Knife Party is an electro house/dubstep duo founded in London by two Australians Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen. The success of this project was predetermined by the fact that both musicians are the members of the sensational drum and bass band Pendulum.
The project itself was created due to Rob Swire`s creative potential, which was vigorous enough to start the experiments with the different kinds of electronic music. The first result was uploaded onto the musician`s Soundcloud page and called “No Pendulum”.
On 31 May 2011 the first official Knife Party remix of the Swedish House Mafia song Save The World was aired on Zane Lowe's hottest Record. Later the Rolling Stone Music magazine called this track one of the hottest summer dance floor anthems. The resulting composition has partially preserved the mood of the original, but gained the drive and the strength of really juicy Knife Party beats.
The first live performance of the Knife Party duo took place at Space, Ibiza on 5 August 2011 and was also broadcasted live on BBC Radio 1. Already the next day this set was available for free download.
On 12 August 2011 the first official Knife Party mini mix was aired on BBC Radio 1 in Annie Mac's show. This capacious mix included such tracks as Tourniquet, Antidote, Save the World (Knife Party Remix), Internet Friends, Zoology, Sleaze, The Box, Fire Hive, Suffer and Crush on You (Knife Party Remix).
The first Knife Party EP named 100% No Modern Talking was released on 12 December 2011 through the label EarStorm. This EP consisted of such igniting tracks as Internet Friends, Destroy Them with Lazers, Tourniquet and Fire Hive. As well as being available for purchase on Beatport and iTunes, guys released the EP as free download from their official website, Soundcloud and Facebook. After 20,000 downloads that day, Facebook literally 'blocked them on Facebook' as it was mentioned in the track Internet Friends, but unlike the composition nobody died because of that.
The second EP named Rage Valley was released a bit later than expected “due to having lots of shows booked in recently, and also the unfortunate combination of being lazy perfectionists„ according to Rob and Gareth`s post on Facebook. Like the first EP, tracklist for the second one is bomb diggity as well: Rage Valley, Centipede, Bonfire, Sleaze (feat. MistaJam). The EP was released digitally on 27 May 2012 through EarStorm and Big Beat labels. The title track name was changed from „F**k Em“ to „Rage Valley“ because of the „secret shady reasons“, as Rob announced via twitter. The official video for 'Centipede' came out on 8 August 2012 and it has over 1,5 million views by now.
It`s nice to know that the rage continues, because on 8 August 2012 Knife Party announced via Twitter, that work on the third EP has started.