PARKLIFE 2010
October 4th 2010 14:28
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Starring (in alphabetical order)
PARKLIFE 2010
Starring (in alphabetical order)
AC SLATER
I just found out what an AC Slater actually is. While it doesn't bear repeating on this wholesome website you can read the definition in all its scata-sexual gory detail here. The AC Slater we're concerned with, though, is the genre mashing Brooklyn DJ that made his name last year with a massive mix of Drop The Lime's 'Hear Me'. One of the top blogged dance artists in the world (see Hype Machine chart), widely acknowledged for the dubstep revival in North America and for his dirty relentless style, Slater's army of world-class supporters include Moby, Armand Van Helden, Crookers, Diplo, Laidback Luke and Drop The Lime.
AJAX
A heart-warming inclusion on our belter of a line-up, Ajax has been working his cotton socks off with his Sweat It Out label. Fellow Parklife acts Yolanda Be Cool and Dcup are on the books, as are Killa Queenz. As well as playing consistently cracking sets at clubs up and down the country, Ajax has a new album on release, 'Billion Dollar House Party' featuring lots of big fun tracks and is currently working with lil' Wayne on a new single. Look out!
BAG RAIDERS
The Baggies are back and bigger than a fat ladies sock. Fresh from a US stint, with their new album out around the same time we are on tour (wink, wink) and a new LIVE show up their sleeves (live guitar, keyboards, percussion, bells and whistles), the Sydney dancefloor princes bring the ruckus and then some to Parklife this year.
BRODINSKI
Brodinski is clearly the coolest 22 year old man floating around the world and quite possibly the best looking DJ ever. His knowledge of tech, deep tech, tech house, indie techno and all things dance is amazing. Known for his forward thinking productions, awesome DJ sets and futuristic playlists. Oh and did I mention he is really really good looking?
BUSY P
We heart Busy P and he hearts us - lets all join hands and heart each other as our unofficial Parklife Maitre'd and all-round entertaining good-guy skateboards back onto our stage and into our lives, bringing us all together over our love of a good time and disco-indie-electro-pop-rock- Swedish-death-metal-reggae (ok maybe not the last part but you can never say never)
The former manager of Daft Punk and mastermind head honcho of the Ed Banger label, Busy P continues to live up to his rep, not only managing big time French artists like Justice, SebastiAn, Feadz and some of this year's Parklife crew Mehdi and Uffie, but also producing many of the label's releases.
If Parklife was a person and had a BFF, it would be Busy P.
CHIDDY BANG
This is the true story of two college kids from Philly who rocked some parties at college and quickly gained the attention of "the industry". The music and lyrics were inspired by many boring trips on the Chinatown bus (they have wifi now!) on the way to meet "big wigs" in NYC. After a bunch of nice dinners and some free drinks for these 2 underage kids, Chiddy Bang decided to make a mixtape called "The Swelly Express". It lit up blogs across the world and now they are here to rock you with their unique blend of old skool rap and modern electronica. The end.
CLASSIXX
WHY DO WE LOVE CLASSIXX??
Well for a start, unless you were under a pretty massive rock last summer you definitely had your heart warmed by their truly beautiful mix of Yacht's 'psychic city'.
These two young bucks are barely in their 20's and are already touring the world igniting dancefloors with their classy laid back disco grooves / throbbing brand of down tempo disco.
Their remixes ooze ionized pillows of synth and a zen-like cool that blooms only when confident hands are on the wheel.
Classixx capture the essence of the 80's more than Miami Vice, Knightrider and Never Ending Story refined and distilled.
Last year they managed to make Phoenix sound poppier. Do you know how hard that is? That's like making a shitter version of Nickelback- nigh impossible.
CUT COPY
We are slightly more than excited about our Cut Copy compadres' inclusion in the Parklife posse this year. For a start, they will play their first shows in ages at Parklife, having just put the final touches on their rumoured to be best-yet 3rd album. Plus, when we hear Cut Copy we're instantly transported to an ecstatic place where it's already summer, surrounded by our friends and everybody loves the sunshine. Ahhhhh.
DAN BLACK
He's a bit spacey and a bit pop and a bit hip-hop all at the same time. As creative and re-playable as debut albums get, Dan Black's 'UN' combines big, tasty beats and production with panache. A multi-layered pop-genius intent on bringing art to the dance floor, Black is the master of mixing musical elements and styles from multiple sources to create something unique. Check out his 'Weird Science' mixtape online; he flips the switch on hip-hop and old-school tunes and literally turns them into something entirely new and fun to listen to. We're giving him the thumbs up!
