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Dani Shivers

Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico | INDIE

Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico | INDIE
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""Dani Shivers: La muerte de la inocencia" by Plastica Magazine (Spain)"

Juguetes, películas de terror, infancia, nostalgia, callejones oscuros, noches, historias para no dormir, brujas, fantasmas, muerte, caramelos, amor y magia.

Dani Shivers nace en Tijuana como un experimeno Lo-Fi envuelto de un discurso personal sobre el deconstructivismo en la música electrónica y como hoy en día nos afecta usando recursos de la infancia, de la adolescencia y del presente. - www.revistaplastica.com


"Dani Shivers! – “Witch (Los Macuanos afilan el cuchillo remix)" review by REMEZCLA"

It’s already fall and we’re in September so start gearing your creepy Halloween, Day of the Dead, and what not, playlist. Tijuana’s ruidoson pioneers Los Macuanos remix “Witch,” a single from the fronteriza songstress from the same hood Dani Shivers!, making it spookier and dubbier than the uncanny original. “Witch (Los Macuanos afilan el cuchillo remix),” meaning Los Macuanos sharpen the knife, comes loaded with hauntingly reverberated vocals sprawling through the instrumental tune. On a lighter tone, it reminisces a Mario Bros. passage through the quirky and haunted mansions infested with those cute, squishy, marshmallowy-looking ghosts that kill the little Italian dude when you touch them. Nonetheless, word is that both Los Macuanos and Dani Shivers! prepare for their upcoming debuts which we await! Below find the shivery remix available for free download! - www.remezcla.com


"Club Fonograma's review for "WITCH" video"

Despite only knowing her for a few weeks, I’m pretty confident to say Tijuana newcomer Dani Shivers is my favorite mean girl out of all the bloody femme fatales coming out of Mexico. For years she’s been under the radar, flirting with formless freestyle beats and putting her witty psyche into music boxes. LALALA4e, Mexico’s most pixel-induced and experimental netlabel, is about to release Dani Shivers’ promising EP titled Jinx. Leading single “Witch” discloses the artist’s resourceful methods: a semi-cute voice colored in crimson, articulated throbs, and nostalgically sinister aesthetics.

Dani Shivers describes her music as “the death of innocence” and lists suitable references that include Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Grimes, and Salem. When trying to parallel the song’s baleful imagery into a video, it doesn’t hurt to have Mexican horror filmmaker Aaron Soto around. This video is based on the urban mythological Snuff films that would capture actual murders on camera, with hints of "the castrating bitch" philosophy. Co-directed by Soto and Shivers, “Witch” was processed in VHS and features real blood. Seems like we’ve found the female equivalent to Mickey Mickey Rourke, and that’s quite exciting. - Club Fonograma


"SAN DIEGO CITY BEAT"

And then there was Dani Shivers, a young Tijuana artist who plays lo-fi goth-pop on vintage Casio keyboards. Wearing black eye shadow and a thin white shawl, she looked mysterious as she laid out warm synth chords and crude dance beats and cooed into the microphone. At once sinister and childlike, her performance was downright mesmerizing. - www.sdcitybeat.com


"Tijuana's evil girl, a review for "Up!" by Club Fonograma"

"As a somber, sour, hellish nightmare, Tijuana’s evil girl, Dani Shivers, understands how to effectively create spooky synth pop music that manages to be partially playful, yet causing an inevitable anxiety with its haunted house-like arrangements and incessant urgency in lyrical repetition which flirt with melodious ability." - Club Fonograma


"Dani Shivers on Red Bull Panamérika"

Podcast with Latin American Artists, incluiding Dani Shivers. - panamerika.fm


""How to be charmed by Dani Shivers" (French blog)"

Dani Shivers serves an indie pop influenced by the horror movies. The black and white nostalgia which makes shiver will motivate the bravest people to take an ear on the song. - www.the-discoverialist.com


"VIDEO: DANI SHIVERS - "WITCH""

Despite only knowing her for a few weeks, I’m pretty confident to say Tijuana newcomer Dani Shivers is my favorite mean girl out of all the bloody femme fatales coming out of Mexico. For years she’s been under the radar, flirting with formless freestyle beats and putting her witty psyche into music boxes. LALALA4e, Mexico’s most pixel-induced and experimental netlabel, is about to release Dani Shivers’ promising EP titled Jinx. Leading single “Witch” discloses the artist’s resourceful methods: a semi-cute voice colored in crimson, articulated throbs, and nostalgically sinister aesthetics.

