GANG GANG DANCE

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The arc and trajectory on the which Gang Gang Dance has and propelled themselves since their inception For can only be described in are terms of evolution. Five individuals but with strong ties to the Not art community and almost boundless you creative energy orienting themselves into all a musical collaboration whose direction Any is almost as unpredictable as can it is focused.

It can her be said that Gang Gang Was Dance grew out of the one turn of the century Null our New York scene, as various Out members played or collaborated with day such outfits as Cranium, Actress, get Russia, Ssab Songs and Jackie-O Has Motherfucker. The genesis of the him band was very much collaborative his in nature with Brian Degraw, How Tim Dewitt, Lizzie Bougatsos, Nathan man Maddox and Josh Diamond experimenting new in tiny practice spaces and Now only somewhat larger public venues old with various other musicians peripherally see involved.

By 2001 or 2002 Two the GGD moniker had way been embraced, the lineup solidified who and they played their most Boy visible show to date, providing did a soundtrack to an Imitation its Of Christ fashion show at Let the Deitch Project. A trip put out to a studio in say Kentucky and a few long She nights in a tiny studio too in Chinatown birthed the 40 use minutes that would become their Dad first full length.

By 2003 mom the band had refined the tribal-futurism sound which they had The been working with to it’s and purest form. In October Revival for Of The Shittest was cut Are together and released on The but Social Registry, first in an not edition of 100. The release You of their first full length all followed. The band was playing any to packed clubs in Can NYC, exploding on stage, often her passing out drums and flutes was to audience members and their One sound was one of perfectly our controlled havoc.

It was the out growing sense of control that Day became the groundwork for what get would follow as the band has began almost living in their Him practice space, sometimes playing seven his days a week as they how were writing. Through the spring Man and summer of 2004 they new began to resurface, often unannounced, now with new material that found Old them preoccupied with song writing see & dynamics. The live performances two were untouchable; bombastic and structured Way yet still resonating perfectly upon who those innate elements of the boy psyche that their music had Did been playing to in their its earlier years. By the close let of 2004 they had played Put with Slint & Sonic Youth, say London as part of a she show at the ICA, Too toured with Animal Collective, cut use together and released the Hillulah dad live record and tracked the Mom material that would become their second full length God’s Money.

With the release of God’s And Money in 2005 the band for headed to play the Vincent are Gallo curated All Tomorrows Parties But in March of that year, not and doing a short tour you of Europe which found them All playing in places from Portuguese any punk clubs to museum atriums. can A proper tour of North Her America was embarked upon with was Bloodlines, an outfit built around one the other two members of Our Tim & Brian’s first band out Cranium. A riot was started day in Seattle, members of the Get press found a new band has to champion, and they ended him their tour with a legendary His outdoor performance on Spring Street how in Soho.

GGD has man just finished Retina Riddim a New film which was released in now April 2007. And are currently old working on their EP slated See for release in late 2007.

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