This is gonna be a big show so mark it in the o'l diary and get ready to dance like a MF. Tickets are $35 and on sale in VIOLENT GREEN
YACHT (DFA/USA)
Fresh off the release of their acclaimed new album, See Mystery Lights, (DFA) we are excited to let you know that YACHT will return to Australian this December. Just announced for the Meredith Music Festival, the avant-pop duo will also bring their anthemic power jams to shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for your dancing pleasure.
After releasing three albums of original music, touring worldwide and countless remixes, Jona Bechtolt, has taken his "life project" to new level. Last year YACHT (Young Americans Challenging High Technology) reincarnated as a duo, with Bechtolt joined by new full-time member Claire L. Evans. After they recorded a tongue-in-cheek "love letter" to LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy in the form of the track ‘Summer Song’, Murphy signed the pair to DFA Records.
See Mystery Lights is an idiosyncratic record, loaded with hedonistic dance explosives designed to take aim at your shoulders. Watch them shake! Adventurous and mega pop, the album has well and truly elevated YACHT to the next level - spiritually and otherwise.
Over the past 2 years YACHT played more than 200 shows in 17 countries around the world touring with such luminaries as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend and Architecture in Helsinki. Don’t miss your very own live YACHT experience this summer. Expect power point presentations, the destruction of the 4th wall, and of course YACHT's signature dance moves.
"YACHT is a true renaissance man, feel his magic zap you with its lightning bolt made of awesome."
— Architecture in Helsinki
-----
JD SAMSON (Le Tigre)
JD SAMSON is one-third of the electronic feminist punk band and performance project, Le Tigre. In 2007, MEN was begun as the DJ team of JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of the band Le Tigre. At the same time, JD became involved in another project, Hirsute, featuring Michael O'Neill and Ginger Brooks Takahashi formerly of the New York indie-pop group The Ballet, and artist/writer Emily Roysdon.
In 2008, MEN continued to tour as DJs, while Hirsute continued to write songs and create a live performance. Eventually, Johanna decided to take a break from the touring life, and the two projects merged to become one. MEN became a band focusing on the energy of live performance and the radical potential of dance music, with lyrics speaking to issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise and demanding liberties. Men are currently on tour in the US with The Gossip and Peaches.
In addition, JD SAMSON played keyboards and sampler with Peaches on her "Impeach My Bush" world tour, and has DJ'ed internationally since 2001 throughout several different party scenes. JD SAMSON has also created the 2003 Calendar entitled “JD's Lesbian Calendar,” as well as “JD's Lesbian Utopia 2006,” which launched at Deitch Projects Gallery in New York City in the fall of 2005.
JD SAMSON is currently touring as a DJ solo, “Creating space for rad people to dance and smile and hold each other.” Visit HYPERLINK "http://www.myspace.com/djjdsamson" www.myspace.com/djjdsamson
Fresh off the release of their acclaimed new album, See Mystery Lights, (DFA) we are excited to let you know that YACHT will return to Australian this December. Just announced for the Meredith Music Festival, the avant-pop duo will also bring their anthemic power jams to shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for your dancing pleasure.
After releasing three albums of original music, touring worldwide and countless remixes, Jona Bechtolt, has taken his "life project" to new level. Last year YACHT (Young Americans Challenging High Technology) reincarnated as a duo, with Bechtolt joined by new full-time member Claire L. Evans. After they recorded a tongue-in-cheek "love letter" to LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy in the form of the track ‘Summer Song’, Murphy signed the pair to DFA Records.
See Mystery Lights is an idiosyncratic record, loaded with hedonistic dance explosives designed to take aim at your shoulders. Watch them shake! Adventurous and mega pop, the album has well and truly elevated YACHT to the next level - spiritually and otherwise.
Over the past 2 years YACHT played more than 200 shows in 17 countries around the world touring with such luminaries as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend and Architecture in Helsinki. Don’t miss your very own live YACHT experience this summer. Expect power point presentations, the destruction of the 4th wall, and of course YACHT's signature dance moves.
"YACHT is a true renaissance man, feel his magic zap you with its lightning bolt made of awesome."
— Architecture in Helsinki
-----
JD SAMSON (Le Tigre)
JD SAMSON is one-third of the electronic feminist punk band and performance project, Le Tigre. In 2007, MEN was begun as the DJ team of JD Samson and Johanna Fateman of the band Le Tigre. At the same time, JD became involved in another project, Hirsute, featuring Michael O'Neill and Ginger Brooks Takahashi formerly of the New York indie-pop group The Ballet, and artist/writer Emily Roysdon.
In 2008, MEN continued to tour as DJs, while Hirsute continued to write songs and create a live performance. Eventually, Johanna decided to take a break from the touring life, and the two projects merged to become one. MEN became a band focusing on the energy of live performance and the radical potential of dance music, with lyrics speaking to issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise and demanding liberties. Men are currently on tour in the US with The Gossip and Peaches.
In addition, JD SAMSON played keyboards and sampler with Peaches on her "Impeach My Bush" world tour, and has DJ'ed internationally since 2001 throughout several different party scenes. JD SAMSON has also created the 2003 Calendar entitled “JD's Lesbian Calendar,” as well as “JD's Lesbian Utopia 2006,” which launched at Deitch Projects Gallery in New York City in the fall of 2005.
JD SAMSON is currently touring as a DJ solo, “Creating space for rad people to dance and smile and hold each other.” Visit HYPERLINK "http://www.myspace.com/djjdsamson" www.myspace.com/djjdsamson
No comments:
Post a Comment