1 | Hadouken! are a British five-piece Electronic/Indie band. [[GenreShift Which one generally depends on the album in question.]] They started in 2006. |
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3 | [[AC: Members:]] |
4 | * James Smith - Lead vocals and electronics |
5 | * Alice Spooner - Synthesiser |
6 | * Daniel "Pilau" Rice - Guitar, keyboards and backing vocals |
7 | * Christopher Purcell - Bass, keyboards and backing vocals |
8 | * Nick Rice - Drums |
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10 | As of this writing, they've released three albums, ''Music for an Accelerated Culture'' in 2008, ''For the Masses'' in 2010, and ''Every Weekend'' in 2013. They also released three [=EPs=], ''Mixtape'', ''Not Here to Please You'' and ''Love, Sweat and Beer'' in 2007. |
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12 | In November 2014 they announced a hiatus. James is currently producing a solo project, and Dan, Nick, and Chris are members of Cast of Lions alongside Stefan Abingdon of The Midnight Beast. |
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14 | !Hadouken have examples of: |
15 | * AlbumTitleDrop: ''Every Weekend'' is their first album to do this, being dropped in the first song, "Vortex". |
16 | * AnimatedMusicVideo: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfjuVCyzToY "Mecha Love"]], which uses footage from Anime/{{Appleseed}}. There's also an alternate video of "Oxygen" featuring Stop Motion animation of Action Man figures. |
17 | * TheArtifact: Dan, Nick and Chris. They haven't been on a new song since 2010. Though they're still full members of the band, and live arrangements are switched around to feature them. This isn't a case of them being hated, just that the band's main output is electronic music, not rock. |
18 | %%* AudienceParticipationSong: "Mic Check" |
19 | * CoverVersion: They've covered Blur's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzTQ-y9rV0 Song 2]]". |
20 | * {{Crunkcore}}: Not exactly, but the Nu-Rave scene was basically the UK equivalent. |
21 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Once per album: |
22 | ** Leap of Faith during the EP era, their only experiment with a straight up rock song. |
23 | ** Declaration of War on MFAAC. |
24 | ** Evil on For the Masses |
25 | ** The Vortex on Every Weekend |
26 | %%* LargeHam: James during live performances and Blogdouken. |
27 | %%* GenreRoulette |
28 | * GenreShift: |
29 | ** Their EP era was [[DancePunk New-Rave]] done ironically. Borders on EarlyInstallmentWeirdness |
30 | ** Their first album mixed re-recordings of these songs with ElectronicRock |
31 | ** Their second album drops the rock elements, aside from lead single "Turn the Lights Out". |
32 | ** Their third album mixes in {{Dubstep}} and DrumAndBass with the previous electronic sound. |
33 | ** Their newest song Midnight is HouseMusic. |
34 | * HarshVocals: On a lot of songs live, the general shouts are replaced with these. |
35 | * IAmTheBand: Not much, but every time James is a guest vocalist, he's credited as Hadouken!. |
36 | * LyricalDissonance: A way to tell if a fan listens to the lyrics is if they think they were serious with the New Rave era. |
37 | * MoodWhiplash: On ''Music for an Accelerated Culture'', as the New Rave songs were dotted around the more serious electronic songs. |
38 | * NewSoundAlbum: All of them, even the first one. |
39 | * PerformanceVideo: |
40 | ** Most of the videos before their third album. |
41 | ** Subverted nowadays. Their last performance video was released in 2011 (not counting live videos) and highlighted a problem. Neither Chris nor Dan actually do anything on that album, so they were just stood there playing keyboards (which is actually Alice's job). |
42 | * PrettyBoy: |
43 | ** The male members of the band before late 2009 all had sweep fringes and effeminate clothing. However these days: |
44 | ** Chris and Nick have quiffs. |
45 | ** James has short hair. |
46 | ** Dan has grown his hair out. |
47 | * RearrangeTheSong: Live versions of the Every Weekend tracks feature guitars and bass replacing some of the keyboard layers, and live drums on a semi-acoustic kit as opposed to the programmed drumming on albums. |
48 | ** Also, any remix they do can feel like this, as James tends to add his own verses, sometimes changing the perspective of the song. |
49 | * ShoutOut: They are named after the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Street Figher move]] of the same name. |
50 | * TakeThat: Their first song "Superstar" is a take that at... someone named Luke (he was in another band, but that band didn't become famous enough for anyone to remember who the song was actually about.) |
51 | * TheQuietOne: Alice, deliberately or not, wasn't heard speaking until a brief moment in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8f6XSlpKs Blogdouken 18]], nearly 6 years into their career. |
52 | * PissTakeRap: a lot, though James can rap, and has done so more seriously on recent songs. |
53 | * RecordProducer: James, who previously made straight Grime music under the name Dr Venom. |
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