Far East Movement

Introduction

Far East Movement exploded into the mainstream consciousness while being on the road with LMFAO recently. Having formed in 2003, the Asian rapping, event producing, beat dropping collective has slowly evolved and grown over the years, finally maturing into the zeitgeist honing, dancefloor residing animal it is today. The Asian-American Los Angelinos Kev Nish, Prohgress, J-Splif and DJ Virman’s mix of ravey keyboards and vocoder sounds like Black Eyed Peas on a shamelessly commercial day. Check out their album, Free Wired. You can hear why Martin Kierszenbaum, one of the people behind Lady Gaga's rise, likes them so much and hooked them up with Gaga as support for her tour: their music has the same machine drive, dazzling sheen and moronic simplicity as hers. These are compliments, by the way… There are hands-in-the-air anthemic melodics and collaborations with Snoop Dogg and Bruno Mars.