knife party is a name with which anyone with even a passing interest in electronic music will be familiar.
In the three years since the mysterious duo Rob sSire and Gareth McGrillen emerged, their singular approach and ferocious productions have driven their rapid ascent through dance music’s ranks from unknown entity to dance floor conquering scene leaders, and festival headliners.
Their debut ep ‘100% no modern talking’ was released as a free download in december 2011, and racked up over 50,000 downloads in less than 12 hours on the first day of its release.
The ep has now received over 1 million downloads worldwide and despite being available for free, broke into the itunes top ten charts in both the uk, us and australia as well as reaching no.1 in the beatport releases chart and has received unprecedented support from tastemakers and club djs the world over.
As well as success with production, and with 3 critically acclaimed EPs under their belt, Knife Party also go from strength to strength as major players on the international DJ circuit. Their first ever show was at BBC Radio 1's Come Together event at Space, Ibiza in August 2011, and 2 years later, the Summer of 2013 saw the act with a residency at Together at Amnesia with their amazing Haunted House show.
Since 2011, they have curated their own ‘Earstorm’ stage at Australia’s Future Music Festival, completed a number of sold out headline tours of the US and Europe, playing in front of 100,000 revellers at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, and headlined huge festivals the world over including EDC Las Vegas, Global Gathering, Bestival, Lollapalooza and more.
knife party is a name with which anyone with even a passing interest in electronic music will be familiar.
In the three years since the mysterious duo Rob sSire and Gareth McGrillen emerged, their singular approach and ferocious productions have driven their rapid ascent through dance music’s ranks from unknown entity to dance floor conquering scene leaders, and festival headliners.
Their debut ep ‘100% no modern talking’ was released as a free download in december 2011, and racked up over 50,000 downloads in less than 12 hours on the first day of its release.
The ep has now received over 1 million downloads worldwide and despite being available for free, broke into the itunes top ten charts in both the uk, us and australia as well as reaching no.1 in the beatport releases chart and has received unprecedented support from tastemakers and club djs the world over.
As well as success with production, and with 3 critically acclaimed EPs under their belt, Knife Party also go from strength to strength as major players on the international DJ circuit. Their first ever show was at BBC Radio 1's Come Together event at Space, Ibiza in August 2011, and 2 years later, the Summer of 2013 saw the act with a residency at Together at Amnesia with their amazing Haunted House show.
Since 2011, they have curated their own ‘Earstorm’ stage at Australia’s Future Music Festival, completed a number of sold out headline tours of the US and Europe, playing in front of 100,000 revellers at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, and headlined huge festivals the world over including EDC Las Vegas, Global Gathering, Bestival, Lollapalooza and more.