Knife Party

Knife Party have rocketed from an unknown entity to one of the most renowned dance acts in the world, and recently, with the release of their sophomore ‘Rage Valley’ EP in June, the duo wrote their name indelibly into dance music of this generation. Boasting a combined play count of 850,000 plays on Knife Party’s SoundCloud, the EP was released to widespread acclaim, hitting the top 10 in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia iTunes charts as well as No.1 in the UK dance chart, remaining in the top 70 in the UK main chart nearly three months on from its release. 

It debuted as No.1 and No.2 in both the Beatport and Trackitdown dubstep charts and ‘Bonfire’ was playlisted on the A list at Radio 1 for five weeks. Now they are set to release EP track ‘Centipede’ as their next single, accompanied by a powerful video. Amalgamating a wide breadth of influences into their productions, what they have simply coined as ‘seizure music’ is a heady cocktail of sounds that rips apart dubstep, electro, drum and bass and moombahton and fuses them back together into ferocious club tracks. This energy and excitement was wholly evident on the four track ‘Rage Valley’ EP, and nowhere more so than on ‘Centipede’. Opening ominously, Knife Party set the scene around the predatory vocal sample as it snakes through the undergrowth. Pouncing with a razor sharp half step drum pattern and malevolent, juddering bassline which in turns glitches and growls viciously, ‘Centipede’ showcases Knife Party at their most potent.