21st Century Disco is a spectacular, hi-impact, audio-visual like no other. A collaboration between Soichi Matsumoto/Qaudroptica -VJ and Visual Art creator of Mercury prize winner Talvin Singh and Carlo Rossi And The Organic Jam. 21st Century Disco remix and recreate cult and classic film & music moments like you've never seen or heard before, nostalgic yet contemporary, hilariously comedic in their outragousness yet subtly sophisticated and always for the dancefloor.
Carlo and Soi began moonlighting from their supposed 'day job' in The Organic Jam and Quadroptica to play records and VJ in clubs and festivals. Stubbornly unpretentious in their tastes, gleefully determined to avoid genre-lisations, 21st Century Disco come to the party with one clear aim: to get you dancing. They achieve this by VJing a brilliant concoction of edits from iconic & legendary film to the maddest Art House Cinema while laying down remixes of pop, rock, electronica, hip-hop & a few obscure tunes - every now and then, laying down the hugest sing-along ballads too.
Having a near-genius instinct for what unlikely combinations of records will work with each other: Green Velvet with Led Zeppelin; Nirvana with Destiny's Child; The Stooges with Salt'n'Pepa; Jay Z with AC/DC.. These are the 'bootleg' mixes or 'mash-ups' of which you may have heard about, but 21st Century Disco, by nature of their musical upbringing and studio experience, do more than bounce a couple of tracks together on hi-tech software: they edit, loop, EQ, pitch control and edit again to turn the result into something entirely original. Below are two excepts taken from their live performance at the 2010 RSVP Awards at Fulham Palace.
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