Taxiride

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Taxiride is an Australian rock band. Formed in 1997, the band consists of Dan Hall, Jason Singh, Tim Watson and the Wild Team.

Prior to its formation, the four founding members of Taxiride - Hall, Singh, Watson and Wild - had played in cover bands around Melbourne. This quartet records an EP, where a friend driving their taxi helps promote. They took their name from the experience possessed by the passengers who first heard their music while riding in a taxi. After their music was heard by executives from Warner's record label, the band signed a contract and released their debut album, Imaginate , in 1999. This was followed by the 2002 Garage Mahal . Both albums were certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 2005 Axiomatic did not follow the success of its predecessors.

The music style of Taxiride has changed significantly during their career - from pop/pub rock hybrid sounds combined with classic harmony reference bands like Crosby, Stills, Nash & amp; Young for a heavier voice later on. Throughout their history, the band has had many major singers and songwriters in most of their songs. The band continues to perform live until 2010. By 2015 four original members are reformed and have performed at the Australian festival circuit as well as public events.

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Histori

Pembentukan dan awal kerja (1997-1999)

Before forming the Taxiride, Tim Watson, Tim Wild, Jason Singh, and Dan Hall each played in cover bands in Melbourne. Watson and Wild began writing together in 1997 in Camberwell, Melbourne, and immediately recruited Singh as an additional vocalist. The trio invited Hall, who first discovered Wilding, to join the group, and he accepted it. The band named themselves Taxiride because they have given some of their early work to a friend of theirs, a taxi driver, who has tested these songs on passengers. The group produced a demo at Melbourne's Secret Sound Studios, and used it to get a contract with Warner in Australia. Meanwhile, a friend of the group handed over his job to the Sire Records executive in the US, who signed it even though the group is unknown.

Pop success (1999-2002)

In 1998, Taxiride moved to Ocean Way Recording studio in Los Angeles to work with producer Jack Joseph Puig on their debut album. Imaginate, released on June 1, 1999 in the US and October 18 in Australia, reached number one on the ARIA Albums Chart, with debut single "Get Set" reaching number eight on ARIA Singles Chart, number 41 on Singel Chart New Zealand, and number 36 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Get Set" won the 1999 ARIA Award for "Breakthrough Artist - Single" and was nominated for "Best Pop Release", while Imaginate was nominated for "Breakthrough Artist - Album" and "Top Sales Album" in 2000. Imagination is certified double platinum, showing over 140,000 sales.

Taxiride wrote most of the albums in a studio, and the final product generally used songs played by individual band members. Imagine gets a mediocre welcome from critics. Steve Kurutz of Allmusic gave it three stars, calling this album "a slick offer... for pop radio". The use of sitar in "Get Set" was praised, as was the Beatles' influence and Puig production. To promote the album, Taxiride toured Australia, America, Japan and Europe, with albums selling well in all areas. Despite the success of the album, Hall, then vocalist, leaving the band to work independently and with other pet projects, Airway Lanes. Hall says he is unhappy with "the direction the band's pop takes".

After Hall's departure, the band recruited drummer Sean McLeod and bass guitarist Andy McIvor, and began work on their second album. Garage Mahal was released on August 5, 2002, and produced three singles: "Creepin 'Up Slowly", "How I Got This Way" and "Afterglow". All three songs are mapped in Australia; "Creepin 'Up Slowly" is the most successful at number six, also reaching number 19 in New Zealand. In 2002, Garage Mahal and "Creepin 'Up Slowly" were certified as platinum by ARIA.

Many of the Expensive Garage are written on the road, during the tour, and thus have a different sound from the band's previous work. Most of the writing is done in two places; Mount Macedon in Victoria, and Palindrome Studio in Venice Beach, California, the home of producer Fred Maher. Mixing is done by David Way and Mike Shipley. Despite the sound change, the band is still seen as a pure pop band - the Australian Musician magazine claimed this because they spent too much time abroad. Gary Glauber of PopMatters praised the album, noting that it did not lose the quality of its predecessor, although it was much heavier. Glauber reported the overall high quality of the songs, noting that "almost all of these songs could function as singles", and called the lyrics "Creepin 'Up Slowly" "constantly exciting". Bernard Zuel of The Sydney Morning Herald says that the band did not hold back in their goals for American radio, calling lyrics too generic, and arguing the band only focus on their mainstream image.

Independent and acoustic (2003-2006)

Watson left Taxiride in 2003, and the band began working on a new album. They decided to release independently after parting with Warner Music, and recorded at Wild's Melbourne house for a total of 12 months. During that time, the band collaborated with vocalist Chris Bailey (The Saints lead singer) and Hall, who took time out of work with Airway Lanes. The third album of Taxiride, Axiomatic , was released on September 5, 2005, shortly after the first single, "Oh Yeah". It will be the only song mapped from the album, reaching number 40 in Australia. To support the album, the band toured India as part of VH1's Rock Rumble.

After the release of Axiomatic , Wild and Singh started writing new songs, accompanied by Hall. The band's first live album, Electrophobia , was released on 16 September 2006 on record label Australia, Liberation. It features songs from the band's first three albums, all recorded in an independent session at the Melbourne church on May 26, 2006. The production was composed by Rob John (producer for Led Zeppelin and The Tea Party).

Andy McIvor left the band in 2006, and now plays with former Australian crawler member James Reyne. Watson's team reunited in 2015 with the original lineup. In July 2017, Dan Hall chose to take a break from the group to focus on other music projects, including South Side Rebel and Interlocker. There is no confirmation if his departure is permanent.

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Music styles

Taxiride is basically a pop rock band, it also attracts the influence of rock pubs. Allmusic Ed Nimmervoll said that the band distance themselves from the boy band generation, comparing it to Crosby, Stills, Nash, & amp; Young. Steve Kurutz, in reviewing Imaginate, linked this album to the pop band The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Everly Brothers, labeling the album as a bid for pop radio.

Mike Zwerin's International Herald Tribune notes the band's style of having "four main singers, four future candidates" - Imaginate Strength span> is in their collective voice, Zwerin says. At Garage Mahal , Taxiride has three active songwriters, with their strong opinions on music content that often collides. Singh told Dan Grunebaum of Metropolis Tokyo that the argument arose "because we were so excited about what came down to tape", and therefore they solved it by recognizing the overall purpose of the band's work.

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Band members timeline

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Discography

Studio Album

• Bayangkan (1999)
• Garage Mahal (2002)
• Aksiomatis (2005)

Live album

• Electrophobia (2006)

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References

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External links

• The Taxiride Official Website
• MySpace page

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