DARWIN DEEZ
Feeling chirpy? You will be! Darwin Deez are the perfect mix of surf-pop, indie rock with a huge slab of pop chucked in for good measure. NME have dubbed them "Totally fucking awesome" we DARE you not to like these tres cool New Yorkers.
Known for breaking out a certain well-known choreographed dance routine at the drop of a hipsters hat, we think you will like it and put a ring on it.
DELOREAN
They gave us the running of the bulls*, the world's largest tomato fight, Flamenco Dancing, Paella and Picasso to name a few and now those crazy Spaniards have gifted us with Delorean, a 4-piece band gone global since their remixes for The xx, Cold Cave, Franz Ferdinand and the release of their EP 'Ayrton Senna'. So there is hope for my Michael Schumacher mega mix after all. Ole!
The Latin rockers dig deep and mine the collective Balearic dance-music heritage, combining it with indie pop, euro techno and hip hop for a quality live set filled with energy, passion and hands in the air festival moments. As I write this, Delorean's new album Subiza drops from the stars and into my hands like chorizo from heaven. Taste it, it's really really good.
*No bulls were harmed during the writing of this bio.
DJ MEHDI
Highly in-demand DJ-producer Mehdi is a connoisseur of all that is urban, from hip hop to house to jazz and the mash-up of anything in-between. He is the hubby of French street artist Fafi and buddies with Busy P (as well as being on Busy's label, Ed Banger). Mehdi's remix resume goes widescope from Busta Rhymes to Santigold, from Ghostface Killah to CSS, from Cassius to Sebastian Tellier. When it comes to this remix game, he has only one rule: first there is THE BEAT.
GROOVE ARMADA
4 words: Black Light LIVE show
Producing a career-defining crossover album eleven years after your debut is quite some feat. Groove Armada have pulled it off in stunning fashion. Jam packed with synth-pop symphonies and electromagnetic philharmonic tracks that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, they're jacking the shake'n'vac over crunching house crunk: kind of dirty, yet sugar sexy. Black Light is quite possibly their best album yet. Groove Armada's Black Light LIVE show will leave you electrifyingly satisfied yet hungry for more.
GRUM
You're going to have be hanging with Osama Bin Laden to avoid having your brain annexed by Grum's track Heartbeat' over the coming months, it represents perfection of the form, right from the Casio-plonking opening notes to its maddeningly addictive one word chorus. I haven't been able to take it off repeat for a week.
In the same way that Mylo forged a sheeny blur of disco, electro, house and techno, all rolled into one pile of dislocated hips, Grum's doing his bit to keep things heady. To quote NME.. 'Move over Mylo, wherever you are'.
GYPSY & THE CAT
Described as an "Early slice of summer" by The Times, supported by airplay from Triple J and Mark Ronson's East Village radio show Gypsy and the Cat combines contemporary electro with folk-pop and soft, warm vocals with a catchy cosmic hook. Influenced by a mixture of musical legends ranging from Fleetwood Mac to Jeff Buckley and modern DJs from Justice to Daft Punk, Gypsy & the Cat make the perfect summer sunshine music, instant and endearing dream-pop. Be amongst the first to witness Gypsy and The Cat, live at Parklife.
HOLY GHOST!
Known for their class-A remixing skills they took a break from that and decided to blow all our minds with their own jams. With fluid basslines, handclaps, conga and slithering, sexy disco beats, their EP Static On the Wire stands out as a shining debut. Its like their stuff comes from a planet where the 80's was just that wee bit cooler than here on earth. Holy Ghost! ensure I will come back for more and you will too after you catch their LIVE show at Parklife.
JACK BEATS
JACK BEATS represent everything we love about the new wave of British dance music. Wobbly basslines, big breakdowns and edgy accapella's are cut, copied and pasted together to create a floor-filling hybrid, bound to rock the foundations of Parklife to its very core.
JESSE ROSE
Berlin-based J-E-S-S-E R-O-S-E is the man that can make you jump up and down in a repetitive way that makes you tired but always wanting more. Describing his own sound as 'batty tango house with a twist of lime', his tunes are bursting with untamable energy, not to mention enough tweaked synths to keep you twisting and turning across the dancefloor for days on a pure jackin' house workout. Which begs the question, what would you do if you don't?
KELE
When we heard Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke was holed up recording his solo album, we figured it wasn't going to be another jagged post-punk affair. But we never expected something so irresistibly danceable! With a full live band in tow presenting The Boxer's textures in an entirely new light, in addition to showcasing Kele's incredible voice (which sounds bigger and better than ever) we can't wait to be ringside watching this heavyweight performer belting out a combo of Bloc Party riots and his own array of tunes.
