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The New Deal is high energy three-piece live electronic band from Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. With a drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
mer (Darren Shearer), bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
ist (Dan Kurtz, now playing with Dragonette
Dragonette

Dragonette is a Canada-born, London, England-based electropop band consisting of Canadian singer Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz, drummer Joel Stouffer, and British guitarist Will Stapleton ....
), and keyboard player (Jamie Shields
Jamie Shields (musician)

Jamie Shields is a professional keyboard player and founding member of The New Deal . He is also a partner in Studiocat, a company that writes music for television and film....
), the music incorporates many elements of modern electronica
Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing....
, which they have branded live progressive breakbeat house
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
.

The band formed in 1998 after a friendly, impromptu jam session they had at the Toronto venue the Comfort Zone. Upon listening to a recording of the show, they were transfixed by how much it sounded like a DJ mix.






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The New Deal is high energy three-piece live electronic band from Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. With a drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
mer (Darren Shearer), bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
ist (Dan Kurtz, now playing with Dragonette
Dragonette

Dragonette is a Canada-born, London, England-based electropop band consisting of Canadian singer Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz, drummer Joel Stouffer, and British guitarist Will Stapleton ....
), and keyboard player (Jamie Shields
Jamie Shields (musician)

Jamie Shields is a professional keyboard player and founding member of The New Deal . He is also a partner in Studiocat, a company that writes music for television and film....
), the music incorporates many elements of modern electronica
Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing....
, which they have branded live progressive breakbeat house
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
.

The band formed in 1998 after a friendly, impromptu jam session they had at the Toronto venue the Comfort Zone. Upon listening to a recording of the show, they were transfixed by how much it sounded like a DJ mix. They subsequently released the jam session as their first album, This Is Live.

Originally billing themselves as an acid jazz
Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
 group, they soon found themselves swept up into the emerging musical genre of livetronica
Livetronica

Livetronica, a portmanteau of the words live music and electronica, is a sub-genre of the jam band movement that blends such musical styles as Rock music, jazz, funk, and electronica....
. The drumming of Shearer often resembles the simplicity of a drum machine
Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. Drum machines are very useful instruments for a wide variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music....
, while still tastefully complementing the accompanying music. Interestingly, Shields never loops a keyboard track and always plays everything live, even if a pattern is to be repeated. Thanks to the widespread sharing of bootleg
Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an sound recording and/or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority....
 versions of their first live shows, many distributed by the band themselves, a national buzz ensued and within two years they signed a major label contract with Jive Electro.

Although the promotion with Jive proved disappointing and the band fell short of a highly-anticipated crossover, they continued to tour and win over fans. They released several more live shows on their own label, Sound+Light Records, and came back with two studio releases in 2003, Please Be Seated and Gone Gone Gone (both on Sound+Light as well). In 2004, after nearly a year off, the New Deal brought out over 800 fans in some cities, showing a continued devotion from their fanbase. The band continues to tour today. As of yet, 140 shows can be accessed through the Internet Archive
Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive site of the World Wide Web....
, under Live Concerts. Digital shows are also available on etree
Etree

etree, or electronic tree, is a music community created in the summer of 1998 for the online trading of live concerts. etree pioneered the standards for distributing Lossless data compression on the net and only permits its users to distribute the music of artists that allow the Taper and trading of their music....
 for downloading by BitTorrent. Modern New Deal Shows are somewhat rare to come across, depending on the time of year. They have had sporadic, and rare tours but have only some concerts available for download, depending on the venue setups, taper setups, and soundboard setups.

Recordings

  • THIS IS LIVE (1999
    1999 in music

    See also:* 1999 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 1999...
    )
  • The New Deal
    The New Deal (album)

    The New Deal is a live album released by the Canadian electronic music trio The New Deal in 2001. The bulk of the album was recorded at performances in Atlanta GA, Ithaca NY, Northampton MA, and Montreal PQ, though it was sculpted into a larger piece in the studio....
     (2001
    2001 in music

    See also:* 2001 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 2001...
    )
  • Receiver
    Receiver

    Receiver may mean:* The listening device part of a telephone* The handset containing that device* Receiver , an electronic device that converts a radio signal from a transmitter into useful information...
      EP
    Extended play

    An extended play is a vinyl record, Compact disc, or music download which contains more music than a Single , but is too short to qualify as an LP album....
     (2001)
  • LIVE:NYC O5.31.02 / 06.01.02 (2002
    2002 in music

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    )
  • LIVE:PORTLAND ME 12.17.99 / GUELPH ON 04.05.00 (REISSUE) (2002
    2002 in music

    This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002....
    )
  • Gone Gone Gone (2003
    2003 in music

    See also:* 2003 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 2003...
    )
  • Please Be Seated EP
    Extended play

    An extended play is a vinyl record, Compact disc, or music download which contains more music than a Single , but is too short to qualify as an LP album....
     (2003)
  • Live: Late Night 8.27.05 (2006)


External links

  • at the Internet Archive
    Internet Archive

    The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a free and openly accessible online digital library, including an archive site of the World Wide Web....
    's live music archive