Dani Shivers describes her music as “the death of innocence” and lists suitable references that include Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Grimes, and Salem. When trying to parallel the song’s baleful imagery into a video, it doesn’t hurt to have Mexican horror filmmaker Aaron Soto around. This video is based on the urban mythological Snuff films that would capture actual murders on camera, with hints of "the castrating bitch" philosophy. Co-directed by Soto and Shivers, “Witch” was processed in VHS and features real blood. Seems like we’ve found the female equivalent to Mickey Mickey Rourke, and that’s quite exciting. - Club Fonograma


"PUPILO"

Justo ayer fuimos con You Schaffner a.k.a Dani Shivers que tocó en the Ruby Room. Fue la primera vez que la escuchaba, dejé pasar algunas otras ocasiones -erroneamente-. Para su pop siniestro, se acompaña tan sólo de un ipod donde tiene beats almacenados, un pequeño casio apoyado en una mesita que cubre con una tela de encaje negro y una gran capucha que le sobre la cabeza, una pequeña bruja. Está a dos pasos de sacar su primer disco, a mediados de octubre estará disponible. Una joyita en la señora Tijuana. - Pupilo.com.mx


"U.K blog on Dani Shivers"

She describes the creation of her alter ego Dani Shivers as "a lo-fi or low-budget musical experiment that turned into a personal speech about the deconstruction of electronic music as we know it now days. I had melodies in my head and started recording them with what ever I had back then: a toy keyboard and a cheap microphone. It comes to a being opposite to current music, that is a maximality, a mega-saturation and remakes of melodies, because it's lo-fi and at the same time is electronic, I do it with basic instruments like a vintage Casio keyboard, musical toys and things like that". - www.mademoisellerobot.com


"From Tijuana, Mexico comes a refreshing dose musical bliss."

Dani's music mixes a dash of the macabre with the sadness and nostalgia caused by reminiscing on days gone by. - art-opology


"DANI SHIVERS EN NEGATIVE YOUTH"


Dani Shivers es una morra padre de Tijuana que toca synth pop, un poco melancólico, un poco dark, a veces un poco meloso, pero definitivamente muy disfrutable. Éste es el video que hizo para su tema “Witch”, a mi me gustó mucho.

Dani se presenta hoy en el DF junto con Vegan Cannibal (uno de nuestros proyectos favoritos) en “El Cuartel” en la Colonia Juárez, más info aquí. - Negative Youth


"Dani Shivers en NWLA"

"Dani Shivers tiene ya algunas semanas siendo, en palabras de Nabokov, el “fire of my loins” de NWLA. En esta ocasión, los chicos de Pan Rock se dan duro con una entrevista a la enigmática artista tijuanense la cual se redondea con una presentación en vivo de la Bruja Pop norteña, quien por cierto estrenará su disco titulado “Jinx” en Halloween de este año. Si no has tenido la oportunidad de conocer a esta belleza gótica synthpop aún, esta es una buena oportunidad para hacerlo." - NWLA


Discography

Jinx Demo
Jinx (Due to release in 2011)

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Bio

It all started when Schaffner, the singer and one of the principal song writers of indie band Ibi Ego, set out to record a headful of fleeting melodies that often escaped her. Describing herself as, ‘very forgetful,’ Schaffner used a simple formula to remember potential songs by: a cheap Radio Shack microphone, toy keyboards, and her mother’s virus-ridden PC. She started recording in the DIY studio that doubled as her bedroom. But the disconnect between the song constructions that Schaffner imagined and the constraints of shoddy instrumentation produced unexpected results. She started exploring the possibilities within its limitations. With a mix of pop melodies and unusual sounds that seem to be taken out of a horror film, Dani Shivers crafts naive and fun songs with the help of toy keyboards rescued from her childhood and a batch of aggressive, obscure and danceable beats.