Browse by Artist: GANG GANG DANCE

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Gang Gang Dance
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 032CD

Features Tim DeWit (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood, White Magic, Neil Michael Hagerty, Cass McCombs), Brain DeGraw (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood), Liz Bougatsos (Actress, Angelblood), Josh Diamond (Ssab Songs), and Nathan Maddox. "Gang Gang Dance are a group composed of well-known entities (in and around NYC in particular) but have left a sporadic, almost shadowy, impression upon people nonetheless. The opening female vocal ululations soon enough refract electronically, and the summoned whalesong dimension spires into an urgent metempsychotic groove. Coming as they do from different angles, its safe to assume there is humanity to the postproduction approach on here. Indeed the first side in its totality achieves a narrative facility which, when sized up against the nature of its parts, could remind one of a more quietly-alloyed Chrome. It does not end there, in fact there is something of a sense of unfinished business, and the second side strikes off with a snapping dream of desert suspense. Mechanic industry rises up here too though, marking yet another salient entre into the crafted spuriousness GGD seek to espouse. An open drone fills for much of the half, accumulating a lyric denouement that possesses overtures toward melody and texture but less toward propulsive mien."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Gang Gang Dance
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 032LP

Features Tim DeWit (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood, White Magic, Neil Michael Hagerty, Cass McCombs), Brain DeGraw (ex-Cranium, Ssab Songs, Angelblood), Liz Bougatsos (Actress, Angelblood), Josh Diamond (Ssab Songs), and Nathan Maddox. "Gang Gang Dance are a group composed of well-known entities (in and around NYC in particular) but have left a sporadic, almost shadowy, impression upon people nonetheless. Various members play/have played in various other bands. They'll surface to play a clutch of shows, most all well-attended, only to disappear again (as regards to any kind of reliable congregation). Oh, and there's also been no record to speak of, save a 100-copy CD, more or less fleetingly manifested for an art event with probably somewhere that amount of attendees. Anyways, now we have a document, albeit LP only, and thankfully definitely a good one. The opening female vocal ululations soon enough refract electronically, and the summoned whalesong dimension spires into an urgent metempsychotic groove. Coming as they do from different angles, its safe to assume there is humanity to the postproduction approach on here. Indeed the first side in its totality achieves a narrative facility which, when sized up against the nature of its parts, could remind one of a more quietly-alloyed Chrome. It does not end there, in fact there is something of a sense of unfinished business, and the second side strikes off with a snapping dream of desert suspense. Mechanic industry rises up here too though, marking yet another salient entre into the crafted spuriousness GGD seek to espouse. An open drone fills for much of the half, accumulating a lyric denouement that possesses overtures toward melody and texture but less toward propulsive mien." Deluxe full color gatefold sleeve.

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Hillulah
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 018CD

"Gang Gang Dance is a musical vehicle without brakes, constantly innovating and dropping material out the rear. Hillelah documents a period in which Gang Gang moved from city streets to multilane highways and down back roads. These four tracks are culled from live sets and practice sessions to give you just a taste of what was happening during this period between GGD recording sessions. Plus this enhanced CD puts one into their world with two very diverse performances."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	God's Money
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 019CD

"Gang Gang Dance's second full length release entitled God's Money. Recorded over the course of a year at Junkyard Audio Salvage the band utilized whatever means were available to them: drums of all shapes, sizes and circuits, various keyboards and synthesizers, midi-triggering guitar scenarios, vocals reconfigured via guitar effect pedal and even the occasional aluminum chair. Blending hypnotic rhythms into a highly structured compositional style or soaring in the lofty heights of practiced improvisation, this recording follows in the footsteps of their other output marking new ground for the band."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Rawwar EP
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 030CD

"Rawwar is the first glimpse of exactly what the band have been up to over this prolific year. Clocking in at just over twenty minutes and sprawled across three tracks, the release plays like a Gang Gang Dance sampler of sorts; a taster for what is to come. Rawwar opens with 'Nicoman': a live favorite from the last few years which has been refined in the studio. Bombastic and dance-oriented, it blends the band's affection for musical styles, propelling the listener through four minutes of audible tribal chaos, while at the same time demonstrating GGD's talent for pop melody. 'Oxygen Demo Riddim' finds the band improvising and building musical ideas into a dreamy hypnotic instrumental interlude. The final, almost cinematic track is a studio composition entitled, 'The Earthquake That Frees Prisoners' which unfolds over ten minutes. This was painstakingly assembled in the studio and incorporates conversational dialog from their deceased band member, Nathan Maddox interwoven into the band's compositional structure."

Artist:	GANG GANG DANCE
Title:	Retina Riddim
Label:	SOCIAL REGISTRY
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SOCIAL 033CD

"In advance of Gang Gang Dance's upcoming studio full-length, The Social Registry are proud to present the band's first-ever DVD release, Retina Riddim. This film was made by Gang Gang Dance member, and visual artist, Brian DeGraw. Retina Riddim is by no means a tour film, documentary, live video, or anything as remotely stringent. Included on the DVD is a fan film, GGDbyOP, shot and edited on the road by Oliver Payne, a friend of the band's. As an added bonus Retina Riddim also contains an audio CD cut together by DeGraw specifically for this release, and a fold-out poster designed by Mr. DeGraw. Retina Riddim is both a document of Gang Gang Dance's progress over the past few years, and a look forward to the direction they are moving in."

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