MEMORY TAPES
We saw this musical genius live at SXSW this year and were jaws on the floor knocked out, head-over-heels in love! Dayve Hawk is a music industry rarity - a reluctant rock star. He's like the anti-Bono. Better known as Memory Tapes (an amalgam of previous monikers Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes), Hawk doesn't own a phone or know how to drive but damn he knows how to make great music
You CAN NOT miss Memory Tapes live.
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS
Midnight Juggernauts circle past Saturn and head back to Earth via Parklife with a new live show featuring album number two of dizzying kaleidoscopic pop, 'The Crystal Axis'. The Juggers will be showcasing everything they learned on the way out into the great unknown: throbbing synth lines, floor-stomping beats, ethereal vocals and a bold willingness to test the limits of gravity. Cosmic realm, electronic weirdness and psychedelic 70s grooves, conquering the heavens and Parklife 2010!
MISSY ELLIOTT
One of the most innovative and genre defying artists of the last fifteen years, six-time Grammy award winner Missy Elliott is a bona-fide icon. With a solid entourage in tow including a new live band, Missy will be throwing down her new tracks for your auditory pleasure alongside the tunes that put six platinum selling albums under her belt (the only female rapper to achieve this), a slew of hit singles both as a singer and a songwriter, and a sound that has influenced a whole generation of artists. The Get Ur Freak On songstress promises to bring the party atmosphere to Parklife, but will we get the famous floor-shaking formation dance routines from Misdemeanor and crew? Come and find out!!
MIX MASTER MIKE
Named as one of the greatest DJs of all time by USA Today and winner of the DMC World title for three consecutive years, serial wax killer and contributor to the legendary Beastie Boys Mixmaster Mike is known for his heavy-hitting bass and intricate scratch routines. There is nothing that this guy can't touch and turn to dancefloor gold, playing an intricate mash up of hip-hop-rock-dance-indie that will move you from the inside out.
NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB
It's been a while since they were here, July 08 in fact, when they were mere foals - forget everything you thought you knew about New Young Pony Club, because they are back with a champion of a brand new album and it's all changed. If '07's critically acclaimed 'Fantastic Playroom' was the culmination of the hybrid disco sound they pioneered, 'The Optimist' heralds the beginning of a brave new future for the band. New Young Pony Club will be showing us what they're made of with a new LIVE show at Parklife, giddy up guys 'cos we can't wait!
SINDEN
Straddling a bass heavy club sound that also encompasses leftfield rock music and global beats, Sinden is renowned for his genre-blending DJ sets, cracklin' hot radio show, his banging remixes, and for being the Sinden in hotly tipped 'The Count & Sinden'.
His DJ career sees him criss-crossing the globe turning clubs on their heads with his fresh, eclectic sound and throwing Count & Sinden's Mega Warehouse parties in the UK.
SOULWAX
Fuzzy favourites and audio-visual luminaries Soulwax return to Parklife showcasing their brand-new-fresh live show paired with awesome new tracks to blow you into the middle of next year. Real brothers David & Stephen (aka 2 Many DJs), who along with their Soulwax brothers (Stefaan and Steve) defined early noughties electronic music, have sweated at approximately 120 live venues and festivals worldwide. It's perhaps the very essence of that collective sweat that's given them the special powers to produce hugely successful tracks for the likes of Tiga and remixes for Gorillaz, Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem, smashing speakers across the globe. Catch their latest edition of party-rockin' greatness exclusively at Parklife 2010.
THE DANDY WARHOLS
It is with great pleasure that we announce the modern day psychedelic, pop/rock icons The Dandy Warhols, responsible for some of the catchiest lyrics in modern rock and stars of the sundance-award-winning-cult-i ndie-doco DIG! which witnessed the now legendary warring between the Dandys and The Brian Jones Town Massacre (if you haven't seen it - DO!)
After skyrocketing to success in the late '90s with their hits "Not if You Were The Last Junkie on Earth" and "Bohemian Like You" The Dandy's became a force to be reckoned with, internationally renowned for their live performances, both sonically & visually, the band have not only gained, but sustained, a reputation for incredible sell-out shows.
THE GLITCH MOB
Fair warning: the Glitch Mob's motto is "We slay crowds" and they mean it. Comprised of DJs edIT, Boreta and Ooah, the California threesome specializes in futuristic dance floor crunk, glitched out beats, grinding bass lines and experimental textures, in the programmed style of Justice, exploding out of their laptops to make an auditory assault on your ears.
