Knife Party
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Perth, Australia |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
| Labels | Earstorm, Big Beat, Warner Bros. |
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| Website | knifeparty |
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Knife Party are an Australian electronic dance music duo consisting of two members of the drum and bass band Pendulum, Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen.
Knife Party were placed at #53 on DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs poll, #22 on thedjlist and #9 based on 2013–14 data by Topple Track and JustGo Music. The duo have also worked with other artists such as Swedish House Mafia, Steve Aoki, MistaJam, Foreign Beggars, I See MONSTAS, Tom Staar and Tom Morello.
Knife Party use the Digital Audio Workstation applications Nuendo for production and Ableton for live shows such as the 2016 Miami Festival. In an interview with Sound on sound Swire mentions he used to use Logic but switched to Nuendo mainly due to the linking system and workflow environment. Most of the sounds emulated are virtual instruments (VST).
The duo met and performed music since 2002 in various different bands and music projects, eventually forming drum and bass band Pendulum. Two of the three original members created Knife Party as a side project, although it evolved into their primary project. On 25 May 2011, Swire released a short preview on SoundCloud entitled "Not Pendulum". The name is derived from a Deftones song of the same name, which caused consternation at first as it implied that they supported knife crime, although Swire stated that "...we’re not advocating any type of knife-related crime any more than Swedish House Mafia were advocating organised crime."
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