Snare (Dada Life Remix)"
• Designer Drugs - "Through the Prism (Dada Life Remix)"

2011

• Lady Gaga - "Born This Way (Dada Life Remix)"
• Hardwell - "Encoded (Dada Life Remix)"
• Mustard Pimp - "ZHM (Dada Life Remix)"
• David Guetta & Taio Cruz - "Little Bad Girl (Dada Life Remix)"
• Duck Sauce - "Big Bad Wolf (Dada Life Remix)"
• Chuckie - "Who Is Ready To Jump (Dada Life Remix)"
• November fall- Deejay Smiley (Dada Life included)

2012

• Afrojack & R3hab - "Prutataaa (Dada Life Remix)"

Albums

2009

• Just Do the Dada

2010

• Just Do the Dada (Extended and Remixes)

External links

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