Line #22 Music/Hadouken


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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