Tonight, electronic heavyweights will reclaim their throne at the Hat Factory in Richmond. With an impressive performance for one of last semester’s RVALUTION’s, Designer Drugs have exploded throughout the scene. With shows world-wide and a newly released full-length album HARDCORE/SOFTCORE, this is the show to leave for Spring Break with. It seems like the appropriate pairing; Destroy Your Idols and Designer Drugs. The Destroy Your Idols visuals, combined with the unique sound of Designer Drugs complement each other quite well.
If you still have not decided on going, check out their Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/DesignerDrugs) for a sample of tonight’s offering. Tickets are still available HERE.
LISTEN TO THE LATEST DATAMIX BY DESIGNER DRUGS HERE
Tonight, electronic heavyweights will reclaim their throne at the Hat Factory in Richmond. With an impressive performance for one of last semester’s RVALUTION’s, Designer Drugs have exploded throughout the scene. With shows world-wide and a newly released full-length album HARDCORE/SOFTCORE, this is the show to leave for Spring Break with. It seems like the appropriate pairing; Destroy Your Idols and Designer Drugs. The Destroy Your Idols visuals, combined with the unique sound of Designer Drugs complement each other quite well.
If you still have not decided on going, check out their Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/DesignerDrugs) for a sample of tonight’s offering. Tickets are still available HERE.
LISTEN TO THE LATEST DATAMIX BY DESIGNER DRUGS HERE
DESIGNER DRUGS recently released a stellar batch of remixes for current single “Through The Prism” via Ultra Music featuring reworked versions of the track from Swedish electro house duo Dada Life, Brooklyn producer and Trouble and Bass label head Drop The Lime, Philadelphia production team PLS DNT STP and French producer Tom Deluxx. The Drop The Lime version is available as a free download via http://soundcloud.com/ultrarecords/designerdrugs-throughtheprism-dropthelimeremix with the other songs available digitally for purchase through all online outlets.
With its visually psychedelic video that features DESIGNER DRUGS’ Michael Vincent Patrick and Theodore Paul Nelson along with the “triple swagger” of vocalist Brooklyn rapper Cerebral Vortex, the original version of “Through The Prism” is a quintessential new electro gem with the Chemical Jump blog calling it “…definitely one of their best originals” (10/27/10).
About DESIGNER DRUGS & HARDCORE/SOFTCORE:
Widely known across the electronic/dance realm for their wild remixes, which have included nearly 50 reworked tracks for Mariah Carey, Annie, Thieves Like Us, Little Boots, Fischerspooner and more, DESIGNER DRUGS conjures up a darker, edgier vibe—think the throbbing, industrial-heavy opening club scene in The Doom Generation—yet still retains a melodic center on many of the tracks on HARDCORE/SOFTCORE. The grinding, pounding beat of club bangers “Face Melter” and “The Terror” provide contrast to the pop vocals of Norwegian singer Annie on “Crazy For You” and fist-pumping up-tempo anthem “Into The Light.” Elsewhere, the classic electro-funk of “Leather Gang” sits comfortably against the Italo-shoegaze of “For All We Know.” The video for the album’s next single—the punishing electro-industrial punk track—“Dead Meat” will make its debut on March 22 via Prefix.com.
While it does mark their debut album, HARDCORE/SOFTCORE functions as much as a culmination of a decade’s work as it does the next stage in a bourgeoning career. As the electro scene started to flourish in the early 2000s, Patrick and Nelson built a studio in Philadelphia and christened themselves DESIGNER DRUGS, balancing an in-demand DJing schedule with near-constant demand for track remixes. Now with Nelson currently in medical school on his way to become a bona fide doctor and Patrick recently relocated to NYC’s Lower East Side, the duo has still found a way to keep up their busy musical careers.
Check out more about DESIGNER DRUGS at:
www.designer-drugs.net
www.myspace.com/designerdrugsclubmusic
www.facebook.com/designerdrugs
www.twitter.com/designerdrugs
www.ultrarecords.com
