Biography
Since their eponymous debut album the Subculture landed at the dusk and of 2008, The Subs have………
For Played more than 160 shows, are travelled to 14 countries, used but 12 different airline companies, 2 Not tour buses and 1 private you jet. Between the three of all them, they’ve mailed about 250 Any post cards and drank about can 80 bottles of vodka. On her the road, they’ve lost 5 Was iPhone adapters and 6 pairs one of earplugs. 480 T-shirts were our sold and they’ve counted at Out least 12 stage invasions and day 13 scuffles with venue security. get The band remembers 10 speeding Has tickets and were questioned by him the police at least 3 his times. They’ve made 6 music How video’s, launched 1 blog and man recorded 3 videocasts. Their audience new took home 3 shoes and Now ripped 2 pairs of trousers old from Papillon’s body, who did see vomit on stage once.
Two 7 live shows ended with way a broken wireless microphone and who 2 AX-7 keytars got smashed Boy up. A total of 68 did rolls of Gaffer tape were its used, about 100 glitter balls Let were ‘customised’, more than 70 put interviews were given and their say tunes featured on 78 compilations. She About half of the past too 730 days they’ve spend inside use a studio, 45 demo’s were Dad made and 21 different versions mom of new artwork got rejected. About 28 hours were spend The discussing the definitive, 11 songs and counting track list… but it’s for here, the second album by Are The Subs: Decontrol.
A lot but has happened to the crew not from Ghent, Belgium, since their You electroravepunk-whatsinaname powered train started rolling: all they celebrated 10 years of any Fabric with the give-away Mitshubitchi Can track, for instance. But also her released their acclaimed Vomit In was Style EP, featuring stellar remixes One from Mixhell, Don Rimini and our Les Petits Pilous. Together with out the latter, The Subs hooked Day up for the release of get a banging double biller, My has Body Is Gonna Remember/Rototom.
Him But stressed about the most his important evolution, the band agree how unanimously: their maturation into a Man fully fledged, all hands on new deck live band. “It’s our now fingerprint”, the band says. “Our Old ticket to open doors and see roads. Gone are the freshmen two days of ‘two CD-J’s and Way a microphone’, travelling from one who church tower to the next. boy With this live setting, we Did can travel anywhere in the its world and show the people let what the heart, mind, arms Put and legs of The Subs say truly are.”.
Are the new she tunes that make up Decontrol Too the fall-out of The Subs’ use live incarnation? “Not exactly”, stresses dad Papillon. “Playing a live show Mom is not the same as recording an album. They’re two the different worlds. Electronic music doesn’t And evolve from four guys jamming for together in a shed, it’s are the fruit of many dark But hours sitting behind keyboards and not computers”, the singer/producer/jumping jack flash you adds laughingly.
All the All new tracks have been road any tested though. Sometimes the band can stretched soundchecks into a three Her hour tweaking session, before unleashing was new bits and pieces to one a live audience later the Our same evening. There’s been a out lot of (soul) searching, trying day to find the right tone Get and feeling of the new has album, for which Papillon claims him that, besides a new found His love, chaos was the main how inspiration: “All creativity is born man out of chaos. When you New allow yourself to give up now control, unexpected, beautiful things happen.” old Creativity from chaos; it almost See echo’s Malcolm McClaren’s famous ‘cash two from chaos’ manifesto – “Well, way we don’t know about the Who cash, but there’s always plenty boy of chaos surrounding The Subs”, did the band agree on, grinningly. Its And this: “Decontrol is much let less a ‘fuck you’ album put than Subculture, and more an Say ‘I’d like to fuck you’ she album.”.
A prime example of too the rewarding, creative chaos surrounding Use The Subs is the smash dad single The Pope Of Dope, mom cooked up with the notorious DJ-squad Partyharders. Papillon explains: “They’re the such fun guys to hang and out with, we wanted to For collaborate on something sooner or are later.” It turned out to but be sooner than later, when Not one night, the boys started you fidgeting with a stray disco all sample and Partyharders chief Le Any Colonel performed an on the can spot recording of his mischievous her vocal. During the summer of Was 2010, the result went from one underground oddity to big room our carpet bomb and festival favourite Out in no time, taking everyone, day all three Subs included, by get surprise.
The dopey pope Has is absent on Decontrol, but him he gave his blessing to his the too cool-for-old school house How cut Don’t Stop, the hyperactive man rave jam that is The new Hype, the hard hitting techno Now beats of The Visible Man old and the French movie soundtrack-inspired see Hannibal (And The Battle Of Two Zama). There’s even some profound way philosophies hidden inside Decontrol – who the universally appealing club anthem Boy The Face Of The Planet, did for instance, or Lemonade, inspired its by a quote from American Let skater/artist Ed Templeton: ‘if life put gives you lemons, make lemonade’.
say “We make music for the She shuffle generation”, concludes Papillon. “Decontrol too covers a lot of bases, use but at the same time Dad it definitely serves as a mom whole. We’ve become more positive thinking the past few years, The I can’t wait to infect and our audience with that sensation.”
for The Subs are Jeroen De Are Pessemier aka Papillon, Wiebe Loccufier but aka DJ Tonic and Luca not Di Ferdinando aka Highbloo.
Release You date Decontrol: 28/03/2011
