Basketball

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  Basketball, from Vancouver Canada; an energetic three piece driven by live electronics, spirited vocals, and massive percussion that grows into pulsating dance beats. From Tome's vocals in his native tongues, Croatian and English, to the Persian scales, to the gypsy-esque spirit, Basketball exists amongst a history of music played on street corners and at celebrations around the world. Playing for 8 years together and hundreds of shows in Canada, USA, and Europe under various names, 2006 became the turning point for their new sound, adopting the name Basketball. The combination of their sound has drawn comparisons to artists such as Modeselektor, Muslim Gauze, Gang Gang Dance, and Konono N°1.
  
  HAVE PERFORMED WITH:
  
  Black Dice, Gang Gang Dance, Dj Rupture, Holy Fuck, Filastine, Crystal Castles, HEALTH, Subtitle, Women, Need New Body, Blood on the Wall, Hella, Gogogo Airheart, Xiu Xiu, many more...
  
  QUOTES
  
  "Basketball wander beneath night skies patterned with LED constellations across the same pixelated Paper Rad deserts frequented by like-minded sonic nomads and purveyors of jagged Sublime Frequency inspired noise Rainbow Arabia and Mi Ami, dragging behind them broken drums and malfunctioning machines forever talking in tongues attached to a trail of fluorescent wires slithering across the dust bowl like a congregation of snakes. Out there on the plains they erect a giant crystal rave tent in preparation for the forthcoming sandstorms with the ancient native tribes people they encountered as a circus of silhouettes before a moon that could have swallowed them as they sat atop their mechanical chrome camels. In the tent they collaborate to conjure up an intoxicating mauve mist of shamanic disco, vocal gabba straining to fight against the sheets of HEALTH like metallic trance that rhythmically collide with the bubbling of broken-bone riddims that sends everybodies eyeballs rolling into the backs of their heads as they await to wake in the center of the eye." 20JazzFunkGreats
  
  "Combining exotic Middle Eastern and World music sounds with cut up drum- machine beats, Basketball ends up tapping into something primal, creating their own genre. You really have to see them live to experience it firsthand; like an orgy, it’s very much a communal thing."
  Tristan Orchard of "Discorder Magazine"
  
  "The whole tribal drum circle awash in throbbing synth loops with the lights off and sweat dripping off the roof thing that I witnessed with blurring eyes and swimming mind seemed like some sort of epoch. If they could figure out a way to bottle that shit like some Michael Jordan cologne and package it with good MDMA I could promise you that I would be showing up at all foreseeable special occasions smelling and feeling like a fresh dose of The Best Night Ever."
  "ChalkedUp Magazine"
  
  "Sounding like a demented hammering together of a dozen or so Sublime Frequencies comps, Basketball's tongue is split in Anglo-Croat halves, their tracks built upon Persian scales and they weave Romany rhythms in with what sounds like the last, panicked cries of a snake charmer's pungi. They aren't the sort of band you imagine Vancouver producing, then, but, recently relocated to Barcelona, their continent-hopping mania sounds infectious enough to provoke delirium among onlookers, this track "Joy" to be beamed to earth from space next month so that the world's populous may celebrate the coming of the spring as one, throbbing mass of limbs and giddy guts. Kev Kharas of RCRDLBL.com

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  • Basketball – JOY
    4:14
  • Basketball – Zima Dodje (Winter's Come)
    5:30
  • Basketball – JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT
    5:38
  • Basketball – S.I.E.M.P.R.E. (feat. Andy Dixon)
    6:05
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• December

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  18th

  10pm

  BILTMORE / MENTAL BEAST HOLIDAY SHOW VANKUVERSTAN →

  
  
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