The story of Gorgon City is a perfect microcosm of the story of how 21st century dance music coming in from the cold. Kye Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott are two young men who each separately jumped in to clubland’s deepest and choppiest waters (at a time when halfway-decent club culture was as fragmented as it’s been the last two decades and entering a period of extreme marginalisation) and learned to swim the hard way. Since then they’ve become skilled navigators of its currents, observed as streams converged and split again, and more by accident than design were perfectly prepared to ride its current waves of mainstream popularity.
Now they are riding the wave with style. Their long years of slog from bedroom tinkerers to journeyman producers and DJs mean that they’ll never take any success or trend for granted. “We’re a bit older now, though,” laughs Kye, “and we can enjoy the full range of what the music world has to offer, we’re not the angry kids who need the adrenaline rush of being in dark and scary clubs every weekend.” The insane wellspring of creativity they tapped into when they teamed up as Gorgon City means that they never feel stuck in a rut: “we don’t want to just do 2014 pop house,” as Kye puts it, “and we don’t have to. We had more than enough tracks to put together an album that’s wide-ranging, and we’re always making other tracks that are maybe darker or more aggressive, that we can put to use in our DJ sets.” Club culture might be riding high at the moment – and Gorgon City might be infiltrating the charts and television with ease – but make no mistake: these boys are anything but fair-weather ravers. They’re in it for the long haul, and always have been.
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Now they are riding the wave with style. Their long years of slog from bedroom tinkerers to journeyman producers and DJs mean that they’ll never take any success or trend for granted. “We’re a bit older now, though,” laughs Kye, “and we can enjoy the full range of what the music world has to offer, we’re not the angry kids who need the adrenaline rush of being in dark and scary clubs every weekend.” The insane wellspring of creativity they tapped into when they teamed up as Gorgon City means that they never feel stuck in a rut: “we don’t want to just do 2014 pop house,” as Kye puts it, “and we don’t have to. We had more than enough tracks to put together an album that’s wide-ranging, and we’re always making other tracks that are maybe darker or more aggressive, that we can put to use in our DJ sets.” Club culture might be riding high at the moment – and Gorgon City might be infiltrating the charts and television with ease – but make no mistake: these boys are anything but fair-weather ravers. They’re in it for the long haul, and always have been.
The story of Gorgon City is a perfect microcosm of the story of how 21st century dance music coming in from the cold. Kye Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott are two young men who each separately jumped in to clubland’s deepest and choppiest waters (at a time when halfway-decent club culture was as fragmented as it’s been the last two decades and entering a period of extreme marginalisation) and learned to swim the hard way. Since then they’ve become skilled navigators of its currents, observed as streams converged and split again, and more by accident than design were perfectly prepared to ride its current waves of mainstream popularity.
Now they are riding the wave with style. Their long years of slog from bedroom tinkerers to journeyman producers and DJs mean that they’ll never take any success or trend for granted. “We’re a bit older now, though,” laughs Kye, “and we can enjoy the full range of what the music world has to offer, we’re not the angry kids who need the adrenaline rush of being in dark and scary clubs every weekend.” The insane wellspring of creativity they tapped into when they teamed up as Gorgon City means that they never feel stuck in a rut: “we don’t want to just do 2014 pop house,” as Kye puts it, “and we don’t have to. We had more than enough tracks to put together an album that’s wide-ranging, and we’re always making other tracks that are maybe darker or more aggressive, that we can put to use in our DJ sets.” Club culture might be riding high at the moment – and Gorgon City might be infiltrating the charts and television with ease – but make no mistake: these boys are anything but fair-weather ravers. They’re in it for the long haul, and always have been.
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Now they are riding the wave with style. Their long years of slog from bedroom tinkerers to journeyman producers and DJs mean that they’ll never take any success or trend for granted. “We’re a bit older now, though,” laughs Kye, “and we can enjoy the full range of what the music world has to offer, we’re not the angry kids who need the adrenaline rush of being in dark and scary clubs every weekend.” The insane wellspring of creativity they tapped into when they teamed up as Gorgon City means that they never feel stuck in a rut: “we don’t want to just do 2014 pop house,” as Kye puts it, “and we don’t have to. We had more than enough tracks to put together an album that’s wide-ranging, and we’re always making other tracks that are maybe darker or more aggressive, that we can put to use in our DJ sets.” Club culture might be riding high at the moment – and Gorgon City might be infiltrating the charts and television with ease – but make no mistake: these boys are anything but fair-weather ravers. They’re in it for the long haul, and always have been.
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