The British dance duo Simian Mobile Disco recorded Whorl, their new album, live, in real time, at an outdoor venue in the California desert. Both members of the group had one analog synth and one sequencer each, and they did the whole thing with a few hundred fans looking on. This is a high-stress work [...]

Earlier this year, Simian Mobile Disco announced their plans to strip their dance music to its rawest elements — their new album, Whorl, would be recorded live on modular synth … in the desert. They’ve already released the album’s first single, “Tangents,” and now you can hear the heady...

A few weeks ago we heard “Tangents,” the pulsating new song from Simian Mobile Disco’s upcoming fourth album, and now there are some interesting visuals to go along with it. They were created by visual collaborators Jack Featherstone and Hans Lo by “feeding live generated digital content through an oscillo...

British electronic duo Simian Mobile Disco live up to the “mobile” fragment of their name. Known for their analog production style, they recorded their fourth studio album, Whorl, live in the California desert, with a modular synth and a sequencer apiece. With “Tangents,” the first single off the album, Si...

Duo's fourth album was recorded live in California in front of an audience of 900 people