Introducing Dancefloor Diplomacy

‘collage music’

Dancefloor Diplomacy is a music project created by KJ Rothweiler and Jakob Dorof,  As Jakob  told us, they know each  other since the higschool days, maybe that`s why this music project is so solid;  Anyway this guys are bringing the mash up concept striped down to it`s basics.

Nowadays, laptops and Midi instruments do all the work on stage, “just push play” is what sometimes is all about, and that`s boring, we`re not talking about boring music, we`re talking about boring live acts.

Well, Danceflor Diplomacy changes all that, they  just release a video clip for the song:

We Are Ready

“a song made from 38 other songs, sourced from everything from recent pop, rock, dance and rap to ’60s soul, 19th century classical,  Japanese video game music, and on.“

Performed lived by a 20-person band.

Photo Courtesy of Dancefloor Diplomacy

“Obviously, there are a lot of precedents for what we’re doing
— vinyl wizards like DJ Shadow and the Avalanches, mashup maestro Girl Talk, hip-hop’s early innovation of  taking someone else’s music to make something new of your own — but this way of thinking about music has never been attempted by a flesh-and-blood band on such a large scale before.
…we think of our composition process like that of a 2D art collage: cutting things up, rearranging them,  recombining them, and trying to make our own thing out of a bunch of other people’s stuff.  We’re looking forward to showing what else we can do with it.”

Jakob Dorof

Photo Courtesy of Dancefloor Diplomacy

Enjoy The Video for WE ARE READY.  a 9 minutes worth watching video clip,  directed by Theo Anthony, who’s also done videos for Wise Blood, Future Islands, and Best Coast.

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Includes:

Aphex Twin “Jynweythek Ylow” • Blur “Song 2″ • Britney Spears “Toxic” • Broken Social Scene “Pacific Theme” • Claude Debussy “Clair de Lune” • Deerhunter “Desire Lines” • DMX “What’s My Name” • Dr. Dre “Kush” & “What’s the Difference” • DJ Shadow “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” • Fabulous “Breathe” • Flying Lotus “Massage Situation” • Franz Schubert “Der Doppelganger” • Fugees “Ready or Not” • Girl Talk “Hold Up” • Holy Other “Touch” • Hot Chip “Ready for the Floor” • Joanna Newsom “Peach Plum Pear” • Julee Cruise “Falling” • King Harvest “Dancing in the Moonlight” • Lady GaGa “Telephone” • Lee Erwin “Thief of Baghdad” • Ludacris “Move” • Massive Attack “Teardrop” • Mount Kimbie “Maybes” • Nas “Represent” • Otis Redding “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” • P. Diddy “Bad Boys For Life” • Ratatat “Seventeen Years” • RJD2 “1976″ • The Bloody Beetroots “Butter” • TV on the Radio “Staring at the Sun (EP Version)” • White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” • 光田康典 “Wind Scene”

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