Concord Dawn is a New Zealand drum and bass group, active since mid-1999, consisting of Matt Harvey (aka Matty C). Until 2010, Evan Short was one half of the group. They were courted by local electronic music label Kog Transmissions and released their first album, Concord Dawn, in July 2000.
After touring the album throughout New Zealand, they released their second album Disturbance in April 2001 and received Best Electronic Album and Best Independent Release at the 2001 bNet Music Awards. Following this they started working on their third album: Uprising. Tracks like Morning Light and Don’t Tell Me found very high international acclaim well before the album’s release. Uprising was released in New Zealand in September 2003 and reached gold sales status in three months, going on to eventually reach platinum sales in New Zealand.
Concord Dawn have become established internationally and their catalog is distributed worldwide. They went off on a world tour, traveling through the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. At the 2003 bNet music awards, the song Morning Light won Best Song and Most Radio Play. At the 2004 bNet music awards, Uprising received Best Album and Best Electronic Release. Concord Dawn were nominated for Best Electronic Act at the 2004 New Zealand music awards.
Work on their long-awaited fourth album was completed in early 2005 and was titled Chaos by Design by the two to express the album’s musically eclectic nature. The album and singles won critical acclaim worldwide with various tracks off the albums being signed to some big and respected drum and bass labels such as Metalheadz, Ram Records and Hospital Records.
Concord Dawn were nominated for Best Tech DJ, Best International Act and Best Producer at the 2009 UK Drum and Bass Awards. Chaos by Design achieved Gold sales status in New Zealand.[1] Concord Dawn have two of the top 20 selling records of all time at www.chemical-records.co.uk, Dont Tell Me and Morning Light, which were released on Timeless Records.
Concord Dawn's live sets are well regarded as encompassing the full spectrum of drum and bass music, and this has seen constant tours and performances in Europe, Russia, Australasia, Asia and North America since the turn of the century.
Concord Dawn now only features member Matt Harvey,[2] Evan Short left the group to further his musical production career , winning more critical acclaim for his work as a producer / engineer on a series of New Zealand heavy metal albums culminating in winning best engineer for the last Shihad album . Following after his departure was The Enemy Within LP in 2010.[3] The first solo Concord Dawn EP entitled The Race to Zero EP was released in 2011 (also titled The Race To Zero Volume 1 on 5 September 2011).[4] The Wipeout EP featuring New Zealand's TREi was released in early 2012 [5]
2012's Air Chrysalis LP, released for free via the artists Facebook and SoundCloud pages, won Best Electronica LP' at the 2012 RIANZ New Zealand Music Awards.[6]
Concord Dawn released the single Moonlighting with Tali on 25 June 2 2014
Concord Dawn are one of the great New Zealand drum and Bass acts of all time . Slamming down the door for Shapeshifter , State of Miind , the Upbeats and Trei to come charging through behind .
Dont miss this chance to see Concord Dawn at the Yot Club this Saturday . Doors open at 8 pm
