Hawnay Troof
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Hawnay Troof is the electronic
indie
solo project of Vice Cooler
formed in late 2001.
Regardless of the bands American punk and electronic background, many untraditional ideas have been incorporated into its sound. Combining many elements of pop
, dance-punk
, electronica
, soul
, noise music
and club
lyrically covering an array of subjects such as relationships, politics, death, celebration, and tragedy. In the past Cooler has cited his daily life as his main muse. According to Cooler the purpose of the band has always been to create a unity for people through music. Since the band's inception, this has been executed by a number of live shows and records. Unifying past language barriers, the band has performed in many strange places throughout the world and put out a handful of albums to a positive response.
, Glass Candy
, Lightning Bolt
, Bratmobile
, Gravy Train!!!!, and Stereo Total
with nothing but a self released cdr to sell.
Eventually Cooler relocated to Oakland, California and continued to perform. He quickly became friends with Drew Daniel (of Soft Pink Truth and Matmos
), Allison Wolfe
, and Jenny Hoyston
; all of which would appear later on future live performances and/ or recordings. While playing a show in LA that summer he caught the attention of the label Retard Disco
who asked him to make a record for them. The result was his 2003 debut Get Up: Resolution Love!, a low fidelity, self-produced, dance record. With its militantly minimal sound, little more was used than the human voice and the limited pre sets on his computer (with the exception to the Drew Daniel produced "Gut A Cop" and "Til We're Numb"). Get Up caught the ears of Numbers, Rogue Wave, and the well-known indie band Mates Of State
, who all invited him on tour with them. After going on the road with all three he was exposed to many new fans, though it was a very unlikely pairing.
Get Up: Resolution: Love! put the band on a successful worldwide tour including Hawnay's first shows in Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe (with a then unknown band called The Gossip
). The "Man On My Back" single was released as tour support, surprising everyone with a harsher, more evolved sound. The live shows had Vice, and then tour partner Allison Wolfe, performing in their underwear. The absence of clothing was meant "be this liberating thing for people to see." But after two years of constant touring, Cooler was exhausted. His mental problems began to escalate, preventing any further touring for the album.
Cooler spent everyday from January to March 2005 in his bedroom writing, recording, and mixing the album, rarely stopping even to eat. His old friend Jenny Hoyston
was again a collaborator, adding vocals to five of the tracks. Saying goodbye to the pre sets that dominated the last lp, Cooler instead traded them for new sampling techniques, and got recording programs for his computer.
Others who worked on the record were Stereo Total
, Barr
, and Kori Gardner of Mates Of State
while being mixed partially by the bands longtime friend John Dieterich.
Regardless of the release tour being booked, the release of Dollar and Deed
was moved from November 2005 to April 2006 due to time constraints. Quickly outtakes and new material were scrambled together for the release of the "Community" Ep to coincide with the tour. Guest on the record included his friends Mika Miko
and Barr
.
Both releases had a new found lyrical content sound which left fans divided. In the past Coolers lyrics had focused primarily on his sex life, but now were about growing up on the road. Musically it covered a lot of his influence including ambient, punk, and glitch.
Rising high on the wings of the 20-month "Dollar and Deed" tour, Hawnay Troof played shows in Egypt and China, and was invited to many European festivals peaking with a crowd of more than half a million at the Dutch event Lowlands
. Concerned that he "turned into this clown character for a lot of people" he got rid of the "underwear look" for a something more formal: custom tailored suits. Capturing moments during the tour on his small digital camera, Cooler would later release a book chronicling his experiences titled the Dollar and Deed Tour. The book sold out through Myspace within one hour of its release. Yet the album went by unnoticed by most in the press.
Regardless of the general underground status of Dollar And Deed, it was held in high regard by a lot musicians, making it onto a lot of top ten lists. One of these musicians, Peaches
, named it the number one record of the year in Filter Magazine and invited Vice Cooler as a guest performer at her show with John Waters
as part of their Christmas show at UCLA. British singer- songwriter Jack Lucien also cited the album as an inspiration for his creative work on his Myspace blog.
There was also a contest for fans to remix his song Out Of Teen. All of them were deemed so good that they were combined into a free download release.
The tour wrapped up with a trip to play shows in Alaska with High Places
. During the Dollar and Deed tour Hawnay Troof had the band as an opener. The two bands continued to play together throughout the year and developed a close relationship.
