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GANG GANG DANCE
(USA, The Social Registry Records)

With Special Guests
AMBULANCE
(
Front End Synthetics /
Planet Mu Records)
&
UNITED BIBLE STUDIES


Skinny Wolves Club
The Hub, Temple Bar, Dublin

Thursday 31st August

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ABOUT GANG GANG DANCE:

Gods Money Press Release
With God’s Money Gang Gang Dance creates a modern music which reorients the palette of electronic music into an organic context, manipulating sound, rhythm and melody in an almost mercurial manner. Painstakingly recorded over the course of a year at Junkyard Audio Salvage, the band utilized whatever means were available to them to craft their sound: drums of all shapes, sizes and circuits, various keyboards and synthesizers, miditriggering guitar scenarios, vocals reconfi gured via a guitar effect pedal and even the occasional aluminum chair. Blending their hypnotic rhythms into a highly structured compositional style or soaring in the lofty heights of practiced improvisation, this recording follows in the footsteps of the bands previous output, all while marking new ground.

In between writing and recording God’s Money GGD spent the last year playing to packed houses in NYC, Europe and on the road with Animal Collective. Exploding with an energy & confi dence rarely seen these days and coupling it with such a heightened level of musicianship the band has turned even the most casual of spectators into full on believers. With magazines such as The Wire, The Village Voice, I.D. & XLR8R having already run features on the band, the press is falling into the ranks of the converted.

God’s Money is the height of GGD’s uncompromising sonic pursuit which has spanned the better part of the band’s fi ve year history. Some of this can be gleamed from previous groups the members have been in, including Cranium, Actress, Ssaab Songs & Angel Blood. Though God’s Money may be interpreted as the band’s high-water mark of sorts it is much more the raising of the tide as they continually to push the boundaries of the palette of sound itself with no sign waning.

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The art rock underground in brooklyn is always percolating, but lately there’s something scalding in the water, considering the brilliantly disparate sounds of sightings, animal collective, double leopards, excepter, mouthus, all the outsider outfits on the space is no place compilations and so much more. Gang Gang Dance just might be the tip of this sky high geyser. This lp, their first official release (aside from last years’ super limited revival of the shittest cd-r), is an absolute mind washer, two sidelong tracks of elongated vocals, 3d percussion, electronic breakdowns and skinraising noise. While brian degraw and tim dewitt spent the late 90s pumping helium into the chaotic and underapreciated mathpunk outfit the cranium, and josh diamond previously pinch hit for jackie-o motherfucker, no one could have predicted the bracingly originality of their new ensemble.

Gang gang dance begins with the moans of the quartets other conspirator, liz bougatsos. Warpy synth sounds and sharp snare slaps dart around the group’s vocal calisthenics, forging a cacophony of pointed bursts that tantalisingly refuses to solidify. Halfway through side one, a half song emerges, alternating boerdoms-like mayhem with a stair-climbing bass/piano chorus. But as soon as ggd’s rickety chair starts to rock, the splatter melts into a sparkling, spooky keybooard loop that’s all glitter and radiance, the aural equivalent projected on the back of one’s eyelids. The side ends with an abrasive mechanical rhythm that sounds like sandpaper rubbing itself to sleep.

Side two is more disjointed, with ghosts of the early residents and their carny-inspired fog emerging through the group’s warped nursery rhymes. It ends with two huge crescendoes of pingponging drums, sun-staring vocals, and thick-guitar sheen. The group’s ability to organically seed their slow-forming soundclouds makes the album’s seamless flow attain the stupeying logic of a dream.
-- from the wire (REVIEW FROM JULY 2004)


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A brooklyn quartet that has risen from the graves of some recent underground legends, most notably absurdist-rock outfit the cranium. The band has been sporadically spotted in venues around new york for the past couple of years; revival of the shittest is its first release, a cd-r issued in an edition so small some of the band members probably don’t have copies. The eight untitled tracks here are all stunners. Most start with random percussion that melts into a swirling pool of guitar spikes, electronic whirr, and ghostly post-mortem singing, parts of which sound like the dying output of a long-broken trs-80 computer. Gang gang dance’s primary tactic is to build semi-robotic loops that slowly swallow themselves, like frogs jumping into each other’s mouths. Tracks two and three in particular are mini-symphonies, wherein cycling drums, drizzling piano riffs, and unidentifiable screams fuse into a crafted pile of startling internal logic. Again the specter of the residents arises, mostly in ggd’s uncanny ability to order its chaos into an arty kind of masked theater. A more reasonably available ggd lp is imminent, courtesy of brooklyn label (and underground mail order center) fusetron, but it’ll be a sickening shame if revival doesn’t eventually get a wider run.
- from the baltimore city pages (REVIEW FROM FALL 2003)

AMBULANCE

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Planet Mu continues on its mission with another new release and yet another strong debut – this being the long awaited first album from Dublin’s Dunk & Trev, aka Ambulance. Their sound takes a skewed look at IDM, setting the agenda brilliantly on the opening “Tickle”. The elements are all familiar, the delivery is not. Crunchy beats and squashed production are the order of the day, the overall effect tainted by a strange off-kilter arrangement and a strangely infectious cacophony. The title track, meanwhile, consists of an appregiated bassline that builds up the anticipation for a drop that just doesn’t make an appearance – perhaps reminding us most of Max Tundra’s work on the excellent “Some best friend..” album, or New Order if their drum machines were confiscated. The uplifting electronic crunch of “Kurant” is perhaps the album’s most straightforward track, an infusion of heart-tugging melodies, lullaby progressions and a metallic edge that's a good antithesis to the messiness found elsewhere. Not an instant album, but one with the kind of originality that's all too scarce these days. Check.
- Boomkat / The Curse Of Vale Do Lobo Review


UNITED BIBLE STUDIES

Originally formed as a duo with an unhealthy desire to emulate the incredible string band, UBS quickly evolved into a collective and laid the groundwork for the deserted village label and events. Since their formation in winter 2001 they have played and recorded sporadically-never settling on one recording method, never settling on one line-up.

The new album on Deadslackstring "The Shore that Fears the Sea" shows a love of the unadorned beauty of Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs and Vashti Bunyan as well as the work of Current 93, Coil and Sol Invictus. Sparse folk sidles up to a more melodic take on free improv and tales of loss and pagan longing abound. If they could exist anywhere, they would be playing in the green man when Sergeant Howie arrives.

Since their sun worship ritual at The Mór Festival in 2003, the students have increased their activities. The set, which included radical reworkings of of some of their quiet new folk songs has been edging towards a more Pharoah Sanders/ Emperor/ Can hybrid thanks to the new drums and horns helping them to blaze brighter in the northern skye. Live shows throughout Ireland and Britain including the Leechrum Festival have seen them wildly improvise with up to twelve members or play straight trad as a trio. Their philosophy is that all paths are equal, all approaches relevant. Members have sometimes met on stage for the first time.


More Info:
GANG GANG DANCE

http://www.myspace.com/ganggangdance
http://www.thesocialregistry.com
AMBULANCE
http://www.myspace.com/dunkntrev
http://www.myspace.com/childrenofmu
http://www.myspace.com/frontendsynthetics
UBS
http://www.myspace.com/unitedbiblestudies
http://www.desertedvillage.com/

SKINNY WOLVES
http://www.myspace.com/skinnywolves
http://www.skinnywolves.com
 

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