Shift

There are multiple different bands / artists called Shift. 1. Shift, stylized sHiFt, is Chris Hoy from Cape Town, South Africa, a psytrance producer and DJ. Since his first release in 2001 sHiFt has worked with some of the biggest and the smallest labels in the scene giving him access to more listeners and opportunities to experiment with the direction and structure of his sound and arrangement. To this day he has released nearly 200 tracks in his various forms as sHiFt, Twisted System, Pitch Hikers and Mantis. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

There are multiple different bands / artists called Shift. 1. Shift, stylized sHiFt, is Chris Hoy from Cape Town, South Africa, a psytrance producer and DJ. Since his first release in 2001 sHiFt has worked with some of the biggest and the smallest labels in the scene giving him access to more listeners and opportunities to experiment with the direction and structure of his sound and arrangement. To this day he has released nearly 200 tracks in his various forms as sHiFt, Twisted System, Pitch Hikers and Mantis. As a DJ and as a live performer he has toured every continent. His sound ranges from powerful and melodic twilight full-on to twisted night psy-techno. 2. Shift is a dark ambient / death industrial act active since 1997 and operating in the UK by way of Sweden. Shift has released several CDs, LPs and tapes on labels such as Freak Animal, Silken Tofu, At War With False Noise as well as on the project founder's UK-based label UNREST Productions. 3. Shift was a New York post-hardcore band. They started in New York City, some time around 1990, when they were freshmen and sophmores in high school. Their initial goal was to get their friends to dance during the "mosh parts" of their songs at the high school talent show. They did and they knew they were on to something. They started to play clubs around town, and recorded a pair of demo tapes that they sold at shows. Soon they signed to Equal Vision Records and released "Pathos" in 1994 and "Spacesuit" in 1995. Next they moved to Columbia Records and put out "Get In" in 1997 before breaking up in 1998. 4. Shift was a short-lived Dutch new wave of the mid-1980s, fronted by vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Henri Siebens. Their only release, the album Shift (1985), was recorded at Amsterdam's Werf Studios.The band's line-up was completed by Zita Duson (vocals), Pien Selleger (bass), Rob Sahm (drums) and Indra van Hal (violin). 5. Shift was a Singapore based punk band with two members: guitarist 'D' and drummer 'A'. The duo (neither of whom are Singaporean) released two demos and enjoyed some success with the single "Pot Noodle Part II". They reached their peak playing to around 200 people, at the Tanglin Plugged festival. However, the band was forced to break up, three years into its existence. The two have since reunited on four separate occasions, recording four EP's, one as Psygon 3 and three as xNoizemongeRx. 6. Shift was a pop group from The Netherlands, which took part in the Dutch finals for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990. They reached the 3rd place and are not to be confused with the Dutch new wave band listed above. 7. Shift was a Dallas, TX, United States-based Celtic folk group. 8. Shift is an alternative punk rock band in Yamagata, Japan. 9. Shift is a Norwegian rapper from Bergen. 10. Shift was a Portuguese straight edge melodic hardcore band active from 1997 to 2004. 11. Shift was a Belgian EBM/electro project consisting of Hank Barrett, Jessie Deep!, X-Hausted B and Zorg. 12. Shift is a metal band from Melbourne, Australia, consisting of members of former New Zealand band Nadir. Founded by Rob Lambert in late 2009, the band describe themselves as dark, heavy and intense. Their debut EP Faceless was made available as a 'pay what you want' download at the time. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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