Islands Of Ayle was finished mostly between December 2007 and March 2008. Three of the albums songs, "Front My Hope", "Venus Venus Piper", and "Water" were collaborations between Vice and Bretzel Goring of Stereo Total through email. The three songs were birthed from samples that Cooler had become stuck on. Cooler would pan pieces of the loops into stereo and then email them to Bretzel. He would then make new loops out of the mono tracks and email them back to Vice, who would then add more things, including vocals, on top of the new arrangements.
Other new recording techniques were incorporated such as the addition of a borrowed Moog synthesizer
. This was used by Hawnay Troof to create the bands first bass lines. The original track of The Gods Are Crazy was mailed to Carla Bozulich who then recorded her vocal lines over the mp3 which was sent back to Vice. While Out Of Teen Revisited was also birthed from email: it was created by Iggybaby for the Out Of Teen remix contest and had become the staple live version at shows. Mary Pearson recorded her parts while High Places was staying as a guest at his house.
During this period No Age
was recording their first record, Weirdo Rippers. The bands guitarist Randy Randall was showing Vice some of his new samples when Cooler was staying with them in Los Angeles. Randy let him sample some of the sounds which also ended up used, and manipulated, on Islands Of Ayle.
Cooler has said that the goal for Islands Of Ayle was to create a pop record, but that it ended up accidentally "damaged".
The album was mixed in two days by Vice Cooler, in his bedroom, with long time friend and Deerhoof
member Greg Saunier and was released on September 9, 2008. The first edition of the CD came with an extra disc of remixes and a limited edition o-card cover.
The albums release came with an extensive world tour, opening for Deerhoof, High Places, Telepathe
and Matt And Kim, which had the band spanning the same area as the previous 20 month tour over the last four months of 2008. The trip was full of extremes in luck. In August the band was towed in Chicago. Once they got it back it was then reportedly stolen by a police officer in Arizona.
Regardless of the complications the tour moved on. Good luck came as the first pressing sold out within one week of its release. Shortly after the albums first single, "Connection", premiered on MTV2.
"Connection" had been shot in July 2008 at The Smell
in Los Angeles by Vim Crony. It features an array of Smell regulars including members of Imafucking Gymnist, Kyle Mabson, and the owner of the club, Jim Smith. The video has been highly praised and broke through to such unlikely places as the Independent Film Channel and Vh1. The video was nominated for indie video of the year by MTV2 and surprised everyone when it won second place and beat heavyweights like Bjork
and Death Cab For Cutie
.
October marked the release of his free, fan remixed record Remix Projection and also brought Hawnay Troof on its second tour of Australia and New Zealand. This time it was a tour with Peaches
and later as a part of Australia's largest traveling electronic festival Parklife
. During this time, Peaches started performing randomly with Hawnay Troof as a guest back up singer into December 2008. Shortly after the band surprised the crowd at Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest with a very memorable set, which including Vice making use of the outside stage by incorporating the ceiling and trees by climbing them throughout his set, and jumping off, working the crowd into a frenzy causing "every girl to slide out of her skinny jeans".
Unlike Dollar And Deed, Islands of Ayle was released to great acclaim. Pitchfork rated it with a 7.5 and described Vice as "[leaving] an impression of a confidence that has moved beyond the ego and into a territory that enables him to get away with just about anything" while Spin Magazine said that the album is "...a bewilderingly awesome musical gumbo. Both confrontational and congregational, Troof's beat-driven, stutter-filled jams will move your feet the way they were meant to move – with wild abandon and reckless intent." Mae Shi and High Places named it as one of the best albums of 2008 while electronic heavyweights Ladytron
called it one of their top ten records of the year in Filter Magazine.
"Connection" as #1 video on MTVU (MTVU, 2009).
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
indie
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
solo project of Vice Cooler
Vice Cooler
Vice Cooler is an American musician, photographer, author and visual artist. He is currently the singer and songwriter for Hawnay Troof and Xbxrx....
formed in late 2001.
Regardless of the bands American punk and electronic background, many untraditional ideas have been incorporated into its sound. Combining many elements of pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, dance-punk
Dance-punk
Dance-punk is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and No Wave movements.-Predecessors:...
, electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
, soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
, noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
and club
Club
A club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, political and religious clubs, and so forth.- History...
lyrically covering an array of subjects such as relationships, politics, death, celebration, and tragedy. In the past Cooler has cited his daily life as his main muse. According to Cooler the purpose of the band has always been to create a unity for people through music. Since the band's inception, this has been executed by a number of live shows and records. Unifying past language barriers, the band has performed in many strange places throughout the world and put out a handful of albums to a positive response.
