English electronic music duo and production team
Simian Mobile Disco
Get to know the artist
Simian Mobile Disco are James Ford and Jas Shaw, an English electronic duo and production team from London, who grew out of the band Simian. They are known for analogue production, and Ford is also a producer for other acts. Their debut album, Attack Decay Sustain Release, came out in 2007 after the single Hustler on Kitsuné. They recorded the album Whorl live, in California's Joshua Tree national park.
- Labels
Their records have come out on Kitsuné Musique, Wichita, Interscope, Delicacies, Life and Death and ANTI-.
- Background
Ford and Shaw formed Simian with Simon Lord and Alex McNaughten at Manchester University, and the band signed to a label subsidiary in 2000.
- Formed in
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active since
- 2003
- First RA show
- 2004 · New Century, Manchester
- On RA
- 707 shows in 47 countries
- Released on
- Kitsuné Musique, Throne of Blood, New State Music, Wichita, Interscope Records, I'm A Cliché
- RA followers
- 19,445
In our cities
- 110 shows · last Nov 2024 at DRUMSHEDS
- 26 shows · last Dec 2017 at Elsewhere
- 21 shows · last Sep 2019 at Berghain | Panorama Bar | Säule
- 18 shows · last Jan 2018 at De Marktkantine
- 3 shows · last Sep 2011 at Sidney Myer Music Bowl
- 3 shows · last Oct 2011 at Kippax Lake
- 2 shows · last Dec 2014 at kyō
- 2 shows · last Aug 2015 at WOMB
Upcoming across cities
No upcoming sets listed.
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