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Mad Planet, ‘Pieces of You’
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Mad Planet’s first album, 2010's “All Elephants,” was more about the beats and textures than the shr...Mad Planet’s first album, 2010's “All Elephants,” was more about the beats and textures than the shreddy guitars of principals’ previous bands, Bang Sugar Bang in singer-bassist Cooper Gillespie’s case and the Nervous Return in drummer Greg Gordon’s. But the beguiling trip-hop of that first record is almost nowhere to be found in “Pieces of You,” a new song from the forthcoming album that Mad Planet is making with producer Ethan Allen (The 88, Better Than Ezra, Gram Rabbit). With the Nervous Return’s Tony Crouse making Mad Planet a trio, the guitars are turned up to 11, fashioning an arena-ready sonic haze for Gillespie’s sultry vocals to cut through.
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Sonicbids Spotlight: Mad Planet
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Hailing from Hollywood, CA, the boy-girl electronic duo Mad Planet combines downtempo grooves, elect...Hailing from Hollywood, CA, the boy-girl electronic duo Mad Planet combines downtempo grooves, electronics, expressionistic lyrics and scratching into a mellow rock atmosphere to create a throbbing, nearly trip-hop aesthetic—electronic music that avoids being “chilly.” With Cooper Gillespie on vocals and bass, and Greg Gordon on drums, Mad Planet is a synthesis of several veins of music—a little bit of jazz, a little bit of electronic music, even a little hip-hop.
Mad Planet was formed when Gillespie and Gordon were bartending together at a club in Hollywood and decided to form a band. Despite both being in punk-rock groups, Gillespie and Gordon fleshed out a sound that had beats, sequencers and focused more on songcraft than propulsion. There was a learning curve, Gillespie says, but it “was worth it. Electronic music is exciting because the possibilities of what can be created are endless.”
In 2010, the duo released its debut LP, All Elephants. The album is characterized by a plethora of confident grooves, big bass, vocal samples, scratching and Gillespie’s alternately declarative and breathy vocals, which add a significant amount of atmosphere to the proceedings. “Sunset Boulevard” is the sound of dubby rock run through the Orb’s classic “Little Fluffy Clouds,” with Gloria Swanson quotes coloring the background. Oh, then the entire song escalates into a thunderous climax. It’s all quite adventurous and pretty catchy too.
Live, Mad Planet recreates its studio sound with sequences on a laptop and the addition of Tony Crouse, who plays guitar and did the scratching that colors All Elephants. “It’s pretty rocking’,” Gillespie said. The band is now working on its sophomore LP, which, in Gillespie’s words, has “Got deep grooves, lush synths, euphoric guitars and haunting vocals.” After that are plans to tour Australia, China, and the UK next year.
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Discover The Undiscovered: Mad Planet
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Mad Planet is Greg Gordon (drums, keyboards, guitars) and Cooper Gillespie (bass, vocals). The Los A...Mad Planet is Greg Gordon (drums, keyboards, guitars) and Cooper Gillespie (bass, vocals). The Los Angeles- based duo’s seamless blend of ambient electro-rock and trip hop coupled with Gillespie’s haunting melodies has garnished them comparisons to artists like Portishead, Siouxsie Sioux and Warpaint.
The band spent 2010 touring and promoting their debut album, All Elephants. The record is a soulful exploration of loss and heartbreak which garnered them critical acclaim and a position in the CMJ Top 200 charts. The album charted on the college charts alongside records by bands such as the Arcade Fire, Interpol, Of Montreal and more.
Mad Planet is kicking off 2011 with the release of their self-produced ep, Gliese 581g (pronounced “GLEE-zuh”). Named after a recently discovered planet thought to be a sister planet to Earth, Gliese 581g features four songs from the band’s upcoming album, the Goldilocks Zone.
Who are your main influences?
Growing up Greg was influenced by acts like Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. Later his influences grew to include Coltrane and Buddy Rich. When I (Cooper) was a kid, I was influenced by the Sex Pistols. They changed my whole world. I remember being an eleven year old little girl, hearing Anarchy in the UK and thinking, "I have found my tribe." Something in Johnny Rotten's snarl connected with me on a visceral level. I had a similar reaction to X and the Gun Club the first time I heard them, but I also love 70's glam, 90's hip hop and 80's New Wave music. There's nothing better than an OMD dance party!
As a band we are heavily influenced by Portishead, Massive Attack and Brian Eno. We are inspired by all sorts of things, however. A lot of the songs on our upcoming album are influenced by the David Lynch series Twin Peaks .
