THE TWELVES & GRUM at V-Lounge in Santa Monica May 8, 2010

Collaborative Media, Guns in the Sun and Gotta Dance Dirty present…

THE TWELVES & GRUM at V-Lounge in Santa Monica on Saturday, May 8th. Doors open 9pm. 21+.

***This is the third installment of our special music event series in West LA…. join us as we transform V-Lounge into a disco spaceship… two rooms of music, more staff, less people inside, three bars, hot sweaty disco indie funky house dance off, full V-Lounge takeover***

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LINEUP…

THE TWELVES (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
http://myspace.com/thetwelves

From Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, “The Twelves” were formed by the duo João Miguel and Luciano Oliveira back in 2005. The name came from the strange coincidence of their birth dates: twelve of July of 1980. The breakthrough for The Twelves came in July of 2007 when they remixed the track “Boyz” from M.I.A’s sophomore album, Kala. The reworked track with an added club feel resulted in one of the most talked about remixes of 2007. The blog coverage surrounding the remix was extensive and eventually the track started to pop up in sets from high profile djs around the world, including Kissy Sell Out, who played it on BBC’s “In New Djs We Trust” series. The duo followed “Boyz” with equally well received remixes for Asobi Seksu and Erlend Oye, both of which were featured on a number of blogs and music related sites. This stream of good tracks soon caught the attention of a number of labels, including Modular Records (home of Cut Copy, Klaxons and others) who comissioned a “Twelves” remix of the song “Get Lucky” by New Young Pony club. The resulting remix was released alongside reworkings from household names like MSTRKRFT and Who Made Who, and received excellent reviews. Press coverage in Brazil soon started to pick up, with interviews on Newspapers and magazines. The coverage led to appearances in festivals and concerts alongside names like Diplo, LCD Soundsystem, She Wants Revenge, Van She and Phoenix. The sound of the duo brings influences from many genres. Among the most influential to their sound are Daft Punk, Justice, Röyksopp, Vitalic, Simian Mobile Disco, MSTRKRFT, Clor, Cut Copy and Goldfrapp. Their live show is a unique blend of live keyboards, drum machines, mash-ups and remixing on the fly. Always trying to improvise as much as possible.

GRUM (Leeds, UK)
http://myspace.com/grummmusic

For someone who only produced his first track in the spring of 2007, Grum’s rise to prominence has been one of Justice-style proportions. Since tracks such as “Heartbeats” first started appearing on blogs like Discodust, Grum’s music has been in such demand that HYPE MACHINE recently calculated he was the second most blogged act in the world, behind Radiohead. Life has not always been this way for Graeme Shepherd. Born in Edinburgh and growing up in the nearby Linlithgow he was surrounded by Scotland’s fascination for techno and trance. “I remember hearing lots of electronic music in the charts and stuff,” he remembers. “This got me interested in how to make it so I got a Yamaha DJX keyboard… I made some dreadful tunes.” Then In 2001, the 15 year-old Grum bought a record that would change all of that. “Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ has been a massive influence on me,” he explains. “That and ‘Dare!’ by The Human League are pretty much the best records ever made. I’m also a massive fan of Stuart Price’s remixes under his various guises. The Thin White Duke remix of Felix Da Housecat’s ‘Silver Screen Shower Scene’ is one of my favourites of all time. I just love the whole feel of it – all the elements fit together perfectly.” Grum’s love of electronic music kept him hooked on production and by 2004 he was studying Music Technology full time. “I kept practising and messing around in different genres. Now I’d say my stuff is a real mash-up of French house, Italo-disco, new-wave, and soft rock. I’m really into melodies and clever chords” By 2008, Grum had build up a solid collection of original tracks and remixes (“I started out remixing tracks that I liked, for fun, by slicing up and filtering the original”) and began sending them out to the blogs. Discodust – one of the leading electronic sites – began featuring Grum’s music heavily. From that came remixes for Late of the Pier, Anorak and Tronik Youth and a record deal with Heartbeats. Fast-forward a year and Grum is already drawing comparisons with his teenage mentors. His first single, “Runaway” is one of those deceptively brilliant pieces of music that, like Daft Punk’s “Around The World” swirls around in your brain refusing to leave – blissful, bass-heavy and undeniably cool. It was picked up by Aeroplane for their Mixmag covermount CD and featured on the play-lists of Pete Tong, Zane Lowe and Annie Mac. Rob Da Bank put him straight on the bill at Bestival saying, “With Daft Punk out of then picture we can at least rely on our very own UK house impresario to rinse out the electronic future in their absence.” His second single – the infectious and driving “Sound Reaction” – has cemented his position as a Radio 1 favourite with more heavy plays from the likes of Zane and Tong. “That song is just me letting go with my music and doing something big, fun, noisy, and designed for the dance-floor,” Grum says. “It’s a mixture of rave and electro with a hint of disco. I’m very into 80s new-wave and Italo-disco and came across this sample…it all just grew from there really.” Currently living in Leeds, Grum is finishing his debut album and planning his live show (both scheduled to be ready for the end of the year). The live experience is a collaboration with Pier Schneider @ 1024d who built Etienne De Crecy’s “Square Cube” Live show.

SHORT CIRCUIT (live) (Binary / LA)
http://myspace.com/shortcircuitla

LIGHTSOVERLA (Phoenix, AZ)
http://myspace.com/lightsoverla

Additional DJ sets by residents:

KENYA , SCORPION BREATH, SWEATPANTS, DR. SCHLONGO and HAMMERWOLF

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