Origins
In 2001 a teenage Vice Cooler and friend wanted to go to a show that they couldn't afford. A plan was devised to start a band that afternoon and pose as a band during load in. They wrote the music in one afternoon and loaded in equipment to the venue. No one asked any questions so they did a guerilla style set next to the coke machines and merchandise table during the show. Word spread fast and Vice Coolers antics began to precede him. Despite having played only a handful of shows, he was invited to play similar guerilla-style sets opening for the likes of Quintron and Miss Pussycat, CoachwhipsCoachwhips
Coachwhips were a three-piece noise/punk rock outfit from San Francisco, California formed in 2001. John Dwyer was the guitarist/vocalist. John Harlow played drums and Mary Ann McNamara played keyboard/tambourine and provided backing vocals...
, Glass Candy
Glass Candy
Glass Candy is an American indie electronic band from Portland, Oregon that formed in 1996. The band consists of vocalist Ida No and guitarist/synthesist/general producer Johnny Jewel. While the band's early work blends elements of no wave and glam rock, their later work incorporates Italo disco...
, Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt is a noise rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island, composed of Brian Chippendale on drums and vocals and Brian Gibson on bass guitar. The band met and formed in 1994, when the members of the then-trio attended the Rhode Island School of Design. The band signed to Load Records in...
, Bratmobile
Bratmobile
Bratmobile was an American punk band. Bratmobile was a first-generation "riot grrrl" band, which grew from the Pacific Northwest and Washington, DC underground...
, Gravy Train!!!!, and Stereo Total
Stereo Total
Stereo Total is a Berlin-based multilingual, French-German duo comprising Françoise Cactus and Brezel Göring . Both Cactus and Göring sing and play multiple instruments...
with nothing but a self released cdr to sell.
Eventually Cooler relocated to Oakland, California and continued to perform. He quickly became friends with Drew Daniel (of Soft Pink Truth and Matmos
Matmos
Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including...
), Allison Wolfe
Allison Wolfe
-Background:Born an identical twin in Memphis, Tennessee on November 9, 1969, Allison played a significant role in the formation of the riot grrrl movement of the 90s. She grew up in Olympia, Washington, with mother Pat Shively and sisters Cindy and Molly Wolfe...
, and Jenny Hoyston
Jenny Hoyston
Jenny Hoyston is the vocalist and guitarist of the San Francisco, CA, USA political punk and no wave band Erase Errata, releases records and performs worldwide under her solo moniker Paradise Island and has made records with William Elliott Whitmore .Hoyston began her road...
; all of which would appear later on future live performances and/ or recordings. While playing a show in LA that summer he caught the attention of the label Retard Disco
Retard Disco
Retard Disco is a Los Angeles-based record label operated in the United States. The label first began with two debut releases by 14 Year Old Girls and Hawnay Troof in 2003....
who asked him to make a record for them. The result was his 2003 debut Get Up: Resolution Love!, a low fidelity, self-produced, dance record. With its militantly minimal sound, little more was used than the human voice and the limited pre sets on his computer (with the exception to the Drew Daniel produced "Gut A Cop" and "Til We're Numb"). Get Up caught the ears of Numbers, Rogue Wave, and the well-known indie band Mates Of State
Mates of State
Mates of State are an American indie pop duo, active since 1997. The group is composed of the husband-and-wife team of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel .Over the course of the band's fourteen year career, they've released three EPs and six full-length, studio...
, who all invited him on tour with them. After going on the road with all three he was exposed to many new fans, though it was a very unlikely pairing.
Get Up: Resolution: Love! put the band on a successful worldwide tour including Hawnay's first shows in Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe (with a then unknown band called The Gossip
The Gossip
Gossip is a three-piece American indie rock band formed in 1999. The band consists of singer Beth Ditto, guitarist Brace Paine and drummer Hannah Blilie. After releasing several recordings, the band broke through with their 2006 studio album, Standing in the Way of Control . A follow-up, Music for...
). The "Man On My Back" single was released as tour support, surprising everyone with a harsher, more evolved sound. The live shows had Vice, and then tour partner Allison Wolfe, performing in their underwear. The absence of clothing was meant "be this liberating thing for people to see." But after two years of constant touring, Cooler was exhausted. His mental problems began to escalate, preventing any further touring for the album.
