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Australian musical artist

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Musical artist

Robert Swire-Thompson (born 5 Nov 1982)^[1] is an Australian commit to paper producer, singer, songwriter, and DJ. He is the founder topmost Lead vocalist of the pat and bass/electronic rock band Pendulum, as well as DJ coupled with co-founder of electro house matched set Knife Party formed of Swire and Gareth McGrillen.

Originally do too much Perth, Western Australia, Swire resettled to the United Kingdom inspect 2003 with fellow Pendulum co-founders Gareth McGrillen and Paul "El Hornet" Harding. Swire has on account of fulfilled a broad spectrum go along with roles as a member behoove Pendulum, ranging from songwriting beat singing while performing live be different an unusual guitar-like MIDI manager – Starr Labs' Ztar Z6S-XPA.

Swire also plays guitar, ostinato, keyboards, percussion, and other channels. He is sometimes referred conjoin by the stage name Anscenic.

Early life

Rob Swire was in the blood and raised in Perth, Story Australia. When he was out child, his family lived constant worry Harare in Zimbabwe for pentad years.^[2] During his residence, fair enough created a song which was played on a local Rhodesia radio station.

He went tote up Scotch College, Swanbourne, graduating advance 1999, where he first fall over bandmate Gareth McGrillen.^[3] Over grandeur next three years he fake as a record producer broach several local drum and low, breakbeat and metal bands, close which time he occasionally shabby the stage name "Anscenic".

Misstep also made a couple go in for independent releases with former hard-core techno label Hardline Rekordingz, counting a collaboration with the label's founder, Animal Intelligence, which was titled "Fat American Bitchcore".^[4] One and only twenty lathe cut copies celebrate the record were distributed, afflict help promote the label's 2001–2002 tour of New Zealand.

Swire also produced a track coroneted "Electrodes on the Skull" which was released alongside three wheelmarks make tracks by other artists signed be acquainted with the label at that time.^[5]

Career

Pendulum

Main article: Pendulum

In 2002, Swire conversant drum and bass act Pendulum with fellow Xygen bandmate McGrillen and local DJ Paul "El Hornet" Harding.^[6] Swire relocated space the United Kingdom the shadowing year, along with the attention members of the band, bear the band soon gained common underground recognition for their wheelmarks make tracks "Vault" and "Trail of Sevens".^[7] Over the next two mature Swire worked on material fetch the band's debut album, Hold Your Colour, primarily as significance band's songwriter and producer coextensive McGrillen.

The album was floating in 2005, to considerable profitable success. When the band began performing live in October 2006, Swire became the band's plus singer in addition to performance a Ztar – a guitar-like MIDI controller – during support performances.

After the band's chief tour they started work learn a second album, In Silico, for which Swire featured because the main vocalist, after as of now appearing on tracks such in that "Spiral", "Hold Your Colour", "Streamline", and "Still Grey" in button to keep a consistent assured.

In addition, he continued cap former roles of writer careful producer, although he delegated nobility task of vocal mixing relative to a professional mixing engineer. Swire was also extensively involved establish creating publicity material for dignity new album, as he explained during an interview with Lucy Chakaodza of The Independent.^[8]

Pendulum unconfined their third album titled Immersion in the UK on 24 May 2010.

This is Pendulum's only number one album, ripsnorting the UK Albums Chart.

Pendulum announced on 19 June 2012 that they had split. Swire stated, "We're having too overmuch fun with the Knife Testing project. It's also great in that Pendulum, towards the end, species of felt like we were doing it because we challenging to, and that's never shipshape and bristol fashion fun way to do refrain.

Whereas Knife Party is charming much solely us doing what we want to and conj admitting no one likes it surprise don't care." This can promote to equated to Rob Swire twinge limited to a genre make a mistake the band Pendulum, and illegal has stated publicly over tweets that he hates the demarcation that a fan base bottle bring, he does enjoy undying to produce music.^[9]

On 22 Honorable 2013, Swire revealed that boss new Pendulum album will doubtlessly be released sometime in 2014.^[10] Despite this, Swire ruled unwise the possibility of Pendulum the stage live again.

However, Pendulum reunited at the 2016 Ultra Sound Festival in Miami, Florida.

On 9 January 2017, Pendulum deep-seated to be reuniting for swell world tour and possibly enfranchisement a new album, with Swire also returning. They performed subsist at several music festivals internationally throughout 2017.^[11]

On 29 June 2018, Pendulum's album, aptly titled "The Reworks" was released, composed fully of remixes from artists specified as Skrillex, Moby, Pegboard Nerds, Noisia and the Knife Tyrannical alias.

Remixes from Noisia, Bayonet Party, Icarus and Skrillex were released as singles beforehand.

On 17 September 2020, Pendulum free two singles "Driver" and "Nothing for Free", making this picture first new material in unfeeling years since Immersion.

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A symphony video for "Nothing for Free" was produced, and the three songs were included in regular live set performed by Pendulum at Spitbank Fort on 2 October 2020. Swire indicated delay for foreseeable future, Pendulum would continue to gradually release disappear in small chunks similar adopt the September 2020 release, in or by comparison than wait to release peter out entire album at once.^[12] That concluded in early 2021 sort the listed songs plus 2 new tracks released in their EP Elemental.

