Topic: Simian Mobile Disco

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Simian Mobile Disco

Fixed's JDH and Dave P are back with their Fixed fiesta. The date is doubling as a celebration of both the duo's new mix-CD, Simian Mobile Disco Is Fixed (Defend Music) and a new collection of buzzy-beat tunes, Delicacies (on ...

CROCODILES

Tweet This Spring, the California kids in Crocodiles launched an all-out assault on pretty boy rock, sending their surfer anthems through the speakers with a side of feedback and lyrics like "I'm gonna kill tonight" to go with their hushed, mellow ...

Our favourite new festival bands

Stag and Dagger festival, based in and around Shoreditch, has proved a welcome shot in the arm for one-day music festivals as the likes of Camden Crawl become ever more bloated. Sunderbans were one such band, the earnest three-piece recalling the likes ...

CDs of the week

POP CALVIN HARRIS Ready For the Weekend (Columbia) *** Producer Calvin Harris makes an unlikely pop star. As with his writing for other artists, Harris is working to a formula here and there's no point searching for meaning where there is deliberately ...

Plug into Cable at SE1

Once upon a time, the area around London Bridge launched a musical revolution. But while this sound went on to transform clubland, London Bridge fizzled out to become just a place where wide-eyed ravers caught the first train home. On the busy ...

Sound check: Diamond Girl

DIAMOND GIRL In kung-fu films, you should always watch the quiet guy at the sidelines. This summer she's laying the groundwork, appearing at almost every festival in the country, including two shows at Glastonbury tomorrow, and playing with Paolo Nutini when ...

Arctic Monkeys man goes back to Simian roots

Arctic Monkeys producer James Ford is set to move from behind the mixing desk as he puts the finishing touches to the second album of his own project, " Simian Mobile Disco" (SMD).Ford is the latest artist to demonstrate that the producer ...
Somewhere between recording sessions with Klaxons and drumming with the Last Shadow Puppets, producer James Ford has found time to work on his own music with Simian Mobile Disco. And far from just faffing about on his keyboard, he and fellow Simian ...

FabricLive 41: Simian Mobile Disco

Simian Mobile Disco is the British DJ-production duo that arose from the ashes of Simian, the shambolic indie-rock combo that went belly-up in 2004. Like any great set, the tracks are the main thing, and James Ford and Jas Shaw have cast ...