Oh. This is awesome.
If you know anything about industrial-dance music from the late 1980’s, the name ‘Pop Will Eat Itself’ will ring familiar. These guys were huge and played an integral role in the development of electronic dance music. They were sampling, looping and generally messing with the recorded music industry way back when. Girl Talk, Lady Gaga and performers of that ilk owe a large debt to the lads from Birmingham, England.
Here we are 20 years later and two of the band’s original members – Graham Crabb and Adam Mole – have joined together to form Vile Evils.
From the Vile Evil’s site…
It was the late 1980’s and dance music was dangerous. Acid House was front page tabloid news, and ecstasy was causing moral panic across Britain. For the first time, hip-hop was crossing over to alternative white kids, and there was no
established precedent to stop the rampant sampling that would cross-pollinate urban music with punk rock and industrial. Something revolutionary was happening.
“Dance music,” says Graham Crabb, “had changed from largely an escapist form of music to something socially relevant.”
Graham Crabb and Adam Mole know a little something about that salient musical and sociopolitical journey. As one-half of industrial dance icons Pop Will Eat Itself—along with Clint Mansell, Richard March and drummer Fuzz Townshend—Crabb and Mole spread a blistering, transformative gospel of noise, rock, dance and art influenced by everyone from Public Enemy to the UK’s Wasted Youth. Now, 20 years after PWEI lit the fuses, Crabb and Mole are back to finish the job as VILE EVILS.
An exclusive arrangement with dPulse Recordings, SFSDF has been given the opportunity to produce the band’s first new music videos. Besides the $1,000 prize, three of the videos will be used as the band’s primary marketing and promotion piece as they roll out their new release and subsequent world tour.