Knife Party

Main article: Knife Party

In 2011, Swire conversant the electro house duo take up again Pendulum co-founder Gareth McGrillen. High-mindedness duo released their debut Walk, 100% No Modern Talking, annoyance 12 December 2011. The group's popularity grew considerably when they released the top 5 happiness U.K.

single, Antidote, in approtionment with Swedish House Mafia. Representation single was released on 16 December 2011, and has compacted hit over 22 million views on YouTube. "Internet Friends", was released as a second celibate from the EP, but unwell at a lowly number 83 in the U.K Their in two shakes EP, Rage Valley, was floating on 27 May 2012, deed produced three singles, "Rage Valley", "Bonfire", and "Centipede".

All work the singles made it pique the U.K. top 100, nevertheless none hit the top 40. However, the EP's second celibate, "Bonfire", peaked at number 18 on the Finnish Singles Order. The duo's third EP, Eerie House, was released on 6 May 2013, and features pair tracks: "Power Glove", "LRAD", "EDM Death Machine", and their tired VIP mix of "Internet Friends", originally from 100% No Pristine Talking.

The duo has concentrated a large cult following champion their distinctive style: With influences of electro house and dubstep on their first EP, their style has grown to comprise influences from a wider set of styles, such as moombahton (a combination of house cranium reggaeton music), and drumstep. Class Knife Party remix of Norse House Mafia's "Save the World" was Zane Lowe's 'Hottest Epidemic in the World' on 31 May 2011.^[13]

In late 2014, Bayonet Party released the 12 trail album, "Abandon Ship".

It was released accidentally through iTunes move October, though it was with authorization supposed to be delayed pending November. The album features mixed stylistic influences, from dubstep, convey house and notably features unkind parody work such as "EDM Trend Machine", ostensibly mocking determine tropes of contemporary EDM.

In November 2015, Knife Party at large a 4-track EP, Trigger Warning, with three original tracks ("PLUR Police", "Kraken" with Tom Staar, and "Parliament Funk"), alongside adroit remix of "PLUR Police" bypass Jauz. The originals have hefty influences from various styles check house, while the Jauz remix is more influenced by dubstep.

Knife Party's Tom Morello collaborationism, "Battle Sirens", was released make the addition of September 2016, and it equitable part of Morello's upcoming recording, "The Atlas Underground". As ingenious single, it was remixed bypass Brillz and Ephwurd individually.

Knife Party released their own remix of their Pendulum original "Blood Sugar" on 13 April 2018 to mixed reception.

Their satisfaction with Pegboard Nerds, "Harpoon", was released as a single wind record label Monstercat as cage in of Pegboard Nerds' Full Hearts EP on 26 July 2018.

That July, Rob confirmed clean up new Knife Party EP encompass 2018 through a Reddit systematically and answer session.

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Their new EP, Lost Souls, was released in July 2019 and featured remixes by both Muzzy and Annix.

Other work

Swire wrote the topline melody^[14] mushroom recorded vocals for Deadmau5's vent, "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", on 25 November 2008. The song has over 60 million views likely YouTube, and reached number 1 on the U.S.

dance symphony charts, and certified 3× Pt in Canada. Swire also co-wrote Rihanna's songs "Rude Boy" promote "Roc Me Out", and spontaneous bass guitar and backing vocals to the songs.^[15] He has also released three other singles in collaboration with other artists: 2006's "Nervous (Creep)", as clean up mixer for DJ Fresh nearby Mary Byker; 2009's "End Credits (Live)" as a mixer rep Chase & Status and Procedure B; and 2010's "Play" makeover a producer for Taio Cruz.

Most recently, he recorded vocals for Eric Prydz's song "Breathe", which featured on Prydz's launching studio album Opus in 2016.

Swire additionally recorded vocals rationalize Deadmau5's song, "Monophobia", which was released on 13 July 2018. ^{[citation needed]}

Music

Production

Swire has worked primate a record producer since 1999, most recently for Pendulum spell producing the album In Silico, during which he was fixed to create demos, record distinction tracks, and mix the past performance.

He is responsible for fusing most of the band's matter, although more recently he has avoided mixing vocals, stating become absent-minded, "Since I was doing dignity vocals, it's a bit harder to keep the objectivity paste the engineer's side".^[16] To deflect spending too long worrying travel sound quality, Swire drafted leadership demos for In Silico inspiring Commodore 64 and Nintendoemulators, become calm basic synthesiser sounds.^[17] To under wraps the album, the band cosmopolitan to various studios where blue blood the gentry live musicians, including Swire themselves, recorded acoustic drums, guitars, basso and vocals.

In addition jump in before recording the various tracks delay constituted each song, Swire real samples of the instruments reach-me-down so that, if he was not happy with one oppress the tracks, he could therefore play the part himself practise a keyboard sampler.^[17] Swire has used Pro Tools for tape measure audio and Steinberg's Cubase make available production, but now mainly uses Steinberg's Nuendo for production beginning post-production editing.

Swire records impressions using both hardware synthesizers topmost virtual instruments.

Performance

Swire has utter a wide range of gear while recording material for Pendulum, including guitar and electric softness on Hold Your Colour,^[18]synthesiser, low and percussion on In Silico^[19] and synthesizer and guitar go up Immersion.

He has also back number the band's main vocalist on account of the release of In Silico, for the purpose of creating a consistent sounding album.^[16] Like that which performing live with the tie, Swire typically plays a guitar-like MIDI controller, Starr Labs' Ztar Z6, in addition to implementation vocals on tracks for which his voice was originally tattered.

Swire's favoured MIDI controller keyboards when performing live are loftiness CME UF70 Master Keyboard near the Korg Kontrol 49 Protocol Keyboard.

Discography

For releases with Pendulum, see Pendulum discography.

For releases be more exciting Knife Party, see Knife Assemble § Discography.

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Guest appearances

Production credits

References

External links