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De Staat](https://www.facebook.com/destaat) komt 24 november met een nieuwe EP, _Vinticious Versions_, waarop geen nieuwe nummers staan, maar toch ook weer wel. Op de EP staan alternatieve versies van acht nummers die eerder al op hun vorige albums verschenen. Het eerste nummer dat ze onder handen hebben genomen is _Down Town_ van hun laatste plaat [_I\_CON_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQuQg0UQSY) (en in de FIFA &#x2018;14-playlist staat) en gaat hieronder in premiere.

_Down Town_ is een donkere track geworden die perfect zou passen in een film van Quentin Tarantino. De twintigjarige multimedia & design-student en tevens De Staat-fan Tom Gudde heeft de clip gemaakt die precies die Tarantino-sfeer weergeeft. Eén plus één is twee, zeg maar.

De nummers op de EP zijn het afgelopen jaar ontstaan tijdens alle radiosessies en instore-optredens. Vanwege de kleine setting waarin ze moesten spelen werd de band gedwongen om creatief te zijn. Dit bracht ze op het idee om hun bestaande nummers net iets anders uit te voeren, zonder volledig akoestisch te gaan. Zanger Torre Florim: &#x201c;We zijn geen band die zwaar leunt op akkoorden, dus als je de nummers naar een kleinere setting brengt dan moet je er creatief mee omgaan.&#x201d; Het resultaat is een EP die je meeneemt op een donkere, alternatieve route in een soort van bekende omgeving. Of zoals Torre zelf het in twee woorden weet te omschrijven: &#x201c;Dark and delicious.&#x201d;

Video by Tom Gudde - who has won the Vinticious Versions Video Contest with his video:

"I'm Tom Gudde, a 20 year old multimedia design student from Breda.
I chose for the track ''Down Town'' because of the very dark mood. It really gave the feel of a noire mafia film.
To create this in the short time I had, I chose for a comic book style with simple but effective animations.
It's something completely different than modern day music video's, which was my vision from the beginning.
It had to be slow, abstract, and most important: dark. It was a bit of a risk but I guess it payed of in the end."

Down Town is a track from the album "Vinticious Versions" - Released on November 24, 2014

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Following the release of their third album ‘I_CON’ which reached #2 in their homeland last year the Dutch alternative rock quintet De Staat return with their ‘Vinticious Versions’ EP out on 24 November on Vinyl/CD/Digital via Cool Green Recordings/Mascot Label Group.
Where I_CON combined instruments in such a way that you don’t immediately recognize which instrument you’re hearing, frontman Torre Florim described it as “very much guitar driven but weirder”, ‘Vinictious Versions’ takes you on another journey altogether. Made up of re-worked versions of their own songs off of their previous three albums ‘I_CON’ (2013), ‘Machinery’ (2011) and ‘Wait for Evolution’ (2009) the EP takes you on a trip down an alternative pathway with familiar surroundings…something that is a little more “dark and delicious” according to Florim.
When talking about breaking down the structure of their songs to re-work them the captivating frontman talks about the approach saying “we're a very sound based band so if we're going to make the song smaller, it's got to be different. In our recordings we’ve used sounds from the 60s and 70s, I like the Tarantino vibe on songs such as The George Baker Selections’ ‘Little Green Bag' – I really like the sound of that.”
Continuing about the backstory of the EP he recalls that the concept arrived when they were asked to play radio sessions and small in-store shows. “We started to think of different versions to play, its way more fun when you go into a radio station with a little guitar amp and an organ and try to do something a little different. We’re not really a chord based band – so when you take a song to a small setting you have to be creative with it.”
“It's not like an acoustic version, we didn’t want to do that, that sound is too sweet, it doesn’t work with our stuff, it's more mellow ...It's dark and delicious” he continues. With that feeling in mind combined with the retro feel of the recordings it brings together the vintage element with the deliciousness giving them the name ‘Vinticious Versions’.
Picking out highlights he opens up further; “one of my favourites is ‘Input Source Select’ – it’s like an old school hip hop track, it sounds like we’ve used lots of old loops but we recorded the drums ourselves and copy and pasted it so it has a drum machine sound – it’s a homage to the Wu-Tang Clan, De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest and on Devil’s Blood we went all out and high pitched and was inspired by D’Angelo and stuff like that”.


De Staat is:
Torre Florim
Jop van Summeren
Tim van Delft
Rocco Hueting
Vedran Mirčetić

Produced, engineered and mixed by Torre Florim in De Hel, Nijmegen.
Mastered by Darius van Helfteren

Torre Florim: Vocals, Guitars
Jop van Summeren: Bass
Tim van Delft: Drums, percussion
Rocco Hueting: Vocals
Vedran Mirčetić: Guitars
Janne Schra: Vocals

Written by Torre Florim
Lyrics by Torre Florim
Published by Downtown Music Benelux

Artwork by Robert Muda
Released on Cool Green Recordings/Mascot Records

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Down Town (Vinticious Version) - De Staat

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Eind november komt de band met de nieuwe EP Vinticious Versions, check hier de eerste single. 

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