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• source: http://www.inthemix.com.au

Knife Party is an Australian electro house/dubstep duo founded by members of Pendulum: Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen. Before the side project was announced, Rob Swire stressed that the project is not related to Pendulum. Their first release was called 100% No Modern Talking and was released digitally through Pendulum's record label, EarStorm   on 12 December 2011 as a free download from their official website and Facebook, as well as being able to buy on iTunes and Beatport. It features four tracks: "Internet Friends," "Destroy Them With Lazers," "Tourniquet," and "Fire Hive".  The EP originally had a track called "Back to the Z-List", but was replaced by "Destroy Them With Lazers" as they no longer liked that song. Knife Party have made a remix of "Unison" by Porter Robinson which was released on 19 October 2011 on his debut EP, Spitfire, released on OWSLA, Skrillex's label. They also remixed the Swedish House Mafia's single "Save the World," which was released on 10 June 2011, and Nero's single "Crush on You," which was released on 13 October 2011.

inthemix caught up with Gareth while he was in Australia to hear straight from the source how the Party started.

“It’s really quite underground and it’s something that we can use as a creative outlet until we’re hit in the face with inspiration for the next Pendulum album,” he explained. “We launched it officially in Ibiza over [the last European] summer and it was for Radio 1."

“Musically the project just comes from different influences. I’ve just been really gripped by two things recently; house music and dubstep. We were just throwing ideas around and using that as a vehicle for stuff that was completely irrelevant to Pendulum. These ideas went from screamo metal tracks to moombahton and dubstep and house.”

“We found ourselves hanging out with a lot of the guys on the house circuit like Swedish House Mafia and Steve Angello and as we were writing everything just seemed to take shape,” he went on.

“Steve was on the Future Music Festival tour with us in 2011 and he would be playing after us every night and he’d see the energy that we could create from the crowd and I think that impressed him.
“But in their world those guys are larger than life. There’s something about the Swedes, I think; if you take the top guys in the house scene and look at what you’ve got you’ll see that there’s something that really separates the Swedes from the rest. They might all fly on private jets and act like rock stars but musically they’re just amazing. They’re like Motley Crue for the house scene. They’ve really ‘got’ us and we get them too.”

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