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Artist:Shaka Ponk

Genres:
  • Dance
  • Electronic
  • Hip-Hop
Perth, WA

Tracks

About

Born of a delirium between pioneers passionate about new technologies, Shaka Ponk is a few years since a mutant rock group that explores the virtual to better take root in the real. For proof: concerts that are multiplying, rooms that are growing and an audience ever more numerous. Geeks, followers of the social networks or zonards of the globosphere, Shaka Ponk federates a growing community of young "citoiliens" as eager for music as for images, and determined to enjoy it for real. In a 3rd album accompanied by several clips Shaka Ponk continues his hectic adventure on this open border between instruments and sounds produced by software. His title, The Geeks & The Jerking Socks, refers to a scene from the movie American Pie where a young student is surprised by his parents as he mates a pornographic film in his room, sex stuffed into a sock. This theme of a sexuality by proxy, some songs put it in a record that is primarily a passage to the act furiously assumed and permanently ...

Members

Frah (Vocal)
Samaha Sam (Vocal)
Cyril (Guitars)
Ion (Drums)
Mandris (Bass)
Steve (Keyboard)

Sounds Like

New Order, Depeche Mode, Basement Jaxx, Andrew W.K., MGMT, Happy Mondays, Bastille

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