Everyone unilaterally concurs: Dancing with Ruby are a band that create music.

So how do you define the sound of an artist or band. By their instruments, their influences, what they wear, how old they are? Maybe all of these things.

In the case of Dancing with Ruby, their instruments are the voice, electronic and virtual, their influences are diverse, and their age range spans 15 years.

So how do they sound? You hear them and think, “This is Goldrapp without the synthesizers.” But then think “No, that’s not right there are loads of synthesizers on this, I’m a goddamn idiot” You skip a few tracks waiting to hear something to compare them to. Fad Gadget, Vampire Weekend, Jann Hammer, the last half of Felt Mountain and the first few chapters of Under the Skin by Michel Faber. By the album's fifth track, there is nothing left in your life; everything is gone, scattered over an audible plateau, you think about trying to escape.

Welcome to In the Interest of Beasts by Dancing with Ruby.

Electrobelle are Charlotte Sanderson (vocals) and Barry Mallon (electronic instruments). They were introduced in the autumn of 2007 by mutual friend and producer J P Braddock. 

Shortly afterwards they wrote and recorded Mirrorball. Mirrorball generated a huge amount of interest for the band, especially in Greece, which amounted to them almost signing a record deal with Athens based Undo Records. 

Mirrorball subsequently appeared on the EY VOL 1.0 compilation CD, considered by some to be the modern equivalent of the Some Bizarre Album, and on the EMI sampler CD titled 'Blind' alongside tracks by Kylie Minogue and Roisin Murphy.

Since then they have collaboratively produced meaningful 'authentic' synthpop that is instantly accessible, contemporary yet comfortingly familiar. 

Electrobelle are currently working towards a new EP to be released this autumn.

http://www.facebook.com/electrobelle

MIKRO is an electronic band
https://www.facebook.com/MIKROband/

With a strong and productive career in the electronic scene together, longtime Belgian friends and partners in synthetic crime, Passenger A and Passenger S decided to take on a new challenge and create another conceptual band project focusing on the daily routine of transportation and commuting to work. METROLAND was born.

Emerging from an uncontrollable burning passion for vintage keyboards, and acknowledging inspiration from acts in the likes of KOMPUTER, I START COUNTING or the unmatchable technological pioneers of KRAFTWERK, METROLAND carry us on an electronic journey animated by authentic warm sequences, melodic synthetic layers and robotic vocals, the whole project spiced up with analogue drum machines.

Whatever your usual commute may be, just close your eyes and let METROLAND guide your senses on a sound-driven ride through the buzzing traffic and overcrowded vehicles, giving an all new dimension to these anecdotal trivial details of your daily routine which become glorified once taken under the loop of this brilliant Belgian synthesizer-duo.

Follow the METROLAND subway line and get ready to be plunged into the sound of the Underground, be it from London to Moscow, from New York to Tokyo or from Paris to Brussels, it’s simply more fun to commute…

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