Jump Jump Dance Dance just added to Future Music Festival!
January 18, 2010 Posted by Eva at 12:05 pm
etcetc are pleased to announce that L.A. electro-rock duo Jump Jump Dance Dance have just been added to the Future Music Festival lineup, along with Spank Rock and Bag Raiders!
With a hot Grum remix of their next single ‘Show Me the Night’ out soon, accompanied by a video directed by the brilliant Claire Carré (Sia ‘Soon We’ll Be Found‘) to come, 2010 is the year that Jump Jump Dance Dance will make you do just that.
Download their current single ‘Do It For Love‘ for FREE right here.
Future Music Festival Lineup:
The Prodigy
Empire Of The Sun
Franz Ferdinand
David Guetta
Booka Shade
Erick Morillo
John Digweed
Sven Vath
Above & Beyond
Dubfire
Boys Noize
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Spankrock
Way Out West
Operator Please
Bag Raiders
Space Invadas
Jump Jump Dance Dance
Super8 & Tab
Jaytech
Mat Zo
Dates:
Sat 27th Feb – Future Music Festival, Brisbane
Sun 28th Feb – Future Music Festival, Perth
Sat 6th Mar – Future Music Festival, Sydney
Sun 7th Mar – Future Music Festival, Melbourne
Mon 8th Mar – Future Music Festival, Adelaide
New from The Knife: “Tomorrow, In A Year”
January 11, 2010 Posted by Eva at 4:15 pm
The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, are to release their new album “Tomorrow, In A Year”, the studio version of their opera based on the works of Charles Darwin.
Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book ‘On the Origin of the Species’, The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme.
They extensively researched Darwin related literature and articles, with Olof attending a field recording workshop in the Amazon to find inspiration and to record sounds. ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ is a unique musical project. Richard Dawkins’s gene trees have formed the basis of some of the musical composition, artificial sounds have been mixed with field recordings, with the music inspired by everything from the different stages of a bird learning its melody, to a song based on Darwin’s loving letters about his daughter Anne. These are compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music.
Pushing the experimental process further still, composer, choreographer, costume designer and set designer worked separately, only coming together 3 and a half months before the first performance of ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ in Copenhagen on the 2nd September 2009. Described as “shifting the position of operartic art in a single leap”, future performances of ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ are confirmed to take place in Athens (8-9 Jan), Stockholm (29 Jan-1 Feb), and Munster (5 June), with further dates to be announced.
Olof Dreijer says: “At first it was very difficult as we really didn’t know anything about opera. We’d never been to one. I didn’t even know what the word libretto meant. But after some studying, and just getting used to opera’s essence of pretentious and dramatic gestures, I found that there is a lot to learn and play with. In fact, our ignorance gave us a positive respectless approach to making opera. It took me about a year to become emotionally moved by an opera singer and now I really do. I really like the basic theatrical values of opera and the easy way it brings forward a narrative. We’ve approached this before in The Knife but never in such a clear way.”
Album ‘Tomorrow, in a Year’ will be released on 5th March 2010 on etcetc Music.
Stream single ‘Colouring Of Pigeons’ now from www.theknife.net.
For your Hottest 100 consideration…
January 11, 2010 Posted by Eva at 11:53 am
2009 was a big year for etcetc: Lost Valentinos, Fever Ray, Two Door Cinema Club, autoKratz, Duck Sauce, Cassius, Beni, Datarock, Jenny Wilson, MSTRKRFT, Jump Jump Dance Dance…we could go on. Now that it’s time to vote in the Triple J Hottest 100, may we present our extremely biased list of the top songs of ‘09: