Sh1tdisco

They spontaneously cart generators down disused railway tunnels, install light systems and play to a homemade rave. They get bouncers to lock their crowd in and they were evicted from their flat for having made too many public order offences. They now live in a caravan with a built in sound system, the party hardy nomads. With a rap sheet of madhouse mischief a couple of miles long, the fearsome foursome collectively known as Sh1tdisco are unlikely to put on a dull show. And now they’re making their way to Zouk KL. Even the raucous Lapsap boys are peeing their pants in anticipation.
 
Sh1tdisco catapulted to fame last year basically not giving a toss and pooping on the competion all over Europe, stunning even the hard-to-please Klaxons, with diseased remixes of everything from the Talking Heads, The Prodigy, Girls Aloud and Donna Summer pounding eardrums to much at upwards of 2000 BPM. Made up of bassists Joe Reeves, Joel Stone and Jan Lee, and drummer Darren Cullen, Sh1tdisco have hopped on and off hosting free-for-all parties, with gigs and after-parties that last roughly three days.

Don’t get it twisted, though - their catchy ditties possess a distinctly Beatles-like essence. Their first single, the schizoid disco-punk manifesto "Disco Blood" featured hazily joyful lyrics that actually referenced the feeling of AIDS victims when the disease first emerged. Their follow-up track “Reactor Party” came from the “Russian concept of holding parties in nuclear reactors; a vague political aspiration of having a party in a government-funded place,” explains Reeves. Just as long as crowds lose their minds, we don’t care if they’re rooted in their defiant political ideas. Reeves says, “We’re unable to change anything even by voting, so partying is a political statement. You don’t go to work or what you’re prescribed to do. You party on for days on end instead.” The future of patriotism, he is. 

If you’re up for some subversive tomfoolery of synapse-snapping proportions, Sh1tdisco drops onto Zouk’s Mainroom on 12 July. Get ready to push it out!
 

Text Claudia Low