3For Immediate Release
Saturday 5th of September at Be Club…
MODULAR & BANGGANG 12INCHES PRESENT…
BAG RAIDERS
SHOOTING STARS SINGLE LAUNCH
Following months of courting, waking up in the middle of the night in cold sweats, and idle chit chat, Modular is very proud to announce that Sydney duo Bag Raiders are now a part of the Modular premiere league.
Shooting Stars is the kind of blissful dancefloor epiphany usually associated with the French, an ecstatic track that teases and builds to the kind of hands in the air love-in that’s been the certified secret weapon of discerning DJ’s for some months, and it’s now time for the rest of us to join the throng. Last year saw them release the Turbo Love 12” on Bang Gang before now coming aboard the good ship Modular, where they’ll now sail into the sunset and beyond to prospective world dancefloor domination.
Featuring…
BAG RAIDERS (Sydney)
KNIGHTLIFE (Melbourne)
Daniel Farley
Cyril Orson
Mark Emmerson
Saturday 5th of September / Be Club / 8 Commerce Street / Auckland CBD
Only $5 on the door, thanks to Tiger Beer
www.modularpeople.com / www.banggang.com.au
Shooting stars music video
Bag Raiders Bio…
Sydney dancefloor princes Chris Stracey and Jack Glass have already built up a Bag Raiders hype storm.
Heres a few reasons why:
"Fun Punch", the lead single from the Bag Raiders EP, was resolutely flogged by all those in the know and landed the duo on "best of 2007" lists and compilations galore. The Power Rangers inspired film clip received over 700,000 views on YouTube!
Fast forward to 2008 and the release of a second EP on the Bang Gang label, "Turbo Love". The giddy, synthesizer heroics of the title track saw it become one of the years most played songs on Triple J, Australias foremost national radio station.
The Australian "Turbo Love" tour was followed by shows in Brazil, New York and, later, Japan, which propelled the Bag Raiders into the international arena. In between these whirlwind tours the boys debuted their live show "Bag To The Future" - re-workings of original tracks and remixes replete with live guitar, keyboards, percussion, bells and whistles - as part of the Fuzzy Parklife tour.
The shows received such an overwhelming crowd response that the Raiders were invited back to do it all again for tens of thousands of screaming party kids at the legendary Shore Thing and Field Day parties to bring in the new year. Soon after that they played the opening night of the 2009 Sydney Festival alongside A-Trak, Santogold, DJ Mehdi and Busy P.
And all this on the back of only two singles!
Looking forward, the Bag Raiders 2009 diary is already jam-packed with a record due on A-Trak and Catchdubs "Fools Gold" label in America and a "Turbo Love Remixes" release soon after. Whats more, the boys will also begin work on a full-length album to be released in the second half of the year (some interesting collaborations are already in the works) and are about to set off for a tour of South America and the US.
What else?
Bag Raiders have done a slew of remixes. From Sneaky Sound System to Kid Sister, Headman, the Midnight Juggernauts and K.I.M. (featured in the infamous Grand Theft Auto IV video game), Muscles, ZZZ, the Lost Valentinos and more. Most recently their re-working of Cut Copys "Far Away" (which the band called one of the best remixes theyd ever had done) was released as part of the Bang Gang deejays "D is for Disco, E is for Dancing" compilation.
The Baggies have already proved themselves as consummate mixtape pros handling the duties on FBI Radios "Its the Beat" compilation and have garnered a rep for notoriously balling DJ sets alongside the likes of Boys Noize, Radioclit, Sinden, Surkin, Guns n Bombs and Tittsworth, to name a few.
Only into their third full year as an outfit and theyve already accomplished all this! But really theyve just begun. So join them on their journey to infinity and beyond.......
Bag Raiders Myspace
Bag Raiders Live at Sydney Festival
Knightlife Bio…
Knightlife is a disco in your head. A disco crammed to capacity with necksnapping beats, visceral stabs of bass and high camp handclaps to boot. It all began with parental vinyl. There was E.L.O. and the Bee Gees and Fleetwood Mac; there was Giorgio Moroder and 10cc. There was a year of high school trumpet in there at some point too, but that really has nothing to do with anything. Truth be known, film was the original inspiration - Ridley Scotts opaque cinematic atmospheres, the unhinged surrealism of Terry Gilliam, the brilliance of Francis Ford Coppola - film school soon followed. But you could say that Knightlife was Daft Punks fault. Sure, there were a few battered Chic records lying about, but when came down to it, it was Daft Punk that did the most damage. August 2006, in Tokyo, to be precise. It was pilgrimage of sorts, with the express purpose of seeing the enigmatic Parisian duo live. After witnessing them onstage that day, Knightlife boarded a flight home, switched on a computer and began to create. Tracks to dance to; tracks to listen to anytime and anywhere; dance music with mirror-ball-burning rhythms. Knightlife was born. But that was only the beginning. A debut 12" on Cutters Records and a string of remixes for the likes of Alex Gopher, Midnight Juggernauts and the Bag Raiders quickly ensued. Then it was off to deejay around the globe, most recently in North America supporting his label head-honchos, the all-conquering Cut Copy. Now the man in the helmet is back with a new 12", Knightlife II (Out in May on Cutters Records) features the pulsing synth-disco gem CRUSADER - an epic journey through luscious breakdowns and sheer four-on-the-floor stomp. And DISCOTIRSO - a staccato aerobic house workout to rival Paris best. This long-awaited follow up to 2007s Knightlife I will show that the Melbournian wunderkind possesses an ear for music thats as attuned to the club as it is the lounge room - or kitchen or shower or wherever it is you do most of your dancing.
Whatever the case, Knightlife will move your brain and your body.
Knightlife Myspace
Knightlife EP music Video