Dollar and Deed-Community
Instead of recovering from the two year tour, Vice opted to instead immediately start work on what would become the bands next album, an extensive double album and photobook titled "Dollar and Deed".Cooler spent everyday from January to March 2005 in his bedroom writing, recording, and mixing the album, rarely stopping even to eat. His old friend Jenny Hoyston
Jenny Hoyston
Jenny Hoyston is the vocalist and guitarist of the San Francisco, CA, USA political punk and no wave band Erase Errata, releases records and performs worldwide under her solo moniker Paradise Island and has made records with William Elliott Whitmore .Hoyston began her road...
was again a collaborator, adding vocals to five of the tracks. Saying goodbye to the pre sets that dominated the last lp, Cooler instead traded them for new sampling techniques, and got recording programs for his computer.
Others who worked on the record were Stereo Total
Stereo Total
Stereo Total is a Berlin-based multilingual, French-German duo comprising Françoise Cactus and Brezel Göring . Both Cactus and Göring sing and play multiple instruments...
, Barr
Barr
-Places:* Barr, Ayrshire, a village in Scotland* Barr, Bas-Rhin, a commune of the Bas-Rhin département in France* Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana, US* Barr Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, US-Companies:...
, and Kori Gardner of Mates Of State
Mates of State
Mates of State are an American indie pop duo, active since 1997. The group is composed of the husband-and-wife team of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel .Over the course of the band's fourteen year career, they've released three EPs and six full-length, studio...
while being mixed partially by the bands longtime friend John Dieterich.
Regardless of the release tour being booked, the release of Dollar and Deed
Dollar and Deed
Dollar and Deed is the second full-length studio album by Vice Cooler's California based solo project, Hawnay Troof. The double album was written and recorded during the Get Up! Resolution: Love worldwide tour in 2004 and 2005, and was later finished up at Cooler's home studio in Oakland...
was moved from November 2005 to April 2006 due to time constraints. Quickly outtakes and new material were scrambled together for the release of the "Community" Ep to coincide with the tour. Guest on the record included his friends Mika Miko
Mika Miko
Mika Miko was a band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, California. In 2004 they gained local popularity for their frenetic live performances. Featuring Victor Fandgore , Jet Blanca , Michelle Suarez, Jessica Clavin, and Jon Erik Edrosa, the original line up of the band made its first demo CD-R, its...
and Barr
Barr
-Places:* Barr, Ayrshire, a village in Scotland* Barr, Bas-Rhin, a commune of the Bas-Rhin département in France* Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana, US* Barr Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, US-Companies:...
.
Both releases had a new found lyrical content sound which left fans divided. In the past Coolers lyrics had focused primarily on his sex life, but now were about growing up on the road. Musically it covered a lot of his influence including ambient, punk, and glitch.
Rising high on the wings of the 20-month "Dollar and Deed" tour, Hawnay Troof played shows in Egypt and China, and was invited to many European festivals peaking with a crowd of more than half a million at the Dutch event Lowlands
A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise
A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, also known as simply Lowlands, is a music festival, held annually in the Netherlands in August. Lowlands has about 55,000 visitors, over 200 acts and more than ten stages every year which are named according to the NATO phonetic alphabet apart from the Grolsch...
. Concerned that he "turned into this clown character for a lot of people" he got rid of the "underwear look" for a something more formal: custom tailored suits. Capturing moments during the tour on his small digital camera, Cooler would later release a book chronicling his experiences titled the Dollar and Deed Tour. The book sold out through Myspace within one hour of its release. Yet the album went by unnoticed by most in the press.
Regardless of the general underground status of Dollar And Deed, it was held in high regard by a lot musicians, making it onto a lot of top ten lists. One of these musicians, Peaches
Peaches (musician)
Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...
, named it the number one record of the year in Filter Magazine and invited Vice Cooler as a guest performer at her show with John Waters
John Waters (filmmaker)
John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
as part of their Christmas show at UCLA. British singer- songwriter Jack Lucien also cited the album as an inspiration for his creative work on his Myspace blog.
There was also a contest for fans to remix his song Out Of Teen. All of them were deemed so good that they were combined into a free download release.
The tour wrapped up with a trip to play shows in Alaska with High Places
High Places
High Places is a band originating from Brooklyn, NY, recently relocated to Los Angeles, CA. The band is a duo comprising multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber and vocalist Mary Pearson.-History:...
. During the Dollar and Deed tour Hawnay Troof had the band as an opener. The two bands continued to play together throughout the year and developed a close relationship.