How did you meet?
We met while we were bartending at a now defunct nightclub. Sparks flew. So we paired up as a couple. We discovered we shared a love of trip hop, indie rock, jazz and electronic music, so we paired up as a band. It's been a magical partnership so far.
What is your biggest achievement as a band to date?
Our biggest achievement as a band to date is probably getting through our first tour. We weren't sure how it would go. As it turns out, touring together made us a stronger unit, both as a band and as a couple. We had a great time, made a lot of new friends and fans and managed to only get one speeding ticket. Not bad. We documented the whole experience in a series of videos which you can watch here http://madplanetmusic.com/fr_video. Some of them are pretty funny; especially the one where Greg runs the van out of gas.
Where did the band name originate?
Both of us are intrigued by the conflict between man and his/her creation, technology. Science has simultaneously made our lives simpler and more complicated. The innovations that have made our lives easier have also had a tremendous impact on our planet; made it a crazier place to live, i.e. a Mad Planet. We bandied about different names, but Mad Planet suited us perfectly.
Favorite Bands/Artists?
It's an eclectic mix: Brian Eno, the Cure, David Bowie, Feist, Jeff Buckley, Massive Attack, Muse, the National, One Eskimo, Peter Gabriel, Portishead, the Pixies, Prince, Ray LaMontagne, Siouxsie Sioux.
Plans to Tour?
Yes! We love touring. It's all we want to do. We are touring out to SXSW this March. We plan on heading back up the West Coast in May. And this Summer we are doing a national tour.
Plans for next release?
We are releasing an ep later this month called Gliese 581g. It is named after the planet, Gliese 581g which is perpetually light on one side and dark on the other. Lyrically the songs on the ep deal with the conflict between the light and the dark inside each of us. They are more moody and atmospheric than the songs our previous album.
www.madplanetmusic.com
www.facebook.com/madplanetband
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Indie West Fest Review
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Dressed in all white as the yin to the black-clad guys’ yang, bassist/vocalist Cooper Gillespie guid...Dressed in all white as the yin to the black-clad guys’ yang, bassist/vocalist Cooper Gillespie guided the crowd through the maze of sound they were creating. Her seductive alto rivals that of Bat For Lashes and floats gently on top of the simultaneously dark and twinkling synth and bass lines and rhythms provided by drummer Greg Gordon. Besides a set full of their original work, they played a haunting cover of Placebo’s “Black-Eyed.” It was an awesome way to kick off the day.
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The Best Kind of Planet
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Watch my stopwatch, people. Right now you’re melting into a river of calm hypnosis while waves of ro...Watch my stopwatch, people. Right now you’re melting into a river of calm hypnosis while waves of round bass and currents of soothing female vocals sweep you away in a magical whirlpool of color and sound. Now the whole thing explodes as a single crash cymbal blows up somewhere nearby, and you’re suddenly drifting at a much faster pace. Your heart’s probably pounding for a second, but then you realize there’s nothing to fear in this new world of Portishead-esque trip-hop, and you begin to enjoy the rapid-fire fills and spills of the entire experience. There’s a scratch in your ears that you didn’t even notice, but you go with it for lack of control; you’re entranced, under the spell of Cooper Gillespie’s breathy voice as it swells up from beneath like an undercurrent to slow your pulse. But before the calm can become too deeply ingrained, a rich downtempo hip-hop session led by Greg Gordon begins somewhere very close by, and the ride sets off again faster than ever. Beats, raps, keyboards and thick, hearty bass lines hook you in (no, that’s not a bass fishing pun), and then you’re dancing atop a gigantic, groovy wave of diamonds and lights.
Then, out of nowhere, a break. A sudden halt and the sea of sound flatlines, jolting you back to reality as you realize how ridiculously tripped out the last four minutes of your life have been. Holy shit, man, you’re not on a ride at all. You’re listening to Mad Planet, and it fucking rules.
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Listen: Mad Planet
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Someday I hope my job allows me to work from home. This has always been a dream of mine – ever since...Someday I hope my job allows me to work from home. This has always been a dream of mine – ever since my parents introduced me to some warped home-schooled kids as a child. To me, the idea of working from home comes off like a dream. You get to work in your pajamas, space out lunch breaks, never see your boss, and, for anyone who has ever worked a day in the life of retail, no handling obnoxious customers (unless you’re in teleconferencing). For the most part, however, working from home would be, for lack of a better term, fucking legit.
