1. A Swedish … Read Full Bio ↴There are several artists that go by the name Physics:
1. A Swedish deep house duo consisting of Mikael Surdi and Torbjörn Olsson.
2. An American San Diego-based post-rock ensemble active throughout much of the 1990's.
3. Drum and Bass producer/DJ Glenn Grip from Helsinki
4. A noise project
Physics have recently become the name on many a house gourmets lips, due to their unique sound and interesting blend of house beats and deep jazzy grooves. It is not the blend as such that has given them cred, but the way in which they mix their different components. With a general respect and love for music and particularly the genre within which they operate, Physics aim to please both the club visitor and the fuzzy listener by using live as well as programmed elements in order to convey the true vibes of what house is all about. This is the very foundation on which both their studio-produced and live-performed music are based.
After some 12-inch releases on Deeplay Music, of which the song City Lights has been licensed to Eric Kupper's Hysteria and already been featured on many compilations. 7 AM Sessions is another highlighted making it's way into several compilations, Beach House 2 on Hed Kandi and Klubb Jazz vol 3 on Slip N Slide to name a few.
This album's Don't deny me love has already been featured on 2 different Hed Kandi compilations. Es Vive and Stereo Sushi. Leaving Monte Carlo is out now on one of the best selling compilations ever, French label Pschent's Hotel Costes Vol 5 and if that wasn't enough, Ministry Of Sound took it for their Chill Out Session 2003. Tie Me Down is another track that seems to get a lot of attention, Beechwood's Dolce Vita and Inca's Private Lounge took it for their excellent compilations.This is just an excerpt of all licensing requests that keeps coming in from this album
2. An American San Diego-based post-rock ensemble active throughout much of the 1990's. Membership evolved over time, with many SD luminaries performing in Physics during the course of their existence.
Their recorded output was never quite able to live up to the experience of feeling the wall of sound emanating from the stage at one of their live performances... the usual lineup featured three guitars interlocking in some sort of modal complexity, a couple of synths providing the drone-based foundation and arpegiating in or out of rhythm with the drumbeat, a slow-burning, head-nodding, syncopated stomp, which gradually built to a crescendo before receding into the ether...
Since San Diego's Physics is an instrumental band, it would be easy to compare them to Trans Am, Tortoise, or Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but Physics is neither as verging-on-muzak-jazzy as the first two, nor as pretentiously aggressive as the latter. And unlike heroin-rock bands like Mogwai, Physics doesn't follow the quiet, quiet, quiet, LOUD, LOUD, LOUD model. Instead of assaulting you with jarring noise spasms, they slowly build to a crescendo, steadily mixing layers of guitars, synthesizers, and drums to create songs that are by turns hypnotic, mournful, shrill, and soaring.
Their first album, Physics1, is a collection of singles, live recordings, and studio tracks from 1994 to 1996, all of which are centered around the use of a single chord called the "Physics Chord." In these early projects, one guitarist plays the Physics Chord repeatedly, while the other musicians build the song around him, using looped found-sound recordings, synthesizers, percussion, and additional guitars. Their songs are crafted rather than composed, built from an initial idea, theme, or phrase, and then added to until the layers converge and swirl around in a narcotic tableau.
On Physics2, their second full-length, they continue to craft intricate impressionistic pieces: this is space rock in the most literal sense of the word, suggesting collapsing time and endless journeys to distant galaxies and other dimensions. The album contains both compositions and improvisations, including a 35-minute, half-improvised live piece consisting of three interweaving themes that effortlessly meld into each other, both lulling and building tension. Synthesizers, drums, guitars, and snippets of wave radio come together to create washes of sound evocative of shooting across the Arizona desert in a souped-up spacecraft. The songs are sometimes even painful, as the band manipulates pure tones at unexpected places in these otherwise meditative compositions, blasting the listener with pure sound.
In the five-plus years of their existence, Physics has had more members than the average high school marching band, including moonlighters from Pinback, Three Mile Pilot, Crash Worship, Chune, Heavy Vegetable, Powerdresser, Thingy, and Optiganally Yours, among others. But the whole is greater than (and quite different from) the sum of its parts: the members of Physics are able to explore a musical range beyond the reach of other bands, creating a beautiful and powerful statement about the nature of both science and sound.
Four ex-members of Physics now play in the band Aspects of Physics
3. Drum and Bass producer/DJ Glenn Grip from Helsinki, a man behind Midnightsun recordings.
Leaving Monte Carlo
Physics Lyrics
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Se sont déroulés
Sur les places centrales
De la capitale
Et sur le mont Poklonnaia
Lieu préféré de repos
De nombreux moscovites
Le programme du concert inaugural
Le soixantenaire
De la bataille
Aux abords de Moscou
Devenue un trourant
De la grande guerre patriotique
De 1941 à 45
Et les 950ème anniversaire
De la célébration
En Russie
De la journée
Du Saint Martyr
Georges Triomphateur
Patron de la capitale russe
Pour cette journée de ville
Une exposition de photos et de
Les principaux événements
Se sont déroulés
Sur les places centrales
De la capitale
Et sur le mont Poklonnaia
Lieu préféré de repos
De nombreux moscovites
Le programme du concert inaugural
A été fondé sur deux dates
The lyrics are from the song "Leaving Monte Carlo" by Physics. The song is in French and describes the main events that took place in Moscow during a city celebration. From the lyrics, it is clear that the main events took place in the central squares of Moscow and on Mount Poklonnaia, which is a popular destination for the city's residents to rest. Physics describes a program for the inaugural concert that was based on two dates: the 60th anniversary of the battle near Moscow during World War II and the 950th anniversary of the celebration of the Saint Martyr Georges Triomphateur, who is the patron saint of the Russian capital.
The lyrics provide an insight into the cultural and historical events that the people of Moscow celebrate. The celebration of the two anniversaries shows the pride and resilience of the Russian people during times of war and also their religious devotion. Physics seems to be highlighting the importance of commemorating significant events as a way of honoring the past and building a collective memory. The use of the French language in the lyrics also adds to the song's sophistication and poignancy, and perhaps reflects an appreciation of the French culture in Russia.
Line by Line Meaning
Les principaux événements
The main events
Se sont déroulés
took place
Sur les places centrales
in the central squares
De la capitale
of the capital
Et sur le mont Poklonnaia
and on Mount Poklonnaia
Lieu préféré de repos
a favorite resting place
De nombreux moscovites
of many Muscovites
Le programme du concert inaugural
The program for the opening concert
A été fondé sur deux dates
was based on two dates
Le soixantenaire
The sixtieth anniversary
De la bataille
of the battle
Aux abords de Moscou
on the outskirts of Moscow
Devenue un trourant
that became a turning point
De la grande guerre patriotique
of the Great Patriotic War
De 1941 à 45
from 1941 to 45
Et les 950ème anniversaire
and the 950th anniversary
De la célébration
of the celebration
En Russie
in Russia
De la journée
of the day
Du Saint Martyr
of Saint Martyr
Georges Triomphateur
Georges the Triumphant
Patron de la capitale russe
patron saint of the Russian capital
Pour cette journée de ville
For this city day
Une exposition de photos et de
A photo and
Contributed by Jayden E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.