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* "[[Cruel Intentions (Simian Mobile Disco song)|Cruel Intentions]]" featuring [[Beth Ditto]] from [[Gossip (band)|Gossip]] (January 2010) with remixes by Joker, Greg Wilson, Maurice Fulton and Heartbreaks
* "[[Cruel Intentions (Simian Mobile Disco song)|Cruel Intentions]]" featuring [[Beth Ditto]] from [[Gossip (band)|Gossip]] (January 2010) with remixes by Joker, Greg Wilson, Maurice Fulton and Heartbreaks
* "Aspic" / "Nerve Salad" (23 April 2010)
* "Aspic" / "Nerve Salad" (23 April 2010)
* "Casu Marzu" / "1000 Year Egg" (6 September 2010)
* "Casu Marzu" / "Thousand Year Egg" (6 September 2010)
* "Skin Cracker" / "Hákarl" (8 November 2010)
* "Skin Cracker" / "Hákarl" (8 November 2010)
* "Sweetbread" / "Ortolan" (8 December 2010)
* "Sweetbread" / "Ortolan" (8 December 2010)
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* "Seraphim" (12 April 2012)
* "Seraphim" (12 April 2012)
* "Your Love Ain't Fair" / "Witches of Agnesi" (2012)
* "Your Love Ain't Fair" / "Witches of Agnesi" (2012)
* "Tong Zi Dan" / "Escamoles" / "Smalahove" (2013)
* "Tong Zi Dan" / "Escamoles" / "Smalahove" (2013) (with remix by Mike Dehnert)
* "Surstromming" / "Sannakji" (2013) (collaboration with [[Cosmin TRG]])
* "Surstromming" / "Sannakji" (2013) (collaboration with [[Cosmin TRG]])
* "Breaking Time Remixes" (29 April 2013)
* "Breaking Time Remixes" (29 April 2013) (remixes of track on ''A Form Of Change'' by John Tejada and Naum Gabo)
* "Sacrifice" (10 June 2013) (collaboration with Bicep)
* "Sacrifice" (10 June 2013) (collaboration with Bicep) (includes two beatless versions)
* "Snake Bile Wine" (20 January 2014)<ref>[http://www.juno.co.uk/products/simian-mobile-disco-snake-bile-wine/516302-01/ Juno Records - SMD: Snake Bile Wine 12" vinyl]</ref>
* "Snake Bile Wine" (20 January 2014)<ref>[http://www.juno.co.uk/products/simian-mobile-disco-snake-bile-wine/516302-01/ Juno Records - SMD: Snake Bile Wine 12" vinyl]</ref> (with remix by Trevino)
* "Hachinoko" / "Ikizukuri" (2014) (collaboration with [[Roman Flügel]])
* "Hachinoko" / "Ikizukuri" (2014) (collaboration with [[Roman Flügel]]) (includes alternate mix of "Ikizukuri")
* "Tangents" / "Blake's Hitch" (1 July 2014) (with video accompaniment by Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone)
* "Tangents" / "Blake's Hitch" (1 July 2014) (with video accompaniment by Hans Lo and Jack Featherstone)
* "Dervish" / "Gamma Gulch" (29 July 2014)
* "Dervish" / "Gamma Gulch" (29 July 2014)
* "Staring At All This Handle" / "Sky On The Floor" (27 May 2016)
* "Staring At All This Handle" / "Sky On The Floor" (27 May 2016) (with remixes by Perc and Volte-Face)
* "Remember In Reverse" / "Soft Attack" (15 July 2016)
* "Remember In Reverse" / "Soft Attack" (15 July 2016) (with remix by DJ Hyperactive)
* "Far Away From A Distance" / "Flying or Falling" (TBC 2016)
* "Far Away From A Distance" / "Flying or Falling" (TBC 2016) (with remix by Lena Willikens)


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Revision as of 00:31, 5 September 2016

Simian Mobile Disco
Simian Mobile Disco performing at Melt! Festival 2013
Simian Mobile Disco performing at Melt! Festival 2013
Background information
OriginLondon, England
GenresElectronic, house, tech house, electro house, nu-disco
Years active2003–present
LabelsKitsuné, Wichita
MembersJames Ford
Jas Shaw
Websitewww.simianmobiledisco.co.uk

Simian Mobile Disco are an English electronic music duo and production team from London, formed in 2003 by James Ford and Jas Shaw of the band Simian. Musically, they are known for their analogue production. Ford is also known for his production work.