THE SWISS
Like a shy teenager blossoming into glamorous adulthood, The Swiss emerge sexy and triumphant with flowy dancefloor arrangements of the disco kind.
They played a warm-up LIVE set at Parklife Adelaide last year and were so awesome we signed them up IMMEDIATELY for the entire Parklife 2010 tour.
With quicksand laser-sludge bass, dizzy pops & flourishes, melody rays and synthesised strings gliding on the thermal currents of life, this is what real disco did/does/should sound like. It's as much a breathy telephone call as it is a mid-range Bordeaux shared between ensconced lovers.
THE WOMBATS
While we're still working out whether we really should dance around like crazy to The Wombats drily comic 'Let's dance to Joy Division' (winner of Best Dancefloor Filler at the 2008 NME Awards), the band are holed up pre-Parklife finishing their hotly anticipated new album, and we can't wait to hear it LIVE.
UFFIE
Armed with extreme Parisian brattitude, underground style and the pioneering flirty auto-tune style she raps in, Uffie is blowing up even more this year (hopefully not literally!) and taking it to the next level, collaborating with Pharrell and ex-rapture bassist/vocalist Matt Safer on her latest album release 'Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans'.
Wannabes are jacking her style left right and centre(stage) but you and I know that Uffie OWNS electro-rap. She was poppin' the glock when Ke$ha was still singing into a hairbrush. Miaow.
WASHINGTON
With a background ranging from an appearance in Woody Allen's band to cabaret festivals, busking and formal jazz training, the eponymous Megan Washington's approach is nothing if not diverse.
Washington has racked up plenty of kudos, winning Triple J unearthed and the inaugural Vanda and Young songwriting competition. The confident title track from their EP "Rich Kids" is intelligent pop at its best, we guarantee it will urge you to break out in dance!
WOLF GANG
No, we didn't dig up a famous dead Austrian composer, but we are more than happy to introduce you to a pack of young cubs by the name of Wolf Gang. Word on the street is that Max (frontman) "will only record his vocals at night, barefoot and with a cup of cinnamon tea to hand."
Yeah, he is English. How did you guess?
Wolf Gang make opulent, pure, melodic rockin' post-modern pop. Their sound is unique, catchy, happy and BIG. Doesn't get much sweeter than that, does it?
YOLANDA BE COOL
Number one in the ARIA dance chart (at the time of writing) with almost 5 million youtube hits (despite having no official video), 'We No Speak Americano' is Yolanda Be Cool and Dcup's first collaboration and needless to say, it has become mind-bogglingly massive and solidified them as some of the biggest DJs / producers in the country.
Dcup's meteoric rise to the forefront of the world's dance scene has happened in about the same time as a girl in LA can go from being a B cup to a D cup. If there was any doubt about where he's at, his remix of 'Filterfreak' hit number one on the ARIA club chart.
Yolanda Be Cool is amongst the rising stars of the 'party-tech-sound. With their first original release 'Afro Nuts' being licensed to Fabric 49 mixed by Buraka Som Sistema and signed as an exclusive license to Herve's Cheaps Thrills label, Yolanda Be Cool has quickly become a familiar name worldwide.
FLIGHT FACILITIES FT. GISELLE
Let me introduce you to the latest Aussie musical enigma. In fact, no one aside from the group and their record label knows who this electronic outfit is, and there's no chance of prying that information out of them. It's more secretive than the identity of Kennedy's assassin. All I've been able to glean from internet searching is that they're a Sydney duo, and they named themselves Flight Facilities because they're both aeronautical engineers at Sydney Airport. But Jack and Meg White said they were siblings, so who knows if Flight Facilities are telling the truth!'Crave You' is Flight Facilities' first original track, and it's killer. Featuring the soft, mellifluous vocals of Giselle Rosselli, 'Crave You' is a song about unobtainable love, full of lust and sex... I mean, sax. Even if we don't know who Flight Facilities are just yet, we can still dance to them.
2MANY DJS
It probably wasn't until a few years ago that it was your mum that always served up the best mash, either covered in gravy or sitting alongside a best buddy of the meat variety with some greens drizzled in butter.These days the modern mash is being brought to you by Belgian bros Stephen and David Dewaele, who have set out to re-think the wheel in what can be thrown in the melting pot of all things music.
In true 2manydjs fashion you might find yourself listening to a sample of Nirvana's 'Smells like Teen Spirit' coupled along with Destiny Child's 'Bootylicious' or Aussie pop princess Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head' blended with the New Order seminal classic 'Blue Monday', either way, the party is being brought to Parklife and is are sure to create a dancefloor meltdown of epic proportions!
