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Simian Mobile Disco

Reviews 3

Simian Mobile Disco

Whorl

Simian Mobile Disco

Unpatterns

Simian Mobile Disco

Temporary Pleasure

Articles 7

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You Hum It, I’ll Play It: James Ellis Ford Interviewed

After building a home studio the SMD musician and Arctic Monkeys and Depeche Mode producer James Ford picked up no less than 18 instruments – and a microphone – in order to make his beguiling debut LP. Words by Jeremy Allen. All portraits by Pip Bourdillon
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Human Synthesisers And Robot Armies: An Interview With SMD

Despite some recent bad news, Simian Mobile Disco are focused on the future... which includes robots. Photographs: James Pearson Howe
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Ruff Around The Edges: Simian Mobile Disco Talk Live Performance

Simian Mobile Disco's second live album offers an oblique answer to a series of questions about live dance music. Chad Parkhill presses the duo of James Ford and Jas Shaw about their motives in releasing this document of their show
Black Sky Thinking

Graham Massey On 808 State’s Blueprint

Graham Massey returns to write us another fantastic piece, this time an overview of tracks from the new 808 State anthology, Blueprint with photos taken from his own archive
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Winning The Fame Game With No Regrets: Beth Ditto Interviewed

As she prepares to release her new EP with Simian Mobile Disco, Luke Turner sits down with Beth Ditto and finds that, a million record sales down the line from that song, Gossip's singer is still an unreformed Arkansas punk. Just with a better mattress
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Don’t Go Breaking My ARP: SMD Interviewed

After SMD's awesome collection of analogue bangers Delicacies quickly became one of our albums of the year John Doran popped in to see their collection of synths. Band and equipment photography by the formidable Lucy Johnston
Black Sky Thinking

Are Chrome Hoof The Best Live Band In The UK In 2009?

Live, the mighty Chrome Hoof follow in the footsteps of Parliament, Funkadelic and David Bowie, says Luke Turner. But in these strangely conservative times, are they literally too good for the mainstream?

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