History

Early history

Simian Mobile Disco originally formed as a DJ duo, on the side of their early four-piece band Simian.[1] They released a number of early tastemaker singles, such as "The Mighty Atom / Boatrace / Upside Down" on I'm a Cliché and "The Count", on Kitsuné, but gained more fame for their remixes of artists such as Muse, Klaxons, The Go! Team, Air and others. In 2006, Kitsuné released the duo's underground hit "Hustler", which features guest vocals from New York singer Char Johnson.

2007: Attack Decay Sustain Release

The band's debut album, Attack Decay Sustain Release was released on 18 June 2007 on Wichita Recordings. Among the tracks included on it are "Sleep Deprivation", "Hustler", "Tits and Acid", "I Believe", "Hot Dog" and lead single "It's the Beat", which features Ninja from UK indie band The Go! Team on vocals. The album contains five new tracks, and the European version includes a bonus disc. The album was preceded by mix compilations in April for the "Bugged Out" series.

SMD supported Klaxons at the Brixton Academy on 5 December 2007, The Chemical Brothers at the Birmingham National Indoor Arena on 7 December 2007, at Aintree Pavilion on 9 December 2007 and Brighton Centre on 12 December 2007. SMD made a mix for Mixmag that came free with the January 2008 issue of Mixmag.

2008–09: Temporary Pleasure

While working on their second studio album, they released a collection of remixed SMD originals entitled Sample and Hold, which contains eleven tracks and was released in the UK on 28 July 2008.

In January 2009, they announced on their Myspace page that a new album would be released in 2009. They released a new track, "Synthesise", on 12 February, through a music video (directed by Kate Moross and Alex Sushon) that "features live visual accompaniment" for the track.[2] Two days later, a new song was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 named "10,000 Horses Can't Be Wrong", soon followed by the release on 6 March of the official music video on their YouTube channel.

Their second studio album Temporary Pleasure was finally announced on 6 May, featuring many guests including Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Beth Ditto of Gossip, and Chris Keating of Yeasayer.[3][4]

On New Year's Eve 2009 Simian Mobile Disco headlined "Get Loaded in the Dark" at the Brixton Academy, alongside Annie Mac (BBC Radio 1), Chase & Status, Herve and Sub Focus.

2010–11: Delicatessen and Delicacies

During the introduction of their Essential Mix made for Radio 1, broadcast on 9 January 2010, they gave hints on what would be a "techno-based album" expected for later in 2010.[5] Since then, the duo has also established what will be a quarterly residency to JDH and Dave P's Fixed nights, in NYC.[6]

In March 2010 the duo announced their new club-night project, Delicatessen, curated by the duo and accompanied by what they say to be "a brand new imprint" titled Delicacies. The first single on Delicacies was set to be released in late May, both physically and then digitally. The first two tracks are entitled "Aspic" and "Nerve Salad". Simian Mobile Disco announced that every track will "take the name of an exotic, and often bizarre, delicacy from around the world".[7]

Simian Mobile Disco played the Together Winter Music Festival at the Alexandra Palace in London on 26 November 2011.

2012–13: Unpatterns

Simian Mobile Disco at Amnesia, 2012

In February 2012, Simian Mobile Disco announced the follow-up to Delicacies, Unpatterns, which was released on 14 May 2012. "Seraphim" was released as the album's lead single on 9 April.[8] On 2 October 2012 they released their fourth EP A Form of Change, whose four tracks included on the release were taken from Unpatterns recording sessions.[9]

2014–2015: Whorl

In March 2014, it was announced that on 26 April 2014, Simian Mobile Disco would be recording for a new album, Whorl, at an intimate show in Pioneertown, CA (near the Joshua Tree National Park).[10] The two band members performed using only one synthesizer and one sequencer each. The recorded tracks were then polished in their studio for the eventual album release.

2016-present

After wrapping touring and support for Whorl, the duo took a short hiatus in 2015. Ford produced albums for Florence and the Machine, Mumford & Sons, Foals and The Last Shadow Puppets, while Shaw built a new studio and released a series of solo EPs. The duo announced in 2016 that they would release four singles, totalling eight new tracks, during the year born out of jam sessions in the new studio. As of July, two of these singles have been released. The singles see the duo abandoning the tradition of naming their traditional techno tracks after exotic cuisine, "for the simple reason that we've pretty much run out of weird and wonderful food stuffs to steal names from. Instead, a semi-random automated process has been used to create the track names".[11]

Members

In addition to his work with Simian Mobile Disco, Ford is a producer and has worked with artists such as Florence and the Machine, Peaches, Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons. Shaw has released three solo EPs to date on the band's Delicacies label.

Discography

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