The Dissociatives
The Dissociatives is an Australian band that was founded by Daniel Johns, the frontman of Silverchair and Paul Mac, a producer from the Australian electronic music scene, in April 2004.
Band History
1997, met Daniel Johns and a little more than ten years older than Paul Mac for the first time, as a last-mentioned flashed his skills for a remix of Silverchair single " Freak " ( from the album "Freak Show"). He was opposed to the "Teen Star" Daniel Johns had classical training at the Conservatory of Music in Sydney and was regarded as one of the pioneers of the Australian electro scene. He composed film music, collaborated with Baz Luhrmann and ended in 2001 with the single Just The Thing his first number - one hit in Australia. In the same year he was elected at the Australian Dance Awards for Producer of the Year. His debut album " 3000 Feet High " was awarded gold and ARIA Award.
Daniel Johns quickly closed with the resourceful musicians and producers friendship and so Paul also attended the following Silverchair albums " Neon Ballroom " and " Diorama " for the special effects. Even with some Silverchair concerts took over the Mac keyboards and finally took the two friends in 2000, an EP with the prophetic title I Can not Believe It's Not Rock On.
Your located somewhere between experimental pop and the constructed art-rock debut album, simply called The Dissociatives, made in 2004 for one of the biggest surprises in the music scene of the fifth continent. Even after a week waved to the exceptional pop album gold and the dissociatives have been nominated for six ARIA Awards, including in the " album of the year" and " best group ". In May 2005, the debut of The Dissociatives, which was hailed as " electro pop symphony" in Australian Rolling Stone and decorated the same title appeared, the rest of the world.
The opener of the album We're Much Preferred Customers refers in its electronic playfulness to the eighties, but less on the usual suspects because on eccentric outsider and intellectual aesthetes like Thomas Dolby, Scritti Politti and XTC. The omnipresent in today's music scene love for the Beatles is hard to hear at the Dissociatives: Especially with the singles Somewhere Down The Barrel and Young Man, Old Man, they revel in beatlesken harmonies. These Director James Hackett has inflict upon them most bizarre video clips: a mixture of animation and digital flicks, from silhouette à la Monty Python and the gloomy macabre imagery of a Tim Burton. The videos received several Awards / Nominations.
The band is characterized by avant-garde ideas and ironic mutations with the mainstream, make the dissociatives also a little too post-modern descendants of the Art- rock legends Split Enz.
Discography
- 2004: The Dissociatives