Shapeshifter – Soul/Drum & Bass like you never saw before…
New Zealand's finest purveyors of live dance music are an extraordinary spectacle you can't miss. Much better than countrymen Fat Freddy's Drop*, and not because there's anything wrong with …Freddy's… music. Just because with FFD, if you were a 17 year old middle class stoner who didn't have to get a job, you'd just wake up surrounded by your own bong-filth all like, 'Shit, I missed Fat Freddy's?!!?!' That wouldn't happen with Shapeshifter. You'd never do it. You'd start experimenting with new and ever-harder drugs just so you'd never get one second of potentially hazardous sleep ever again. EVER AGAIN.
Right now, Shapeshifter are quite simply the hottest thing coming up from Aotearoa. They took their own land by storm with their ground breaking live shows and unique blend of heavy soul/drum and bass and have since dominated Australia, where the first run of their album sold out in 5 days. 5 Days! They are revolutionary musicians. They took the status quo and flipped it, performing a run of sell-out shows with Australia's top orchestras, and pioneering new approaches to the way electronic music is made.
Now, as they ride their way northward with a string of albums under their belt, they are ready to hit us with some of the best live shows we've ever seen, and we've seen loads.
*FFD fans replace with Crowded House or that guy who was Boba Fett's dad.Shapeshifter – Soul/Drum & Bass like you never saw before…
Here's a couple of Shapeshifter videos to wet your appetites...