That’s why a band like southern California’s Mad Planet has it right. Members/roommates/couple Cooper Gillespie and Greg Gordon started their bass and drum outfit a couple years back. At the time, they were working at a bar. Today, they they live together, and they’ve just recorded their new album, All Elephants. Along with a Mac laptop (their “third band member,” they jokingly tell me), the two have been able to create some pretty interesting sounds.
“Musically, we’ve been heavily influenced by Portishead and Massive Attack,” says bassist/vocalist Gillespie. And when you listen to their songs, you can totally see that connection. But that seems kind of pigeon-holed, as there’s a lot more going on with this record. After a little more prying, Cooper digs deeper into their influences: “One band who was one of the biggest influences in my life was the Sex Pistols. When I heard songs like “Anarchy in the UK” at 11, my world opened up. It changed my whole artistic perception of music. But I’m inspired by any great music, art or food; I had some risotto last night that had me all sorts of inspired.”
Like Cooper, drummer/programmer Gordon seems to have a wide range of influences, as well. “I come from the jazz world,” he explains. “So, I love Max Roche and John Coltrane. But also bands like Led Zeppelin, the Doors, and Hendrix.” Following this, we have a three minute conversation about Usher.
Why Usher? Well, Gordon’s other job is working for Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show, in which he recently got to see Usher perform. “Usher isn’t our music, but he performs,” he says enviously. And that’s what Mad Planet just wants to do: perform. They certainly have enough material to do so. Their first album is definitely a bit eerie, with its soothing, yet haunting vocals, slightly dark melodies, minimalistic drums, and sporadic loops. Songs like “Been Diagnosed” send chills down the spine, with Cooper chanting “Na na na,” over some tubular bells and finger-nails-on-chalkboard synthesizers. “I Live Alone” features a down-tempo drum beat and keyboard loop from Gordon, while Gillespie takes on the persona of Enya, conjuring up all sorts of emotions as she sings.
“Love Addicts” is a beat and scratch instrumental reminiscent of some of Jurassic 5’s work, but on a less child-friendly level. The song “Tonight” is one of the most elegant numbers on the album with its piano and string instrumentation, all as Gillespie sings about conditions of the human heart. “Now I Know” is a synth-saturated tune with a much more upbeat drum pattern, with a triumphantly emotional outro. Then there’s “October”, which brings back memories of the fall in New England, as Cooper sings about “the crackling of leaves,” a feeling a Masshole cannot soon forget. The closer, “Watch”, kicks off almost like Sublime but morphs into a spacey, trip-hop finale as the instrumentation builds and builds, only to fade away into nothing.
Mad Planet took a year to conceive All Elephants. “We have two different ways of writing,” Gordon says. “Sometimes Cooper will come up with a melody or a bass line. I take it and go into my music program and try adding things. She’ll say yes or no, and so on. Another way is I’ll just sit at the keyboard and once something catches my ear, we’ll both go and elaborate on it.” And as for the next album, they tell me they’re already composing new material, and will select cuts soon enough.
But now that they’ve been able to make everything happen from home, they want to go out into the world and prosper. Mad Planet is aware that no A & R person is just going to be waiting for them in a club. “We’ve got to just keep working it,” Gordon says. “It’s not like a producer is just going to sit around waiting for us. We’re in a time in the music business where the only way to get ahead is to keep doing what you want to do.” As of now, the band is on tour, and will be taking America by storm.
Mad Planet doesn’t want to be famous though, they just want to rock. When I ask them about their mission as a band, they jokingly tell me they want to play in space, but everything comes back to their home. “It all happens here,” Gordon says. This is true. It all comes from the heart, the home, whatever H you like, but when making art, you want to get it to a place where everyone can hear it.
“I just want to tour, be successful by touring, write music, pay my bills and enjoy it,” Gordon says. “With global domination and all that of course.”
