GDD™ Morning Update: Nero, Guy Gerber/Miss Kittin, DJ Sprinkles

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• Nero Unveils Brand New Single, ‘Two Minds’
• Guy Gerber and Miss Kittin partner on Rumors On The Dancefloor
• DJ Sprinkles Believes the Changes to Japan’s ‘No Dancing’ Rule Dismisses Larger Issues

 

Nero Unveils Brand New Single, ‘Two Minds’

Grammy Award-winning, Ivor Novello-nominated trio NERO return this year with an album that celebrates a sense of love among the ruins, and cements their reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting bands. It both complements 2012’s Number One albumWelcome Reality (and attendant hits ‘Me & You,’ ‘Guilt’, and the chart-topping smash ‘Promises’) and pushes the band’s apocalyptic and frequently romantic electronic sound further than ever before. As ‘Into The Past,’ their 2013 contribution to Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby soundtrack hinted, and their 2015 Coachella headline slot proved, the now fully formed three-piece are more finely tuned now than ever before.  

Between II Worlds will be released on August 28 on MTA / Virgin EMI Records.

The new single ‘Two Minds’ will be released a week prior on August 21. 

NERO will headline the Pepsi stage at Wireless Festival next Friday. Performances at Lollapalooza and V Festival have also just been announced, alongside a plethora of other festival dates throughout the summer.

A special intimate fan show has also just been announced, which will take place at London’s Village Underground on July 28. Tickets available here.

The release of Between II Worlds marks Nero stepping slightly out of the shadows, with Alana front and centre like never before, now a fully fledged member of the band. Dan feels the shift in focus is a significant step. “Not many electronic acts have just one singer, but we always wanted to go out like a band,” he says, adding with a laugh: “It’s especially nice as Joe and I can just blend into the background.”

Completed in London during the spring of 2015, Between II Worlds began life three years ago in LA, in the Hollywood Hills house where Orson Welles wrote Citizen Kane. Alana’s often fragile vocals provide a brilliantly hypnotic foil to Dan and Joe’s uncompromising, hard-edged production, while that production is informed by an enigmatic retro-futuristic ideology, with its nods to Ridley Scott’s vision of a decrepit future in Blade Runner, that runs through the band’s entire identity.

NERO may be enigmatic, but the snapshots scattered throughout Between II Worlds build a picture of a band entering an exciting new phase. And it’s a phase that celebrates intense but accessible songwriting alongside the myriad musical styles that continue to inform the Nero sound.

“People talk about genres a lot,” Dan explains. “But for NERO it’s never been about any genres. It’s about electronic music, and it’s about us.”

Fans who pre-order the album will receive Satisfy, Dark Skies, and Between II Worlds instantly.

 

Guy Gerber and Miss Kittin partner on Rumors On The Dancefloor

Guy Gerber and Miss Kittin have collaborated on a new single called “Rumors On The Dancefloor.”

Due out July 31st, the record is coming out via Rumors, the record label and party series Gerber launched in 2014. Following recent collaborations with Puff Daddy and Seth Troxler, Gerber’s latest studio partner is Miss Kittin, real name Caroline Hervé, who also has some late ’90s demos she recorded with The Hackercoming out on US label Dark Entries next month. “Rumors On The Dancefloor” has been divided into two parts spilt across one 12-inch.

In 2015 Gerber is again taking Rumors to Ibiza. This time round he’s throwing weekly word-of-mouth parties at Beachouse in Playa d’en Bossa.

Tracklist
A Rumors On The Dancefloor (Part 1)
B Rumors On The Dancefloor (Part 2)

Rumors will release Rumors On The Dancefloor on July 31st, 2015.

(via RA)

 

DJ Sprinkles Believes the Changes to Japan’s ‘No Dancing’ Rule Dismisses Larger Issues 

The ‘no dancing’ rule in Japan may be relaxed as of next year, but DJ Sprinkles reckons the change has come to “comfort” the politicians who’ve “suppressed Japanese club cultures”.

As of 2016, the altered legislation means clubs and nighttime venues can stay open for 24 hours, if they meet lighting regulations, ending the 67-year-old Fueiho law. But US producer Sprinkles believes there are still other issues that need to dealt with.

“We find their declaration dangerously capitulatory to right-wing and capitalist agendas, and culturally detrimental in its failure to address the ongoing difficulties faced by those in the sex industry and other trades whose lives will remain under the control of the Fueiho after the anticipated revisions regarding dance are finalized.

“We remind them that the larger issue at hand is not simply the ‘right to dance,’ but the policing of our bodies and their movements – both physically and socially. In relation to clubs themselves, we remind them that the proposed revisions primarily impact the workings of major venues (‘mega clubs’), and do nothing to alleviate the legal and social risks faced daily by the small venues that form the foundations of Japan’s underground club cultures.”

He made the comments in response to the ‘Declaration On the Future Of Japan’s Club Culture‘ and you can read them in full here.

(via Mixmag)

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