Starring (in alphabetical order)
AC SLATER
I just found out what an AC Slater actually is. While it doesn't bear repeating on this wholesome website you can read the definition in all its scata-sexual gory detail here. The AC Slater we're concerned with, though, is the genre mashing Brooklyn DJ that made his name last year with a massive mix of Drop The Lime's 'Hear Me'. One of the top blogged dance artists in the world (see Hype Machine chart), widely acknowledged for the dubstep revival in North America and for his dirty relentless style, Slater's army of world-class supporters include Moby, Armand Van Helden, Crookers, Diplo, Laidback Luke and Drop The Lime.
AJAX
A heart-warming inclusion on our belter of a line-up, Ajax has been working his cotton socks off with his Sweat It Out label. Fellow Parklife acts Yolanda Be Cool and Dcup are on the books, as are Killa Queenz. As well as playing consistently cracking sets at clubs up and down the country, Ajax has a new album on release, 'Billion Dollar House Party' featuring lots of big fun tracks and is currently working with lil' Wayne on a new single. Look out!
BAG RAIDERS
The Baggies are back and bigger than a fat ladies sock. Fresh from a US stint, with their new album out around the same time we are on tour (wink, wink) and a new LIVE show up their sleeves (live guitar, keyboards, percussion, bells and whistles), the Sydney dancefloor princes bring the ruckus and then some to Parklife this year.
BRODINSKI
Brodinski is clearly the coolest 22 year old man floating around the world and quite possibly the best looking DJ ever. His knowledge of tech, deep tech, tech house, indie techno and all things dance is amazing. Known for his forward thinking productions, awesome DJ sets and futuristic playlists. Oh and did I mention he is really really good looking?
BUSY P
We heart Busy P and he hearts us - lets all join hands and heart each other as our unofficial Parklife Maitre'd and all-round entertaining good-guy skateboards back onto our stage and into our lives, bringing us all together over our love of a good time and disco-indie-electro-pop-rock- Swedish-death-metal-reggae (ok maybe not the last part but you can never say never)
The former manager of Daft Punk and mastermind head honcho of the Ed Banger label, Busy P continues to live up to his rep, not only managing big time French artists like Justice, SebastiAn, Feadz and some of this year's Parklife crew Mehdi and Uffie, but also producing many of the label's releases.
If Parklife was a person and had a BFF, it would be Busy P.
CHIDDY BANG
This is the true story of two college kids from Philly who rocked some parties at college and quickly gained the attention of "the industry". The music and lyrics were inspired by many boring trips on the Chinatown bus (they have wifi now!) on the way to meet "big wigs" in NYC. After a bunch of nice dinners and some free drinks for these 2 underage kids, Chiddy Bang decided to make a mixtape called "The Swelly Express". It lit up blogs across the world and now they are here to rock you with their unique blend of old skool rap and modern electronica. The end.
CLASSIXX
WHY DO WE LOVE CLASSIXX??
Well for a start, unless you were under a pretty massive rock last summer you definitely had your heart warmed by their truly beautiful mix of Yacht's 'psychic city'.
These two young bucks are barely in their 20's and are already touring the world igniting dancefloors with their classy laid back disco grooves / throbbing brand of down tempo disco.
Their remixes ooze ionized pillows of synth and a zen-like cool that blooms only when confident hands are on the wheel.
Classixx capture the essence of the 80's more than Miami Vice, Knightrider and Never Ending Story refined and distilled.
Last year they managed to make Phoenix sound poppier. Do you know how hard that is? That's like making a shitter version of Nickelback- nigh impossible.
CUT COPY
We are slightly more than excited about our Cut Copy compadres' inclusion in the Parklife posse this year. For a start, they will play their first shows in ages at Parklife, having just put the final touches on their rumoured to be best-yet 3rd album. Plus, when we hear Cut Copy we're instantly transported to an ecstatic place where it's already summer, surrounded by our friends and everybody loves the sunshine. Ahhhhh.
DAN BLACK
He's a bit spacey and a bit pop and a bit hip-hop all at the same time. As creative and re-playable as debut albums get, Dan Black's 'UN' combines big, tasty beats and production with panache. A multi-layered pop-genius intent on bringing art to the dance floor, Black is the master of mixing musical elements and styles from multiple sources to create something unique. Check out his 'Weird Science' mixtape online; he flips the switch on hip-hop and old-school tunes and literally turns them into something entirely new and fun to listen to. We're giving him the thumbs up!