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BMI's November Indie Spotlight Artist
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While most bands only dream of finding the right chemistry, Los Angeles-based duo Mad Planet oozed i...While most bands only dream of finding the right chemistry, Los Angeles-based duo Mad Planet oozed it from the very beginning. Vocalist/bassist Cooper Gillespie and drummer Greg Gordon were bartending at the now defunct Hollywood nightclub Safari Sam's when sparks flew--both musically and romantically--and they decided to pair up as a couple and a band. Mad Planet began recording their debut album in early 2009. Gillespie and Gordon wanted to craft their own distinct sound, so they decided to record and produce the album themselves. The result is All Elephants, a 12-track album that bursts at the seams with cool, melodic grooves and haunting female vocals, released in the summer of 2010. myspace.com/madplanetband
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Mad Planet
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It's interesting that two seasoned punk rockers, Greg Gordon and Cooper Gillespie, would meet, fall ...It's interesting that two seasoned punk rockers, Greg Gordon and Cooper Gillespie, would meet, fall in love and form a Portishead inspired trip-hop, ambient band. What's also interesting about Mad Planet is that it would also serve as a therapy for Gillespie for her to write about her recent divorce and other pains in her life. "I was in a deep, dark place when I started writing this album," she said, referring to their debut LP, All Elephants, which was released just this year. Sometimes a new love and a new artistic expression is the perfect medicine to heal wounds. And it makes for multi-layered, emotionally complex music that resonates with you long after putting the album away. - Aaron Cartier
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Mad Planet
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Los Angeles duo Mad Planet (above)—Cooper Gillespie on bass and vocals and Afro-headed drummer, Greg...Los Angeles duo Mad Planet (above)—Cooper Gillespie on bass and vocals and Afro-headed drummer, Greg Gordon—combine ambient, trip-hop and electronica to create a being that breathes similar breaths of Portishead one minute and RJD2 the next. The couple discovered they had musical chemistry while bartending together at a now-closed club. Gordon, a longtime fixture within the L.A. music scene, used to be a member of the Nervous Return, a punk band that toured with Blink 182 and No Doubt. Gillespie got her start playing with the punk outfit, Bang Sugar Bang. [AJ]
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The Palms Weekend Review
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The Mad Planet sound trashes all but the essentials, turns them up to 13, and uses repetition and ca...The Mad Planet sound trashes all but the essentials, turns them up to 13, and uses repetition and catchiness to engulf and wear you down like you're an ice cube melting in a drink. Greg captivates. Cooper captains songs effortlessly without trying to outshine them. They puke chemistry.
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Planet Got A Gun
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I just got their track, “Love Addicts”, ...and completely fell in love with the space-cadet vocals, ...I just got their track, “Love Addicts”, ...and completely fell in love with the space-cadet vocals, and the hella electronic, synthesized beats- that are trademarks of old school ’90’s Trip-Hop.
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Check out Mad Planet's Love Addicts video!
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I've just discovered - and maybe fallen in love with - Mad Planet, a trip hop duo from Los Angeles m...I've just discovered - and maybe fallen in love with - Mad Planet, a trip hop duo from Los Angeles made up of frontwoman/bassist Cooper Gillespie and drummer Greg Gordon.
I love any kind of music that helps me kick back and relax. I've tuned into stuff like Zero 7 in the past as a way to just switch off my brain. So, when I got a look at the group's Love Addicts video, I had to share it here on the blog: great beats, thundering bass and a haunting vocal from Gillespie...not forgetting the all-pervasive scratching...
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Metromix.com Pick
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Look out Portishead, because LA based trip hop duo Mad Planet is hot on your heels with some fresh n...Look out Portishead, because LA based trip hop duo Mad Planet is hot on your heels with some fresh new ambient electronica and we're getting excited. Mad Planet is playing alongside Sumkid and the Milky Way and the Popular Fans, tonight on the eastside.
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Les Enfants Terribles Review
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For those who prefer some vocals with their electronica, may i introduce Mad Planet. While the compa...For those who prefer some vocals with their electronica, may i introduce Mad Planet. While the comparisons to Portishead are somewhat obvious, i'm thinking about calling the L.A. duo "emo-hop." Firstly, because i love to name genres. Secondly, i was reading the latest vampire comedy by Christopher Moore while i was listening to the band, so the whole goth/emo thing was kind of on my brain already. Extra mad props to MC Greg Gordon for having the best Michael Jackson circa "Off the Wall" afro i've seen in a long, long time. Back to their music-it's a nice blend of ambient electronica, hip hop and haunting vocals. Which is nice.
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Metromix.com Pick
Local trip hop duo lights up the eastside tonight
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Loudvine.com Review
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A lot of great musicians have had long careers based on nothing more than a lot of really sad love s...A lot of great musicians have had long careers based on nothing more than a lot of really sad love songs. And that’s not a bad thing. Sometimes music is for wallowing and sometimes music is for working out your issues. But sometimes you need to just smile, and nod your head, and groove to the music. Sometimes you need to take all of your issues and leave them at the door. So that’s what I did at the Silverlake Lounge last night: I left all my troubles in the cold while I enjoyed a warm, bouncy bar and the glowing trip hop beats of Mad Planet.