Islands Of Ayle
Hawnay Troof began working on new music during the 20 month tour for Dollar and Deed. As with his past releases he had become bored with what he had already done. Instead of working with what he knew, he refreshed his songwriting technique by starting to work with loops created on unfamiliar programs. They were then recorded as demos during his tour breaks.Islands Of Ayle was finished mostly between December 2007 and March 2008. Three of the albums songs, "Front My Hope", "Venus Venus Piper", and "Water" were collaborations between Vice and Bretzel Goring of Stereo Total through email. The three songs were birthed from samples that Cooler had become stuck on. Cooler would pan pieces of the loops into stereo and then email them to Bretzel. He would then make new loops out of the mono tracks and email them back to Vice, who would then add more things, including vocals, on top of the new arrangements.
Other new recording techniques were incorporated such as the addition of a borrowed Moog synthesizer
Moog synthesizer
Moog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled...
. This was used by Hawnay Troof to create the bands first bass lines. The original track of The Gods Are Crazy was mailed to Carla Bozulich who then recorded her vocal lines over the mp3 which was sent back to Vice. While Out Of Teen Revisited was also birthed from email: it was created by Iggybaby for the Out Of Teen remix contest and had become the staple live version at shows. Mary Pearson recorded her parts while High Places was staying as a guest at his house.
During this period No Age
No Age
No Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is currently signed to Sub Pop records...
was recording their first record, Weirdo Rippers. The bands guitarist Randy Randall was showing Vice some of his new samples when Cooler was staying with them in Los Angeles. Randy let him sample some of the sounds which also ended up used, and manipulated, on Islands Of Ayle.
Cooler has said that the goal for Islands Of Ayle was to create a pop record, but that it ended up accidentally "damaged".
The album was mixed in two days by Vice Cooler, in his bedroom, with long time friend and Deerhoof
Deerhoof
Deerhoof is a musical group consisting of Satomi Matsuzaki, John Dieterich, Ed Rodriguez and Greg Saunier.-Origins:In 1992, Greg Saunier, having recently graduated with a degree in music composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, joined a short-lived San Francisco quartet called Nitre Pit, on...
member Greg Saunier and was released on September 9, 2008. The first edition of the CD came with an extra disc of remixes and a limited edition o-card cover.
The albums release came with an extensive world tour, opening for Deerhoof, High Places, Telepathe
Telepathe
Telepathe is an electronic pop duo from Brooklyn consisting of core members Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudis. The band also includes other occasional musicians, such as Ryan Lucero....
and Matt And Kim, which had the band spanning the same area as the previous 20 month tour over the last four months of 2008. The trip was full of extremes in luck. In August the band was towed in Chicago. Once they got it back it was then reportedly stolen by a police officer in Arizona.
Regardless of the complications the tour moved on. Good luck came as the first pressing sold out within one week of its release. Shortly after the albums first single, "Connection", premiered on MTV2.
"Connection" had been shot in July 2008 at The Smell
The Smell
The Smell is an all ages, alcohol and drug-free punk rock/noise/experimental venue in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The Smell, notable for its DIY ethic, is home to many of the area's avant-garde performers and artists...
in Los Angeles by Vim Crony. It features an array of Smell regulars including members of Imafucking Gymnist, Kyle Mabson, and the owner of the club, Jim Smith. The video has been highly praised and broke through to such unlikely places as the Independent Film Channel and Vh1. The video was nominated for indie video of the year by MTV2 and surprised everyone when it won second place and beat heavyweights like Bjork
Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir , known as Björk , is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres, such as rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk...
and Death Cab For Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Ben Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
.
October marked the release of his free, fan remixed record Remix Projection and also brought Hawnay Troof on its second tour of Australia and New Zealand. This time it was a tour with Peaches
Peaches (musician)
Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...
and later as a part of Australia's largest traveling electronic festival Parklife
Parklife
Parklife is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band Blur, released in April 1994 on Food Records. After disappointing sales for their previous album Modern Life Is Rubbish , Parklife returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: "Girls & Boys", "End of a...
. During this time, Peaches started performing randomly with Hawnay Troof as a guest back up singer into December 2008. Shortly after the band surprised the crowd at Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest with a very memorable set, which including Vice making use of the outside stage by incorporating the ceiling and trees by climbing them throughout his set, and jumping off, working the crowd into a frenzy causing "every girl to slide out of her skinny jeans".