DARWIN DEEZ
Feeling chirpy? You will be! Darwin Deez are the perfect mix of surf-pop, indie rock with a huge slab of pop chucked in for good measure. NME have dubbed them "Totally fucking awesome" we DARE you not to like these tres cool New Yorkers.
Known for breaking out a certain well-known choreographed dance routine at the drop of a hipsters hat, we think you will like it and put a ring on it.
DELOREAN
They gave us the running of the bulls*, the world's largest tomato fight, Flamenco Dancing, Paella and Picasso to name a few and now those crazy Spaniards have gifted us with Delorean, a 4-piece band gone global since their remixes for The xx, Cold Cave, Franz Ferdinand and the release of their EP 'Ayrton Senna'. So there is hope for my Michael Schumacher mega mix after all. Ole!
The Latin rockers dig deep and mine the collective Balearic dance-music heritage, combining it with indie pop, euro techno and hip hop for a quality live set filled with energy, passion and hands in the air festival moments. As I write this, Delorean's new album Subiza drops from the stars and into my hands like chorizo from heaven. Taste it, it's really really good.
*No bulls were harmed during the writing of this bio.
DJ MEHDI
Highly in-demand DJ-producer Mehdi is a connoisseur of all that is urban, from hip hop to house to jazz and the mash-up of anything in-between. He is the hubby of French street artist Fafi and buddies with Busy P (as well as being on Busy's label, Ed Banger). Mehdi's remix resume goes widescope from Busta Rhymes to Santigold, from Ghostface Killah to CSS, from Cassius to Sebastian Tellier. When it comes to this remix game, he has only one rule: first there is THE BEAT.
GROOVE ARMADA
4 words: Black Light LIVE show
Producing a career-defining crossover album eleven years after your debut is quite some feat. Groove Armada have pulled it off in stunning fashion. Jam packed with synth-pop symphonies and electromagnetic philharmonic tracks that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, they're jacking the shake'n'vac over crunching house crunk: kind of dirty, yet sugar sexy. Black Light is quite possibly their best album yet. Groove Armada's Black Light LIVE show will leave you electrifyingly satisfied yet hungry for more.
GRUM
You're going to have be hanging with Osama Bin Laden to avoid having your brain annexed by Grum's track Heartbeat' over the coming months, it represents perfection of the form, right from the Casio-plonking opening notes to its maddeningly addictive one word chorus. I haven't been able to take it off repeat for a week.
In the same way that Mylo forged a sheeny blur of disco, electro, house and techno, all rolled into one pile of dislocated hips, Grum's doing his bit to keep things heady. To quote NME.. 'Move over Mylo, wherever you are'.
GYPSY & THE CAT
Described as an "Early slice of summer" by The Times, supported by airplay from Triple J and Mark Ronson's East Village radio show Gypsy and the Cat combines contemporary electro with folk-pop and soft, warm vocals with a catchy cosmic hook. Influenced by a mixture of musical legends ranging from Fleetwood Mac to Jeff Buckley and modern DJs from Justice to Daft Punk, Gypsy & the Cat make the perfect summer sunshine music, instant and endearing dream-pop. Be amongst the first to witness Gypsy and The Cat, live at Parklife.
HOLY GHOST!
Known for their class-A remixing skills they took a break from that and decided to blow all our minds with their own jams. With fluid basslines, handclaps, conga and slithering, sexy disco beats, their EP Static On the Wire stands out as a shining debut. Its like their stuff comes from a planet where the 80's was just that wee bit cooler than here on earth. Holy Ghost! ensure I will come back for more and you will too after you catch their LIVE show at Parklife.
JACK BEATS
JACK BEATS represent everything we love about the new wave of British dance music. Wobbly basslines, big breakdowns and edgy accapella's are cut, copied and pasted together to create a floor-filling hybrid, bound to rock the foundations of Parklife to its very core.
JESSE ROSE
Berlin-based J-E-S-S-E R-O-S-E is the man that can make you jump up and down in a repetitive way that makes you tired but always wanting more. Describing his own sound as 'batty tango house with a twist of lime', his tunes are bursting with untamable energy, not to mention enough tweaked synths to keep you twisting and turning across the dancefloor for days on a pure jackin' house workout. Which begs the question, what would you do if you don't?
KELE
When we heard Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke was holed up recording his solo album, we figured it wasn't going to be another jagged post-punk affair. But we never expected something so irresistibly danceable! With a full live band in tow presenting The Boxer's textures in an entirely new light, in addition to showcasing Kele's incredible voice (which sounds bigger and better than ever) we can't wait to be ringside watching this heavyweight performer belting out a combo of Bloc Party riots and his own array of tunes.
