Anybody with even a transient level of awareness in electronic music will be familiar of the name Knife Party by now. But just in case you missed out some of the essential and cool stuff from their journey, we’ve got you covered now. In an extremely short time-span since the enigmatic duo Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen developed, their remarkable style and vicious productions have driven their swift climb through dance music’s ranks, from an unknown entity to dance floor winning act leaders, and festival headliners.
The artistic duo of Knife Party released their debut EP ‘100% No Modern Talking’ as a free download in December 2011, and is known to have racked up over 50,000 downloads in less than 12 hours on the very first day. The electro house and dubstep album featured their hit single ‘Internet Friends’ along with ‘Destroy Them With Lazers’, ‘Tourniquet’ and ‘Fire Hive’ and managed to fetch them unprecedented support from fans and artists around the world.
By now the EP has attained over 1 million downloads worldwide and despite being available for free, broke into the iTunes top ten charts in both the UK, US and Australia and also jumped to #1 in the Beatport releases chart.
In May 2012, Knife Party trailed up ‘100% No Modern Talking‘ with their ensuing great project and much foreseen sophomore EP, ‘Rage Valley’. With widespread eagerness and critical praise, consisting of 4 tracks namely ‘Rage Valley’, ‘Centipede’, ‘Bonfire’ and ‘Sleaze’ (feat. MistaJam), the EP shot straight into the iTunes Top 5 in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
Not to mention, all four tracks from the EP penetrated clubs and radio stations world over, while ‘Bonfire’ gained a different and special edge as it was playlisted at BBC Radio 1’s A list for 5 weeks and was used in an episode of the offbeat TV series Breaking Bad. Well, now you know Knife Party, don’t you?
Having already gained incredible popularity in previous two years, there was no looking back for Rob and Gareth and they released their subsequent 4-track ‘Haunted House’ EP in May 2013. Consisting of ‘Power Glove’, ‘LRAD’, ‘EDM Death Machine’ and their self-rework of the popular ‘Internet Friends’ titled ‘Internet Friends (VIP)’, the EP broke the Top Ten in the UK, USA and Australia and all through Europe marking a perfect evolution for Knife Party.
Came 2014 and it was now time for Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen of to give their career a giant impulse and release their much awaited debut studio album ‘Abandon Ship’. Not all huge artist albums follow the same route to success, and this, one of the most anticipated dance music album of last year certainly had a long and arduous journey written for itself.
After a series of delays and finally having a ready-to-go schedule with a special marketing plan in place, ‘Abandon Ship’ sprung a leak and was put on iTunes three weeks ahead of the official release date. Even without the execution of their label’s full-fledged marketing plan and not causing any harm either, it climbed instantly all the way up to No. 3 on iTunes’ overall album charts in United States, No. 2 in Australia and No. 4 in the U.K.
Some of the popular tracks from the album that turned out to be include ‘Give It Up’, ‘D.I.M.H.’, ‘404’, ‘Micropenis’ and ‘Red Dawn’ whereas others like ‘Reconnect’, ‘Resistance’, ‘Boss Mode’, ‘EDM Trend Machine’, ‘Begin Again’, ‘Superstar’ and ‘Kaleidoscope’ also gained abundant admiration from fans around the world.
Knife Party have by now played in front of thousands of revelers worldwide at big festivals like Ultra Music Festival in Miami, EDC Las Vegas, Global Gathering, Bestival, Lollapalooza and more. Checkout Knife Party’s three unreleased tracks from Ultra’15 below:
As now you’re fully acquainted with Knife Party, catch them play live at this year’s Smirnoff Experience alongside The Bloody Beetroots and others in Mumbai. Book your tickets here and check the event details below:
Event Details:
Date: 17th April
Venue: NSCI-SVP Stadium, Mumbai
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