Guns N Bombs

In a bid to rival the UN for global eclecticism, Guns N Bombs combine a Danish-born bassist with an Italian, Chicago-based DJ Johnny Love. The two have taken their mind-bending, glitchy electro to the very chic Kitsune Records, the French label that is home to Daft Punk and Etienne De Crecy.

Love moved to LA to collaborate with fellow DJ, Filip Nikolic and quickly produced the dancefloor masterpieces, “Nothing Is Getting Us Anywhere” and “Crossover Appeal”. Kitsune founder and manager of Daft Punk, Gildas Loaec, discovered the duo’s MySpace page and offered them a record contract.

Some ultra cool DJs might have hit the Belvedere Vodka and had a party when invited to join Kitsune, but Turbotito admits he “screamed like a little girl into a pillow when they said they wanted to release us.”

This culminated in the 2007 release of “Nothing Is Getting Us Anywhere”, which instantly opened the floodgates to a raft of requests for remixes from well-known, edgy and ultra-hip artists including Chromeo, Klaxons, The Gossip and The Teenagers.

The Montreal Mirror raved that Guns N Bombs “blow current German electro standards out of the water and give Paris’s New French Touch a run for its money.”

Filip Turbotito is a veteran of the electro scene, having joined Junior Senior in 2002 and performed at Roskilde Festival (Denmark), SummerSonic Festival (Japan), Reading and Leads Festivals (UK), and Glastonbury (UK). Following the major success of “Move Your Feet”, Turbotito founded dub-reggae act Djosos Krost and the better known, ImaRobot. ImaRobot were signed to Virgin Records and were chosen as the opening act for Duran Duran’s US and Canada tour.

Guns N Bombs reflect the sounds of Turbotito’s favourite artists, of whom he says there are “too many to mention and most are dead.” When pressed though, he reels off “Ron Hardy, Giorgio Moroder, Patrick Cowley, Sebastien Leger when he did house, Delta 9, Doormouse and DJ Rush.”

There’s a dark vein of industrial electro that unites the eclectic influences. The darkness doesn’t stretch to Turbotito himself, though. Following previous trips to Australia, he is excited to return.

“I love it. I look forward to overdosing on meatpies and having too many jagerbombs, courtesy of my dear friend Diego.”

This will be the first We Love Sounds Festival that Guns n Bombs have attended. We Love Sounds 2009 is the 6th instalment of the annual Queen’s Birthday long weekend dance-a-thon. Fellow international artists on the bill include Armand van Helden, Armin van Buuren, Popof Bobmo and Inflagranti. Not to be overshadowed though, Australian acts include Dirty South, Bang Gang, Bag Raiders and Miami Horror.

Expect to wear out your dancing shoes and if you’re looking for the GnB boys? There’s likely to be a guy with a meat pie in one hand, a jagerbomb in the other, on the dancefloor screaming like a girl.