Zeds Dead are music history students, but they might be even better teachers.The Canadian duo’s latest tour is a living archive of music that shaped them.
Jazz, soul, hip-hop, rock, electronic music, and everything in between are chopped, sampled, and stitched into a show that spans generations.Zeds Dead don’t hide their source material.
They want you to hear it.Millennials remember the collective joy in their classrooms when teachers rolled in a bulky television on a cart.
It indicated a fun day scored by a soundtrack from before their time.Zeds Dead’s latest tour follows the same philosophy: using modern technology to share past brilliance with audiences.
Instead of “Bill Nye the Science Guy” and “The Magic Schoolbus,” it’s iconic jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald (“One of These Moments”) and legendary soul singer Ann Peebles (“Sweet Memories”).And in the same way that rolling TV cart was a break from school’s monotony, Zeds Dead’s stage arrival signals an escape from everyday life.
The ethos of their sophomore album, Return to the Spectrum of Intergalactic Happiness, is the foundation of their new tour.They’re channel-surfing through time.
There’s a certain Quentin Tarantino quality to how they piece together different cultural fragments–suitable for a group named after a Pulp Fiction scene.One such example was their mash-up of “Alive” and “Say My Name” by Destiny’s Child: songs from different centuries and genres.
They blended seamlessly, but only minds like Zeds Dead’s would think of pairing them in the first place.Scroll to continue more from edm David Guetta Will Bring ‘Monolith’ Production to London’s O2 Arena in 2027 The lessons didn’t stop there.
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