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Super-Cannes
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Out of 9 votes - Similar Artists: King Crimson, Amon Tobin, Funki Porchini, 9 Lazy 9, The Herbalizer, Massive Attack
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Editor's review
Mixing live instrumentation and electronics, Super-Cannes builds their groove-oriented atmospheric songs with patience and poise. Hailing from Boston, they mix krautrock, techno, and tribal energy with post rock dynamics to bring live rock back to the dance floor.
Biography
Question: What is Super-Cannes?
Answer 1: A sexy town located in the South of France.
Answer 2: The name of a novel by J.G. Ballard about Western society's ever increasing appetite for thrills.
Answer 3: A rock band in Boston playing music that involves hip-hop grooves colliding with space, lots of textures, live improvisation and looping to create a musical mix of rawness and lushness -- something that swings your hips while your head might be tripping.
Super-Cannes is a three piece “rocktronic” band that brings together three of Boston's most consistently innovative musician's:
Danny Lee - drums and twisting grooves
David Kirkdorffer - unguitar, guitar, groove smearing and space
Doug Vargas - guitar, main groove programming and oh-zone
These three guys have each played in some of Boston's most interesting bands from the early 90's -- UZI, Young Snakes and Womb to Tomb -- which were the first outings for some of Boston's most rocking women Thalia Zadec (UZI, Come), Aimee Mann (Young Snakes) and Hilken Mancini (Womb to Tomb, Fuzzy, Count Me Outs).
Bust these guys are not the lost children of the Boston scene. They went on to found CXEMA, El Dopa, The Letter A, .little a., Auto 66 and UNDO.
Together, they are exploring new musical territory once again. Say's Danny Lee, "This is new stuff. It mixes rock and ambient music in a way that is exciting to play, and a trip to listen to."
The band hasn't an "official release" to date, but they have burned limited runs of three CD's.
"I put up a stereo microphone, plugged it into an old cassette deck and voila! We had our first recording studio!" says Kirkdorffer. "Then we took our recordings and dumped them to a computer and worked on the equalization a bit. From this process we've three short-run CD's that become quite sought after."
"What we've uploaded here was recorded live to eight-track and mixed real-time from the tape too. NO PROTOOLS! We hope to release these on CD, but until then on-line distribution is the only way to hear these tracks" adds Kirkdorffer.
Super-Cannes’s hip-hop prog-rock is raw and gives their techno-esque music a punk vibe that really works.
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