First of all, any band that comes out dressed in matching Hawaiian Pineapple print shirts and dresses is awesome. Secondly, Mad Planet are a trip-hop duo with an insane amount of stage chemistry. At the top of their set, Bassist/singer Cooper Gillespie (who has an amazing name, by the way) was having trouble with her bass amp. While she was dealing with technical difficulties, Greg Gordon began an improvised drum set that got the whole bar jumping. Once he was done wowing us with his badass drum rhythms, they played “Test Tube Babies” a super sexy number where Gillespie would mix singing with sultry breathing on her microphone.
Their songs were filled with heavy pulsing bass riffs and super funky beats. Watching this duo feed off of each other’s energy, you could tell they were having so much fun playing music together. All it took was a look or a smile and their playing would complement each other as well as their Hawaiian shirts did. Gordon kept things fast-paced, making Mad Planet the sort of music you just have to dance to. Gillespie’s vocals would have been haunting if they weren’t so optimistic. With a big smile on her face, she crooned, “Everything lost can be found.” Suddenly I was smiling too. She was looking pretty angelic, but that might have been because of the big light-up “Salvation” sign that hangs above the Silverlake Lounge’s stage.
Mad Planet ended their set with a new song that, as they admitted, had only been rehearsed once (the day before). It was actually a really pretty song that mixed violin samples with Gillespie’s vocals. The dreamer in me thought it was so poetic, to end with something new and hopeful. It seems to me that we’ve all had a big rollercoaster of a year, and it’s only February. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with throwing your hands in the air and just dancing. That’s what bands like Mad Planet are for.
-Rachel K.
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The Best Kind of Planet
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Watch my stopwatch, people. Right now you’re melting into a river of calm hypnosis while waves of ro...Watch my stopwatch, people. Right now you’re melting into a river of calm hypnosis while waves of round bass and currents of soothing female vocals sweep you away in a magical whirlpool of color and sound. Now the whole thing explodes as a single crash cymbal blows up somewhere nearby, and you’re suddenly drifting at a much faster pace. Your heart’s probably pounding for a second, but then you realize there’s nothing to fear in this new world of Portishead-esque trip-hop, and you begin to enjoy the rapid-fire fills and spills of the entire experience. There’s a scratch in your ears that you didn’t even notice, but you go with it for lack of control; you’re entranced, under the spell of Cooper Gillespie’s breathy voice as it swells up from beneath like an undercurrent to slow your pulse. But before the calm can become too deeply ingrained, a rich downtempo hip-hop session led by Greg Gordon begins somewhere very close by, and the ride sets off again faster than ever. Beats, raps, keyboards and thick, hearty bass lines hook you in (no, that’s not a bass fishing pun), and then you’re dancing atop a gigantic, groovy wave of diamonds and lights.
Then, out of nowhere, a break. A sudden halt and the sea of sound flatlines, jolting you back to reality as you realize how ridiculously tripped out the last four minutes of your life have been. Holy shit, man, you’re not on a ride at all. You’re listening to Mad Planet, and it fucking rules.
Mad Planet plays at 10 pm Wednesday, Nov. 3, at Luckey’s. 21+. $3. — Andy Valentine
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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Planet
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So I told my friend Nancy Hancock that I was going to check out this band called Mad Planet over at ...So I told my friend Nancy Hancock that I was going to check out this band called Mad Planet over at The Silver Lake Lounge on Tuesday. I was all excited about being on the cutting edge of the Los Angeles indie scene and I proudly told her, “Yeah, the guy from Bang Sugar Bang is in the band.” She replied, “Oh, Cooper? You’ve already met her. She’s a good friend of mine from our Club Kiss or Kill days.”
Well, I’ll admit that I somehow missed Club Kiss or Kill so I didn’t know he was a she. Even worse was that I actually had already met Cooper at an Annie Stela show over at Hotel Café about a month ago. Believe me, I know….I am simply not cool.
But in case you didn’t know, Mad Planet is a duo that features singer/bass player Cooper Gillespie and drummer Greg Gordon. Gordon, formally of Nervous Return, was signed to Travis Barker’s LaSalle Records and toured with the likes of No Doubt and Blink 182. Bang Sugar Bang was on SOS Records, home of some of the most legendary punk and ska bands of all time like Sham 69, The Toy Dolls and Bad Manners.
