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Biography
Refimprove|date=June 2008Infobox musical artist|name = Digitalism| image = digitalism_live.jpg|caption = Digitalism live at Melt 2007|background = group_or_band|origin = Hamburg , Germany |genre = Electronica Dance-punk Electro house |years_active = 2004-present|label = Kitsuné Music Astralwerks |website = http://www.thedigitalism.com/ Official website MySpace-music|digitalism|Digitalism| current_members = Jens "Jence" Moelle Ismail "Isi" Tüfekçi Digitalism is a Germany|German electro house duo founded in 2004 in Hamburg and consisting of Jens "Jence" Moelle and Ismail "Isi" Tüfekçi. They are signed to France|French label Kitsuné Music .
Digitalism has remixed tracks for The Presets , Tom Vek , The Futureheads , Daft Punk , Tiga (musician)|Tiga , Klaxons , White Stripes , Monk (band)|Monk , Depeche Mode , Cut Copy and many others, including a re-edit of " Fire in Cairo " by The Cure (entitled "Digitalism in Cairo"). Their tracks and remixes are played by DJ s such as Erol Alkan , Soulwax , Boys Noize and Justice (French band)|Justice .
Digitalism have made appearances at festivals such as Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella , Lollapalooza , South by Southwest , Rhythm and Vines , and Ultra Music Festival as well as various clubs worldwide.
Jens Moelle has two solo releases on Kitsuné Music ; "I Ragazzi Del 1982" as Palermo Disko Machine and Wired as Jence. He has since released "Vesuvia / Theme Of Palermo Disko Machine" as Palermo Disko Machine on Vulture Music.
Band history
Moelle and Tüfekçi met at a record store in Hamburg and became friends. Later, the store's owner asked them to DJ a party, and they then began mixing and recording. According to Moelle, they record their music in a World War II bunker they own in Hamburg. http://dcist.com/2008/03/24/dcist_interview_22.php Interview, DCist.com
Digitalism's debut album, Idealism (album)|Idealism , was released 9 May 2007 as Digitalism ?????? (Dejitaru Shugi) on Toshiba EMI Records in Japan , on 21 May 2007 on Kitsuné Music in France, on Astralwerks in North America, and etcetc / Virgin Music in Australia and New Zealand. The album includes re-edits of the previously released singles "Jupiter Room" and "Zdarlight" as well as their "Digitalism in Cairo" original re-edit of a track by The Cure .
The Pogo EP was released as a single in support of the LP in May, with two alternate versions of the track.
Digitalism released their newest EP "Blitz" under Kitsuné Music on November 8, 2010.
On April 7, 2011 they announced a new album on their myspace, "I Love You Dude", will be released on June 20, 2011. On June 18, 2011 they played at the Hurricane Festival .
Influences
They claim Daft Punk http://higherfrequency.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/digitalism-interview-apr-2007/ Higher Frequency interview and movie soundtracks as influences. It's often said that they named the song "Zdarlight" after Philippe Zdar from Cassius (band)|Cassius .
Live act
They perform live using a Macbook Pro laptop as the heart of the act, along with a Behringer BCR2000 and BCF2000 MIDI controller, a KORG microKORG , a KORG KP3, a Roland Corporation|Roland MC-202 , a set of Roland Corporation|Roland V-Drums, along with some other synthesizers (such as the KORG MS-20), and various drum machines (such as the KORG Electribe ESX-1 and EMX-1).Citation needed|date=November 2008 Moelle (and occasionally Isi) performs live vocals over the top.
Discography
Studio Albums
Year
Album details
Peak chart positions
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Singles, EPs and Remixes
Year
Title
Format
Label
2004
"Idealistic"
12-inch single
White label
2005
"Idealistic"
12-inch single
Kitsuné Music
2005
"Zdarlight"
12-inch single
Kitsuné Music
2006
"Zdarlight" (Edition Moonlight / Discodrome)
12-inch single
Kitsuné Music
2006
"Jupiter Room"
12-inch single, CD single
Kitsuné Music
2007
"Terrorlight"
12-inch single
Kitsuné Music
2008
#Moshi Moshi EP
LP/ CD
EMI Japan Records
2008
Kitsuné Tabloid: Mixed by Digitalism
CD
Kitsuné Music
2010
Blitz EP
CD
Kitsuné Music
2011
2 Hearts
Download
V2 Records
2011
I Love You, Dude
Download
V2 Records
Moshi Moshi EP
Moshi Moshi EP was released on 6 February 2008, through the Japanese EMI label. It contains 8 rare or live tracks. It has been released only in Japan to celebrate Digitalism's Japanese Tour. The title reflects the Japanese phrase used when answering the telephone.
Track listing
# "Pogo (Digitalism's Robotic Mix)" # "ZDRLT (Rewind)" # "The Pulse (Live)" # "Idealistic (Extended Mix)" # "Yes, I Don't Want This" # "Idealistic (A-Trak Remix)" # "Pogo ( Mondo Grosso|Shinichi Osawa Remix)" # "Zdarlight/I Want I Want (Live @ The Bunker)"
Remixes
All remixes named Digitalism Remix, unless otherwise specified.
2005 Daft Punk - " Technologic " (Digitalism's Highway to Paris Remix)
2008 Digitalism - "Home Zone" (11th Avenue Is Burning Digitalism Criminal Club Mix)
2008 Digitalism - "The Pulse" (Digitalism High Pulse Club Mix)
In popular culture
The single "Pogo" is featured in the official soundtracks of Electronic Arts popular video games Need for Speed: ProStreet and FIFA 08 . It was also featured as the soundtrack for a Canadian Virgin Mobile advertisement, both in French and English, during December 2007. For a while it was also used on Sky Sports live football coverage as the pre-halftime-break highlight clip backing music. A remix of this song was also used in a Pontiac ad in 2007.
The track "Idealistic" is used in the first trailer for Rockstar Games ' title Midnight Club: Los Angeles; it has also been used in THQ 's Saints_Row:_The_Third|Saint's Row: The Third as a radio track in the in-game radio channel K12. An uncredited remix of "Zdarlight" was also used in the trailerTrailer for TrackMania Nations Forever http://www.trackmania.com/trailers/tmnf/, contains remix of "Zdarlight" for Nadeo 's TrackMania#TrackMania Forever|TrackMania Nations Forever released in early 2008. The Flanders|Flemish TV station " Canvas " used a slightly edited version of the track "Magnets" in their introduction trailer "The New Canvas". The trailer was intended to introduce the radical new look of "Canvas". This VRT tv station featured a more serious style in the past. "Idealistic" was also used in Just Dance 2 for the Wii.
The British television programme MasterChef (UK TV series)|MasterChef featured various Digitalism songs in the semi finals.
The song "Zdarlight" was used in a commercial for BMW X1 http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=JkYnn21W8x0 BMW X1 Commercial
The song "Blitz" is featured in SSX , released on Xbox 360 and PS3 in early 2012.
The song "Circles" is part of FIFA 12 's Soundtrack.
References
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External links
commons|Digitalism
Official website| http://www.thedigitalism.com/
Allmusic|id=digitalism-p740213|label=Digitalism
http://www.shootingmusic.com/gallery2/v/digitalism+-+live+images+foto+photo+-+fib+2007+-+festival+international+benicassim/ Digitalism live images at Shootingmusic
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx? id=824 Interview at Resident Advisor
http://www.liberationfrequency.co.uk/digitilism-interview/ Interview at Liberation Frequency
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