It’s rare that we dedicate a whole entry to a single track, but Hacks and I are at a loss as to why this hasn’t blown up everywhere. On Friday, at Studio B for the premiere of the Simian Mobile Disco live show** I asked one of the members of the always spot on resident DJ crew The Bangers if he had it, and he’d never heard of it!

For those of you not clued up on your Progressive House 1.0 trivia, Quivver is one of the monikers of John Graham, a British DJ and producer who held a residency at NYC super club Twilo, was 1/3 of Tilt, along with Parks and Wilson, who did arguably the best remix of an enormous Jan Johnston trance anthem called “Flesh.” As Quivver, he produced “Stage One,” which was featured on both a Northern Exposure mix and Sasha’s much sainted Global Underground 13: Ibiza mix, as well as Anthony Pappa’s NuBreed (basically, it made all the important rounds in the Prog world).

Unlike most of his early 00s contemporaries, Quivver has managed to maintain a particular style and still move forward in the changing music landscape. “Dancing in Dark Rooms” is perfect for a night of FUN at Studio B– I’m not sure if I’d rather hear the Original Mix or the pleasantly disjointed Boris Brejcha mix (Impress your friends! Sound like you’ve mixed out of a track three times without touching a record!)

Dancing In Dark Rooms (Original Mix) — Quivver

Dancing in Dark Rooms (Boris Brejcha Mix) — Quivver

DJs! Download this now! The complete remixes are available at Juno Download or you can buy the 12″ with the Jim Rivers (not to be confused with Joan Rivers) remix at Dance Records.

**Speaking of Simian Mobile Disco’s live show… WOW. Studio B was twice as packed this time as when I saw them DJ a few months ago, and everyone was really up for… something. What they didn’t appear to be up for, however, was the squelchy, dirty, full on electronic explosion that ensued. Maybe 1/4 of the kids were dancing, the other 3/4 looked flabbergasted, as if this wasn’t what they had in mind at all when they came. I couldn’t help but think that Simian is somehow being marketed to the wrong crowd. Twice, I’ve gone to see them with a crowd that seemed really confused by what they were hearing and twice I’ve thought how I have a number of friends who are dismissing them out of hand because of their association with “dance rock” who would absolutely go nuts over them. SMD are more Josh Wink than LCD Soundsystem: there are no guitars here, not even a keyboard synth, despite their early incarnation as Britpop one hit wonders Simian.

That being said, if you ARE into the patch bay meets MAX/MSP, squelch and twisted freq-mod synthesis insanity of neo-acid, then go see them immediately. It’s been a long time since any dance act has had me so overwhelmed by squiggles and filters and sick, off-kilter rhythms that I stopped dancing and just screamed “I LOVE YOU!”, hands in the air like a total fan girl but Simian Mobile Disco have definitely got it. They’ve even got the one slow, plodding track with a soulful vocal that only really makes sense to British ravers (I’ve never understood this phenomenon, but if you can explain it to us, please leave something in the comments). Here’s the track, “I Believe,” from their forthcoming Attack Sustain Decay Release:

I Believe — Simian Mobile Disco

(hacks edit: I have to do everything around here = p
The quivver mp3 links are fixed! Enjoy!)