Unlike Dollar And Deed, Islands of Ayle was released to great acclaim. Pitchfork rated it with a 7.5 and described Vice as "[leaving] an impression of a confidence that has moved beyond the ego and into a territory that enables him to get away with just about anything" while Spin Magazine said that the album is "...a bewilderingly awesome musical gumbo. Both confrontational and congregational, Troof's beat-driven, stutter-filled jams will move your feet the way they were meant to move – with wild abandon and reckless intent." Mae Shi and High Places named it as one of the best albums of 2008 while electronic heavyweights Ladytron
Ladytron
Ladytron are an English electronic band formed in 1999 in Liverpool, Merseyside. The group consists of Helen Marnie , Mira Aroyo , Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu .Their sound blends electropop with New Wave and shoegazing elements. Ladytron described their sound as "electronic pop"...
called it one of their top ten records of the year in Filter Magazine.
Albums
- Get Up! Resolution Love (Retard Disco/ TCWTGA (LP), 2003)
- Dollar and DeedDollar and DeedDollar and Deed is the second full-length studio album by Vice Cooler's California based solo project, Hawnay Troof. The double album was written and recorded during the Get Up! Resolution: Love worldwide tour in 2004 and 2005, and was later finished up at Cooler's home studio in Oakland...
(Retard Disco/ Southern, 2006) - Islands Of Ayle (Retard Disco/ Southern, 2008)
- Remix Projection (Self Released Free Download, 2008)
Ep's And Singles
- Who Likes Ta? (Retard Disco, 2003)
- White Men In Suits EP (Deleted Art, 2004)
- Community (Retard Disco, 2005)
- Hollar And See (Self Released, 2006)
- RMX: 2008 (Self Released, 2008)
Remixes
- High PlacesHigh PlacesHigh Places is a band originating from Brooklyn, NY, recently relocated to Los Angeles, CA. The band is a duo comprising multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber and vocalist Mary Pearson.-History:...
(Headspins) - No AgeNo AgeNo Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is currently signed to Sub Pop records...
(Everybody's Down) - YachtYachtA yacht is a recreational boat or ship. The term originated from the Dutch Jacht meaning "hunt". It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries...
(It's Coming To Get You) - Jaguar LoveJaguar LoveJaguar Love is an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, composed of former members of The Blood Brothers.-History:The band was formed by members of the bands Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves...
(Humans Evolve Into Skyscrapers) - Jaguar Love]] (My Organ Sounds Like...)
- The SsionThe SsionThe Ssion, also known as SSION, is a musical group formed in 1996, in Kansas City, by vocalist Cody Critcheloe. Known for their extravagant live show, Ssion was signed to Sleazetone Records in 2008....
(Street Jizz) - Joanna NewsomJoanna NewsomJoanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
(Bridges And Balloons) - BarrBrendan FowlerBrendan Fowler is a musician and visual artist, best known for his work under the moniker BARR, based in Los Angeles. He is a regular performer at The Smell, a DIY music venue. He also co-runs Doggpony Records and is a co-editor of ANP Quarterly - an Orange County based arts and culture...
(Half Of Two Times Two) - TelepatheTelepatheTelepathe is an electronic pop duo from Brooklyn consisting of core members Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudis. The band also includes other occasional musicians, such as Ryan Lucero....
(Chromes On It
Awards
"Connection" as #2 indie video of the year (MTV2, 2008)."Connection" as #1 video on MTVU (MTVU, 2009).
Trivia
- Solange KnowlesSolange KnowlesSolange Piaget Knowles , who performs under the mononym Solange, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, model, dancer, and DJ. Knowles was born and raised in Houston, Texas along with her older sister singer Beyoncé, a former member of R&B group Destiny's Child...
praised his fashion and music on her twitterTwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
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- Hawnay Troof has been invited to play such countries as Iceland, Egypt, New Zealand and Australia.
- Vice Cooler was a guest speaker at the PeachesPeaches (musician)Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...
and John WatersJohn Waters (filmmaker)John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
2005 Christmas show at UCLA.
- His 2006–2007 Rhinestone Suit was made by the L.A. design team, Boho.
- In 2007, Henry RollinsHenry RollinsHenry Rollins is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, comedian, publisher, actor, and radio DJ....
said on his radio show, Harmony In My Head, that "I have always admired people who are all the way into their work to the point where the separation between the art and the artist disappears. Most never even get close..." when talking about Vice Cooler and Hawnay Troof.