Guns 'n' Bombs
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| Guns 'n' Bombs | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genre(s) | Dance |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Label(s) | Kitsune Records |
| Website | www.myspace.com/gunsnbombs |
| Members | |
| Turbotito Johnny Love |
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Guns 'n' Bombs is an electronic duo formed in August of 2006 by Filip Nikolic and John Dal Santo and based in Los Angeles.
Nikolic (stage name Turbotito) and Dal Santo (stage name Johnny Love), came up with idea to start GNB after a party in Chicago, and Dal Santo then relocated to Los Angeles later that fall. The group quickly produced two songs, "Nothing Is Getting Us Anywhere" and "Crossover Appeal," and were offered a record contract over MySpace by Gildas Loaec, the founder of Kitsune Records and co-manager of Daft Punk. GNB's debut single was released in 2007, and they quickly began receiving remix requests, and their treatments of songs by Chromeo, the Teenagers, and the Gossip became popular blog favorites and club staples. Pitchfork Media declared that GNB's debut album "should make a serious impact on the culture of U.S.-bred dance music,"[1] and the Montreal Mirror said "Unpretentious and unforgivingly badass, L.A.'s Guns 'n' Bombs (including an Ima Robot member) single-handedly put the United States outside New York back on my techno map, blow current German electro standards out of the water and give Paris’s New French Touch a run for its money."[2]