Though Gillespie and Gordon both have enviable punk rock pedigrees, Mad Planet is actually a trip hop duo. The band’s MySpace page describes them perfectly:
“Greg and Cooper formed Mad Planet in order to stretch in new directions different from their normal musical styles. Their music is about the darker side of love and life. It’s an eclectic mix of trip hop, rock, jazz and soundtrack music. Their sound is tied together by Cooper’s alluring melodies.”
Nancy and I were sitting at the back of the bar when Gordon and Gillespie swept in through the front entrance of club, about eight minutes before they were scheduled to play, wearing matching Hawaiian outfits (they’d just come back from Maui on vacation). Smiling and waving at everyone, I felt like a guest in their living room. As hosts, they didn’t disappoint. Their set was a perfect mixture of electronica, driving beats, melodic bass lines and angelic vocals.
I look forward to the day, when Mad Planet is playing somewhere like Coachella, so that I can say that I saw them on a Tuesday night at The Silver Lake Lounge. I’ll be able say that I was one of the first Mad Planet fans before the world discovered them. In other words, I’ll be cool once again.
~AFG Must Rock
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Ears Wide Open
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The music of L.A. duo Mad Planet represent a made change of direction for the parties involved: Greg...The music of L.A. duo Mad Planet represent a made change of direction for the parties involved: Greg Gordon was the drummer in the agit-punk band the Nervous Return; Cooper Gillespie sang in the pop-punk outfit Bang Sugar Band. Now they’re exploring jazz- and soul-flavored electro, and their sultry stylings have more in common with Portishead than anything punk or pop. It’s new territory for them, but probably not for you; still, it’s nice to give those noisy guitars a rest.
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Mad Planet
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LA's next dynamic duo Mad Planet releases their new album "All Elephants" this Thursday, May 27 at t...LA's next dynamic duo Mad Planet releases their new album "All Elephants" this Thursday, May 27 at the 3 of Clubs. The event is free and performances start around 9pm. Mad Planet is hip-hop with an ethereal female vocalist and a male emcee with a smooth flow, backed by synths and samples.
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Mad Planet's new album "All Elephants" and upcoming show
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Mad Planet's new album "All Elephants" and upcoming show
Mad Planet
I'm continually surpr...
Mad Planet's new album "All Elephants" and upcoming show
Mad Planet
I'm continually surprised by how much talent and musical variety is bred by LA's co-ed duos like Passion Pit and the previously mentioned Loch & Key. It's a good thing Cooper Gillespie and Greg Gordon of Mad Planet are more than keeping up with the competition thanks to their debut LP All Elephants.
Conceived in early 2009, All Elephants dives deeply into the genres of trip-hop, alternative rock, and jazz -- a surprising departure from Gillespie's and Gordon's time spent in bands like Bang Sugar Bang and Nervous Return. The album was recorded through the course of a year in the duo's Silverlake apartment with album art supplied by comic artist Nathan Hamill, son of Star Wars actor Mark Hamill.
I was a bit interested to listen after hearing them name Portishead and Massive Attack as strong influences for their album. "I Live Alone" and "Love Addict" are shining examples Gillespie's smooth alto, trip-hop influenced, vocals; her lyrics taking on themes of loss and healing. It's not until "Danger Danger" do things really pick up with a slightly industrial feel and Gordon's strong up tempo break beats. Introspection is a strong theme throughout the 12 song collection, coming to a head with the closing track "Watch", it's noisy oscillations fading into silence.
If you're looking to see Mad Planet live, their next show is Wednesday, September 29th at the Viper Room.
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Mad Planet – Love Addicts
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It’s funny how things move in cycles. Around 15 years ago Trip Hop was the music of choice for the c...It’s funny how things move in cycles. Around 15 years ago Trip Hop was the music of choice for the cool kids of England and beyond, jamming to Morcheeba, Portishead, Masive Attack and Tricky. Now some of us are rediscovering our love for down-tempo, experimental, moody grooves.
Enter Mad Planet, an LA-based duo made up of Greg Gordon (former drummer for the Nervous Return) and Cooper Gillespie (former front woman and bass player for Bang Sugar Bang). They formed Mad Planet in order to stretch in new directions different from their normal musical styles. “Love Addicts was inspired by a friend who was also going through a divorce,” Cooper says, “He described dating as a terrible chore because he was ready to fall in love with any girl who sat in his passenger seat. It didn’t matter who it was. He was so used to being with somebody, he was willing to be with anybody.”
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