MEMORY TAPES
We saw this musical genius live at SXSW this year and were jaws on the floor knocked out, head-over-heels in love! Dayve Hawk is a music industry rarity - a reluctant rock star. He's like the anti-Bono. Better known as Memory Tapes (an amalgam of previous monikers Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes), Hawk doesn't own a phone or know how to drive but damn he knows how to make great music
You CAN NOT miss Memory Tapes live.
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS
Midnight Juggernauts circle past Saturn and head back to Earth via Parklife with a new live show featuring album number two of dizzying kaleidoscopic pop, 'The Crystal Axis'. The Juggers will be showcasing everything they learned on the way out into the great unknown: throbbing synth lines, floor-stomping beats, ethereal vocals and a bold willingness to test the limits of gravity. Cosmic realm, electronic weirdness and psychedelic 70s grooves, conquering the heavens and Parklife 2010!
MISSY ELLIOTT
One of the most innovative and genre defying artists of the last fifteen years, six-time Grammy award winner Missy Elliott is a bona-fide icon. With a solid entourage in tow including a new live band, Missy will be throwing down her new tracks for your auditory pleasure alongside the tunes that put six platinum selling albums under her belt (the only female rapper to achieve this), a slew of hit singles both as a singer and a songwriter, and a sound that has influenced a whole generation of artists. The Get Ur Freak On songstress promises to bring the party atmosphere to Parklife, but will we get the famous floor-shaking formation dance routines from Misdemeanor and crew? Come and find out!!
MIX MASTER MIKE
Named as one of the greatest DJs of all time by USA Today and winner of the DMC World title for three consecutive years, serial wax killer and contributor to the legendary Beastie Boys Mixmaster Mike is known for his heavy-hitting bass and intricate scratch routines. There is nothing that this guy can't touch and turn to dancefloor gold, playing an intricate mash up of hip-hop-rock-dance-indie that will move you from the inside out.
NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB
It's been a while since they were here, July 08 in fact, when they were mere foals - forget everything you thought you knew about New Young Pony Club, because they are back with a champion of a brand new album and it's all changed. If '07's critically acclaimed 'Fantastic Playroom' was the culmination of the hybrid disco sound they pioneered, 'The Optimist' heralds the beginning of a brave new future for the band. New Young Pony Club will be showing us what they're made of with a new LIVE show at Parklife, giddy up guys 'cos we can't wait!
SINDEN
Straddling a bass heavy club sound that also encompasses leftfield rock music and global beats, Sinden is renowned for his genre-blending DJ sets, cracklin' hot radio show, his banging remixes, and for being the Sinden in hotly tipped 'The Count & Sinden'.
His DJ career sees him criss-crossing the globe turning clubs on their heads with his fresh, eclectic sound and throwing Count & Sinden's Mega Warehouse parties in the UK.
SOULWAX
Fuzzy favourites and audio-visual luminaries Soulwax return to Parklife showcasing their brand-new-fresh live show paired with awesome new tracks to blow you into the middle of next year. Real brothers David & Stephen (aka 2 Many DJs), who along with their Soulwax brothers (Stefaan and Steve) defined early noughties electronic music, have sweated at approximately 120 live venues and festivals worldwide. It's perhaps the very essence of that collective sweat that's given them the special powers to produce hugely successful tracks for the likes of Tiga and remixes for Gorillaz, Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem, smashing speakers across the globe. Catch their latest edition of party-rockin' greatness exclusively at Parklife 2010.
THE DANDY WARHOLS
It is with great pleasure that we announce the modern day psychedelic, pop/rock icons The Dandy Warhols, responsible for some of the catchiest lyrics in modern rock and stars of the sundance-award-winning-cult-i ndie-doco DIG! which witnessed the now legendary warring between the Dandys and The Brian Jones Town Massacre (if you haven't seen it - DO!)
After skyrocketing to success in the late '90s with their hits "Not if You Were The Last Junkie on Earth" and "Bohemian Like You" The Dandy's became a force to be reckoned with, internationally renowned for their live performances, both sonically & visually, the band have not only gained, but sustained, a reputation for incredible sell-out shows.
THE GLITCH MOB
Fair warning: the Glitch Mob's motto is "We slay crowds" and they mean it. Comprised of DJs edIT, Boreta and Ooah, the California threesome specializes in futuristic dance floor crunk, glitched out beats, grinding bass lines and experimental textures, in the programmed style of Justice, exploding out of their laptops to make an auditory assault on your ears.
