Hadouken!

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Hadouken! in Glasgow (2007)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Music for an Accelerated Culture
  UK 12 05/17/2008 (4 weeks)
For the masses
  UK 19th 02/06/2010 (2 weeks)
Every weekend
  UK 35 03/30/2013 (1 week)
Singles
Liquid lives
  UK 36 07/07/2007 (2 weeks)
Declaration of War
  UK 66 05/03/2008 (2 weeks)
Mic check
  UK 85 04/17/2010 (1 week)
Levitate
  UK 87 02/02/2013 (2 weeks)
  US 69 04/13/2013 (15 weeks)

Hadouken! are a British indietronic / new rave band founded in 2006 in Leeds by James Smith and Daniel Rice. The band's name comes from a special attack in the Versus Fighter video game series Street Fighter . They combine electronic sound with sound elements from Nintendo Game Boys . Smith and Rice founded their own label Surface Noise Records and released some songs from their project for the first time in February 2007.

Career

In 2008 two of her songs hit the UK single charts. Her album Music for an Accelerated Culture reached number 12 on the hit parade.

On January 25, 2010 her new album For the Masses was released. A total of 3 singles were released from this album in 2010. The song Bombshock is also included in the racing game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit , which was released in 2010.

On October 18, 2010, the first single, Mecha Love , their third album was released. The alternative video to Mecha Love was viewed almost 40 million times on the YouTube video platform by February 2012 . Also on October 18th, the second single Oxygen was accidentally distributed on the Internet. Officially, this single should not be released until February 14, 2011. The music video for Oxygen was released on January 12, 2011, and the song has been on sale since January 18, ahead of schedule.

The studio recordings for the third studio album began on January 3rd, 2011. Due to problems with the music label Ministry Of Sound , where the new album was supposed to be released, the release was postponed by almost two years. On March 18, 2013, the album was released under the name Every Weekend on Hadouken's own label Surface Noise Records .

Band members

  • James Smith
  • Alice Spooner
  • Daniel "Pilau" Rice
  • Christopher Purcell
  • Nick Rice

Discography

Albums

  • 2008: Music for an Accelerated Culture
  • 2010: For The Masses
  • 2013: Every Weekend

EPs

  • 2007: Liquid Lives EP
  • 2007: Not Here to Please You EP
  • 2007: Love, Sweat and Beer EP
  • 2009: MAD EP
  • 2012: Bad Signal EP

Singles

  • 2007: That Boy That Girl
  • 2007: Liquid Lives
  • 2007: The Bounce
  • 2007: Leap of Faith
  • 2007: Love, Sweat and Beer
  • 2008: Get Smashed Gate Crash
  • 2008: Declaration of War
  • 2008: Crank It Up
  • 2009: MAD
  • 2010: bombshock
  • 2010: Turn the Lights Out
  • 2010: Mic Check
  • 2010: Mecha Love
  • 2011: Oxygen
  • 2012: Parasite
  • 2012: Bad Signal
  • 2012: Levitate

swell

  1. ↑ UK chart history

Web links

Commons : Hadouken!  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files