Knife party

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Knife party
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Knife Party live at Concord, Chicago
Knife Party live at Concord, Chicago
General information
origin Australia
Genre (s) Drumstep, Dub-House, Dubstep , Electro-House , Moombahton , Progressive-House
founding 2011
Website www.knifeparty.com
Founding members
DJ ,  producer
Rob Swire (* 1982)
DJ, producer
 Gareth McGrillen (born 1981)

Knife Party is an Australian house / dubstep duo founded in 2011 by two members of the drum and bass band Pendulum , Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen.

history

Before it became official that the band would be formed, Rob Swire emphasized that the project wouldn't have much in common with Pendulum by posting a sound called Not Pendulum on his SoundCloud page . Their first EP 100% No Modern Talking was first released on December 12, 2011 on the EarStorm label and reached number 32 on the charts in Australia. It contains four tracks: Internet Friends , Destroy Them with Lazers , Tourniquet and Fire Hive . The EP reached a position in the Australian singles charts and the title Internet Friends was able to advance through strong downloads in the British singles charts, which they achieved a single chart placement for the first time.

At the end of 2011, Knife Party released their collaboration with the Swedish DJ and producer trio Swedish House Mafia . The track formed a crossover between their dubstep and the electro house style of the Swedish House Mafia. They reached 63rd place in Germany, 17th place in Sweden, 100th place in their home country and the top 5 in Great Britain. The track sold almost 320 thousand times. The official music video in particular attracted attention. However, this was blocked due to explicit content, which is why a revised version was published shortly afterwards, but the content differed from the original.

A second EP should have been released on May 6, 2012, called Rage Valley , which included the tracks Rage Valley (previously known as Fuck 'em ), Centipede , Sleaze and Bonfire . However, the publication was postponed to May 28, 2012. On that day it was published via Beatport .

On May 6, 2013 the Haunted House EP was released , which contains the four tracks Power Glove , LRAD , EDM Deathmachine and a VIP mix from Internet Friends . The latter was not originally intended for the track list, but since the final version of their collaboration with Hardwell Baghdad was unsatisfactory, they opted for the VIP mix. LRAD , the second song from the EP, reached number 1 in the Beatport Top 100 on the Beatport charts after two days. After two weeks, LRAD was in the top 10 of the main charts. The title stood out stylistically from her other songs and represents one of the co-founders of the 2013 up-and-coming big room track. Power Glove was able to place in the British singles charts.

For the end of 2014 they announced their debut album. This is called the abandon ship and was particularly successful in the USA, Great Britain and their homeland. The songs were stylistically varied. The songs Resistance , Begin Again and Boss Mode were already released as a single in advance .

On November 20, 2015 the EP Trigger Warning was released and the following year Battle Sirens .

The EP Lost Souls was released on July 19, 2019

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US AU AU
2014 Abandon Ship - - - UK39 (1 week)
UK 		US40 (1 week)
US 		AU20 (3 weeks)
AU
Initial release:

EPs

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US AU AU
2011 100% No Modern Talking - - - - - AU31 (15 weeks)
AU
First published: December 12, 2011
2012 Rage Valley - - - UK71 1 (1 week)
UK 		US75 (1 week)
US 		-
First published: May 27, 2012
2013 Haunted House - - - - US37 (15 weeks)
US 		-
First published: May 5, 2013

More EPs

  • 2015: Trigger Warning
  • 2016: Battle Sirens

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US AU AU
2011 Internet Friends
100% No Modern Talking 		- - - UK83 (3 weeks)
UK 		- -
Not released as a single
Antidote
Until Now 		DE63 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT30 (3 weeks)
AT 		CH70 (1 week)
CH 		UK4th
silver
silver

(5 weeks)UK 		- -
First published: December 16, 2011
Sales: +320,000
2012 Rage Valley
Rage Valley 		- - - UK71 (1 week)
UK 		- -
Not released as a single
Bonfire
Rage Valley 		- - - UK45
silver
silver

(9 weeks)UK 		- -
Not released as a single
Sales: +200,000
Centipede
Rage Valley 		- - - UK86 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
Not released as a single
2013 Power Glove
Haunted House 		- - - UK43 (1 week)
UK 		- -
Not released as a single
1 Sales of EP and song were added, whereby the chart positions relate to both records.

Remixes

swell

  1. ↑ Not Pendulum on SoundCloud
  2. ↑ a b Knife Party Releasing EP Titled '100% No Modern Talking
  3. ↑ Van_Hinten: "Knife Party Facebook. Inthemix.com.au, May 10, 2012, accessed on May 11, 2012 (English).
  4. ↑ Rage Valley ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Beatport @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beatport.com
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / knifeparty.com
  6. ↑ a b c DE AT CH UK US

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