THE SWISS
Like a shy teenager blossoming into glamorous adulthood, The Swiss emerge sexy and triumphant with flowy dancefloor arrangements of the disco kind.
They played a warm-up LIVE set at Parklife Adelaide last year and were so awesome we signed them up IMMEDIATELY for the entire Parklife 2010 tour.
With quicksand laser-sludge bass, dizzy pops & flourishes, melody rays and synthesised strings gliding on the thermal currents of life, this is what real disco did/does/should sound like. It's as much a breathy telephone call as it is a mid-range Bordeaux shared between ensconced lovers.
THE WOMBATS
While we're still working out whether we really should dance around like crazy to The Wombats drily comic 'Let's dance to Joy Division' (winner of Best Dancefloor Filler at the 2008 NME Awards), the band are holed up pre-Parklife finishing their hotly anticipated new album, and we can't wait to hear it LIVE.
UFFIE
Armed with extreme Parisian brattitude, underground style and the pioneering flirty auto-tune style she raps in, Uffie is blowing up even more this year (hopefully not literally!) and taking it to the next level, collaborating with Pharrell and ex-rapture bassist/vocalist Matt Safer on her latest album release 'Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans'.
Wannabes are jacking her style left right and centre(stage) but you and I know that Uffie OWNS electro-rap. She was poppin' the glock when Ke$ha was still singing into a hairbrush. Miaow.
WASHINGTON
With a background ranging from an appearance in Woody Allen's band to cabaret festivals, busking and formal jazz training, the eponymous Megan Washington's approach is nothing if not diverse.
Washington has racked up plenty of kudos, winning Triple J unearthed and the inaugural Vanda and Young songwriting competition. The confident title track from their EP "Rich Kids" is intelligent pop at its best, we guarantee it will urge you to break out in dance!
WOLF GANG
No, we didn't dig up a famous dead Austrian composer, but we are more than happy to introduce you to a pack of young cubs by the name of Wolf Gang. Word on the street is that Max (frontman) "will only record his vocals at night, barefoot and with a cup of cinnamon tea to hand."
Yeah, he is English. How did you guess?
Wolf Gang make opulent, pure, melodic rockin' post-modern pop. Their sound is unique, catchy, happy and BIG. Doesn't get much sweeter than that, does it?
YOLANDA BE COOL
Number one in the ARIA dance chart (at the time of writing) with almost 5 million youtube hits (despite having no official video), 'We No Speak Americano' is Yolanda Be Cool and Dcup's first collaboration and needless to say, it has become mind-bogglingly massive and solidified them as some of the biggest DJs / producers in the country.
Dcup's meteoric rise to the forefront of the world's dance scene has happened in about the same time as a girl in LA can go from being a B cup to a D cup. If there was any doubt about where he's at, his remix of 'Filterfreak' hit number one on the ARIA club chart.
Yolanda Be Cool is amongst the rising stars of the 'party-tech-sound. With their first original release 'Afro Nuts' being licensed to Fabric 49 mixed by Buraka Som Sistema and signed as an exclusive license to Herve's Cheaps Thrills label, Yolanda Be Cool has quickly become a familiar name worldwide.
FLIGHT FACILITIES FT. GISELLE
Let me introduce you to the latest Aussie musical enigma. In fact, no one aside from the group and their record label knows who this electronic outfit is, and there's no chance of prying that information out of them. It's more secretive than the identity of Kennedy's assassin. All I've been able to glean from internet searching is that they're a Sydney duo, and they named themselves Flight Facilities because they're both aeronautical engineers at Sydney Airport. But Jack and Meg White said they were siblings, so who knows if Flight Facilities are telling the truth!'Crave You' is Flight Facilities' first original track, and it's killer. Featuring the soft, mellifluous vocals of Giselle Rosselli, 'Crave You' is a song about unobtainable love, full of lust and sex... I mean, sax. Even if we don't know who Flight Facilities are just yet, we can still dance to them.
2MANY DJS
It probably wasn't until a few years ago that it was your mum that always served up the best mash, either covered in gravy or sitting alongside a best buddy of the meat variety with some greens drizzled in butter.These days the modern mash is being brought to you by Belgian bros Stephen and David Dewaele, who have set out to re-think the wheel in what can be thrown in the melting pot of all things music.
In true 2manydjs fashion you might find yourself listening to a sample of Nirvana's 'Smells like Teen Spirit' coupled along with Destiny Child's 'Bootylicious' or Aussie pop princess Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head' blended with the New Order seminal classic 'Blue Monday', either way, the party is being brought to Parklife and is are sure to create a dancefloor meltdown of epic proportions!
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